Walking trail “Fågelvägen”

Open source, right of public access

Kultivator, Ölands folkhögskola and local helpers has been working on clearing the forest and constructing a Glocal guide for an old walking trail from Dyestad to Ismantorps ancient ceremonial ruin. The trail goes through dense hazel woods, past the wetlands and shared pastures of the village.

The Glocalguide is published on the net (fagelvagen.kultivator.org/) and designed to be easy for walkers and interested to seek and place information on the trail. Like in Sweden the public has a right to freely access all land, the information and experience of this area is to be shared and altered by people coming across the trail, free of charge or commercial interests. On the 4:th of July we officially open the cleared trail and the website to it.

From the hazelwood cut to clear the trail, we will on the day of the opening make the Hazel Castle to celebrate the trail and the glocal guide. The Hazel Castle is to be a permanent sculpture/building that grows and builds on from every season new twigs and branches cut from the forest.

Around the Hazel Castle stands the exhibition “mini trail”, of photographs that children that walked the trail earlier this spring has taken and made their own drawings on.

Erik Sundin och Eddie Malm are showing their “Stockator”, especially commissioned for this project; a working computer in a tree trunk.

Marlene Lindmark present sculptures along the trail, enlargement in clay from threatened animals living in this area.

Lena Svensson, writer, will on the opening give a report from her ongoing work on collecting and editing stories and tales from the forest and villages close.

see http://fagelvagen.kultivator.org/ for more info

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