Welcome to Hyde900Hyde900 is a community project in Winchester, Hampshire, to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the founding of Hyde Abbey. For more details see the "What is Hyde900?" page.
The Hyde900 environment officer, Lawrence Talks, has been working tirelessly over a number of years to produce a ground breaking project to warn people about the pollution of the water courses. This has now come to fruition and the
 design of the plaques is being finalised. The plaques will be placed near to drains in the district.The purpose of the drain markers is to reduce pollution in the Nuns’ Stream by making people aware that certain road drains drain directly into the stream. If polluting matter is poured down the drain it may kill fish and other wildlife. Over the last 10 years there have been at least 10 pollution incidents in the Nuns’ Stream caused, for example, by builders washing out cement mixers. This pilot scheme will be one of the first of its kind in the country.
We would welcome suggestions about the wording to appear on the plaques. (The attached photograph is an American example). The Environment Agency has suggested something like ‘DON’T POLLUTE’ ‘DRAINS TO RIVER’.
If you have any ideas please forward them onto Steve Marper, who will be co-ordinating responses his email is: steve.marper@hotmail.com
Forming part of the 10 Days Across the City arts festival (starting this week in Winchester), Invisible Cities features work by four local artists, Susan Wood, Alex Hoare, Nicola Harlow and Sophie Cunningham Dawe who are re-uniting following last year’s highly successful contemporary visual arts exhibition, Re-imagining Treasures of Hyde Abbey. Referencing past inhabitants’ and travellers’ tales, the four artists aim to create a conversation with current events taking place across the city of Winchester and beyond through installations which utilise glass, plastic, found objects and sound – often fragmentary – to explore how we might reconcile traces of past utility in this place – whether knowable or imagined – with its present and future possibilities. Themes of memory, place and poetic contemplation are all investigated to form interventions within and around the historic architecture of St. Bartholomew’s and the Hyde Gateway/Chamber – almost all that remain of the Norman Hyde Abbey, once a great centre of pilgrimage and learning and the burial place of Alfred the Great. How to visit: Invisible Cities is situated in St Bartholomew’s and its rear grounds, in Hyde Gate & Chamber and can be self-guided 10am – 4pm daily (St Bartholomew’s open hours with services at 10am Wed and 9.30am Sun, all welcome). Works outside the Church and in Hyde Gate/Chamber can be viewed at all times.
The Hyde Writers, who meet alternate Monday nights in the Hyde Tavern, launched their anthology on Saturday 29th October at the Oxfam Bookshop on Parchment Street.
Writers whose work is featured in the anthology include poets Stephen Boyce, Brian Evans-Jones, Richard Stillman and Hugh Greasley. There are also contributions from Jon Courteney Grimwood, Jake Wallis Simons, David Owen, Paul Davies, Hanna Nina Jameson, Steve Scholey and Tim Stevenson. SMALL IS VERY BEAUTIFUL IN HYDE EXHIBITION The Hyde Tavern is hosting an unusually small – with the emphasis on the ‘small’ – exhibition until 6 November 2011 as part of the 10 Days Across the City event. Organised by Sophie Cunningham Dawe as HARP/Hyde900’s contribution to the Winchester-wide festival, Hyde 9×5 celebrates the pleasure of small scale creativity concentrated into a space nine inches by five inches (or thereabouts). “We issued an open invitation to local people to contribute their work and we have been overwhelmed by the response,” said Sophie. “Eighty artworks were submitted including drawing, painting, collage, photography, printmaking and mixed media. They came from a wide range of people aged between six and ninety-one, some of whom are practising artists while others are aspiring hobbyists. Collectively the works reflect the extraordinary range of work that can be generated within such tight constraints.” The works are already selling at prices between £10 and £100 with visitors also being invited to vote for their favourite work as part of a People’s Choice Prize. (Three prizes will be awarded courtesy of local businesses Creative Crafts and Forte Tearooms. The prize winners will also be invited to take part in a group exhibition next year.) HARP/Hyde900’s other contributions to 10 Days Across the City includes works for the Invisible Cities exhibition in St Bartholomew’s Church, Hyde Gate and Chamber. The Hyde Tavern, now well established as a vibrant venue for local arts events, is open Mon -Thurs 5 -11pm incl. Thurs lunch 12.30 -2pm Fri 5 -12pm Sat 12 -12pm Sun 12 -11pm and is just a short walk from the city centre along Hyde Street. This exhibition is free and suitable for all ages. |
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