Coastal Encounter in Great Yarmouth - Exploring an Artist-Led Campus
Friday 6 June, 10am - 6.30pm
Various Great Yarmouth Locations
meeting at
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
Coastal Encounter in Great Yarmouth – Exploring an Artist-Led Campus, Friday 6 June 2025
Part of Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters (Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 June 2025)
Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters is a three-day programme bringing together artists, curators, designers, scientists, activists, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders to explore how art and culture can shape global climate action.
The event is organised by the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich Green Film Festival, University of East Anglia, East Gallery and Norwich University of the Arts, in collaboration with originalprojects; (Great Yarmouth) and Wolterton, with support from the Kingdom of the Netherlands Embassy, London.
See programme inclusions here:
https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/shared-seas-coastal-encounters/
https://www.ueagreenfilmfestival.co.uk/s-projects-side-by-side
originalprojects; is pleased to host the optional third day of the Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters programme in Great Yarmouth.
Our contribution to Shared Seas builds on our current research project: the Great Yarmouth Exploded Art School (GYEAS).
Travel is self-organised. Further details will be shared with confirmed participants.
Image: de Onkruidenier
About the day
originalprojects; invites you to walk with us—through spaces of local heritage, creativity, and resistance—and take part in a live inquiry.
This day invites participants to explore Great Yarmouth as a living curriculum. Through artist-led walks, conversations, and encounters with the town’s people and our creative partners, participants will engage with a series of site-specific activities and interventions that reflect the town’s layered histories and coastal character. The programme includes opportunities for discussion, reflection, and performance — all grounded in place — as we consider how creative practices rooted in local context can support climate awareness, knowledge-sharing, and community resilience.
Agenda
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Arrive & Welcomes:
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Shortwave Collective
An introduction to the work on display, which shares activity undertaken by the collective during their residency in Great Yarmouth, hosted by YARMONICS.
11 am - 12:30 pm
Costal Kin Salty Tongues - Workshop with de Onkruidenier
Beach/ Seafront location, North Beach (Between the Venietan Waterways and the Shoreline)
c.12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
[ LUNCH BREAK WILL BE INCLUDED. Lunch is not provided – pick up food locally or enjoy a packed lunch ]
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Faculty Site Visits
We’ll begin with a warm welcome at PrimeYarc, our public-facing art space in the former Debenhams at Market Gates Shopping Centre. You’ll meet the team, hear about the day’s themes, and enjoy hot drinks before heading out on a curated tour of Great Yarmouth—visiting places that reveal the layered identity of this coastal town and its creative potential.
We’ll visit a selection of cultural, historical and artistic sites that act as “faculties” of the imagined campus—from the oldest football stadium in the world to experimental studios, the beach, and places of production and play. ? What to Expect Stops may include: Wellesley Stadium The Wall of Emerson The Bakehouse Red Herring Press Merrivale Model Village The Pleasure Beach (Grade II-listed rollercoaster) Yarmouth Oilskins, Lacons Brewery, Joyland The Venetian Waterways, Medieval Wall & Towers, and the beach.
Each site explores themes like Heritage & Memory, Industry & Making, Leisure & Play, and Values & Beliefs.
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Visit to Nwando Ebizie with Tom Richards& The Louise Hamilton Trust
The Enchanted Forest, Immersive installation (YARMONICS), 13 Regent Street, Great Yarmouth, NR30 1RN.
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Edgefield Dance - live performance/ sharing event,
PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, NR30 2BG.
18:30
Bus departs for evening celebration at Wolterton Hall,
pick-up location close to PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, NR30 2BG.
19:00 - 21:00
Private view and reception at Wolerton Hall (transport organised by Norwich University of the Arts)
What to Bring & Accessibility
What to Bring & Accessibility
This encounter builds on our current research project: the Great Yarmouth Exploded Art School (GYEAS) — a 12-month research and development initiative supported by Freelands Foundation.
We’re testing how a coastal town like Great Yarmouth—with its histories of industry, leisure, and cultural production—might function as a distributed, artist-led learning campus, where creative learning emerges from lived experience, local knowledge, and seasonal rhythms.
Great Yarmouth is a place shaped by its edges—geographically, culturally, and economically. It offers a frontline perspective on the urgent realities of climate change: erosion, rising seas, disappearing seasons, and shifting economies. These aren’t abstract concerns—they’re lived.
By working with the town’s cyclical rhythm of tourism, labour, and weather, we apply a permaculture-inspired methodology to develop GYEAS: a new model of artist-led education rooted in place and driven by collective knowledge.
