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You are invited to a Lunchtime celebration and performance of the arts project <em><a href="http://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/moving-panorama/">Moving Panorama</a></em>, on Monday 11<sup>th</sup>June at The People’s History Museum, 12-1.00. <em><a href="http://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/moving-panorama/">Moving Panorama</a> </em>is the latest collaborative project with arts organisation arthur+martha, Singer Songwriter <a href="http://quietloner.com/">Matt Hill/The Quiet Loner</a>, <a href="http://boothcentre.org.uk/">The Booth Centre</a>and <a href="http://www.phm.org.uk/">The People’s History Museum.</a><br />
Further details will follow shortly. But for now, please put the date in your diary and share it with interested colleagues, friends and family.<br />
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<i>Supported by Arts Council England, The Booth Centre and People’s History Museum.</i>arthur+marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854602346306054083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-15911781294730148992018-05-02T02:34:00.000-07:002018-05-02T02:34:22.371-07:00Bringing Colour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<i>Please note that we are now creating our blogs on our new website, you can follow us, read, hear, watch and look at our projects at <a href="http://arthur-martha.com/">arthur-martha.com/</a> An archive of blogs will remain on this site.</i></div>
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Our days spent at <a href="http://www.boothcentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Booth Centre</a> for the project <a href="https://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/moving-panorama/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moving Panorama</a> typically fall into a pattern, in the morning <a href="http://www.quietloner.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt</a> and I work in the main one-to-one with people, it might be editing songs or gathering new material in the form of life story work, or themed interviews. Sometimes it’s simply chatting, listening, having a conversation- this activity could be easily undervalued, but it’s having time to be still and listen, that helps to build trust, builds a relationship and motivates new people to join our afternoon group sessions.</div>
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At times there are things that are very difficult to hear, cruelties re-told, re-examined, re-lived. Many if not most of the people we work with have suffered trauma of one description or another. <a href="http://www.boothcentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Booth Centre</a> works to support people through their issues and to find ways to look and move forward.</div>
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Kathryn’s sun</div>
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The art and music we create during the project <a href="https://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/moving-panorama/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moving Panorama</a> subtly supports this process. We see people’s confidence and skills improving, abstaining from drink or drugs, surprising themselves about their capabilities, finding joy in abilities they didn’t know they had. This project is also supporting and challenging my own work as an artist. The quality of the collaborative song-writing that Matt is leading, and the art work that our group is producing, is keeping me on my toes, re-freshing and challenging my art practice, keeping it fresh, motivating me<span style="font-size: 22px;">.</span></div>
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Yesterday afternoon we brought colour into the project- literally- until now all of our scrolls have been in black and white. Rolled out on the long table was 10 meters of white paper. We took out paint brushes for a walk, between readings of the first draft lyrics to one of the new song ‘<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Always Forward</span>‘. It’s a song that thinks about all the people who have walked the streets of Manchester before us, and those walking them (or sleeping on them) right now. We all walked around the paper, filling it up quickly with vivid colours, crossing one anothers paths. The physicality of creating art, the speed and looseness, made us quickly warm up and relax into art making. We became quiet and focussed, enjoying the nature of the art materials as colours bleed into one another, the delight and magic of the process of painting.</div>
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Ian’s tent in Manchester</div>
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Into these painted pathways, we started drawing, writing and painting in response to the lyrics of the song. The scroll quickly took on a depth of meaning, a curiosity, a maturity. The resulting artwork will look different again once they are moving across the Moving Panorama frame, at which point it maybe edited, drawn into again. The scroll artworks we are created stand alone as individual pieces, but I am confident that when they are performed with the songs, both artistic disciplines will enhance and bring alive each other. We will get to try this out very soon….</div>
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Artist Lois Blackburn writing about the project <a href="https://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/moving-panorama/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moving Panorama,</a> a collaboration between <a href="http://www.boothcentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Booth Centre,</a> <a href="http://www.quietloner.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt Hill/The Quiet Loner,</a> <a href="https://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/lois-blackburn-artist/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lois Blackburn,</a> and <a href="http://www.phm.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The People’s History Museum</a>. Supported by Arts Council England.</div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />arthur+marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854602346306054083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-74103224003196730612018-04-23T01:49:00.000-07:002018-04-23T01:52:01.562-07:00DustThere are moments in life when it all comes together.<br />
