Here are the details of the spoken word workshops that form the second stage of the Sutton Stories project I’ve been working on for the Imagine Festival of the Arts (part 1 here). They’ll be led by Rachel Sambrooks, and I’ll be assisting with the first two.
There are two sessions for adults and two for 13–18 year olds, and they’re all FREE! We’ll be performing the work we produce at an event on 24 October hosted by John Hegley in Sutton Central Library.
In July 2015, writer Robin Vaughan-Williams worked with residents in two care homes in Wallington to explore their experiences of Sutton, from bicycles and trams to shops and libraries. In the poems they produced we discover a Sutton of hissing gas lamps and clunking meters, lavender fields and wailing sirens.
In the spoken word workshops we’ll be using the experiences of older residents as our springboard, exploring our experiences of the borough to connect past and present in new ways. We’ll be working on group and prompts for individual work, using different devising techniques to help generate ideas. We will be working towards some poems to perform at the final live literature event on 24th October hosted by John Hegley in Sutton. We will also have time to practice, share and rehearse before the event.
Dates and Booking
Spoken Word Workshops for young people, 13–18
I. Tuesday 29 September, 4.30–6.30pm
II. Tuesday 6 October, 4.30–6.30pm
Spoken Word Workshops for adults
I. Tuesday 29 September, 6.45–8.45pm
II. Tuesday 6 October, 6.45–8.45pm
You’ll also need to be able to commit to a rehearsal on Sunday 18 October and the performance on 24 October.
