SIGNS & WONDERS   16th-19th August 2012

Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith and Katie Etheridge will be staging a series of walking performances and interventions in city and landscape. Legs and feet and walking are key to this story. The whole case started with an encounter between a travelling pedlar and a girl on the road. One of the women convicted in 1612 of witchcraft, Katherine Hewitt, was referred to as ‘mould heels’. Feet as our connection with the earth. This story walks.

We are using the idea of the pedlar as a carrier of multiple viewpoints- walking and traveling; we will be peddling ideas, through trade, exchange and conversations. Along city streets, in the marketplace and down country tracks we will distribute strange tokens and wondrous pamphlets.

DAY 1/ DECANTING

Thursday 16th August 6pm-7pm ASHTON MEMORIAL, Williamson Park, Lancaster, LA1 1UX
The opening of SIGNS & WONDERS. Hear the declaring and decanting of evidence. Meet the artists.

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Day 2/ VISITATIONS

Friday 17th August LANCASTER, various locations across the city.
Carrying on their backs, objects, texts and landscapes across Lancaster, stopping at key sites, collecting SIGNS & WONDERS along the way.

GOLGOTHA, 10AM
Williamson Park Car Park, off Wyresdale Road, LA1 3DZ

GOLDEN LION,12NOON
Moor Lane, Lancaster LA1 1QD

MARKET SQUARE, 2PM
Lancaster LA1 1HT

LANCASTER CASTLE, 4PM
Castle Parade, Lancaster LA1 1YJ

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Day 3/ MARKET PLACE

Saturday 18th August, 10am-4pm, LANCASTER CHARTER MARKET, Lancaster LA1 1HT
Pamphlets, objects, and conversations, traded, shared and exchanged.

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Day 4/ PERFORMANCE WALKS

Sunday 19th August NEWCHURCH-IN-PENDLE
Meeting Point: Outside Outside Witches Galore, 14 Newchurch Village, Newchurch-in Pendle, BB12 9JR Burnley Lancashire.

Walking around the objects, ideas and landscape of the Pendle Witch story. 
A circular route with stiles, uneven surfaces, trials, signs and wonders.

WALK TIMES: 11AM / 1PM / 3PM
 
BOOKING: FREE BUT ADVANCED BOOKING ESSENTIAL.
tel: 015242-21233 email: info@greenclose.org

Audience capacity per walk: 15

Specially commissioned artworks by Tony Weaver, Helen Hockin and Ian Reveley have been designed and made for these SIGNS & WONDERS. This project is part of Lancashire Witches 400, a diverse creative programme initiated by Green Close in Melling which explores the heritage of the Lancashire Witches, the 400th anniversary of their trial and execution, and the enduring issue of persecution today.

SIGNS & WONDERS is a Wrights & Sites satellite project supported by Green Close, Storey Gallery and Live at LICA.

Meet the SIGNS & WONDERS team.

Designs by Charlie Haywood, Hotfoot Design

info@lancashirewitches400.org.uk