Yesterday afternoon, our group where lined up along a large scroll of paper, deep in the most dynamic, joyful, playful responses to our song 'Dust' you could hope for. At times laughing and chatting, at times silent engrossed in the pleasure of charcoal and pastel, mark making, the lines dancing accross the sheet.<br />
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It was the hottest day of the year (so far) the subject matter felt appropriate, we talked about the dust kicked up on a summers day and beyond; the star dust we came from, the dust we turn at the ends of our lives... dust created from our skin, the dust carried from one city to another on our feet, the dust of history.<br />
This was an afternoon of the art and the art makers letting go, freeing up, relaxing, and vitally- finding a way to really connect to the music being made. We listened to Matt singing the song 'Dust', and people responded on paper, it wasn't precious or over thought out, but more instinctive and free.<br />
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One of the joys of working in a group on one single piece is the confidence you can gain from others. I include myself here, it can take me a while to loosen up, but working with others inspires, cajoles and gently challenges.<br />
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You can here the track at <a href="https://soundcloud.com/arthur-and-martha/dustmp3">soundcloud</a><br />
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Matt and I found a rhythm in the management of the workshop to, yesterday it suited the session for Matt to be able to work one-to-one with people- a luxury you wouldn't get in a session run by one artist/songwriter... One-to-one means you can give undivided attention to someone, can see progress in confidence and skills so much faster. In addition its a wonderful thing being able to offer people a choice of activity. One participant who has been reticent about writing on previous sessions, started in the morning and with very little encouragement wrote all day, as the day went on we saw a real breakthrough in their writing, there was a passion to get down thoughts, examine memories, play with words. And then the obvious delight in having these words sung back to them.<br />
We will have to wait to hear that song. In the meantime, Dust.<br />
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<strong>DUST </strong><br />
lyrics by John and Vincent<br />
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I was born as a child<br />
Had no sense of direction in life<br />
I created my own storm<br />
But the storm created dust<br />
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Dust, dust, dust<br />
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I realized motivation<br />
Is a part of my creation<br />
I believe that growing up<br />
Created an unstableness<br />
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<strong>And I couldn’t see much through the dust </strong><br />
<strong>I couldn’t see much through the dust </strong><br />
<strong>Dust, dust, dust</strong><br />
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I was born surrounded by paradise<br />
Where everything was there for you<br />
Coconut tress, Mango trees,<br />
and the Soursap breeze<br />
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Dust, dust, dust<br />
I couldn’t see much through the dust<br />
I couldn’t see much through the dust<br />
Dust, dust, dust, dust, dust<br />
Dust, dust, dust, dust, dust<br />
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Tell the sweetest fruit on the tree<br />
of all the Birds I have seen<br />
that Every years a mascarade<br />
Beware the Mirrors on the face<br />
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As we were clearing up, Danny and I were chatting about the project and the after affects:<br />
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Artist Lois Blackburn, writing about the project 'Moving Panorama', with The Booth Centre and The People's History Museum Manchester. Supported by Arts Council England.arthur+marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854602346306054083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-2911794338836397112018-03-22T13:43:00.000-07:002018-03-23T08:29:59.848-07:00Silent voices<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7f8d8c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
2 o’clock break time, our brews made by the familiar face of a man who I’ve never seen sat down, always helpful, cheerful and friendly. It turned out that he could have died yesterday- he’s got a problem with his heart, it’s a mystery to the medical profession. He’s getting further tests done, but at the moment, everyones in the dark. His turn of phrase is mater of fact, he’s one of life’s survivors, does things himself, gets on with it. 3 years ago he was homeless, living on the streets. An alcoholic with no money for drink, and with no intention to beg. His solution? locked in a garage, on his own, no food, no drink, he dried himself out for three days. He crawled out looking for water. These are not the usual things you hear about when someone is fixing you a cup of tea. But then<a href="http://boothcentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Booth Centre </a>isn’t usual. It’s a quite extraordinary place, a place where you always have another chance, you can recuperate, see yourself differently and the arts play a big part in it.</div>
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I’m working on the project <a href="http://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/panorama/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Panorama</a>, with singer songwriter <a href="http://quietloner.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt Hill/The Quiet Loner.</a> It’s week 3 of our workshops at The Booth. We’ve got lots to do before our performance in June at <a href="http://phm.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The People’s History Museum</a>, but todays session reassured me that we could do it. We’re beginning to refine our theme- there is so much to inspire us at The People’s History Museum, but something that everyone in our group related to was the theme of struggle.</div>
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‘Everyone who comes here finds something a struggle, from the past, present or the future.’ Gary.</div>
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‘Struggle, that’s about it- last week I didn’t turn up for the trip- no roof over my head, I’ve got one now…but it’s still a struggle. I’ve had it nice a few times, but that <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">neck of oil</span> (alcohol) will be the death of me’ Johno.</div>
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Johno’s drawing of Lois</div>
