Curating Otherwise: Reading the Landscape
Part of Curating Otherwise, commissioned by Southbank Centre and delivered by HOUSE OF DREAD
Free - Booking Essential
How do landscapes become part of our cultural memory? Who shapes the stories we tell about the places around us, and how might young people begin to curate new relationships with them?
Led by Oriel Myrddin's Engagement Manager Abby Poulson and local contributors, this Curatorial Fieldnote invites young people to explore the Towy Valley as both landscape and archive. Beginning at Oriel Myrddin with visual histories of Carmarthenshire, participants will then travel to Paxton's Tower, where creative workshops, conversation and collective reflection will consider how place, memory and imagination shape our understanding of landscape.
Part walk, part workshop and part conversation, the day offers space to think together about how curatorial practice can emerge through observation, storytelling and lived experience. No previous experience is required.
This event is for people aged 16-30
If you are outside of this age and working with young people in West Wales and interested in the arts, cultural sector or the environment and would like to join this event as well, please get in touch.
Lunch and transport between Oriel Myrddin and Paxton's Tower will be provided.
To share dietary requirements, access needs or to ask any questions please e-mail us at engagement@orielmyrddin.com or call 01267 222775
About Curating Otherwise
A new public programme by HOUSE OF DREAD, commissioned by Southbank Centre.
What does it mean to curate your way through the world?
Bringing together artists, young people, cultural workers and communities, Curating Otherwise explores how stories are remembered and retold, how public spaces shape cultural life, how sound carries memory across generations, and how new cultural futures are imagined together. Through conversations, workshops, walks, open calls and collective reasoning, the programme creates opportunities to shape culture, care for memory and imagine new ways of gathering, making and sharing knowledge.
Grounded in HOUSE OF DREAD's anti-disciplinary methodology, the programme centres listening, gathering and reasoning as curatorial practices. Each encounter begins with a provocation drawn from Southbank Centre's archives, histories or public spaces, opening new ways of reading the past and imagining cultural futures. Participants bring their own experiences, references and cultural knowledge into the conversation, building a shared language for curating together.