{"id":203,"date":"2024-09-05T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/?p=203"},"modified":"2024-09-08T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T11:38:25","slug":"heritage-open-days-at-ballast-hills-music-poetry-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/2024\/09\/05\/heritage-open-days-at-ballast-hills-music-poetry-and-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Open Days: Music, Poetry, and History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Sunday, 8 September 2024, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritageopendays.org.uk\/\">Heritage Open Days<\/a> event will occur at Ballast Hills Burial Ground! Join us for an inspiring musical performance by <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixfolk.co.uk\/artists\/miggins-fiddle\/\">Miggins Fiddle<\/a>, featuring folksinger Maurice Condie and fiddle player Marina Dodgson, along with poetry by <a href=\"https:\/\/harrygallagherpoet.wordpress.com\/\">Harry Gallagher<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tribute to those who are buried or memorialised at BHBG is a wonderful opportunity to connect with the history and some of the people connect to this important site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book your free spot for 8 September 2024 <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/hods-ballast\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have been working with the artists to inform their pieces. This event was organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/ouseburntrust.org.uk\/\">Ouseburn Trust<\/a> and co-sponsored by the BHBG Project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newcastleuni\/\">@newcastleuni<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heritageopendays.org.uk\/assets\/img\/logo.svg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, 8 September 2024, an Heritage Open Days event will occur at Ballast Hills Burial Ground! Join us for an inspiring musical performance by Miggins Fiddle, featuring folksinger Maurice Condie and fiddle player Marina Dodgson, along with poetry by Harry Gallagher. This tribute to those who are buried or memorialised at BHBG is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/2024\/09\/05\/heritage-open-days-at-ballast-hills-music-poetry-and-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heritage Open Days: Music, Poetry, and History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40,38,39,12],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-heritage-open-days","tag-music","tag-poetry","tag-site-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}