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Matt worked on a song with the group, I did some drawing with everyone- some examples here. We laughed as we drew, it was more like a game at times, playful but very productive. We used techniques I acquired at art school, blind drawing, keeping your pen on the paper… I joined in, I loved it, the results are wonderful. Next time we start collaging them together into a crowd scene for our panorama.</div>
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Johno’s drawing of Bella</div>
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Some beautiful lyrics appeared. Gary wrote about silent voices, ‘Silent voices in my head all the time…’ the chorus was sung loud ‘This is life’.</div>
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Thanks to everyone who is supporting this project, and all who are joining in our workshops with honesty, openness and a sense humour.</div>
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Lois Blackburn</div>
arthur+marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854602346306054083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-79831122270610150622018-03-16T02:49:00.000-07:002018-03-16T02:49:17.521-07:00Stronger Together<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7f8d8c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
I’m still a newcomer to the <a href="http://boothcentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Booth Centre</a> so during the morning session I got chatting to a few people. The Booth centre attracts a rich variety of people, from Kazakhstan to Collyhurst, all with their own tales to tell. As a songwriter I love to hear people’s stories. We all have our different backgrounds and experiences that make up who we are. So as a first step to writing a song I asked people to think about life stories – their own and other peoples.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Anne Marie and Gary at the People’s History Museum</span></div>
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Gary is from Salford and he wrote from his own life experiences</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Salford is a city but has no pity. The people are good but not always understood.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I’ve seen you there but you have no time to spare.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You see the trouble but you don’t understand my struggle. </span></div>
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I can identify with Gary’s sense of frustration that people only see the surface and don’t understand the struggles going on below. Although we all walk our own paths, it’s important to try and imagine what life is like for other people. To put ourselves in their shoes.</div>
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I asked Joan to pick a person she admired to write about. She picked Shirley Bassey, the singer from Cardiff with the big voice. I asked her to think about what it must be like for Shirley performing and how she might feel when it’s all over. I was really drawn to how Joan saw Shirley on stage, she really has some empathy for her-</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When she sings her face is sometimes sad.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Before it lights up as she sings her heart out.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But when she comes off stage she’s emotional </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and feels like crying. We all love her. </span></div>
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In the afternoon a group of14 of us went to visit the <a href="http://www.phm.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People’s History Museum</a>, a place full of stories of people’s lives and struggles. I know the museum well and <a href="https://museumsongwriter.wordpress.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve written songs about the stories it contains.</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I walked round the galleries with Christian, Michal and Jerzy who are from Poland and Ingus who is from Latvia. Although we are from different countries the museum allowed us to find things we had in common.</div>
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For example the story of the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819 resonated with events in Poland in the 1970s when the government sent in soldiers to break up demonstrations. An exhibit on post-war rationing bought up discussions about the rationing which was part of daily life in Poland until 1989. When reading about Victorian factory working conditions Christian reflected on a job he had recently when he first came to Manchester. It was also in a factory and during the long shifts staff were filmed and recorded at all times and not allowed to talk to each other.</div>
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The museum evoked many different reactions. Some people found it harder to identify with the events of hundreds of years ago but were able to connect better with events post 1945 which are in living memory. When we all regrouped for a cuppa I captured some of the groups initial reactions and thoughts in this graphic.</div>
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Peggy felt that todays younger generations don’t value the freedoms they have. And others agreed that people should know more about the struggles of the past. I kept thinking back to the words Gary had written in the morning –</div>
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The People’s History Museum is all about understanding people’s struggles – the fights for representation, for a voice, the fight for equality and better conditions at work. Some of those fights were turbulent, people were arrested, put in prison, executed. Through the museum we can understand the struggles that led people to such desperate measures.</div>
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I think the final word belongs to Ingus</div>
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What a joy to be back at <a href="http://boothcentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Booth Centre</a>, to start working on the <a href="http://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/panorama/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Panorama</a> project, alongside Singer Songwriter <a href="http://quietloner.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt Hill/The Quiet Loner</a>. I’m always a tad nervous when we start a new project, <a href="http://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/panorama/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Panorama </a>brings with it quite a few firsts for me and arthur+martha: the first song writing, the first music/song performance, the first time we have attempted to make a ‘moving panorama’, the first time we have worked with <a href="http://quietloner.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt</a>…</div>
