At  Home in the Forest of Dean

Wyldwood Arts invites you to contribute to an audio collage that will be part of the A Forest Symphony, a celebratory musical performance and storytelling event that brings the past, present & future to life - performed on Sunday 10th September at Scarr Bandstand, nr Sling.

We’re keen to gather lots of different voices that speak about living here, in the beautiful Forest of Dean, and weave them into an audio collage that will be part of the performance. 

We’ve come up with some questions and would hugely appreciate if you could take a few minutes to answer them and record yourself speaking your responses.

You can use anything to record your answers - a smartphone, microphone, dictaphone or even a tape recorder! You can also record a WhatsApp voice note and send us your responses that way.

If you are keen to answer the questions but are finding the technical part tricky, then get in touch and we can work together to record your thoughts.

The questions are only a starting point to inspire ideas and recollections, so feel free to go off on tangents, run your answers together and describe your memories and experiences as fully as you’d like. It's also okay if other sounds happen in the background as this can be edited out.

Once we have the recordings, the creative team will find bits that work together and edit the recorded voices to make short chapters that tell a story of living in the Forest of Dean - past, present, and future.

Here are the questions we’d like to hear your responses to:

1.      What comes to mind when you think about the Forest of Dean?

2.      How long have you lived here? If you’ve moved to the area tell us about what brought you here.

3.      What do you think is special about the Forest of Dean?

4.      What does community mean to you? Tell us a bit about your experience of being part of a community in the Forest of Dean

5.      What are your hopes for the future of this place?

6.      The performance celebrates 100 years of Lydbrook Band - what do you think is important or valuable about live music? You may like to reflect on; the experience of people making music together and the experience for performers and audiences of being together and enjoying music in the moment.

 How to send your recording:

·        Email directly to Pat Moran who will create the audio collage: patmoranmusic@gmail.com and feel free to ask him any questions.

·        For big files use WeTransfer https://wetransfer.com/ (No need to sign up, click ‘I just want to send files’) and send to Pat using the email above.

·        Send a WhatsApp Voice Note to 07519936665 - click on the hyperlink for step by step instructions on how to send a WhatsApp Voice Note.

·        If you have any issues or you need help with the recording, please contact Rachel Adams rachel@wyldwoodarts.co.uk or the Wyldwood Team hello@wyldwoodarts.co.uk

The sooner you can make your recording and send it the more time there will be to create something wonderful, so no need to spend ages crafting your responses - just get recording and let it flow!

With Many Thanks

The Forest Symphony Creative Team