Forget Me Not Launch Celebration
Tuesday 10th October, 2pm – 3pm
Free
Join us for the launch of Forget Me Not Memorial Garden, a moving temporary outdoor installation – part of the Out of Sight, Out of Minds Project, organised Friends of Horton Cemetery, and led by Dr. Alana Harris.
The installation of more than 1500 ceramic flowers – each one painted individually by members of the public – aims to bring recognition and dignity to pauper patients and former service personnel laid to rest and abandoned on derelict land in Horton Cemetery.
Launch Events – Tuesday 10th October
- 2pm
Unveiling of Forget Me Not Memorial Garden, followed by a creative celebration including specially-commissioned poetry and a choral composition for children’s voices, and a dance performance of ‘Garden Unlocked’ by Company Concentric – a group supported in 2022 by The Horton’s Cultivate scheme for early-career artists. - 4pm-6pm
Pin-hole camera drop-in workshop
Creation of the Forget Me Not Memorial Garden was supported by Historic England and organised by Friends of Horton Cemetery.
About Out of Sight Out of Mind
Out of Sight, Out of Mind is a digital, arts-based project, revisioning the life histories of patients in Europe’s largest asylum cemetery. Led by Dr Alana Harris on behalf of the charity, it seeks to recapture the stories of patients and create a crowd-sourced memorial, overcoming historical amnesia, neglect, and inaction.
