
THE HAREHOPE QUARRY PROJECT Environmental education, sustainable living and field studies in the North Penines, County Durham
ABOUT US Harehope Quarry people.Who are we, what we do.
ECO-CLASSROOM Environmental and sustainability education in a Walter Segal self-build eco-classroom
NATURE RESERVE Geology and wildlife in a quarry reclaimed by nature.
SMALLHOLDING Hens, carp, cattle and vegetables.
EVENTS AND VOLUNTEERING Events diary, other activities in development, volunteering.
SCHOOLS Environmental education opportunities for schools.
GEOLOGY Geological interpretation, geology garden, Frosterley Marble.
COMMUNITY ARTS Arts activities at Harehope quarry.
CURRENT PROJECTS Green woodworking, composting, charcoal making, Rock Detectives club.
HOW TO FIND US Location maps and contact information.
LINKS
HAREHOPE QUARRY STUFF Notes and photos on life in the quarry project.

COMMUNITY ARTS

SCULPTURE IN THE QUARRY

We were joined for a week in April by artist Laura Ellen Bacon, who created a willow sculpture near the bird hide in our nature reserve.

Here are a few images of Laura's work.

A short slideshow of Laura Ellen Bacon's willow sculpture.

SEMI PRECIOUS Migration Stories

'Semi Precious' is a Heritage Lottery funded project which is administered by the Weardale Community Partnership and involves various partners within Weardale.

The project is inspired by Rachel Clarke's (a Harehope Quarry co-op member) artist's residency in Dawson City in the Klondike, Canada. Rachel tracked 19th Century Weardale miner John Wilkinson to the goldrush area.

Artists, archivists and local historians will work with schools and community to research industrial migration stories (mining and quarrying). The artists involved will help participants to produce an exhibition and individual artworks - such as digital storytelling - as well as producing their own work resulting from the project.

Semi Precious is due to start in March 2008 and will run for several months.

See Rachel's Dawson City Residency website below.

Rachel Clarke's website

Links to partners in Semi Precious project

Weardale Community Partnership

The Weardale Museum

Killhope Lead Mining Museum

Twisted Digits

THE SEMI PRECIOUS WEBSITE

Image of nineteenth century quarrymen with the words Semi Precious Weardale's Industrial Migration Stories

WRITING ROCKS

'Vane Women, a writers' collective, is organising a series of workshops and individual visits to Harehope Quarry in Frosterley with a view to enabling the participants to produce some creative writing (poetry and prose) inspired by the landscape in the vicinity of the quarry, by the quarry itself, its history and the minerals associated with it. Vane Women Press will be working with a visual artist - John Longstaff ('Cluff' from the Northern Echo), whose family is from Frosterley and who is a very fine draughtsman as well as a cartoonist.
We intend to produce a book of the work produced.
Once the book is produced, Vane Women will set up a further series of workshops, with the pictures in exhibition, for people who do not know the area to respond to with their own creative writing.

Vane Women have a long history and are highly regarded. This is a fabulous opportunity for people to enjoy creative writing under the guidance of warm and enthusiastic support.

For more details email Chris Powell (link below).

See the website link below to find out more on Vane Women.

email Chris Powell

The Vane Women website

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