The Jurassic Coast celebrates the Earth in 2012
The Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012 was a celebration of England’s only natural World Heritage Site – the Dorset and EastDevonCoast, commonly known as the JurassicCoast. The 95 miles of coastline from Exmouth to StudlandBay tells the story of 185 million years of the earth’s history through its geological exposures and landforms, and is inscribed on the list under criterion xiii).
The Festival came about in response to the challenge from the London 2012 Olympics Games for a nation-wide programme of cultural events, especially in Dorset where the Sailing events took place. A small NGO in Lyme Regis – the Lyme Regis Development Trust – worked with the Dorset and East Devon Coast WHS Management Team, and many others, to prepare a coast-wide programme of educational and artistic events under the single Earth Festival banner. Its aim was to work with local communities to inspire residents and visitors of all ages to enjoy, lean about and value the JurassicCoast and other World Heritage Sites.
Between May 4 and September 9, 2012, more than 30 events took place the length of the coast. These included:
- The 8th annual Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, which brought 15,000 people to the Town to explore the coast and meet some of the world’s leading scientists.
- Jurassic Airlines, a simulated flight travelling back 185 million years, combining theatre with pioneering technology to deliver environmental messages to 9,000 people
- Horace, The Travelling Pliosaur Cinema, which made 126 performances in 10 different locations.
- étude, by Japanese Yukio Suzuki Company, a Butoh influenced contemporary outdoor dance performance overlooking the WHS.
Petya Totcharova, UNESCO World Heritage Centre Chief, Europe and North America Unit, was a guest at the Earth Festival launch and said: “We congratulate the organizers of the Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012 for having achieved intense and transformative participatory experiences for audiences of over 24,000 people. The arts and natural heritage programmes demonstrated an exemplary model of cross disciplinary arts-science collaboration and exchange of skills, perspective and expertise many of which will be enduring.”
The festival received some funding from UK lottery sources, but had a very high impact because of the efforts of those involved. It enabled more people from more communities to engage with the globally important heritage on their doorstep, and have a lot of fun in the process.
Candida Blaker, Lyme Regis Development Trust
Dr Sam Rose, JurassicCoast World Heritage Site Manager
The Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012 ni sherehe ya Uingereza tu asili World Heritage Site - Dorset na East Devon Coast, inayojulikana kama Jurassic Coast. Pwani ya kilomita 95 kutoka Exmouth hadi Studland Bay inaelezea hadithi ya miaka 185 ya historia ya dunia kupitia maonyesho yake ya kijiolojia na maumbo ya ardhi, na imeandikwa kwenye orodha chini ya vigezo vya xiii. Tamasha hilo lilitokana na changamoto kutoka kwa Michezo ya Olimpiki ya London 2012 kwa mpango wa kitaifa wa matukio ya kitamaduni, haswa huko Dorset ambapo matukio ya kuendesha meli yalifanyika. Mfuko wa Lyme Regis Development Trust (LDRT) ulifanya kazi na Dorset na Mashariki Devon Coast WHS Management Team, na wengine wengi, kuandaa mpango wa pwani nzima wa matukio ya elimu na kisanii chini ya bendera moja ya Tamasha la Dunia. Lengo lake lilikuwa kufanya kazi na jamii za mitaa kuhamasisha wakazi na wageni wa umri wote kufurahia, kuegemea na kuthamini Jurassic Coast na maeneo mengine ya Urithi wa Dunia. Kati ya Mei 4 na Septemba 9, 2012, zaidi ya matukio 30 yalifanyika kwenye pwani. Tamasha la kila mwaka la 8 la Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, ambalo lilileta watu 15,000 mjini ili kuchunguza pwani na kukutana na baadhi ya wanasayansi mashuhuri duniani. "Jurassic Airlines, ndege ya simulated kusafiri nyuma miaka milioni 185 iliyopita, kuchanganya ukumbi wa michezo na teknolojia ya upainia kutoa ujumbe wa mazingira kwa watu 9,000, ""Horace: The Travelling Pliosaur Cinema"" ambayo alifanya maonyesho 126 katika maeneo 10 tofauti." "Mchoro wa ""Yukio Suzuki"" wa Kijapani, ""Buto"" unaonyesha wimbo wa dansi ya kisasa ya nje ya Jumba la Maonyesho la Kijapani." "Petya Tycharova, mkuu wa kitengo cha Ulaya na Amerika ya Kaskazini cha UNESCO World Heritage Centre, alisema: ""Tunashukuru waandaaji wa Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012 kwa kufikia uzoefu mkubwa wa ushiriki kwa watazamaji zaidi ya 24,000." "Mwaka huu wa sanaa na urithi wa asili ulionyesha mfano mzuri wa ushirikiano wa sanaa na sayansi ya msalaba na kubadilishana ujuzi, mtazamo na utaalam ambao wengi wao watadumu. ""Tamasha hilo lilipata fedha kutoka kwa vyanzo vya bahati nasibu vya Uingereza, lakini lilikuwa na athari kubwa sana kwa sababu ya juhudi za wale waliohusika." "Iliwawezesha watu zaidi kutoka jamii zaidi kushiriki na urithi muhimu ulimwenguni kwenye mlango wao, na kuwa na furaha nyingi katika mchakato huo. """ "Kama ilivyoelezwa na Dr. Sam Rose, Mkurugenzi wa Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, ""Lyme Regis Development Trust"" ni moja ya maeneo ya asili ya Ulaya."