Arts & Culture
Time to Connect Nottinghamshire Art Trail
A project conceived by photographer Alistair Morrison to create an art trail through each of the 100 counties North, South, East and West in the United Kingdom. Find out more here.
Inspire Culture, Learning and Libraries has been a proud delivery partner on a fantastic scheme called Miner2Major: The Real Sherwood Forest (from January 2019 - June 2024).
The scheme, supported by a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, encouraged local people and community groups to get involved in projects aimed at learning about, celebrating and conserving Nottinghamshire's heritage.
There were eight different strands to the scheme;
- Better Habitats
- Saving Sherwood’s Special Species
- Sherwood’s Landscape of Trees and Hedges
- Connecting Trails
- The Veiled Landscape
- Heritage Buildings
- Century of Change
- People of Sherwood
Find out more about the projects Inspire delivered below.
Arts & Culture
The Big Draw 2023: Time to Connect
The Big Draw 2023: Time to Connect helped join six nature and heritage sites across Sherwood Forest through community arts and drawing.
Heritage
Sherwood Forest Up Close
An exhibition showing fascinating insight into the smaller, often hidden species that are essential to the complex ecosystem of the Sherwood Forest landscape. Natural history photographer Alex Hyde has visited sites across the Sherwood Forest area to open our eyes to the wonder of these species.
Arts & Culture
Brave Bears
We worked with Nottinghamshire Police, Newark and Sherwood District Council and Creative Lives for Inspire's 2023 Charity Knitting Challenge supporting Nottinghamshire crafters to make Brave Bears for charities working with children in times of need.
Reading & Libraries
Sherwood Voices Storytelling Audio Walks
We’ve created a series of six audio walks, written and directed by Excavate's Andy Barrett, and led by Sherwood people, who will take you on a journey through the stories and culture of the Sherwood Forest area.
Arts & Culture
Knittinghamshire
We teamed up with a merry band of Nottinghamshire crafters to knit and crochet mini Robin Hood hats for our 2021 Inspire Charity Knitting Challenge as part of The Innocent Big Knit to raise money for Age UK. Over 2,200 hats were sent in!
Arts & Culture
The Big Draw 2020: A Climate of Change
Groups across the Miner2Major area joined in with The Big Draw 2020: A Climate of Change by working with local artist Jess Kemp to collectively create metres of silk painted festival bunting. Every flag we received was hand-painted from the community exploring the 8 themes of the Miner2Major scheme.
Reading & Libraries
Poetry Place: The Virtual Exhibition
A virtual exhibition featuring poetry inspired by archive images of the people, landscapes and stories of the Sherwood Forest area.
Reading & Libraries
Lost Words of Nottinghamshire: The Virtual Exhibition
The Lost Words of Nottinghamshire project aimed to engage local school children with local language and dialect. See the results of their work in this virtual exhibition.
Arts & Culture
Able Orchestra performance inspired by historic Papplewick Pumping Station
Able Orchestra 'Immersion' project inspired by audio and visual recordings at one of Nottinghamshire’s finest heritage locations, Papplewick Pumping Station.
Arts & Culture
The Augmented Reality Exhibition
This fascinating exhibition provides an insight into the magical world of Augmented Reality.
Micropination Film
Jimmy Power, an artist supported by Inspire Youth Arts, led a film project funded by Miner2Major that involved young music producers in creating music and visuals inspired by Sherwood Forest and its surroundings.
Heritage
Miner2Major How To Sheets and Activities
Get involved with the Miner2Major project at home and get crafting!
Heritage
Miner2Major Recommended Reads
Recommended reads for adults and children exploring Miner2Major themes.
