Letters to the Sea
What do you feel, reflect on, dream about, wonder as you spend time by or think about the sea and the estuary?
“Listen very carefully and you will hear the sea in your body” Yoko Ono, from Seven Little Stories
Letters to the Sea invites you to get a piece of paper or any other object you can write on and write a letter to the sea. The content of this letter can be anything and you can take part in this whatever your age. The sea can connect us to lots of different thoughts, memories, emotions, our relationship to the natural world, our place on the planet, even our place in the universe. The sea wanders in and out all the way up to St James Weir in Exeter twice a day. Write as freely and openly as you can and take your time.
When you have finished either sign your letter or leave it unsigned or anonymous, its up to you.
HOW TO SEND YOUR LETTER
Take a photo of your letter or scan it and send to info@tidelines.uk OR post it to 42 Park Road, Exmouth EX8 1TN. Remember to tell us who you are are and let us know if you want to remain anonymous. Please keep your original letter if you send us a scan or a photo. Letters to the Sea letterboxes will be located on the Exe Estuary in the future. We will share a selection of the letters on the Tidelines website.
Because we don’t want to influence your ideas you can only see the gallery of letters with a password that you will get once you have uploaded your letter. If you have: click here to see.
This is a sister project to Letters to the Earth
We reserve the right to exclude any contributions that contain inappropriate material.
Guidelines about participation and use of written or photo submissions to Tidelines »
I agree to participate in the Socially Engaged Universities (SEU), Tidelines Community Engagement Hub Project and understand that I am free to withdraw at any time with no need to give a reason.
I give consent for photographs and anonymised information I send to Tidelines (via the website, text or mail) to be used for publication on the website and in any other outputs in print and electronic media.
I agree for my views and ideas to be used for shaping the next stage of the research and understand that these data will be used solely for research purposes.
I am aware that my personal information will be kept in secure password protected files and will be destroyed 6 years following the completion of the project.
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