Sweet Track Productions
Creating, Curating, Making Change
What We Do
Commission New Performance Work: music, theatre, interdisciplinary, dance, site-specific and film - always kick-started in Somerset and the South West, aiming to go on tour nationally and internationally.
Research and Development: devise workshops and research into creative work seeded in the South West with local artists alongside national artists. Mixing it up and creating perfect partnerships and mentoring opportunities.
Participatory Events: all our work has participation at its centre, but some of our work will actively and directly make participatory events happen in local places, rural, cities and towns.
We develop numerous projects simultaneously, some led by the Directors, others by our Associates, and proposals from local and national artists.
Projects
Currently in development:
Peoplesongs
Sweet: Come and Sing
50plus
CarBur Rave
What is the Sweet Track?
The Sweet Track is an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England. It was built in 3807 BC and is one of the oldest timber trackways discovered in the British Isles, dating to the Neolithic. The track extended across the now largely drained marsh between what was then an island at Westhay and a ridge of high ground at Shapwick. The track is one of a network that once crossed the marshes that helped people make their way across the Somerset Levels. Construction was of crossed wooden poles, driven into the waterlogged soil to support a walkway that consisted mainly of planks of oak, laid end-to-end.
The track represents overcoming adversity through making connections.
