Forest, Sea, City, Rock wins "Youth and Community Short" at ADRA Screendance Festival Wales!
Judges comments: Forest, Sea, City Rock, ably demonstrates how to make socially engaged practice be about both process and ‘product’ without sacrificing either. We can see the care that went into making this work, as the young people move with unabashed energy, and playfully interact with the physical and camera space.
ADRA screening
Forest, Sea, City, Rock made in collaboration with Volcano Theatre and St Joseph’s Cathedral primary school Y5 students has been selected for ADRA - Wales’ first International festival dedicated to screendance - a celebration of dance, movement and film that brings together artists, audiences, and communities from across Wales and beyond.
ADRA is presented by Kokoro Arts and The Riverfront Theatre, supported by Ffilm Cymru .
Memo. Remembering The Future
How the Earth Must See Itself is part of Memo. Remembering the Future at CID Grand Hornu, Belgium
From the gallery: “In his book In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust reflects on the nature of memory, describing it as an embodied, sensory experience where a small trigger, like the taste of a madeleine, can suddenly evoke the past. Proust suggests that what is gone persists not only in our minds but also in the objects and sensations around us, highlighting how our identities are closely tied to the environments we live in.
Yet, in the face of the ongoing human-induced climate crisis, the sensory connections that once bound us to these environments and their non-human inhabitants are gradually fading, sometimes irreversibly: landscapes ravaged by fire, submerged territories, species extinction... In this context, how can we preserve and transmit what is vanishing or already lost? How can we repair broken bonds from the past and navigate toward new possible futures?
Amid the anxiety and ecological grief triggered by these disappearances and transformations, Memo. Remembering the Futures showcases artists and designers whose works function as acupuncture points in the larger body of ecological discourse. Their interventions are militant, critical, and timely. Whether by caring for lost species, preserving gestures and memories, or crafting new forms of material knowledge, their works stimulate all our senses, and remind us that resistance through care is one of the gentlest yet most powerful and fertile options we have.”
Conversations with Horses
Talk and sharing - Conversations with Horses at Light Moves film festival, Limerick, Ireland
Listening to the City a community film workshop
Co-teaching (with Chloë Sayers) Listening to the City a community film workshop at Light Moves film festival, Limerick, Ireland
Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Reslience
Book chapter by Jeanne Schaff on How the Earth Must See Itself (a Thirling) in Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience (Eds: Lindsay Blair, Camille Manfredi) Taylor and Francis, 2025
Exploration of interspecies empathy and performance
Lucy begins an ACE funded Developing Your Creative Practice Award exploring interspecies empathy and performance
Resident at Pervasive Media Studios
Lucy becomes resident at Pervasive Media Studios, Bristol
Guest Lecturing and workshop
Guest Lecturing and workshop at MA Screendance, LCDS London - Essay Films
Group show at ACLI, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
Show as part of ICArts NIDO IV residency, August 3- 17th 2025. Participating artists include: Peter Barrickman, Mark Jeffery, Kelly Kacznski, Broderick McGarvey, QianQian and Lori Talley.
Lucy made two pieces of work: Untitled Choreography (with Mark Jeffery) - a moving image installation in a music cupboard, and Bringing the River to the Village, a publicly broadcast sound composition for Monte Castello di Vibio.
Screening of How the Earth Must See Itself
Deveron Arts screening: Dr Marianne Mulvey introduces the 2024 film Respondents by musician and sculptor Rita Evans in collaboration with dancer Marguerite Galizia. The film fuses sound, sculpture and movement to form a dialogue with organic elements such as air, algae, ground, skin and water. Respondents is accompanied by a selection of short films by renowned British filmmaker John Smith, as well as one by Lucy Cash and Simone Kenyon produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and Scottish Sculpture Workshop.
Panel Conversation - Screening the Body and Land.
Online conversation with Tia-Monique Uzor, Katrina McPherson and Simon Ellis for C-Dare Invites - Screening the Body and Land.
As part of this year's The Body and Land series, Katrina and Simon hosted Lucy and Tia-Monique to discuss how human bodies infect and are affected by land, and the specific ways the lens of a camera helps us imagine and reimagine our past and future entanglement with earth. The conversation was recorded - you can watch it here:
Group Exhibition
How the Earth Must See Itself (a thirling) in group exhibition - MEMO. REMEMBERING THE FUTURE, Fondation Martell, France & CID Grand Hornu, Belgium
The Flowing Image: The Ocean on Screen
This Endless Sea, included in THE FLOWING IMAGE: THE OCEAN ON SCREEN a hybrid symposium at Southampton University. Lucy and Chloe will also be part of an artists’ roundtable discussion on 28th August.
Collaborative Book Chapter
Conversation in the Shape of a Cowlick & Other Tongues Collaboratve book chapter published in ‘Interspecies Performance’ - find out more >>
Intergenerational Live Performance and Installation
ACE funded R & D with Chloe Smith for new intergenerational live performance and installation, Berwick-upon-Tweed, July 2025
Exhibition, Installation & Community Engagement
WINTERAGE: SWEETLAND multi-part exhibition, installation & community engagement for WestShore Community College, MI, USA
Poetic-Choreographic Workshop
Fluid States - poetic-choreographic workshop for Goethe Institute, Glasgow - find out more >>
Light Moves Festival
This Endless Sea at Limerick City Gallery of Art as part of Light Moves Festival 2023 - find out more >>