And Everything And Nothing Has Changed: How to Build a Stone Circle – Nine Stones Willow Lantern Workshops

A temporary art installation workshop constructing Nine 2.5m high standing stones out of willow and tissue paper.

This event is part of ‘And Everything And Nothing Has Changed’ (2021). A 5 month Public Arts & Heritage Programme by Cornish Queer Artist & Producer Robin Sullivan.

Over this informal 2 day workshop we will be constructing nine 2.5m high Monolithic Standing Stone Sculptures out of Willow and Paper. This workshop and the subsequent performance evening, Night of the Nine Stones, was conceived to pay homage to the legendary Nine Stones Circle, a stone circle engulfed by the China Clay industry prior to 1813 with little to no record of its existence.

This temporary Art Installation will be activated on the 5th of June with a public evening of Poetry, Improv and fun with friends and associates of Par based Community Arts Group, Covid & Beyond, Funded and supported by Creative Civic Change.

The project as a whole questions our relationship to historic sites and the record of their social histories, but this new collaborative event goes beyond these questions to examine what role these sites hold in 21st century Cornwall.

This workshop and associated Night of the Nine Stones performance has been kindly funded by FEAST.

All events within the programme are free but limited in capacity. For more information on this event and how you can get involved in the rest of programme go to WWW.ROBINJAMESSULLIVAN.COM or email Robin on [email protected]

‘And Everything And Nothing Has Changed’ has been made possible with generous support and funding from; Eco-bos, Imerys, Austell Project, the Coastal Communities Fund, Creative Civic Change, Arts Council England, Cornwall Heritage Trust, FEAST, Royal Cornwall Museum, Wheal Martyn Museum, Cornwall College and Cultivator Cornwall.