Name: Stone + Story: Collecting + Sharing
Start: 2025-01-27T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-27T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Fabrica gallery

Join us for Stone + Story: Collecting + Sharing, a participatory event that invites the community to reconnect through collaboration, creativity, and shared exploration of local histories and future folklore.
As part of their Making Space residency, artist Kate Shields will work with participants to construct a temporary stone circle within Fabrica—a gesture of collective effort and a reflection on the ancient significance of these enigmatic structures. The stone circle will serve as a space for gathering, conversation, and group drawing, culminating in a deeper appreciation of collaboration as a creative act.
Throughout the week, each stone and its story will be catalogued, documented, and 3D-scanned, inspired by methods used in archaeology. These digital models will allow the stone circle to exist online, preserving the collective creation for the future. This process aims to unearth shared narratives while celebrating the stone circle as a symbol of connection, ritual, and sacred space.
What to Expect:
Bring Your Story: Share the tale behind your stone, contributing it to the pop-up circle and a collective archive of personal and local histories.
Sacred Space: Reflect, draw, and converse within the newly created circle, deepening the connections between participants, stories, and shared spaces.
Why Stone Circles?
The artist’s research explores the enduring mystery of stone circles as ancient symbols of collaboration and congregation. Built through collective effort, these prehistoric sites inspire questions about purpose, community, and meaning. Sussex, though it lacks its own ancient stone circles, offers a rich landscape of folklore and shared history, ready to be reimagined.
Why Fabrica?
As a former church and current site of community and creativity, Fabrica provides the perfect setting for this project. Its layered history mirrors the themes of collaboration, sacred space, and transformation explored through this residency.
This event is open to all—whether you’d like to bring a stone, or join in the conversation. Together, we will build, document, and reimagine how we connect through art, history, and shared space.
This event is free, but booking is recommended.
You are welcome to drop in at any stage, and stay for as long as you wish.
Book here: https://fabrica.org.uk/events/stone-story-collecting-sharing