We are writers. We are artists. We are environmental stewards.

Join us for four Sundays as we welcome the community to a space for exploring our connection to the land and water of the South Coast.

“ Landmarks is a book about the power of language - 'strong style, single words' - to shape our sense of place. It is both a field guide to the literature the author loves (Nan Shepherd, Roger Deakin and many more), and a 'word-hoard', gathering an astonishing archive of place-terms from old Norse to Anglo-Romani, living Norman to Hebridean Gaelic. Over the book's course, via its chapters, its glossaries and surprise of its postscript - we come to realize that words, well used, are not just a means to describe landscape, but also a way to know it, and to love it.”

winter landscape with snow-dusted trees and a distant forest under a pale blue sky, viewed over a stone wall
Calm ocean reflecting a colorful sunset along the horizon beneath a clear blue sky
snow-dusted open field with sparse grasses and shrubs under an overcast sky
misty field with frosty grass in the foreground and tree silhouettes fading into fog under cloudy sky
rocky shoreline beside calm ocean water under a soft pastel sunset sky with layered clouds
Sunlight reflecting on calm ocean water beneath a cloudy sky, with a pebbled shoreline

Artists write, paint, compose, sculpt and dance the conversations that cannot be spoken in any other way. They tread between the now and the future with a dexterity that will become increasingly essential to the survival of our planet and our way of life. — Anna Metcalfe