The Tate's Silver Ball in St Ives - St Ives Community Orchard CIC

Image © Tate. Photo by Kirstin Prisk

The orchard collaborated with the Tate St Ives in 2019 with their project to engage with the local community and a performance work put together by the Tate's artist in residence, Allard van Hoorn.

Allard based this performance on the 1000-year-old St Ives Feast Day tradition of ‘hurling’, where a small silver ball is chased through the town as part of the celebrations. Reimagining the silver ball at a larger scale, Allard collaborated with local residents to create a procession celebrating the communities of St Ives and their relationship to the town they call home. In June 2019 a two-metre-high silver ball was rolled through the streets of St Ives starting in our orchard.

Allard created 063 Urban Songline (Another Hurling of the Silver Ball) | Latitude: 50.204794° N – 50.214926° N / Longitude: -5.482636° W – -5.493938° W 2019, while he was resident at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives in February as part of the Tate St Ives Artists Programme. 063 Urban Songline is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The Mondriaan Foundation. See //www.tate.org.uk/allard-van-hoorn for information on his exhibition at the Tate.

The film was shown at the Tate in 2019 and now you can watch the film of it on Allard's website together with some fabulous photos. Have a look on //allardvanhoorn.com/portfolio/063-urban-songlines-new/
A wonderful birds eye view of the ball going through St Ives and wonderful how many community groups were included in the entire process.
Many of these photos below are by Kirstin Prisk and some are screenshots of Allards film. Filming was done by Alban Roinard & Paul Parker