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David Nash with his work Cuts Horizontal, Cuts Vertical, Diagonal in CCANW's Project Space, Easter 2011 (Photo: Chris Lewis).

  

David Nash Charred Cross Egg, shown in CCANW's Project Space (Photo: Jonty Wilde).

CCANW's Project Space (Photo: Chris Lewis)

 

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Winter Opening Hours

From November-February 2012 we are open Tuesday-Sunday (and Bank Holiday Mondays), 10am-4pm

Cafe Closure

The Ridge Cafe next door will be temporarily closed after 24th December. From Boxing Day there will be a mobile caterer on site. Open 10-4 weekends, and 11-3 during the week. The Haldon Forest Park website will have more details as they arise.

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Current exhibition: A Conversation Between Trees

22 October-29 January 2012

For details of CCANW's events and activities please see our current programme page.

Visualisation looking up at the canopy of a mango tree in the Mata Atlantica, Brazil

A Conversation Between Trees is a project created by a partnership of artists, scientists, researchers to visualise and interpret environmental data as part of a new interactive artwork. The project comes to CCANW in October, with an artists’ residency from Saturday 8 October to Wednesday 19 October followed by an exhibition – launched on Saturday 22 October – which runs until Sunday 29 January 2012. During the residency there will be a range of ways that the public can get involved and collect their own sensory data in the woods.

The exhibition reveals the invisible forces at play in the forest, displayed as a series of data maps generated live in the gallery space. Environmental sensors and mobile phones are placed in the canopy of a tree in each of the forests and sends the data once a minute to the gallery via a mobile phone. As you enter the gallery large screens show trees from Brazil and the UK in conversation - revealing the light, colour and climate in the canopy of each tree, changing over time. A machine interprets the scientific data, scorching sheets of paper with circular graphs that tell the story of 70 years of climate and environmental change.

A Conversation Between Trees is funded with the generous support of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

http://www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org/

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Now accepting submissions for  CCANW's Youth and Schools Exhibition: Tree Culture 

4-26 February 2012

What kinds of images, ideas or activities do the words 'Tree Culture' evoke for you?  This is an open submission exhibition open to young people 11 - 19 years.  Deadline for submissions:  Wednesday 18 January 2012

Click here to go to the learning page for more details 

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CCANW's 'Tree Culture' Programme

 Find information about CCANW's 2011/12 'Tree Culture' theme on our current programme page.  

CCANW wishes to thank the following sponsors for support of its 'Tree Culture' programme:

 

Wood Fuel Specialists

- supply, advice & consultancy    

www.forestfuels.co.uk                                      www.tubex.com

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Haldon Forest Park

The Forestry Commission's pioneering activity trails at Haldon provide 20 miles of safe, off-road access for walkers, cyclists and horse riders, including play and sensory trails. The Forest lies on a ridge south of Exeter and dominates the skyline for miles around. It covers an area of 3500 acres (1400 hectares) mostly planted with coniferous woodland, but encompassing areas of broadleaved trees, streams and dramatic views to Dartmoor, Exeter and the Exe estuary.

Other attractions in Haldon Forest Park:

Forestry Commission events

The Forestry Commission also runs a wide variety of events at Haldon. Details are listed in their South West events programme available from the Rangers Office. Events booking on 01392 834233. See also: www.forestry.gov.uk/haldonforestpark

Adventure Course: Go Ape

Go Ape is an award-wining high wire forest adventure course at Haldon. Details and booking online www.goape.co.uk or call 0845 6439215. (Closed over winter)

Forest Cycle Hire

You can now hire your bike and take full advantage of Haldon's several new cycle trails. Open all year, near to the Rangers Office. Booking 01392 833768.