The Ullswater Droving returns later this month – starting the Droving Season by Welcoming of the Wolf in Glenridding and Pooley Bridge.
Eden Arts will be working with colleagues at the internationally renowned outdoor arts organisation Walk the Plank with a unique opportunity to participate in creating a magical artwork in Pooley Bridge using Geolights as featured on BBC Countryfile.
The unique technology of the Geolights was developed and used last year for the Green Space Dark Skies project with thousands of people across the UK creating magical light patterns in rural locations captured on film.
People have until Wednesday, October 11, to sign up to participate and become a Luminator and carry the magical Geolights at the event on October 21.
For more information and to sign up, visit edenarts.co.uk.
Individuals, groups and families with older children can participate in this unique event where they will be directed by Walk the Plank to create a large outdoor artwork to Welcome the Wolf.
The name Ullswater comes from the old Norse word Ulfr meaning wolf, so Glenridding and Pooley Bridge offer the perfect locations to welcome this revered beast.
For those that join us at the event the inimitable Spark! drummers will grace the shores of Ullswater kicking off the event with light, sound and mystique when they process through the streets of Glenridding, sail onto the water with Ullswater ‘Steamers’ and up the lake where they will disembark at Pooley Bridge Pier.
From here visitors will be able to watch the spectacle of the drummers lead a procession from the lakeside and up through the village of Pooley Bridge followed by the hoards of Lumenators who will depart for their Geolight performance.
The Geolight performance is not a spectator event, it is a participatory experience so signing up to join in is essential.
In Penrith, the annual town celebration that is The Winter Droving will return to celebrate rural life, food, fun, masquerade and fire on Saturday October 28.