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I arrived at <a href="http://boothcentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Booth</a> at 9.30, when the morning rush was at its peak. It’s a place full of energy, patience, kindness, purpose, noise and the occasional outburst of frustration or anger- always quickly worked through with ever alert staff and volunteers. After breakfast was cleared away, <a href="http://quietloner.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt</a> worked the room, meeting new people, drumming up interest in the project, sounding out the themes. Quickly a group of people who where interested in drawing joined me in a side room.</div>
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Joan and her drawing of Manchester</div>
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Phil and I have been lucky enough to run a series of projects at <a href="http://boothcentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Booth</a> over the last few years. It means we are pretty much guaranteed at least one person along to a session who has been before to a previous project. They are huge assets- a trusting relationship has already been formed, they work as advocates to the project- sharing their enthusiasm with others, they can help point out to us who might enjoy or benefit from being part of the group, they advice and feedback on the individual workshop and project itself. On Thursday I’d like to thank Lawerence, Joan and Johno who did just that, with their support, new people felt more confident to join in.</div>
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Johno and his drawing of The Pankhurst Centre</div>
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In the afternoon Matt, our new group and I sat on a big table and started creating, infact even before Matt and I had finished our introduction, people had started drawing and writing. I was a little overwhelmed by how much energy and enthusiasm people put into the afternoon. One of the highlights for me was when the group took it in turns to read out ‘pen portraits’ of individuals whose stories are told at <a href="http://www.phm.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The People’s History Museum.</a> Extraordinary stories like William Cuffay’s below.</div>
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As we hoped would happen, people found connections to the stories, either with their own life experiences, or experiences of friends and family. Many of the group haven’t been to the<a href="http://www.phm.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PHM </a>before, many haven’t done any artwork since school, many haven’t written or performed music. Finding these personal connections, will be the way into the <a href="http://www.phm.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06d5e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PHM</a> museums collection, and meaningful artworks and songs.</div>
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Crystal’s drawing of Hannah Mitchell 1872- 1956</div>
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We’ve got a lot of work to do together, and not a lot of time to do it, but after the first day, I’m confident that we are going to do some extraordinary work together.</div>
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Thanks to Johno, who did his own summing up of the day:</div>
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Workshops took place in day centres, a hospice, craft groups, dementia cafes, Libraries, always with cups of tea and biscuits. Materials for the quilts was donated, brought from charity shops and occasionally from fabric shops. Fabric was dyed in big baths of colour, inspired by the Derbyshire landscape for a bombers moon and by colours associated with wealth and grandeur, for fresh air and poverty.<br />
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As the quilts grew in size we found space to look at them and put them together where ever we could, whether that was the floor of a library, or the largest tables we could find. I would stand bouncing on a chair to try and get a view of the whole. When you are making quilts it’s all about the touch, then they take on a different life, in exhibitions, there is rarely touching allowed.<br />
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I am very keen that the work gets shown in a wide variety of venues. First of all the quilts get shown to the people who have collaborated in the making of them. Then we have mixed grand venues with more humble exhibition spaces. From the <a href="https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lyme">National Trusts Lyme Park</a>, a viewing by Prince Charles at the <a href="http://thefarminglifecentre.org.uk/">Farming Life Centre,</a> the walls at <a href="https://buxtonmuseumandartgallery.wordpress.com/">Buxton Art Gallery and Museum</a>, they have sat along side books in a tour of Derbyshire libraries, and exhibited at<a href="https://recordoffice.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/stitching-the-wars/"> Derbyshire Record Office</a>, archives shown alongside photos from our book, and from <a href="http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/">Pictures of the Past.</a><br />
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Every time I look at the quilts I see something different and memories are sparked for me, memories of the people who made the work and the stories they shared, the struggles they overcame to stitch, to remember. The delight in sharing, the excitement in seeing the work coming together. The awards of having your voice and talents shared and respected. As I look at it today the colours have never seen seemed so vivid, the work so full of life. I’ve had my hands and eyes over every square inch of this quilt and yet I am seeing something new today. It’s nearly time for me to let them go and pass them on for another life and I can’t think of a better place for them to go to. In the safe hands of <a href="http://quiltersguild.org.uk/">The Quilters' Guild,</a> the quilts will be photographed, kept safe for posterity and will be a available for exhibitions, as learning tools, to be enjoyed and a record of all the people who helped make them. Seeing them today has reignited my passion for this art form there is so much more to explore and to share. I am thrilled that these two quilts that has meant so much to the people who have made them, will be looked after with so much care and shared around the world. <br />
