Stourport Basins Project

Stourport Basins is under going a major transformation and British Waterways work in close partnership with Arts Development to achieve some of their work. Public art and events play a large part in the vision for the basins future, you will find an increasing amount of interesting events which you can attend.

For more information go to the Stourport town website

Amongst the early projects the Arts Development section were involved in was the commissioning of an interpretive map of the basins, local fine artist Kate Wrigglesworth was recruited to undertake the work.

Kate worked with local community groups, which included Stourport Civic Society, St Michael's Scout Group, a girls group from Stourport Youth Centre and local residents, to find out about Stourport and what it means to them.

	As a result of this community consultation, Kate produced a beautifully illustrated map compiling all the special features of the basins including local historic information as well as nostalgic anecdotes from local residents. View the Illustrated Map of Stourport-on-Severn Canal and River Basins (2,130K) produced by Kate Wrigglesworth
	Sarah Douglas, an environmental interpreter, produced short stories to complement the map created by Kate. The project will help to support the development of a wider Artist-in-Residence and public art scheme for the Stourport canal basins heritage site. Visit British Waterways' Website

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