22nd August 2015: Website completely updated with all stage one events and artworks

25th September 2014: Beautiful Resting Place rehearsal in advance of Sunday’s performance at 5pm on Folkestone Seafront [click]

25th September 2014: Network Rail promoting Resting Place...

Discovering and developing the movement language for the first Resting Place event has been a long journey. Ellington Park was Clarices’ ancestral home, and although it was already a public park in her lifetime, Clarice and her sister retained a sense of belonging and...

Have been quietly observing this blog. Every day I refresh to check recent happenings. Being the voice to this amazing event, I feel as if I’m the last segment to be placed… and I do actually think of this event as a layer cake; each person with their own distinct pers...

'On wishing her goodbye' was a resounding success with 72 bunting flags received for the project from around the UK. These were made up into strings of bunting and used to adorn the bandstand in Ellington Park at the first Resting Place event on 23rd April 2014.

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The first Resting Place performance event took place on 23rd March 2014. The weather could have been better, very cold and blustery and a short shower of rain just as the performance was about to begin. However, that did not deter around 150 people from coming along to...

Joining the war effort was seen, by many young people, as a great adventure. The dangers of war, and the farewell from loved ones, paled before the colourful exuberance with which contributing to the war effort was celebrated.Communities were brought together in this m...

I was immediately intrigued by the world of words, images, artifacts and unspoken events that frame Resting Place. Clarice Spratlings diary, the archive and Dawn’s work in response to it are such a rich source, and I am honoured and excited to become a part of it as mo...