The Secret Gardens Festival of Mass Narrative

The aims of the Festival are to explore the potential of advanced technologies and design cross-platform solutions that will embed enabling technologies available to all in the process of sharing cultural programming and facilitating mass participation. The purpose is to grow digital assets and user generated content from existing and emerging community initiatives into a single virtual ‘living’ gallery or museum. As this practice led research starts to build in earnest, the Secret Garden Festival of Mass Narrative as a cultural platform and collaboration, is gathering pace in its own right for its production in June 2012. The project has been built from an AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship grant at the University of Salford (‘Supporting arts and enterprise skills in communities through engagement with the local environment”, Reference: AH/G017115/1).