A big
‘Thank you’ to all our Sponsors:
Welney Parish Council
King¹s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council
The Welney News
Norfolk Rural Community Council
Fenland Arts Association
Millennium Festival - Awards for All
Welney Calender 2000
Business Partners
Giles Landscapes
Wayside and Wildlife
many more individuals
Thank you for your help, time, and hard work in making your house for the
map.
An extra special thank you from the M.A.P. committee to the following
people, who have made this idea work, and gave of their valuable time to
come together and create this piece of art.
Our Teachers: Dave Warren, Jane Frost, Philippa Lee.
The Pupils and Staff of Welney William Marshall School, for their houses, their
School and the children and parents of
the Welney Cygnets - for the flowers scattered
around the village.
Pauline Ware
Rosi Beckford
Jane Frusher
Carolyn Loveday
Mandy Revett
Elizabeth Deckker
Vanessa Sharpe
Ian Haworth
Holly Goodwin
Jenny and Darrel Stevens
Charlotte Cox
Eleanor Horn
Pat Rix
Tom and Kath Fisher
Jean Tuson
Debbie MacKenzie
Marlen Moss-Ecardtt
Jane Carter
Andrea Pemberton
Jo
John Waring
Carol Green
Brenda Hinde? ( at feltmaking weekend?)
Sally, Jess and Evie Kerr
Helen Barry
Press Release:
A Portrait of Welney
Residents put Welney on the Map
Residents of the
Cambridgeshire, have just completed a huge Map (13 foot by 8 foot) out of
many crafts, showing every house in the Parish. It has been hand made using
clay, metal, wood, embroidery, tapestry, felt, glass, dough......there are
no limits to the villagers inventiveness and -hither to- hidden skills. This
Map is part of an Arts Project to give a ³Portrait of Welney 2000² for
future generations.
Map making Co-ordinator (and secretary of the Welney Millennium Arts
Project) Philippa Mitchell says ³Friendly community participation, learning
new skills and creating a work of art for Welney - have been key ingredients
that have made this project a success² Martin Kyne-Lilley, the chair of
the
committee and Photographer says ³ We would like to think that in years to
come our Millennium Project will be a lasting snapshot of life in Welney in
the year 2000². The Project has helped bring all sorts of people closer
together in the area - which is especially important, as for weeks we can be
cut off from part of the Parish by fast flowing flood water on the Ouse
washes.
The Map will be on Display on the 16th and 17th December in Welney Village
Hall (
fascinating Portrait Photographs of Villagers; an Archive Book of
photographs of life over the last hundred years in Welney; and the Welney
Web site www.welney.org.uk.
which has been created as part of the Project.
The whole event will be available on CD Rom. In the future The Exhibition
will tour around the region.
This Project was sponsored by local business, the Welney Parish Council,
Borough Council of King¹s Lynn and
Council, Fenland Arts Association. and the Millennium Festival.
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Notes to editors:
1 For further info contact P.Mitchell 01353 862481 or 0403 199571.
or Martin Kyne-Lilley 01354 610498
2 Photo Opportunity - Opening Party on 15th December at
Welney Village
Hall, 6pm.
3 First Exhibition 16th and 17th December 11-4pm Welney Village Hall.
Pictures
taken from Millennium Arts Project exhibition held on
1st Annual Report May 2000
In March of 1999, the Welney Parish Council were
asked to support a two-part arts project involving the
The Parish Council, together with many other organisations, are
supportive of the project and an exhibition is planned for 15-17 December 2000.
Courses
Courses were organised as part of the process
of map-making. Professional tutors were employed and people from the village
attended and created images of their own homes or significant buildings for the
map.
