On Languard Point - Dig & Sow
On Landguard Point is the East of England’s celebration of the arts and cultural activities of the region in the lead up to the 2012 Olympics, and as part of this, Dig & Sow are one day community test-pit excavation events. The aim is to dig 205 test-pits in total, one for each of the Olympic countries, across the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.
Dig & Sow began in Hertfordshire last September with an excavation in Ashwell, where 34 sites were dug by more than a hundred residents and volunteers in the one day. You can read more about the Ashwell event here and watch a video here. The Ashwell dig was shortly followed by the Suffolk test-pit excavations which took place in the Maidenhall allotments, Ipswich.
Below are a list of the remaining Dig & Sow locations and dates with flyers of further information about how to get involved:
Saturday 28th April 2012- Peakirk, Cambridgeshire
Saturday 12th May 2012- Clavering, Essex
Saturday 19th May 2012- Paston, Norfolk
Saturday 26th May 2012 - Potton, Bedfordshire
To Register
If you wish to offer your garden for digging and/or volunteer to excavate, please contact On Landguard Point directly by e-mailing Ellie Carter at ellie@sgaproductions.com or info.@onlandguardpoint.com stating the county where you would like to participate clearly in the subject line: CAMBS/ESSEX/BEDS/NORFOLK or call them on 0207 488 0800 – they will need your name, email address, telephone number and postcode and to know whether you would like to HOST your own test-pit site or volunteer to DIG elsewhere.
On Landguard Point was conceived by Pacitti Company – specialist makers of live performance. Through a series of large-scale public events commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad and funded by Arts Council England, On Landguard Point will engage thousands of people as participants and audience and collectively form the content of a feature film. One strand of this will be a series of mass-participation archaeological excavation events, organised by Access Cambridge Archaeology and Pacitti Company. 'On Landguard Point' is a project about home: what 'home' means, what makes a home, how we forge our ideas of home, what shifts when we view home from afar, or host others in our own home.
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