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We started with a performance of the song <a href="https://arthur-and-martha.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/behind-brittle-barriers.html">Behind Brittle Barriers,</a> co-created with singer songwriter <a href="http://www.quietloner.com/">Matt Hill </a>and people from <a href="http://www.boothcentre.org.uk/">The Booth Centre.</a><br />
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From my notes, I nervously shared my thoughts on the project- whilst Gavin, Danny, Anne Marie and Peter spoke about the impact the work has had on them, with passion, dignity, articulately and without notes! Then went onto read their poems. I have much to learn!<br />
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It was an emotionally charged day, two people broke down in tears when they saw their work, seeing a moment in their history, caught up in embroidered stitch, the pain of unresolved issues? the relief of moving on? a sense of pride seeing their word shared? a letting go? There was lots of laughter also, and most of all a celebration of the amazing artwork, poetry and song created.<br />
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There are so many people to thank, <a href="http://www.boothcentre.org.uk/">The Booth Centre</a> who hosted the project, A<a href="http://artscouncil.org.uk/">rts Council England</a> who supported the project, <a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/">The Imperial War Museum</a> who hosted an outreach session, <a href="https://royalarmouries.org/home">The Royal Armouries Leeds</a>, <a href="https://www.walkingwiththewounded.org.uk/">Walking with the Wounded</a> for their advice, the staff and volunteers from the above organisations, our guest artists/writers/singer songwriters,<a href="http://www.johnnywoodhams.co.uk/"> Johnny Woodhams</a> and <a href="http://quietloner.com/">Matt Hill</a>, and as ever most of all to our amazing participants.<br />
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To see the documentary film about this project please visit <a href="https://vimeo.com/249502361">ARMOUR</a><br />
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We are delighted to invite you to a celebration of the project <a href="https://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/armour/">ARMOUR</a>, made in collaboration with people who have served in the Armed Forces, people with lived experience of homelessness and arts organisation <a href="https://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/armour/">arthur+martha</a>. Sharing ARMOUR artworks, poetry readings, with a music performance by <a href="http://www.boothcentre.org.uk/">The Booth Centre</a> and The Quiet Loner. Refreshments provided. </div>
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Philip Davenporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06814187609721838587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-67703771669479290882017-11-27T06:34:00.001-08:002017-11-27T06:35:12.639-08:00Armour poem recordings & poem collection now on-line<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am pleased to share that recordings of poems from the project Armour are now on-line at Soundcloud written and read by veterans and/or people with experience of homelessness. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Armour artworks on exhibition at The Museum Associations Annual Conference</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We would like to thank the many people who participated for their bravery and honesty. We’d also like to thank our guest poet<a href="http://www.johnnywoodhams.co.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Johnny Woodhams</a> and singer songwriter Matt Hill, <a href="http://www.quietloner.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Quiet Loner</a>, for leading some workshops, our wonderful team of volunteers, including <a href="http://www.melaniemillertextiles.co.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Melanie Miller</a>, Marc and Jessie. And finally, we are grateful to the <a href="http://www.boothcentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Booth Centre</a>, <a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Imperial War Museum-North,</a> <a href="https://royalarmouries.org/visit-us/leeds/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Royal Armouries Leeds,</a> <a href="http://manchesterartgallery.org/visit/gallery-of-costume/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gallery of Costume Manchester</a>, <a href="https://www.walkingwiththewounded.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Walking with the Wounded</a> and <a href="http://tomharrisonhouse.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Harrison House</a> for hosting workshops and the<a href="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Arts Council England</a> for supporting the project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Armour is a project
that uses words and stitches to explore the ways we protect ourselves. It is a
collaboration with veterans of armed conflict and with people who have lived
experience of homelessness. We asked people to describe their personal
"armour", physical and mental. Artworks were inspired by gambesons,
the quilted jackets worn under suits of armour, were made out of rust dyed
fabric and embroidered with poems, and other writings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poem Danny Collins, embroidery Peggy Prestley</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many people we met
were veterans who have also experienced homelessness. We asked people to
describe their personal "armour", physical and mental. And to imagine
what might happen if was taken off. That spark of imagining is what gave
life to these poems. Out of much heart-searching, during the art and poetry
workshops, came many pieces of writing. Some were embroidered, or inscribed on
suits of armour made of cloth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although we all need
protection, sometimes protection becomes the problem. Armour can be extremely
heavy, it limits sight, sound, touch - and emotions. In the poem Sir Galahad by
Tennyson, the crucial <span lang="FR">moment </span>comes
when the famous warrior realises if he is to let in love, he must remove his armour.
