Exploring Chiswick Project Extended as Lockdown Eases
New 'Treasure Trail' of gardens and Church art & heritage links, with more to come
Abundance London Treasure Trail’ map
The Exploring Chiswick project in which a number of local cultural groups are co-operating to provide new ways for people to learn about the area's heritage is set to expand.
Taking advantage of the easing of lockdown rules the’ campaign is being extended this week, with new trails, pictures and information – for mobiles and computers, in local media and on social media.
- A new ‘Abundance London Treasure Trail’ map will encourage people to look for 15 small public gardens, with a chance to win prizes.
- New light is being shed on the writers, artists and buildings of the area, including articles about the stained-glass windows at St Nicholas Church and St Michael & All Angels.
- In the run-up to Easter, a dozen places of worship are being featured on a ‘Church arts and heritage’ page.
- In coming weeks, new audio trails will be launched for Chiswick House; more authors will be added to the Writers Trail of the Chiswick Book Festival; and the area’s actors, directors and dramatists will be highlighted with the Chiswick Playhouse and The Chiswick Cinema.
Torin Douglas, director of the Chiswick Book Festival, one of the scheme’s organisers, said, “In the past three months, ‘Exploring Chiswick’ has helped many people through the dark days of lockdown, following the arts trails online, on foot and on social media. Now the days are longer and the rules are being eased, we have even more to offer.”
The campaign’s founding groups are: Abundance London, which created the Chiswick Timeline: A History of Art & Maps and its Art Trail; Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society and William Hogarth Trust, which co-created ‘In Georgian Footsteps’, a guided trail of 18 th Century Chiswick; Chiswick House & Gardens Trust, which has its own interactive map and visitor guide; the Chiswick Book Festival, which created the Chiswick Timeline of Writers & Books and its Writers Trail; and St Michael & All Angels Church, which runs the Chiswick Book Festival, the Bedford Park Festival and other community arts activities.
‘Exploring Chiswick’ was launched in January to draw attention to the local arts trail guides, which are free to download on mobiles and computers, or to pick up from local centres. They include the Chiswick Timeline Art Trail and Writers Trail; ‘In Georgian Footsteps’ – the lanes and paths of 18th Century Chiswick; and the interactive map for Chiswick House & Gardens. The project’s ambition was to cheer Chiswick up and help improve people’s mental and physical well-being, whether staying at home or exercising within Government guidelines.
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April 4, 2021
