The Poetry Salmon is an interactive art installation which visitors can take part in creating. Situated by the lake at Dean Heritage Centre - a shoal of papier-mache salmon are displayed in a framework of branches festooned with plastic rubbish, as if swimming in a submerged and polluted forest. The words of poems by local writers have been written on pebbles, and audiences can rearrange the pebbles to make their own river-related poems, to be written on the salmon. A sound track of the poems performed by their writers will be played, along with local audio histories of salmon fishing. This event is part of the Poetry Salmon project, involving events and workshops during 2024 and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Access: This venue is wheelchair accessible. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet in Dean Heritage Centre. Refreshments are available. Family friendly event. This is a relaxed performance.

Parking: There is plenty of parking available and disabled parking at this venue

This is an outdoor event

Cost: Free