Background
The Severn Project 2009 was a summer-long arts project in Gloucestershire that celebrated the River Severn and the people who live and work along its course.
In addition to two major festivals (at Tewkesbury and Lydney) it saw many other events including heritage workshops by Gloucestershire Archives. The project also saw the commissioning of a major new work, A Sleepwalk on the Severn, by poet Alice Oswald which was the centrepiece of the artistic programme and was adapted into a number of performances and interpretations through music, stage/street theatre, dance, sculpture and writing.
The project was funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England and also by Gloucestershire County Council, South Gloucestershire Council, the Gloucestershire District Councils, the Ernest Cook Trust and the Summerfield Trust.