Gladstone 2013 Fired Up! was a year-long community project culminating in a performance celebrating the pottery industry of Stoke-on-Trent.
It wove together archive film and materials held by Gladstone Pottery Museum with original poetry, music and dance.
Fired up! the film (58 minutes) includes interviews with the museum's demonstrators and some of the volunteers who saved the site from bulldozers over forty years ago.
It also shows the firing of the Firehand, created by international ceramicist Wali Hawes, at the Spode site of the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke.
Project Link:
https://www.facebook.com/Gd2013
Screened at the AHRC Connected Communities Festival 2014 on Tuesday 1st July 2014.
Connected Community intro music credit: Drops of H2O, CC BY J. Lang
For more information about the Connected Communities Festival 2014.
Gladstone 2013 Fired Up! was a year-long community project culminating in a performance celebrating the pottery industry of Stoke-on-Trent.
It wove together archive film and materials held by Gladstone Pottery Museum with original poetry, music and dance.
Fired up! the film (58 minutes) includes interviews with the museum's demonstrators and some of the volunteers who saved the site from bulldozers over forty years ago.
It also shows the firing of the Firehand, created by international ceramicist Wali Hawes, at the Spode site of the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke.
Project Link:
https://www.facebook.com/Gd2013
Screened at the AHRC Connected Communities Festival 2014 on Tuesday 1st July 2014.
Connected Community intro music credit: Drops of H2O, CC BY J. Lang
For more information about the Connected Communities Festival 2014.