What Does It Mean to Live with the Sea

Saturday 19th September 2026 | 11am - 12.30pm | Berwick Town Hall, TD15 1BN

Join artists Mary O’Neill and Paul Stewart for a sharing of work in progress towards a new film made across our coastline, while you hand-make a gift for the North Sea.

This screening and participatory making session explores coastal memory. See film and create some small “gifts for the sea”.

How do we live with the sea? What memories, stories and objects connect us to the North Sea coast? Join artists Mary O’Neill and Paul Stewart in this workshop exploring these themes. The “gifts from the sea” made from paper, willow and bamboo during the workshop can become part of the film itself. The workshop is funded through SHED and the Cinematic Meet-up. This session is part of a broader series of screenings and workshops happening across the northeast coastline at Tees Valley Arts in Redcar and Seaton Delaval Hall in Seaton Sluice developing a new collaborative film about the present experiences of the north sea and coastal living.

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