Common Ground

Common Ground is a year-long environmental and land art project led by Land and Leaf Collective and ReNatured CIC, bringing together a diverse collective of artists and local residents to explore the relationship between people, creativity, and the natural landscape on Lincoln’s commons. Through contemporary land art, using natural and found materials such as clay, chalk, plants, and pigments artists and local residents co-create temporary and lasting artworks that celebrate people and place. 

Common Ground celebrates the social and ecological dimensions of artmaking, valuing process, place, and impermanence. By creating artworks grounded in the landscape and shaped by those who inhabit it, the project reflects the democratic spirit of the commons as shared public land and creative space.

Usha is a mixed media and movement artist offering a series of five creative sessions, based between the Central Methodist Church and Lincoln South Common

As an artist she loves making, moving and musing and especially being in nature!

She enjoys combining different things in creative ways to celebrate our relationship to ourselves, to each other and with the living world. After all, we are all nature !

You can see some of her work here www.be-ingintouch.co.uk

This will be a time to discover and explore the South Common 

A time to walk, share and be

A time to enjoy the views beneath our feet, the views above the our heads and everything in between 

It’s a time to notice and respond in creative ways opening our senses to what's around us and see what happens 

Sometimes we might move or write or make - no previous experience needed just curiosity to experience in the moment to discover the whispers of the common ground we share…

These inter-generational sessions are open to families working with or supported by The Centre for Reconciliation and The Dialogue Society

Creative activities are suitable for families with children aged 9+ (younger siblings are welcome)

12th August: 3 pm - 5 pm

19th August: 2 pm - 4.45 pm

26th August: 2 pm - 4.45 pm

2nd September: 2 pm - 4.45 pm

9th September: 3 pm - 5 pm

On the 12th August we will meet at the Central Methodist Church to meet each other and decide what we would like to explore. Please bring a small item of cultural, personal or natural significance. This may be a fan, a figurine, a book, a pebble... anything that is meaningful to you.

There is the opportunity to stay after the session to share the Taste of Unity meal, provided by The Centre for Reconciliation.

The following sessions will take place between Lincoln South Common and the Central Methodist Church. Participants should be aware that there will be walking between the venues and sessions will take place in all weather.