2011 Education / Outreach Message In A Bottle
The theme for the Folkestone Triennial 2011 is A Million Miles From Home and many of the artworks focus on this.
What is Home? Is it real or imagined? Is it near or far?
Over the past few months many people from local schools and community groups have been answering this question and have sealed them up as a Message In A Bottle, These are on display in the Visitor Centre, The History Resource Centre in Folkestone Library and the Making Space at the Old Post Office in Tontine Street.
We would love you to tell us your tales of what home means to you and add it to our Message Exchange. Simply head to the Making Space at the Old Post Office on Tontine Street to make your own Message In A Bottle. Alternatively, you can download the instructions here and pick up a bottle from any of the venues listed below. When you have made your bottle simply return it for exhibiting.
Below is a video of how to make a Message In A Bottle
Venues to pick up/drop off your bottles.
Making Space Education Centre in the Old Post Office, Tontine Street
The Triennial Visitors Centre, 3-7 Tontine Street
The Message Exchange.
Once you have created your own Message In A Bottle why don’t you photograph it and upload it to our Folkestone Triennial Education Flikr site? Then take your finished bottle and return it to one of the venues listed above. Your bottle will be sealed and recorded and you will need to leave an email address or phone number so that we can contact you after the exhibition. We would like to get as many people involved as possible and send all the messages out in a huge Message Exchange.
Who knows? Your bottle could end up A Million Miles From Home……?!
Other Message In A Bottle Projects.
We hope you will take part in this exciting project and have a chance to exhibit your bottle in the Folkestone Triennial 2011. The project has already been very successful and so far people of all ages have taken part and their bottles are exhibited now. Some of these groups have developed their projects further, to view these please visit our Folkestone Triennial Education Flickr site.
We would like to thank the following groups who have taken part for all their hard work and wonderful ideas. These groups have extended their Message In A Bottle projects into Time Capsules. You can read the Time Capsules project blogs here:
Age Concern, Folkestone Branch
Folkestone Migrant Support Group
ARRCC (Activities, Respite, Rehabilitation Care Centre)
Folkestone Youth Group at The Shed
Students from The Folkestone Academy
Students from Highview School
Students from Pent Valley Technology College
If you work with any community groups, galleries or education centres and would like to take part in the Message In A Bottle Message Exchange please get in touch by emailing info@folkestonetriennial.org.uk with subject line: Education Team – Message in a Bottle