Big Dig Day Film

A new film has been created about the Resonance project, featuring the multi-stakeholder gathering for the ‘Big Dig Day’. The event at Bolton Fell and Walton Moss National Nature Reserve in November 2024 launched the Resonance project.

The ‘Big Dig Day’ film features footage from Bolton Fell Moss, a peat bog in northern Cumbria, where participants worked together to gently remove 49 birch trees as part of a new artwork. The film introduces the Resonance Project and includes commentary from specialists across the Land Use sector. More than 50 people joined the event, bringing insights from hydrology, farming, peatland restoration, forestry, woodland creation, soil, government policy, ornithology, art, ecology, communications, and community sustainability groups; with representatives from Natural England, Nature Scot, National Trust, Lake District National Park, RSPB, Friends of the Lake District, DEFRA, Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and others.

The Big Dig Day film has been created by Matt Sharman of the PLACE Collective, with additional material created by Juliet Klottrup and Reuben Hibbert. It is one of the outputs from a multi-stranded project led by Harriet Fraser and Rob Fraser, with a series of events leading to the co-creation of a living artwork – seven circles of seven silver birch trees planted in a constellation across the Lake District National Park.

Click here to watch the full film.