21/08/2026
🎪 COMING TO FROME: The ForEm 🎪
🗓️ Saturday 19 September
⏰ 10am to 6pm | Drop In
📍 The Silk Mill Frome Somerset Silk Mill
🎟️ Part fête. Part exhibition. Part experiment.
The ForEm asks deceptively simple questions:
💬 What makes Frome, Frome? Who gets to decide what comes next?
Expect performances, films, artworks, games, community stories and a warm invitation to question ways of thinking, feeling, dreaming, sensing - and making sense - of the town we share.
The ForEm is the commissioned work of Frome-based artist Kate Keara Pelen developed through her collaboration with the University of Glasgow’s Civic Imaginary Partnerships research project University of Glasgow UofGSPS It turns a year of research into a space for the town to play with, challenge and add to what we have found. The ForEm invites people to explore the stories they tell about the town: its independence, creativity and community spirit, and also its challenges, contradictions and changing identities.
🧵You can encounter the Community Loom designed by Claire Orpin GreenSeaThreads and Tamara Jones Tamara jones and films made by Frome residents through the community film project led by Dr John Sealey of Fabian’s Film.
There will be free performances: Tom Spencer will guide an unconventional gallery tour through the artefacts, stories, myths and characters of the town. Martin Scott – bringing together Town Crier Frome’s Official Town Crier Cheese Lord The Cheese Lord and long-time observer of Frome life – will invite audiences to join him In Pursuit of Frome by spinning his wheel of Frome Roulette, triggering different stories about the town’s civic tribes, traditions and archetypes.
Civic Imaginaries Partnership first connected to Frome through the community work of Edventure Frome | Coworking & Courses Future Shed and Frome Community
And Future Shed Lead Sue has been supporting the research project and this event.
Drop in. Disagree. Contribute. Play.
We look forward to seeing you.
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Further details and timings will be coming …
