Art is a way to be immersed on these concepts in an embodied and celebratory way. Art allows a relatability that is more expansive than words. allowing the imagination to widen the ways we envision the world. Art opens conduits for transmitting ideas, research and knowledge.
Craft is process-led vernacular art. Rooted in traditional ways of creating products for everyday life craft requires patience, skill and understanding of how nature works.
Singing brings people together and is essential to cohesion in social movements.
The land skills hub will host courses and gatherings to share land based art, craft and singing from many cultural traditions.
Craft, song & art
It's a mighty hard row that my poor hands have hoed
My poor feet have traveled a car riddled road
Out of your Fenland and Westward we rolled
Where your flatlands were wet and your mountains was cold
I worked in your orchards of apples and plums
I slept on the ground in the heat of the sun
On the edge of the city you'll see us and then
We come with the rain and we go with the wind
From Lincolnshire, Spalding to gather your crops
Well its South down to Kent for to harvest your hops
Cut the hop from the bine pull the tates from the ground
To set on your table your Newcastle Brown
Green pastures of plenty from black silty ground
From the River Great Ouse where the waters run down
Through every county us migrants have been
We'll work in this fight and we'll fight till we win
It's always we rambled, my wagon and I, in hot tatty fields, I will work till I die
My land I'll defend with my life if it be
Cause my pastures of plenty must always be free
A new song by Boff Whalley, incorporating many of our struggles and highlighting the recent injustices in our legal system.