2010 sees the beginning of The Boat Project – and we’ll need you to help us realise this exciting and ambitious project for the South East*.
- We’ll be asking for your wood – and together we’ll build a sea-faring boat
- We’ll be asking for your friends – nominate a deserving friend to be trained as a crew member for the boat’s Olympic voyage
- We’ll be asking for your time – come and help us build the boat
- We’ll be asking for your stories – and together we’ll share our lives
Get involved now! A full website for The Boat Project will be launched in July 2010, sign up here to receive a reminder and regular updates on the project.
Important dates:
- Summer 2010: location of build shed announced
- January 2011: build shed opens for business and receiving of wood & stories
- June 2011: crew announced
- June 2012: The Boat’s maiden voyage
*The counties covered are Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex
About The Boat Project
At the heart of The Boat Project lies a fascination with people and their stories. Since 1997 Lone Twin have been making arts events across the globe that engender the sharing of everyday stories between people.
The conversation for The Boat Project begins with a request: we’d like your wood. But not any old wood, we’d like a piece of you; a piece of wood that somehow features in your life. It might be something quite mundane, it might be something quite extraordinary. It might be small, like a doorstop, or large, like a garden shed.
We ask you to bring your wood to the project base, the build shed. There you meet Lone Twin and members of the team working on the project who’ll talk to you about your donation and the reason you’ve decided to offer that particular item; we’ll collect the story behind your donation and create a book, a biography of both the boat and the community that came together to build it.
You can visit the build-shed as many times as you like, and be involved with the process as much as you like: you might just like to visit to see how it’s all going or you might take a regular, active role in the building process. The build-shed will be open for 18 months, from early 2011, so there’s plenty of time to build a relationship with the project.
The Boat will be launched in June 2012 and will make a maiden voyage around the South East coast. The boat will be crewed by a nominated team of community members. After the voyage the boat will be donated to a location in the South East where it will become a permanent recreation resource and an arts venue for everyone that helped realise this extraordinary project.
About the artists
Lone Twin are Gary Winters and Gregg Whelan. The duo are widely regarded as leading artists in the field of contemporary performance. Their work is shown around the world to critical and popular acclaim. To find out more, and to see what else Gary and Gregg are working on visit Lone Twin’s website here.
The Boat Project is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and funded by Arts Council England through Artists taking the lead; 12 extraordinary projects to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK.
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