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    Actor: Harry Vendryes

    Actor: Harry Vendryes

    Thanet Gazette 23 March 2014

    RP Ellington park rehearsal [3] 16Mar14

    RP Ellington park rehearsal [3] 16Mar14

    Performer: Niamh Lyman-Cotter

    Performer: Niamh Lyman-Cotter

    Thanet Gazette 23 Mar 2014

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    By Marion Spain

    By Marion Spain

    By Elaine Winter

    By Elaine Winter

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    Bunting Book 1a

    Bunting Book 1a

    Bunting Book 1i

    Bunting Book 1i

    Bunting Book 1e

    Bunting Book 1e

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    Ellington Park Performance​​

    23rd March 2014

     

    On chilly damp afternoon around 150 people turned out for the first Resting Place performance that lasted approximately 15 minutes, followed by tea and cakes, made from recipes found in Clarice’s archive.

     

    The bandstand was adorned with bunting sent from across the UK (see below) and there was country dancing. The intention was to give Clarice a rousing send- off, something only the men experienced when heading off the war front.

     

    The event deeply affected many, causing people to consider the sheer consequences of heading to war, the disruption to life and the likely apprehensions a young women would have leaving home for the first time on such an adventure.

    Bunting Book

    April 2014

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    'On wishing her goodbye' invited people around the country to participate in the first Resting Place event by creating a piece of bunting expressing what they would say to a young women heading off to war.

     

    72 bunting flags were received 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 23 March 2014.

     

    Dawn Cole created 8 bunting books to act as a permanent record of this part of the project. Containing 8 flags with its own storage box, each book is bound so they can be looked like a traditional book or open up to form an octagon, referencing the shape of the bandstand on which they hung. The flags can be removed from the covers and reused as bunting.

    Suitcase, Pillowcase & Bell

    Suitcase, Pillowcase & Bell

    Resting Place performance in Folkestone Harbour.

    28th September 2014

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    Resting Place Postcard side b Ellington.png

    Dawn Cole Laying Out Pillowcases

    Dawn Cole Laying Out Pillowcases

    Resting Place performance in Folkestone Harbour. Dawn Cole & Jonathan Pigram

    28th September 2014

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    Behind the Scenes
    Rehearsals, Research & Marketing
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    An ongoing, regularly updated gallery of rehearsals and research site visits for you to follow the project

     

    Ellington park rehearsals 16th Mar 2014

    Charing Cross station site visit 11th Feb 2014

    Bunting: On wishing her goodbye

    January - March 2014

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    We invited people around the country (and world) to participate in the first of our Resting Place events by creating a piece of bunting expressing what you would say to a young women heading off to war.  

     

    Men were given a rousing send off to war in the early years of the First World War but women leaving to nurse and serve the front were not even acknowledged for the sacrifice they were undertaking.  

     

    'On wishing her goodbye' was a resounding success with 72 flags received from around the UK to adorn the bandstand in Ellington Park. We were overwhelmed by the thought that went in to the design and making of the flags and the moving messages written on them, many of which seemed to have a personal significance to the sender. 

    Gallery

    Image of Resting Place performances and archive as it develops over two years from 2014 to 2016
    Niamh asleep at Charing X

    Niamh asleep at Charing X

    By Fae Harmer

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    RP CHX image Sandra Djukic 637.jpg

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    RP CHX image Sandra Djukic 19.jpg

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    Ramsgate to Charing Cross 
    10th May 2014

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    On Saturday 10th May 2014, at 9.00am, a performance took place in Ramsgate Railway station booking hall before artists and audience joined a train, especially prepared by Southeastern Railways, for a journey to London.  En route, a sound installation of the train’s electro-magnetic signals, which exist naturally outside of our aural perception, presented a rare opportunity to hear unheard sounds that envelope our daily world.  At London Charing Cross station, courtesy of Network Rail, hundreds gathered around a pile of soil in the centre of the concourse, a single female created a powerful movement performance with pillowcases, while a male voice read from a diary of a young woman heading to the battlefront during the First World War to become a VAD nurse.  The reaction of many who witnessed this sudden event was intense. Read more and see full gallery [click]

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