Hello everyone! If you are in or around Swansea in Wales during the next few weeks, we invite you to visit Mission Gallery to engage with Underwater Words I & II – a co-created digital artwork from an artscience project that challenged diverse audiences to think and share about rivers and underwater environments in 2020 […]
Journey with Rivers at Metamorffosis Festival
Hello! Daphne and Steph will be continuing their Underwater Haiku activities on a Journey with Rivers during the Metamorffosis Festival taking place in Gwynedd / Anglesey area in north Wales. Journey with Rivers event will take place from 1400-1600 on Saturday 26 June! If you are 18 years or older, will be in North Wales […]
Shout Trout in Green Fuse Zine for Young Naturalists
A solstice surprise from the young naturalists team at Green Fuse Magazine! The first edition of Green Fuse is now online and can be downloaded once you sign up to gain access (top of their front page). We are honoured to have been invited by co-editors Rose and George (also FIRE Lab team) to contribute […]
Shout Trout for World Fish Migration Day [24 October]!
Check out the Shout Trout Workout! It’s now live on our FIRE Lab Swansea YouTube Channel thanks to a FIRE collaboration with Wes Tank and the creative team at Tank Think and artist Ethan Kocak! View the video and download the comic from Fire Lab Kids [it’s FREE]! The comic has amazing illustrations by Ethan […]
Shout Trout Workout!
Hello everyone! Below is a teaser – or warmup if you will – of our upcoming production, Shout Trout Workout, premiering at 1645 (British Summer Time) on Wednesday 21 October on FIRE Lab Swansea YouTube Channel! Join us for the Shout Trout Workout as part of a week-long celebration for free-flowing rivers and migratory fishes […]
The Wondrous Hoobwaswamalotux
Bryher and I were inspired by the wonderful drawings that have been submitted to the Fire Lab Kids website and we wanted to make, and share about, our own Wondrous River Creature! One sunny morning, we headed to Clyne Gardens for some aquatic inspiration. We feel so lucky here in Swansea to be surrounded by […]
Jac’s River Adventure for engagement and research
Recently, FIRE Lab team and collaborators produced Jac’s River Adventure (JRA) book, associated activities, engagement videos, and e-book! With JRA, we bring science and art as well as engagement and research together. Our aims with JRA book and enrichment materials are to engage with young people ages 5-11 about their local rivers, and to use […]
My local river – the day a shark ate Fred’s banana
Hi, I’m Merryn and I recently started working with the FIRE Lab team using creative methods to engage young people with fresh waters. Since March I’ve been looking for ways to entertain two young people at home, four-year-old Bryher and one-year-old Fred, mainly befriending woodlice and trying to grow things from the food waste bin. […]
The creation of Salmonmayfly
Hi, I am Daphne and I am a Visual Designer. I joined FIRE Lab in January 2020 and I am keen to explore the relationship between science and art. Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse Creation, is one of the many sci-art projects we work on, here in FIRE Lab. Initially we envisioned it as a series […]
Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse Creation!
In early 2020 I was looking around the internet for local poetry events and groups when I came across an Eventbrite listing for an event planned by the Indisciplinary Poetics cluster at Bristol University that captured my interest. Given that I didn’t work at Bristol Uni I thought I’d give them a shout to be […]