Wildworks: Cornwall Erratics
Cornwall Erratics is part of Hello Stranger, a Cornwall-wide community engagement programme created by Wildworks and supported by National Trust places in Cornwall and the communities they serve.
About Cornwall Erratics
Cornwall Erratics is part of the Hello Stranger programme, created by Wildworks and supported by National Trust places across Cornwall.
Hello Stranger explores the question of what Cornish people would share with a stranger of their lives, their culture, and their communities in Cornwall today.
Wildworks, in collaboration with the National Trust, are collecting stories of Cornwall Erratics -people who either left Cornwall to make their lives elsewhere, or those who arrived in Cornwall and became integral to the place.
We are seeking to reach out to both the communities of the Cornish diaspora and the ‘strangers’ who arrive in Cornwall and make it their home.
What is an erratic?
The term ‘erratic’ comes from the Latin word ‘errare’, which means ‘to wander’.
In geology, an erratic is a rock that has travelled from one landscape and been deposited in another. Often carried by glaciers or galleons, they can range in size from tiny pebbles to gigantic boulders, and they differ from the native rocks typically found in their destination.
Erratics can transform the landscape in which they come to rest.
Erratic people
Wildworks ask: what if this idea applied to people?
In what ways, large or small, have these people shaped the landscape, community, or culture in which they’ve come to rest?
These stories will be presented first online in digital format with a view to presenting them at our places in some form in the future.
Share your story
If you would like to be part of our human archive of Cornwall Erratics, please send Wildworks a photograph of yourself in a place that holds emotional significance for you, and tell us your stories, anecdotes and memories of both your place of origin and where you are now.
Your contributions will feed the process of Hello Stranger and will continue to inspire us in future work.
You can get in touch with Wildworks on: Erratics@wildworks.org.uk
Find out more about the project on the Wildworks website.
Our partners
Wildworks is the UK’s leading landscape theatre company. From their base in Cornwall they make site-specific theatre with communities locally, nationally and internationally. They reach audiences and collaborators all over the globe. Everyone is invited.
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