Project poetry! is a series of initiatives based around projected poetry [prop]:
- Poetry projected out into the community as an accessible and active force for change, inspiration, and personal, family and neighbourhood development
- Poetry projected onto screens in new forms of presentation and publication
- Poetry projected into new minds to ask new questions, frame new viewpoints, empower new voices.
In other words, poetry for the people.
Across the region seven collaborations between poets and visual artists will produce a fascinating range of different projected poems on the theme place of birth.
Brighton
Brendan Cleary with artist Susan Diab at the South East Film & Video archive working with archive film. The project will be premiered at the Duke of York's cinema
Kingston
John Davies and young film maker Geeta Handa at Kingston University celebrating the birthplace of Eadweard Muybridge
Haywards Heath
Bernadette Cremin with photographer James Lewis at the maternity unit at the Princess Royal Hospital
Arundel
Andrew Dilger and textile artist Laura Thomas creating a screen for the reed house camera obscura at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Centre.
Bexhill
Nathaniel Matthews and web design artist Ian Craig developing online web poetry celebrating the birthplace of British motor racing.
Hastings
Catherine Smith and digital artist Greg Daville producing poetry to be projected onto the cliffs celebrating the birthplace of TV
Worthing
Jackie Wills with animator Mark Collington at Northbrook College
There's an underlying theme about the birth of screen media - Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was born and died in Kingston; Brighton & Hove was the home of Britain's first movie makers (and for a while of William Friese Greene 1855-1921); Hastings was where John Logie Baird (1888-1946) first demonstrated TV; and Sir Francis Ronalds (1788-1873), the inventor of electrical telegraphy, had many connections with Sussex.
Each location will be the base for the work on the project, the project's relationship with the local community and local outreach educational and community activities with older people, the disadvantaged and those with special needs.
For more information please contact John Davies, Chair, THE SOUTH 01273 242850. |
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