A new project at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve has been launched by Writer in Residence, Louise Kenward. Three Little Words is a public engagement project that encourages you to look again and think about the language of place, and to engage in creating new descriptors of the area.
The project comes from a wish to find an accessible and inventive way of playing with words. Inspired by the What3Words location app, the project will run throughout the summer, collecting your own three word groupings. What3Words has divided the world up into three metre square areas, each allocated its own unique sequence of three words to identify it.
Three Little Words is inviting visitors to create their own three word identifiers for particular areas of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. You can do this for any part of the landscape, seascape or skyscape. You can search for the three word address the app has created and respond to those, or simply create your own.
There are places for you to write and hang your submissions at the Discovery Centre on luggage tags, and in the hides around the reserve, or you can submit them online to our growing bank of Three Little Words which will feed into the project and a final exhibition/publication.
You can, of course, continue writing beyond your chosen three words, using them, or the three words from the app, as a starting point for a poem or a longer piece of writing, connecting with Rye Harbour.
Three Little Words is part of the Writer in Residence project run by Louise Kenward. You can get in touch with Louise directly to submit your words online via Twitter or Instagram, or by email (links below). There is also a monthly e-letter with writing prompts and resources that you can sign up to and see previous sessions on the link below.
Twitter: @Instability_Env
Instagram: @inhabiting_instability
Email: inhabitinginstability@gmail.com
E-letter sign up: https://us20.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=042bd94a68ec548290147aa87&id=0043d7dde1
What3Words: https://what3words.com
Image Credits: Discovery Centre .
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Dogs – on leads?
Pick – up – poo?
Most dog owners are responsible. If you own a dog picking up their poo really isn’t a big deal, though more bins to discard it would be appreciated. But PLEASE feel free to speak to dog owners who do not pick up after their dog. As a dog owner myself I have no embarrassment in questioning any dog owner why they’ve not picked up after their dog. It gives us all a bad name. However, at the nature reserve I’ve never seen a irresponsible dog owner not pick up.
Could dog owners not take the poo home with them to avoid the need for more bins which cost money and time to empty?
In my experience a dog usually goes to the toilet at the start of its walk, so the owner is left carrying the poo around for the next hour or until they find a bin. However, often we do bring it home. Bins obviously are also needed by the general public for litter. As you may or may not have noticed, the scarcity of litter bins mean the ones in use are often overstuffed which attracts the seagulls and foxes who distribute the garbage. Go for a late night or very early morning walk around the centre of Rye. There’s a lot of litter on the pavements and roads. That’s due to the foxes and seagulls being able to easily retrieve trash from overstuffed bins. Maybe you’ve never witnessed the amount of foxes who walk around the train station, the Cinque Ports, up Market Street and along the High St plus around the Landgate.