What’s On – Art Trail
New for 2025 ….. we are doing something a bit different!
MIGRATION AUDIO ARTS TRAIL – A new audio trail in the Meadow
Oral history recordings from HGF community workshops will be compiled into an audio trail, exhibited around Hellens’ wildflower meadow during the festival. This will bring voices, memories, and personal stories into the festival space in a meaningful, accessible way.
By actively involving refugee communities, we aim to create healing and transformative experiences in a peaceful countryside setting. Local volunteers, primarily aged 50-70, who have expressed a desire for diversity, will join workshops with refugee women, fostering cultural exchange.
Through storytelling, art, and nature, we seek to bridge communities and cultivate inclusive spaces. Gardening and time in nature offer deep therapeutic benefits, particularly for those experiencing trauma and isolation. By building trust and connection and harnessing the universal languages of music and nature, we hope to promote healing, unity, and empowerment while celebrating the natural world.
GREAT BARN EXHIBITION
We have been asking colleges, schools, adults and families to create stories and art to imagine a better future – where humanity has done everything it can by 2035 to solve the climate and nature crisis. What would life be like in 2035? It wouldn’t be perfect, and it would certainly be very different to today. But we would at least be heading in the right direction and see a positive future on the horizon.
Through a display of artwork alongside mini-stories we would like your help in coming up with visions of a better 2035. The aim of this project is to inspire people to work towards this better future.
Tom Genders will be on site painting on Sunday.
Do have a chat to him about his Upcoming Exhibition – Beating the Bounds at Hellens – 4 to 17 of August 2025
