The Seed Vault

Creative Accelerator: Axbridge, Cheddar and the Polden Villages

One of the exciting things about the Seed programme is that not only do we have funding to spend on creative arts, cultural and heritage activities in your local area, but we want YOU to help us work out what to spend it on!

Creative Conversations

Creative Conversations was a project run by local artists Karl Bevis and Rachel Gundry. Together, they spent 10 weeks talking to members of the community on the phone

Creative Isolation

Creative Isolation was a project that shared creative materials to encourage the community to get making, doing, shaping, cutting, sticking and engaging with the online live tutorials and support.

Creative Lives Under Lockdown

During lockdown, Seed launched five Creative Lives Under Lockdown micro-commissions.

Creative Lives Under Lockdown

During the very first Covid-19 lockdown in Summer 2020, Seed commissioned five local artists to develop creative activities that would engage, support and creatively connect people in Sedgemoor.

Desire Lines

This project offered an opportunity for residents of Sedgemoor to engage in a number of conversations and creative activities and workshops facilitated by artist Andrew Henon.

Front Garden Music Festival 2021

On Sunday 6th June 2021, we ran our first ever Front Garden Music Festival, and what a day it was! Local performers were invited to come out into their gardens and perform for their neighbours and members of the community.

GlowHome: Christmas Lanterns

Last year, Covid-19 and government guidelines on social distancing limited our capacity to get out and about in the same way to celebrate Christmas as a community.

Highbridge commissions

Through a multi-stage community consultation process with people living and working in Highbridge, Seed identified a great appetite locally for arts and other creative activities but the main barrier to participation is access.

Journey Exchange

This inter-generational storytelling and performance project was undertaken in partnership with Take Art.

Joyful Noises

Joyful Noises was all about documenting the Thursday night ‘clap for carers’ celebrations.

Let’s Dance Sedgemoor

Lets Dance Sedgemoor was a virtual dance and movement project for all ages and abilities.

Moments of Stillness

Can you take a moment to stop? Take notice? Listen? And hear what is going on around you during your daily exercise? Or maybe take a moment in your garden? Or on the way to the shops? This was the inspiration behind Moments of Stillness.

Shelfies

The items we own, store and display provide a wonderful window into our selves and our identities and we wanted to see and share these glimpses of Sedgemoor.

Sketchbooks Unlocked

Run by The Arts Quarter in Cheddar, Sketchbooks Unlocked invited members of the community to unlock their creative potential and create journals, sketchbooks, memoirs, creative projects, story boards, comics, collections, studies…anything they liked!

Social Arts Practice & Me

In July and August, we ran two online facilitated interactive sessions led by artist & educator Rachel Dobbs.

Sound Design Artist

For the Moments of Stillness project, Seed sought expressions of interest to create a soundtrack for the community generated film.

Stepping Out: Loneliness project

In Spring 2021, Grant in Aid via Arts Council England funded a series of projects to combat loneliness and social isolation through Creative People and Places projects up and down the country.

The Nornen Project

The Nornen Project is bringing the story to life with a series of events and the creation of a brand-new theatrical production, all to celebrate the 125th anniversary of this local landmark in 2022.

Zoom Clubs

Over a 10-week period, local artists facilitated 15 different weekly Zoom Clubs, offering a wide variety of activities to the community.

Creative Arts in Everyday Life

First Art gallery

Glow Lanterns

Together with Create You in Highbridge, we have produced another lantern kit, this time using the paper bags the kits are packed in to reduce packaging and waste.

Highbridge Podcast

Artist Mell Turford is collecting and sharing the stories and history of Highbridge – Giving voice to members of the Highbridge community.