But to do so is fearful as well as freeing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Defences fail and
life falls into a dark disarray <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Observe yourself
when the mind is viciously dismantled...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Anon)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Imagining the absence
of armour was a difficult sometimes frightening exercise. For some, it took
tremendous courage to write about it. For others, it brought relief. And for
others again, many questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I wonder where
it will lead me, this writing...?" (Gavin</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Poetry,
I've never got it before. This is the first time I've even written a poem.
Never before. I've enjoyed it, it's been special." (Elliot Hallisey)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How can people who've
experienced physical and psychological violence live peacefully with their
memories<span lang="RU">?</span> In our workshops we
discussed how we protect our deeper selves and how we heal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This project was devised
to allow emotional/artistic exploration of difficult areas of personal history.
The poems come out of the experience of conflict - but our hope is that they
might help people to find some peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Default" style="margin-right: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...friends
friends linked linked together hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Default" style="margin-right: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hands
safe safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">House without Walls is an exhibition of drawings by refugee children in Berlin, made with British visual poet Philip Davenport, from arthur+martha. The exhibition opens 13 October, at Paul-Schneider-Haus in Spandau, Berlin, and continues until 23 November (Mon-Fri 10-6).</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The drawings show a child's everyday, but with the sharpness of war punching through. A policeman with a truncheon hides in one corner of 'A normal day'. A mother walks through a field equally divided between trees and explosions. Several of the drawings have been made into "poster poems", with responses from parents and adults in their community incorporated into the designs.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The poster poems, made in collaboration with Syrian designer Deya Nemo, are a gentle, sideways look at the human cost of war, the subtle losses, including childhood itself. The text layers three languages together: Arabic, German and English, a diverse echoing of voices. The naivety of the drawings contrast with the questioning of adults. Sharp and cynical, though still child-like, these conversation pieces between children and adults continually ask: where are we now?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Davenport's workshops took place in the busy corridor of the Staakener Strasse asylum seekers' shelter in Spandau, Berlin. He directed weekly sessions, over a period of 6 months, getting the children’s energy down on paper, an act of creation and of release. They attacked the paper on occasions. One boy had such shaky hands that his drawings were almost those of an old man.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Davenport describes the workshops: "A blast of energy, full of delight, mischief - but a certain brittleness too. As I slowly got to know the children I began to understand the cost of the epic life journey they'd taken, to reach safety here in Berlin..."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Davenport also interviewed many older members of the community at Staakener Strasse, weaving their thoughts into the work. The interviews and a diary of the project are at this <a href="http://arthur-and-martha.blogspot.de/search/label/Berlin" target="_blank">link</a>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The 21st-century is a time of instability. Political change, climate change, economic change, bring unprecedented human movement. But some of the most sensitive witnesses have not been consulted...</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Funded by The British Council/Arts Council England.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "helvetica";">Supported by Paul Schneider Haus, Gemeinwesenverein Haselhorst e.V., EFRE, Gemeinschaftsunterkunft Staakener Straße, Spandau, Berlin, arthur+martha U.K. </span></i><i><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Translations by Deya Nemo, Lisa Langer and Aurelie Maurin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thanks to all at Gemeinschaftsunterkunft Staakener Straße, Barbara Caveng and Dachil Sado at Kunstasyl, Wiebke Ehrenstein at Paul-Schneider-Haus, Elke Ritt at The British Council in Berlin, and poets Alistair Noon, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour.</span></i><br />
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Philip Davenporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06814187609721838587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-45390435251556545192017-09-25T05:56:00.001-07:002017-09-25T06:10:31.575-07:00Stitching the Wars exhibition and archive<div class="BodyA">
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TOUCHABLE HISTORY<o:p></o:p></div>
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A pair of quilts has been embroidered with the wartime history
of Derbyshire by older people in the county. History arts project, <i><a href="http://arthur-and-martha.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/stitching%20the%20wars">Stitching the Wars</a></i> opens at <a href="https://recordoffice.wordpress.com/">Derbyshire Records Office </a>4<sup>th</sup> October until
the 5<sup>th</sup> January 2018. The two quilts then go into the National
Collection held by <a href="http://www.quiltersguild.org.uk/">The Quilters’ Guild. </a>Poems, reminiscence, photos and the