We Are Asking:
Coastal Encounter in Great Yarmouth - Exploring an Artist-Led Campus
Friday 6 June, 10am - 6.30pm
Various Great Yarmouth Locations
meeting at
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
Coastal Encounter in Great Yarmouth – Exploring an Artist-Led Campus, Friday 6 June 2025
Part of Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters (Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 June 2025)
Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters is a three-day programme bringing together artists, curators, designers, scientists, activists, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders to explore how art and culture can shape global climate action.
The event is organised by the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich Green Film Festival, University of East Anglia, East Gallery and Norwich University of the Arts, in collaboration with originalprojects; (Great Yarmouth) and Wolterton, with support from the Kingdom of the Netherlands Embassy, London.
See programme inclusions here:
https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/shared-seas-coastal-encounters/
https://www.ueagreenfilmfestival.co.uk/s-projects-side-by-side
originalprojects; is pleased to host the optional third day of the Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters programme in Great Yarmouth.
Our contribution to Shared Seas builds on our current research project: the Great Yarmouth Exploded Art School (GYEAS).
Travel is self-organised. Further details will be shared with confirmed participants.
Image: de Onkruidenier
About the day
originalprojects; invites you to walk with us—through spaces of local heritage, creativity, and resistance—and take part in a live inquiry.
This day invites participants to explore Great Yarmouth as a living curriculum. Through artist-led walks, conversations, and encounters with the town’s people and our creative partners, participants will engage with a series of site-specific activities and interventions that reflect the town’s layered histories and coastal character. The programme includes opportunities for discussion, reflection, and performance — all grounded in place — as we consider how creative practices rooted in local context can support climate awareness, knowledge-sharing, and community resilience.
Agenda
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Arrive & Welcomes:
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Shortwave Collective
An introduction to the work on display, which shares activity undertaken by the collective during their residency in Great Yarmouth, hosted by YARMONICS.
11 am - 12:30 pm
Costal Kin Salty Tongues - Workshop with de Onkruidenier
Beach/ Seafront location, North Beach (Between the Venietan Waterways and the Shoreline)
c.12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
[ LUNCH BREAK WILL BE INCLUDED. Lunch is not provided – pick up food locally or enjoy a packed lunch ]
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Faculty Site Visits
We’ll begin with a warm welcome at PrimeYarc, our public-facing art space in the former Debenhams at Market Gates Shopping Centre. You’ll meet the team, hear about the day’s themes, and enjoy hot drinks before heading out on a curated tour of Great Yarmouth—visiting places that reveal the layered identity of this coastal town and its creative potential.
We’ll visit a selection of cultural, historical and artistic sites that act as “faculties” of the imagined campus—from the oldest football stadium in the world to experimental studios, the beach, and places of production and play. ? What to Expect Stops may include: Wellesley Stadium The Wall of Emerson The Bakehouse Red Herring Press Merrivale Model Village The Pleasure Beach (Grade II-listed rollercoaster) Yarmouth Oilskins, Lacons Brewery, Joyland The Venetian Waterways, Medieval Wall & Towers, and the beach.
Each site explores themes like Heritage & Memory, Industry & Making, Leisure & Play, and Values & Beliefs.
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Visit to Nwando Ebizie with Tom Richards& The Louise Hamilton Trust
The Enchanted Forest, Immersive installation (YARMONICS), 13 Regent Street, Great Yarmouth, NR30 1RN.
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Edgefield Dance - live performance/ sharing event,
PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, NR30 2BG.
18:30
Bus departs for evening celebration at Wolterton Hall,
pick-up location close to PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, NR30 2BG.
19:00 - 21:00
Private view and reception at Wolerton Hall (transport organised by Norwich University of the Arts)
What to Bring & Accessibility
What to Bring & Accessibility
This encounter builds on our current research project: the Great Yarmouth Exploded Art School (GYEAS) — a 12-month research and development initiative supported by Freelands Foundation.
We’re testing how a coastal town like Great Yarmouth—with its histories of industry, leisure, and cultural production—might function as a distributed, artist-led learning campus, where creative learning emerges from lived experience, local knowledge, and seasonal rhythms.
Great Yarmouth is a place shaped by its edges—geographically, culturally, and economically. It offers a frontline perspective on the urgent realities of climate change: erosion, rising seas, disappearing seasons, and shifting economies. These aren’t abstract concerns—they’re lived.
By working with the town’s cyclical rhythm of tourism, labour, and weather, we apply a permaculture-inspired methodology to develop GYEAS: a new model of artist-led education rooted in place and driven by collective knowledge.
We Are Asking: