Cobnuts: Finding Lost Nature Words

Recollections of Nature from a Child’s Eye View
at the Nature Recovery Event
Saturday 15 November 10am-2pm, Brightlingsea Library

Essex Cultural Diversity Project has been working with Cobnuts artist collective to deliver a new environment-focussed mini-commission for Brightlingsea in Tendring, Essex.

Cobnuts has been capturing community voices to enable nature stories from different childhoods to be told and remembered. For artists working with ‘cob’, an ancient mix of clay, subsoil, sand and straw, it seems apt that ‘earth’ is a recurring theme throughout the stories, from children covering themselves in mud in the UK, Romania, Hungary and Kenya, to building mud toy towns in Morocco and making mud pies in Brightlingsea. Material from childhood reminiscences will be used to make a new artwork for the front of Brightlingsea Library in the form of a wall wildlife habitat, shown alongside a sound installation with community voices.

This November Cobnuts will be showing work in progress as part of the Nature Recovery Event at Brightlingsea Library, in the form of recordings they have made of the community participants’ stories. Whether you were the type of child to come home covered in mud or with a proud fish for the table, come and listen to recollections of Nature from a Child’s eye view.

You will also be able to view an interactive, digital, Nature Recovery map of Brightlingsea – you can learn how to use it to create a Nature Recovery map for your own town or organisation. Roots Nature Play will be there with activities for the children (and adults if you’d like). Find out more about Essex Bird Aware, Brightlingsea Beach School, Essex Naturalist Association, Brightlingsea Hedgehog Rescue and Brightlingsea Community Allotment and more!

• Free event, no booking required
• Brightlingsea Library, New Street, C07 0BZ