Stitching the Wars book will be archived at <a href="https://recordoffice.wordpress.com/">Derbyshire Records Office.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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This award-winning project <a href="http://arthur-and-martha.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/stitching%20the%20wars"><i>Stitching the Wars</i> </a>combines
history, poetry and embroidery from older people living in rural Derbyshire,
including many with dementia. Artist Lois Blackburn from the arts organisation
arthur+martha made two collaborative community quilts embroidered with
testimony from older people who survived two world wars.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lois Blackburn commented: "This is art made by the public
and we've been delighted to witness its growth and the richness of experience
it contains. It is touchable history, quilts hand-stitched by over 400 older
people with fragments of their stories. One of the great joys of the project
has been to witness the pleasure of people with dementia who have taken part,
turning memory from a thing to be feared to a thing to be relished. These
quilts are a precious contribution to us all."<o:p></o:p></div>
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The poems that border the quilts and appear in the accompanying
book and sound recordings were made in collaboration with poet Philip
Davenport. "Sometimes the most extraordinary and powerful things are said
in day-to-day conversation. We've painstakingly written down people's words and
built them into poems together. Some of these are straightforward accounts of
farming, cooking, schooldays, others are accounts of bombing raids and the fight
to survive in wartime, and to survive poverty. It's a chorus of many voices,
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The exhibition in <a href="https://recordoffice.wordpress.com/">Matlock</a> will share, archive photos, recorded
readings of poems and reminiscence, and the accompanying book. They speak not only
of violence, or sadness, but also of great affection for the past, for their
fellow humans and for the beauty of the land around them. In love and in hate,
in war and in peace, you’ll find their words here, set amongst stitched fields
of greens and browns and blood red.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The project has been supported by Arts Council England,
Foundation Derbyshire, Derbyshire County Council, Derbyshire Dales Council, Age
UK, The Alzheimer's Society and The Farming Life Centre. We would like to thank
the many, many people who have participated and whose work has made this a very
special project.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The two poetry sessions I've run at <a href="http://tomharrisonhouse.org.uk/" target="_blank">Tom Harrison House</a> felt like even more of gamble. THH is a centre for veterans who are trying to find a way out of addiction and are going toe to toe with some serious life issues, so personal stakes are high. But these people are in no mood to pussyfoot. The group have been facing their problems square on, and in doing so they've opened themselves to change. This was their second session with me and once again they plunged into writing with the zest of people who feel they've nothing to lose.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We started off by talking about personal armour, the layers of protective mechanisms we all build to keep the bumps of life at bay. It was a fascinating discussion about self-protection, because the people talking had such deep experience of physical armour and of psychological attack. One man is a firefighter and he described the danger of being over-armoured, that you becomes lulled into feeling invincible when your in the middle of something that might kill you. Another man described a similar over-protection, but this time identified psychological manipulation as armour keeping people at bay. As a contrast, for Stewart and Alan, armour is the strength offered by other people, community, the support they need to keep well. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so to the poems. This week we wrote about three words: chaos, order, safety. Crisis and resolution. And I offered three poem forms: tanka (an old Japanese form), triolet, or free verse. A wide range of people, a wide range of responses. We will post all the poems on the blog in the next while, but let's end today with this from Stewart: wry and heartfelt, it measures the precise weight of his armour.</span></span></div>
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Philip Davenporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06814187609721838587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-70424895797084819932017-09-03T10:28:00.002-07:002017-09-03T20:59:21.461-07:00I am one animal<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I am getting ready to go back to Berlin, and my thoughts are turning to the many good people I met there and the friends I made over the last year, during HEAVEN-PROOF HOUSE. One of the last interviews I made in Berlin was on a scorchingly hot day, in a huge hostel at the edge of the city. In a subtle way, it broke my heart to hear this story. Nasir is angry and sad, and tries desperately to find something good in a bad situation. This isn't a war story, its about what comes after a war you've had to flee, the nuts and bolts of being completely dispossessed, of home, of self-worth, even of language. And starting again...</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">First I want to say there are many, many good things about Germany and we have been shown much kindness. But you ask me if this is home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Home? Hier ist alle leuter. In one small room sleep six people. Plates dirty. We have 20% people sick, don't want to eat this... stuff. All is shit. Some people have been here more than two years. La Giz say we don't have da heim for you. All of us need psychologist, psychiatrist. No one here feels good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">People need work, here there is nothing. Essen, schlafen. Deutsch for two or three hours in the day. Open the book. Nothing else to do. But we don't speak good Deutsch because we don't meet German people so we can't learn. The important thing is to listen to the sound. We make friends, but we can't invite them here. No visitors, no besuchen. Here we speak Arabische, Farsi. