Mostly Moss Productions

Mostly Moss Productions We are a student production company based at the University of Oxford, with a particular focus on bringing stories of community, ecology and diversity to life!

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What do you see in the hedge ? 👀More from our awesome workshop this week weaving the radical history of the Otmoor ri...
21/10/2023

What do you see in the hedge ? 👀

More from our awesome workshop this week weaving the radical history of the Otmoor riots into a collective reimagining of human-nature relationships, epitomised in the thick-seeming-but-gap-riddled hedge.

✨ Reclaim these unwitting agents of severance for radical connection ✨

Thanks to all who made Wednesday evening so special ✨Our radical rag-tag hedge is UP NOW in the gallery 🔥 Go and check ...
20/10/2023

Thanks to all who made Wednesday evening so special ✨

Our radical rag-tag hedge is UP NOW in the gallery 🔥

Go and check it out amongst all the other magical contributions for exhibition 🧙‍♂️

What do you see in the hedge ? Experiments for our workshop TOMORROW ‼️
17/10/2023

What do you see in the hedge ?

Experiments for our workshop TOMORROW ‼️

A laid blackthorn hedge at Otmoor.In the 1830s, hedgerows like this were repeatedly torn up by hundreds of local people ...
16/10/2023

A laid blackthorn hedge at Otmoor.

In the 1830s, hedgerows like this were repeatedly torn up by hundreds of local people to resist their rights of common being taken away from them. The fluid, open space, where folks shared and negotiated rights to graze cattle and catch geese, was being drained and blocked in by fences and hedges.

But was the hedge to blame?

It's an odd question, right ?
But seeing the human in the hedge means we, now, can see them differently.

Close your eyes.
Uproot the barrier used for separation, severance, privatisation.

Open your eyes.
Perhaps you'll find a ragged membrane,
full of gaps, creatures and light.

And if you can do it with hedges...
what else might you be able to see differently?

What spaces might open up?
Where might fill with friends and food?

Come along to our workshop THIS WEDNESDAY to learn more about the Otmoor Riots from local historian Ciaran Walsh and practice seeing things differently 👀

See you there

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(Link in bio)

📢 CALLING ALL BUDDING HEDGELINGS ⌚ Wednesday 18th, 5.15pm - 8pm 📍 Upper Gallery ⁉️ "The Nature of Boundaries: Embodied ...
15/10/2023

📢 CALLING ALL BUDDING HEDGELINGS

⌚ Wednesday 18th, 5.15pm - 8pm

📍 Upper Gallery

⁉️ "The Nature of Boundaries: Embodied Explorations of Oxford's Commons"

Part of residency at the Old Fire Station for the whole of October

We will be hearing a talk about the Otmoor Riots, before moving into rag-tag hedgemaking together.

This workshop will be less physical than previous ones! But no less hedgey.

💥 BOOK A TICKET. LINK IN BIO.💥

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🦔THE NATURE OF BOUNDARIES 🦔Friday 14th April @ 95 Gloucester Green3PM : THE SCREENINGIf you couldn't make it to the orig...
10/04/2023

🦔THE NATURE OF BOUNDARIES 🦔
Friday 14th April @ 95 Gloucester Green

3PM : THE SCREENING

If you couldn't make it to the original staging of 'Enclosure' by Jamie Walker last October THIS IS YOUR CHANCE 🤩 (and even if you did... 👀 come again 😳? It's free 🥺)

Join us on Friday at the accessible (indoor !) venue at 95 Gloucester Green to watch a subtitled recording, filmed and edited by 🤯

This will be a screening like no other, with a short live performance devised by workshop participants THAT DAY flowering up around you... just like the hedges are doing right now 🌼🌿

FREE TICKETS AT THE LINK IN OUR BIO

🌞THE NATURE OF BOUNDARIES🌞🌳14th April for Marmalade Festival 🌳💫 9am : THE WORKSHOP 💫In this immersive physical theatre ...
10/04/2023

