ARTSPACE / STILL WATERS

  Click here  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ycr4TLYyotGVlGACkASzzl8kCLCrGB4X/view?usp=sharing to see a short test sequence shot by Jim last week in the Sir John Barrow cottage.  It's a grey day. Black Combe is in the distance.  You see the Alexander family members planting their stakes and nets in the estuary. They work steadily, with concentration; they've done this many times.  Appropriately, Jim's mum and dad have been involved in the process, making props and costumes.  More will follow. We are in Askam this weekend, Alex, Jim and me are running craft workshops for families in the Community Centre, building collage maps of parts of the village   We will have this clip with us and some of Lindsay's Askam photographs, which will be on display in the cottage on fridays and sundays for the next few weeks. Be sure to visit, it's a beautiful show, Here's a sample.  

  A busy and varied sunday at the Cottage, with visitors seeing  Lindsay Ward's exhibition of Askam photographs  and watching animator James Alexander at work on his film. Lindsay is presenting a sample from several months of visits to the ponds and the estuary. The show will be on display in the cottage for the next few months, and more will be exhibited in Askam Community Centre at the end of the Still Waters project Lindsay's pictures look at the remains of  the mining buildings alongside the ponds and overgrowth that have gradually encroached on the spaces between them. They capture moments in the life of land catching its breath over decades. We see r eflections and shadows, surfaces and skylines; all is still, all is active.  Historian Iain McNicol opens the cottage on fridays and sundays. Come and see. Jim's story is of a moment in the social history of the village. His family are as much a part of Askam as the trees, the pier and the tides. The story concerns fricti