This cross curricular resource is aimed at Years 6 & 7 and offer opportunities for
outdoor learning, in a student’s immediate environment or in the Elan Valley itself. It
is available to download free of charge via the links below

Download Resource in English 
Download Resource in Welsh

We are also hosting a number of introductory calls for teachers to go through the
resources, explain our methodology, and answer any questions you have about
working with them. We are offering these calls via Google Meet at the following
dates and times, you can use this link to sign up for a call. 

If none of these timings or platforms are suitable for you, please get in touch with
rosie.slay@elanvalley.org.uk to organise an alternative call. 

Thursday 12th October 3.30-4.30pm
Wednesday 25th October 3.30-4.30pm
Thursday 26th October 4-5pm 
Wednesday 1st October 3.30-4.30pm

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Elan Links and Midlands Arts Centre present Watershed, a group exhibition exploring the history, landscape and culture of Elan Valley in mid Wales.

In the late 19^th century, unsafe water led to widespread disease in the growing industrial city of Birmingham. An Act of Parliament was passed, enabling the compulsory purchase of the Elan Valley by the Birmingham Corporation Water Department. A series of reservoirs were created by damming the Elan and Claerwen rivers, and over 100 occupants of the Elan Valley were forced to move.

Watershed presents artistic responses to this controversial change to Welsh land, the connections between these two distinctive landscapes, and the part that people play in nature’s balance.

The exhibition spans across mediums, including photography, sound, film and painting. It gathers material from the Elan Links archive, including a book of etchings from the lead engineer of the dam construction Eustace Tickell, who was moved to capture the valley before it was flooded.

The featured artists took part in a unique residency programme led by Elan Links, including work by artist Rowena Harris made in spring 2023 during their residency with Elan Links and MAC.

The exhibition is being held at MAC in Birmingham, and is presented in both English and Welsh languages.

Watershed opens on 28^th June and will run until 5^th November 2023, in the Terrace and Community Gallery at Midland Arts Centre. For more information about our events and outreach in Birmingham click here.

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Our artist in residence, Rowena Harris, has developed a fatigue-accessible audio artwork around Caban Coch Dam.

Rowena’s residency took place this spring, and is a two part-residency, hosted by Elan Links, and Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham. Rowena’s work is inspired by the water and energy management system of Elan Valley in relation to life altering fatigue. It is spoken from the position of water and takes inspiration from pacing practices for fatigue and radical habitation of space and time living with fatigue creates. 

A Crip Body of Water is available to listen through Spotify, and the full details of the work including the choice of fatigue accessible listening routes, locations, and accessibility guidance, can be found below. The audio is in combined Welsh and English.

English Guide (dark mode) (light mode)

An overview of the listening locations can be seen on the map below

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