We are thrilled to share three co-commissioned projects joining the Flamm 2026 programme. Building on Flamm’s commitment to supporting ambitious new work and connecting people through new ways of experiencing places, the three co-commissions are inspired by the people of Bodmin and bring together community co-creation and site-responsive practice.

Change Here – Georgia Gendall

Set aboard the Bodmin Railway, Change Here transforms the train’s announcement system into a fictional conversation between two train conductors.
Slipping through the gap between routine announcements and existential queries, Change Here circles around themes of loss, change, despair, nostalgia and things that can’t quite return. Using thermodynamic cycles as a guiding framework for narrative and rhythm and loosely drawn from factual accounts in the Cornwall Railway Society magazine, Change Here blurs the boundary between the factual and the felt. Here, change is demanded, resisted and reversed – something is lost but what is lost remains unclear.

Co-commissioned with Experience Bodmin

Once We Were Held – SHARP

An immersive installation of sound, sculpture and LGBTQIA+ history.

Inspired by the Bethany Project in Bodmin – a radical place of rest and care for people with HIV/AIDS in the 80s and 90s – this installation invites us into a space of rest, reflection and LGBTQIA+ community. Two fabric archways, ambisonic sound pillows and projected shadows invite visitors to pause, listen and be held. Using reclaimed daffodils as a symbol of LGBTQIA+ resilience, the installation connects LGBTQIA+ care with the landscapes of Cornwall.

Developed with Queer Kernow and supported by Screen Cornwall & Creative Kernow Associates’ Immersive Innovation programme (part-funded by Cornwall Council from the Culture and Creative Industries Innovation Fund). Co-commissioned with Counterpoints Arts.

Re:Rooted – Small Acts x Kitty Hillier

Re:Rooted is a participatory moving sculpture that playfully reroutes audiences as it journeys across Bodmin, connecting different Flamm locations by mapping ways to get from A to B through the eyes of young people who live in the town.

Collaborating with dancers from leading community organisation KBSK, this project by Small Acts and Kitty Hillier fuses sculpture and performance, people and place to explore navigation, connectedness and belonging. During the festival, residents and visitors will be invited to help carry the sculpture – its soft form shaped by root systems and GPS walking routes – around corners, across roads and through buildings to discover, where is the real heart of Bodmin?

Co-commissioned with FEAST and Experience Bodmin

We will be announcing the full festival programme in mid-January including more community-led projects funded by FEAST – stay tuned!