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Fenland Creatives

2023-2026

Our Creative Places work supports artists to develop projects with communities across the region. Residencies offer artists time and space to expand their practice and explore ideas for projects they might then develop with us. Supported by Norfolk & Norwich Festival, dancer and choreographer Dan Canham is on a three year residency across the Fens to explore the creative journeys of young people in the area. 

2023/2024 

Re-discovering the landscape of his childhood, Dan embarked on a series of meetings with local organisations which opened up an unexpected encounter. When Babylon Arts introduced Dan to Katie Boag and Ash Goosey, two krump dancers from the Ely area, they collaborated on a short film that resonated profoundly with many of the themes he went into the residency with; young people, landscape, climate grief and ritual. The film, Fenland Elegy, premiered at Norfolk & Norwich Festival in 2024 and has been an Official Selection for Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema 2024. 

2024/2025 

We have continued to support Dan’s residence in the Fens as he delves deeper into connecting with communities in the area. Over a series of meetings and workshops in 2024, Dan linked up with 4D Dance, 20Twenty Productions, Pig Dyke Molly, and Abbey College Ramsey. The result of these encounters is a series of intimate film portratis, Four Portraits from an Edgeland, exploring young people’s experience of living in the Fens, and how creativity and dance is essential to their lives.  

Four Portraits From an Edgeland will premiere at Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2025, click here for more info.

2025/2026 

We are excited to continue working with Dan as his residency in the Fens draws to a close and we develop a new work to celebrate the culmination of Fenland Creatives. Keep an eye out for news of the project over the next year.   

‘To have the time and space to build relationships, to learn what is already in place in the area and to trial experiments has been of immense value and has ultimately allowed for the conditions for richer work to occur’ - Dan Canham 

Artist

Dan Canham

 

Location

Fenlands in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Participants

26 young people, aged 12 – 30

Fenland Elegy

 

 

A man dances in a flat landscape at twilight

Images: Dan Canham

 

Fenland Creatives is supported by Norfolk & Norwich Festival through its Festival Connect & Create initiative. 

Arts make life better

Norfolk & Norwich Festival brings tens of thousands of people together in celebration – it has been doing this for over 250 years. Through our May Festival and our year-round arts education work, focusing on children and young people, we lead and support celebration, creativity and curiosity in communities across Norfolk and the region.

This year we begin an exciting new initiative, Festival Connect & Create that will bring creative opportunities to those schools and communities with least provision. Creativity transforms people’s lives. It builds cohesive communities, develops vital skills and supports health and wellbeing. We want more people to have access to creative opportunities.

Please consider donating to support and develop this work. With your help we can increase access to the life changing power of the arts.

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