🌞THE NATURE OF BOUNDARIES🌞

🌳14th April for Marmalade Festival 🌳

💫 9am : THE WORKSHOP 💫

In this immersive physical theatre workshop, you will be led through a series of activities that will guide you in developing a unique hedgey character whilst at the same time forming a collective, living hedge with the other workshop participants. Different elements will accumulate as the day progresses, until we've thoroughly tangled up with one another into a wild dancing, singing hedge. At this point we will then focus in and sculpt a short sequence to be performed at the end of the screening of Enclosure.

No prior experience is necessary to take part in the workshop, which will have a relaxed atmosphere that people can tap in and out of, although we would like people to commit to being there for the whole day. During the day there will also be crafting, dreaming and reading corners for workshop participants to nest in away from the main hedge action.

Workshop participants will be emailed the Enclosure film by the start of the week, so why not... SIGN UP NOW!

Link in our bio.

THE NATURE OF BOUNDARIESOn Friday 14th April, Mostly Moss Productions joins Marmalade Festival for a day-long exploratio...
30/03/2023

THE NATURE OF BOUNDARIES

On Friday 14th April, Mostly Moss Productions joins Marmalade Festival for a day-long exploration into the nature of boundaries.

From 9am to 5pm, for a limited number of participants, the hedge will be your home. But first we’ve got to make it. At Fusion Arts Gallery, Gloucester Green, we’ll engage in a collaborative morning of play-making activities, games and exercises guiding us all to becoming a living, breathing hedgerow. We’ll then reflect on what’s germinated in our tangled ramblings, and co-create a short piece for performance at the end of the day.

From 3pm – 5pm, we will be having a subtitled screening of Enclosure, OPEN TO ALL. From out of the screen the roots of a hedge will reach into our midst and we will experience the live performance devised that day.

RESERVE YOUR SPOT FOR FREE HERE https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nature-of-boundaries-rewilding-the-common-recommoning-the-wild-tickets-574536011677

POKE YOUR HEAD INTO THE TANGLE
29/03/2023

POKE YOUR HEAD INTO THE TANGLE

WHO'S PEEKING OUT AT YOU BEHIND THE BRAMBLES?
28/03/2023

WHO'S PEEKING OUT AT YOU BEHIND THE BRAMBLES?

WHAT'S THAT RUSTLING IN THE HEDGE?
27/03/2023

WHAT'S THAT RUSTLING IN THE HEDGE?

31/10/2022

WHAT CAN I DO?

It's been just over a week since our final show and it's been awesome hearing you all talking and thinking about the issues raised in Enclosure! Land justice and nature conservation are more important than ever right now.
So, for all you wanting to find out more and take further steps, we've compiled a short list of RESOURCES below.

Learn, talk, volunteer, donate, create... TAKE ACTION!

PLEASE ADD MORE IN THE COMMENTS!

NATIONAL:

Practical Conservation volunteering with your local Wildlife Trust
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/closer-to-nature/volunteer
(Also have a look for signs in local wildlife areas, or Google 'Friends of [local wildlife area]')

Join the England Right to Roam campaign
https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/everybody-welcome
Contact your MP to
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/defend-nature
Cultivating Justice Podcast
https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/cultivating-justice/
Land In Our Names (LION)
https://landinournames.community/videos
The Rewild Project
https://www.therewildproject.com/
Land Worker's Alliance
https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/

For those in OXFORD:

Oxford Conservation Volunteers
https://ocv.org.uk/
Oxford University Nature Conservation Society (OUNCS)
https://www.facebook.com/OUNCS
Friends of....
Lye Valley: http://www.friendsoflyevalley.org.uk/
Aston's Eyot: https://friendsofastonseyot.org/
Raleigh Park: https://www.raleighpark.org.uk/
Burgess Field: https://www.friendsofburgessfield.co.uk/

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