Our Work
Every workshop, every project and every conversation begins with attention.
From there, every journey becomes unique…
Listening In
By moving slowly through our landscapes, we begin to notice the threads all around us.
Listening In creates space to slow down, pay attention and explore the places we inhabit with curiosity and wonder. Through listening, observation and creative exploration, we can discover deeper connections with our communities, our landscapes and ourselves.
Speaking Out
We all have a story to share. We all have a voice.
Speaking Out creates space to find that voice and give it form. Through storytelling, writing, sound and other creative practices, we help people explore their experiences of place and share something of themselves with the communities and landscapes to which they belong.
Projects
The Burrs Country Park
Community Listening Trail
Six community groups.
One shared landscape.
Hundreds of moments of attention.
Close Park
Folk Tales & Fables
A connected story trail for young and old designed by our founder, Rob Dart.
Peel Tower
Stories from the Hill
Local children exploring history, memory and place through creative writing and sound.
Project Map
View an interactive map containing all of our projects past and present.
Openshaw Park
Folk Tales & Fables
A connected story trail for young and old designed by our founder, Rob Dart.
We work with…
- Artists and creative practitioners
- Schools
- Community groups
- Local authorities
- Health and wellbeing organisations
- Heritage organisations
Every project is developed collaboratively to meet the needs of the people and place involved.
Every place is different.
Every community has its own stories, rhythms and ways of understanding the world.
No two projects are ever the same.
If you’d like to explore what This Place Speaks might look like in your community, we’d love to begin that conversation.