The Last Hatching
21st and 22nd May 2015
"trying to write a river,
along the lines of the water"
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| ripple and flow |
Fast water,
Crashing water
Dropping,
Over green rocks,
Into fierce, deep pools,
Strong trout leaping
With a twist of a tail.
Swimming up the fast flow,
River pushes,
Trout swims,
Swimming, swimming,
Keeps on swimming,
Through the rapids,
Through the pools,
Over the waterfalls
To lay golden eggs in a gravel redd.
(Holy Trinity School)
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| last view of a diving trout |
The river ran for a final time in this sequence of workshops
last week. The trout the classes had hatched as part of their Ribble Rivers Trust project had gone to meet their destinies in the rivers around Burnley but we had proposed these extra sessions to try taking our activities, like migrating trout, to leap the next waterfall or brave the last rapids
Steve and I worked with Heasandford
Primary School( 3 Year
4 classes) to take the work they had already done and skills they had already
developed further. Teams of musicians looked at ways of uniting their three
songs, while the artists took the pop-up planning techniques we'd used before
to go over the top and make a series of popups, each one being about 130cm long
and combining to give us a folded river almost as long as the school hall
In Holy Trinity School, a comment in an earlier workshop had
inspired a "the river as a beatbox" session. We looked at pictures, talked
about their trout, drew pictures, experimented with voices and instruments and
gradually built a score that mixed words, patterns and pictures and became the
voice of the river…..(pictures of musicians pending)
Recordings of both final pieces will follow!
Songs from the earlier sessions with these schools
Heasandford song 4.1
Heasandford song 4.3
with many thanks to the artists and musicians of Heasandford and Holy Trinity Primaries and to the members of the Ribble Rivers Trust who committee who gave us such an appreciative audience!
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