Wetland is a peer-to-peer exchange programme, bringing together Cement Fields and Floating University Berlin to reflect on our socially-engaged programmes through reciprocal visits between the UK and Germany.
Embracing familiar methods of hospitality – reading together, walking together, eating together – we will come together in North Kent and Berlin to research and imagine new ways to foreground care, hospitality and conviviality when working with artists and communities.
As organisations sharing distinct parallels in practice and context – both working in places defined by their industrial uses and intrinsic relationship to water – the programme allows us to look beyond our own immediate geographies and consider unexplored and alternative ways of working.
Wetland is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany through the collaboration between Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Creative Scotland, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe-Institut London and Wales Arts International / Arts Council of Wales.