MAYFIELD (Newbattle)

·      To creatively connect communities to their local culture: intangible cultural heritage, history, literature

·      To stimulate participation and bring together local activists and organisations

·      To record aspects of local culture - songs, stories, dances, traditions

·      To affirm the work of local practitioners

·      To broker platforms for the expression and celebration of local culture and creativity

Fieldworker

Yvonne Weighand Lyle

Partners and Contact Organisations

Mayfield and Easthouses Development Trust, Mayfield and Easthouses Community Council, Ageing Well Midlothian Walking Group, Cornerstone Café, Mayfield Church, Newbattle High School, Lawfield Nursery, Y2K, Remembering Together, Midlothian Play, Volunteer Midlothian, Coalfields Regeneration Trust, Caledonian Horticultural Society, Easthouses Miners’ Group, National Mining Museum, St Luke’s Primary, Black Diamond Radio

Action Research

Artist sketch-books and notebooks, community archive, photographic record, Well Kent Places postal packs & sample of completed returns, workshop posters

Productions

Exhibition: Well Kent Places, Gala Day community pom-pom garland installation, Cyanotype community fabric expressing the landscape installation, MAEDT Craft Group paper quilling artworks

Public artwork: Well Kent Places. x24 concrete tiles sculpted by members of the community and local schools cast and installed by the Creative Fieldworker, to create a map of Mayfield and Easthouses that corresponds to the well-kent places of the participants and the completed returns from the well-kent places postal packs.