Land and its partner project Panopticons made up an ambitious, four-year programme of creative activity (2003 to 2007), designed to create distinctive environmental improvements to help develop an identity for the East Lancashire Regional Park and to involve local communities in the regeneration process.
Land offered schoolchildren and local people across East Lancashire the opportunity to work with professional artists and be directly involved in enhancing their own environments through artist workshops, residencies and celebratory events.
Much Land activity was focused on the pathways leading to the Panopticon sites, which link the region's urban centres with the rural landscape, and on the sites themselves. Carved and decorated signposts and waymarkers on woodland trails, wood and willow sculptures in the landscape and newly planted bulbs and trees are just some of the visible signs of how local schoolchildren and community groups contributed to the regeneration process through Land.
Land also encouraged people to celebrate their landscape and learn more about its traditions and history through large-scale community events, such as lantern processions, outdoor theatre, musical events and exhibitions.
To find out about the Land legacy in your area, please select a district on the left-hand menu.
For further information, please contact Helen Callaghan or David Smith at
Mid Pennine Arts on 01282 421986 or email helen@midpenninearts.org.uk.
