Welcome to The ForEm

Welcome to The ForEm – Part fête. Part exhibition. Part experiment.

The ForEm asks deceptively simple questions:

What makes Frome, Frome? And who gets to decide what comes next?

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. 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. It turns a year of research into a space for the town to play with, challenge and add to what we have found.

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, Cheese Lord and long-time observer of Frome life – will invite audiences to spin the wheel of Frome Roulette, triggering different stories about the town’s civic tribes, traditions and archetypes.

Plus:

The Community Loom designed by Claire Orpin and Tamara Jones.

Films made by Frome residents through the community film project led by Dr John Sealey of Fabian’s Films (shown on a loop in the gallery all day and an official screening and Q&A between 5-6pm)

Drop in, disagree, contribute, play.

https://civicimaginaries.gla.ac.uk/welcome-to-the-forem/