| Description | Comprising:
- project brief for the Confluence project;
- letters providing feedback and congratulating Common Ground on the conclusion of the Confluence project in 2001, including a letter from Roger Deakin;
- brown folder marked 'Confluence oral histories' containing papers relating to the Confluence 'Talkative River' oral history project, which aimed to collect stories and opinions about water and the River Stour to creative a musical and visual composition. It includes correspondence, notes on interviews with local people about the river, papers relating to the 'Landscapes of Memory: Oral History and the Environment Conference 15-16 May 1999', papers relating to the 'Ouse Valley Oral History Project', and guidelines concerning oral history;
- green folder marked 'Sturminster Newton' and 'Mill' containing papers relating to the Confluence event 'The muiscal BOX - the VOICE of Sturminster Newton Mill', including leaflets, flyers, press releases, transcripts of poems by James Crowden and John Cluett, checklists, notes, event planning papers, sheet music by Karen Wimhurst, and press clippings;
- green folder marked 'Stourhead Gillingham' containing papers relating to musical events in Gilliangham, including the Confluence 'Fish Cabaret' event which took place in Gillingham 29 April 1999 ;
- flyers and tickets for the Confluence events: 'Otter - Lutra lutra on the Stour', 'Pipeworks', 'Open the Flood Gates!', 'Watershed', 'The Rain Cabaret', 'Talkative River', 'The Rain Cabaret', 'Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival',
- brown folder marked 'Rain & Rain Cabaret' containing papers relating to the Confluence event 'Rain Cabaret' at Winterborne Stickland, including contact details, schedule, programme, posters, flyers, press clippings, notes and research material relating to rain;
- correspondence between Common Ground and Blandford Writer's Group;
- green file marked 'Confluence Wimborne Minster' containing press releases, leaflets, proposal for a sculpture garden in Wimborne, and correspondence;
- correspondence with artists and performers, including CVs;
- and a green folder marked 'Christchurch' containing papers relating to 'The Christchurch Cabaret' event, which was part of the Bournemouth Arts Festival and the culmination of the Confluence events. |