A Multimedia Exploration of the Story of Vulcan, Blending Film, Poetry, Sound, Music, Art and Science

Creative Community

Creativity and community are at the core of our research and development phase and we welcome your involvement. This is our shared space for ideas and people with ideas, interlinked by our diverse themes.

We envisage cross-sector activities, reaching out to a wide-demographic across the arts, environment, education, science, music, poetry, industry and heritage, to include events, talks, and partner activities. Our initial focus centres on steelmaking and mining community connections, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and the Tees Valley but we’d also love to hear from you if you’re further afield and your ideas share the same creative spark as ours.

We particularly welcome approaches from other museums, galleries, science labs, and social and community hubs so we can broaden our reach. Get involved here!

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God of Fire Hammering Out Thunderbolts

Illustrator, artist, printmaker and avid sketcher Sheena Mary Davies was commissioned to create an illustration of Vulcan.

4 October 2024

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Visual Poetics: Cradle’s Logo Development

As we developed our branding and online presence, ‘Cradle’ was our nickname, which was also adopted by our brilliant web team, Chameleon Studio (link below). They created our site structure....

30 August 2024

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Land of Iron Research Visit – Skinningrove

It was a brilliant research visit to the Land of Iron Museum last week for myself and Mike. Everyone was welcoming and keen to share their museum stories and personal...

29 July 2024

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Project Start – Museums Research Visit: 29 – 31 May

Looking back to the project start. Such a productive gathering. Poems were read and vocalised in situ, and co-creation began.

29 May 2024

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Arts Council England Funding – Cradle of Fire Project

We are thrilled to have received an Arts Council England project grant for our Cradle of Fire research and development (R&D) project.

28 May 2024

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About Cradle of Fire

Cradle of Fire is a research and development project, supported by public funds from Arts Council England. We are also grateful for support from our partners and creative collaborators. Read more on the dedicated About pages.

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