PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future Two communities on the outskirts of Winchester explore their individual heritages to find ways of learning from the past to enhance our future. WEEKE SOUTH WONSTON & SUTTON SCOTNEY

PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future WEEKE is a suburban housing estate, close to the city. Built in the post war period the community is relatively new and the concerns of the residents more of an urban nature SOUTH WONSTON AND SUTTON SCOTNEY represent more isolated and rural communities, with ancient farming traditions, an old droving route and links to transport and the military. This difference should be reflected in the type of events that emerge during the project for the different communities.

PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future Oral Histories: Collection of Oral Histories Artists’ Commissions: Production of two artworks for the two communities Exhibition: Celebration of the communities’ heritage and creativity

PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future Oral Histories: Collection of Oral Histories Recruitment of volunteers to record Oral Histories: Sara Gangai: Away until early February – will liaise on her return Sue Savidge: Following up interview due before Christmas but cancelled due to illness Fiona Handley: To organise one or two interviews Alex Hoare: to arrange interviews with people met at launch and art workshops Alison Royall: has agreed to do interviews from March onwards Bob Whitmarsh. Although it has been agreed that interviews can run on until the summer I am keen to get some ‘in the can’ to feed into the artworks and the exhibition. Also think they could input into the community events in April/May.

PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future Artists’ Commissions: Production of two artworks Weeke: Artist: Alex Hoare Artwork: The Weeke Looking Glass Layers of colour and clear glass will be use to create 3 glass panels fabricated in layered, fused and slumped glass. The piece will relate to oral histories and artwork and ideas explored in workshops by the people of Weeke: The themes will include the overlapping of past, present and future. The colour scheme will be drawn from the environment in Weeke, green grass, red brick buildings and grey/blue skys. Text and imagery will be incorporated into the work, using quotes from residents and from archive documents and maps of the area, old and new. Alex is exploring the use of recycled glass to form the piece. Extra funding to be sort for sound installation as part of the piece.

PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future Artists’ Commissions: Production of two artworks South Wonston/Sutton Scotney: Artist: Ian Fitzpatrick Artwork: Illuminating Possibilities: Visions of a sustainable future informed by our past. Inspired by historical manuscripts such as the Winchester Psalter and the Benedictional of Aethelwold, this project will use rich decorative visuals to create a modern-day illuminated manuscript /display for the villages of Sutton Scotney and South Wonston. Using research, memories and ideas collected by community members, contemporary artist Ian Kirkpatrick will draw images of the past together into visions of a sustainable future. It is hoped that responses to global issues such as climate change and pollution can be explored through an investigation of traditional methods and local heritage.

PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future Artists’ Commissions: Production of two artworks Community Involvement: Alex Hoare – Community workshop – 18 th November 2010 Weeke Primary School, 21 st January 2011 Community Event: End February/Beginning March Ian Fitzpatrick Community Workshop – Brownies and Cubs. Community Event: End February.

PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future Exhibition 24 March to 7 April: Content: Two legacy artworks (in progress) Artwork from workshops Photos/objects from archive Photos from workshops and projects Future events – reasoning behind them.

PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future Publicity: Before end of January – update article in Hampshire Chronicle New Title, new project manager Diary of events – schools workshops, artworks, community events. Call for volunteers and people with stories to tell. End of February: Publicity for community events and consultation on artworks End of March: Publicity for exhibition

PAST MATTERS Remembering our past to change our future Ideas for further community events: Weeke: bag for life making from recycled clothes, draft excluders, Swap shop, paper making. SW/SS: group jam making, recipes from grandmothers’s cookery book, basket/woven fence making from recycled materials bird tables.