On the evening of Friday, September 2nd, we opened the Totnes Festival with an interactive performance of Where Are You From, Totnes? in Globe Garden, devised from the stories, hopes and concerns that the community contributed to this living artwork over the previous 3 weeks.

There were images of our creative activities projected onto the wall of the abandoned warehouse behind the garden accompanied by audio clips compiled from our various conversations with people about what ‘home’ is, remembered routes from participants’ childhood homes presented by Ria Hartley, profiles of the individuals who have signed our guest book written out one after the other in the shelter by Lisa Evans, crisscrossing journeys to Totnes mapped on the garden wall with the live addition of Sarah Ashford Hart’s, a game of passing each other's belongings with their stories around the audience, a walk through the garden led by community participants pointing out places that remind one another of home, dialogues composed by participants read aloud by the audience as well as blog comments from people who have left Totnes responding to the question 'where are you from', a grand finale with everyone helping give voice to the hopes and concerns of the community recorded on our wishing tree and our seeds of change, and of course plenty of wine and snacks and the chance to chat.

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Our participants' profiles, documented during the performance, became a colorful text that gave personality to the roof of our shelter.

On Saturday, September 10th, we closed the Totnes Festival with our final performance. Following the lantern procession and fireworks that lit up High Street, we brought a friendly audience back to Globe Garden where we re-presented the material that participants had contributed to our installation and throughout the festival.