TWO Stroud artists are creating a community installation in the form of a giant alphabet – 26 printed letters – with the aim of exploring what ‘revolution’ means to different people living in the Five Valleys.

Gloucestershire Printmakers Cooperative’s Christine Felce and Rachel Oram invited comments from the public in specially printed books placed around the town throughout the summer.

They then ran workshops using letterpress techniques to produce 26 giant alphabet letters, featuring the comments people had written about what revolution means to them.

The resultant prints will be displayed in an exhibition in the Museum in the Park which opens on Wednesday, September 25 and runs until Sunday, September 29.

A series of related events will also be taking place at the museum. These include a reading by Jeff Cloves and Dennis Gould of The Mask of Anarchy on Wednesday, September 26 at 2pm.

The Mask of Anarchy is a British political poem written in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre of that year.

It is a call for freedom, and a statement of the principle of non-violent resistance.

Adam Horovitz and Dennis Gould are to give poetry readings on September 26 at 8pm), with music especially composed for the event by Ione Mako and there will be a ‘revolutionary’ tea party on September 28, 2pm to 3pm.

The events are free, book a place via museuminthepark.org.uk