How to interpret voices and memory in poetry
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Open Mic Event
Contact: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-and-performance-poetry-tickets-86694935887
Award-winning poet Ben Ray brings together oral history testimony and poetry in this exciting workshop.
Come and join this free, unique workshop interpreting voices, memory and local history through poetry - part of the Living Levels Landscape Project which delivers a programme of work which will promote and reconnect people to the heritage, wildlife and wild beauty of the historic landscape of the Gwent Levels.
This workshop interweaves and interprets memory and stories collected through the Living Levels project with the expressive medium of poetry through an interactive workshop involving discussion, creation and collaboration. Participants will learn how to use poetry to examine, transform and respond to communal memory and history from the local area. Throughout the afternoon participants will create their own poetry from recordings and written sources, which can then be shared and discussed. The session will finish with a performance where all participants have the option to read their work to the group.
Ben Ray is a professional, published poet with extensive experience in both running poetry workshops and creating poetry from testimony, and will ensure that even those who have never encountered poetry before can create something they are proud to share! For more information about his work, please visit www.benray.co.uk
Ben Ray is a professional poet and an oral historian from the Welsh borders. He is winner of the 2019 New Poets Prize and has published two collections of poetry with Indigo Dreams Publishing, most recently 'What I heard on the Last Cassette Player in the World' which he has toured around the UK. His third collection is due for release with The Poetry Business in 2020. He has been performing his work and running poetry workshops for over three years across the country, and specialises in working with local history, testimony and memory in poetry.
Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-and-performance-poetry-tickets-86694935887
Entry: free
Time: 1:00pm
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