Stained Glass
Six
evening workshops starting on 27 September 1999 Tapestry & weaving - 6
evening workshops starting on 8 November 1999 Felt making week-end sessions on
29 January 2000 Ceramics evenings - 2 sessions starting on 2 April 2000
Village
Website
A website, now renamed welney.org.uk, was set up as a
resource for the whole village and to help develop an archive of photographs
and other images of the village and its inhabitants
The
Archive
Work has already started on
collecting photographs for publication in a small book of the village in the
past - publication date
The Photographic Portraits
At the date of this AGM, these have not yet started but will
continue over the spring and summer months culminating in a village group
photograph on
Sponsors:
We should like to thank all those people
and organisations that have supported us. In particular we would like to thank
our sponsors:
Welney Parish Council, Kings Lynn Borough
Council, Arts In Rural Norfolk, Fenland Arts Association, Giles Landscaping,
Business Partners Computer Consultancy, Wayside and Wildlife, The Welney News
& The Welney Calendar.
MAP Committee: - Chairperson: Martin Kyne-Lilley, Secretary: Philippa
Mitchell; Treasurer: Karen Fleming; Committee members: Richard Green, Ian
Warrington, Charlotte Cox (1999-2000).
The financial records are available for
inspection from the Treasurer.
The Group Photograph
We have a plan to try to make a group photograph of as many Welney
villagers as possible on the day of the Water Gala.
Funding
We have had donations from the Parish Council; the Borough Council;
Fenland Arts Association; Arts in Rural Norfolk; The Welney News; Welney
Calendar and several Business sponsors including Giles Landscapes; Bob¹s
Business Partners and Wayside and Wildlife. A big thanks you to all. We do
still have two thirds of the way to go to raise enough money to pay for the
remaining materials; the teachers; the film; printing and displaying the work,
some of this is we hope, to come from European and lottery funds, but a few
more business sponsors would be much appreciated, each will be featured on the
map. Everyone who donates their very valuable time and energy will also be
remembered by having their name embroidered on the border of the map.
The Exhibition
We have booked the Exhibition date for 15th, 16th and 17th December
2000, at the village Hall, when we hope to have completed the Map, the Portrait
photographs, and the Historical Welney Book.
For more information contact: philippa.mitchell@lineone.net
A Project for the Millennium for Welney
A hundred years ago, farriers, eel catchers,
wildfowlers and ferrymen lived here. We want to show who lives here now. This
project will therefore be a celebration, a record of people today. We hope this will become a record for the
future.
This is a two-part arts project
involving the whole village, including Tipps End and the Parish of Welney
together with surrounding houses that regard themselves as part of the village. Our catchment area is divided in half by the
counties of Cambridgeshire and
The first is the creation or a
village map, the second a photographic portrait of everyone in the village,
household by household, and also as a group.
The map will show all the houses,
buildings and features of the surrounding landscape of the village and be
constructed as a screen or frieze 8’ x 13’ in size, and made from many crafts
including textile, glass, ceramic and wood. We hope that the map will be made
by as many people of all ages as possible, including the School, and local
businesses.
We are employing
local professional artists and craftsmen to hold craft courses that are
available at a low cost (subsidised by the project) to anyone wishing to have a
go at a new craft within the village, in the Parish Hall, to create a part of
the map. Once created, the map will then be photographed and photolithographic
prints produced which will be made available.
The photography project involves
taking the portraits of as many households in the village as possible, - each with an object, a symbol of their
choice to represent their work or their life.
The 200 or so prints will form part of an Exhibition, together with a
group portrait - and the map. We will
also be producing a book of historic photographs of Welney.
The Exhibition will be
supplemented by a map of the village 100 years ago and also photographs of that
period. Thus we will begin a village archive for the benefit of the generations
to come. The combined project will record some of the changes, which have taken
place in the village during the past century and act as a celebration of our
community today. The Exhibition will be displayed in Welney and thereafter to
tour around the county or further afield throughout the region. We will also
put the exhibition on the Internet.
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A
Millennium Arts Project for the
charitable status being applied
for.
Secretary: Philippa Mitchell, Wigeon House, 100
Foot Bank, Welney, Wisbech, Cambs. PE14 9TN.
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