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I'm from Afghanistan and I have seen many things. But in my life, I've not seen this before. Hundreds of people in one place, six people sleeping in one room. The rooms are dirty, the toilets all dirty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When I eat this food, I have a pain in my stomach. What am I to do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have been three years in Germany, nine months in this place. I know people who have been here over two years. It makes you crazy. My heart is sick with this. We go to which way? I think we will not find a nice way. This is not Europe, this is not democracy, this is a jail for me. For three years, four years, five years live here, inside this camp? At start all is ok. But I see my friends change, their voices get loud, talk not nice. All this pressure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When you come here at night time, after 11pm you will see something different. In sleep time is a bad smell. We have nowhere to put our shoes, our sandals, so they stink. After two or threee hours, boys come here in the big room and they play games on their phones. You see them lie on the benches out here. I ask them why and they say, "It smell so bad, I'm not sleeping."</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have a sickness. The important thing is doctor is not one nice place to be a sick person. I have three doctor papers, they say I need to go somewhere different. But the social say no, if you want to go somewhere different go back to your own country. They say they don't have no other place. They tell me, "This is not my job. Go and speak with Merkel."</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I see how they look in their eyes. I think I am one animal. We need a chance, a chance to do something good. Something strong here in Germany, to help them and show them. But we don't have one chance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In Afghanistan we have people with no house, no money, begging. "Give me one Euro!" This is the same. What can I say? I sleep in da heim and the Giz pay for me? I go to a party and people ask me what I do. What can I tell them? I live off your taxes? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the men in this room are full of purpose, and hope. I'm at the <a href="http://tomharrisonhouse.org.uk/" target="_blank">Tom Harrison House</a>, a recovery centre for service veterans who have substance abuse issues. The small group of men share camaraderie for the length of their 11-week stay here. They are here to admit that they've got issues with substance abuse and need to find a way out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I tell them about the arthur+martha project Armour. We talk about the weight, the terrible weight of armour, whether it be physical armour, or mental armour. As we chat they tell me about different armour types. We talk about the old Kevlar bullet proof vests, the helmets that are designed to spin away bullets. They describe the vileness of wearing nuclear fallout protection, sealed into a charcoal lined suit, with an oxygen mask, sealed in with your own smells, your own self, unable even to communicate unless you've got radio comms in your mask.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We've used the Japanese tanka form for this project, a type of love poem. Using a love poem to describe the opposite of love introduces tension - and tension is surprisingly productive. This was where the surprise lay, people retold their stories as poems and in doing so they re-heard themselves. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I won't share the poems this week, but will say that they were searingly honest and glimmered with humour. As we came to the end of the session, the group were grinning at each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are saying goodbye to the Booth Centre, and goodbyes can be hard. In the afternoon of our last Armour workshop at the Booth Centre, Phil led a poetry writing exercise. Two of the group hadn't created a poem before, and there was apprehension, but taking the process stage by stage, bit by bit, people wrote, shared, confidence grew. There were tears in the eyes of one man as he wrote. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>While poems progressed, the embroidered and rusted fabrics were laid out on the floor. Members of the group took time out from writing arranged together into ideas for compositions. My original idea was to make a 'finished' Gamberson quilted jacket with the group. However, as ever, the project has progressed and something much looser is emerging, I described it as paper cut-out dress up dolls, (without the dolls or the tags) a front of a garment, indicating loosely a jacket. We tried placing the pieces like a jigsaw puzzle, to fit a giant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The composition everyone got most excited by was from Gavin, when he moved the pieces to form a group of five soldiers, each one taking on a different aspect of emotion. When we looked at them as a group, people saw different things... that one looks like a Roman Solider, that an American Football player, this one's about pain, another hope.. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">After the session a group from the afternoon helped take over my boxes to the car, Melanie and I stood outside the centre, chatting with them over the session. It had been a great day and nobody wanted it to end. </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sadly this was the last session for a while at the Booth, our thanks as ever go out to all the staff and volunteers there, and yesterday Jessie and Melanie who volunteered. And most of all thanks for all the participants. </span></i><br />
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Philip Davenporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06814187609721838587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-79063580390408405832017-08-12T01:00:00.002-07:002017-08-12T01:00:58.518-07:00Talking to John<span style="font-family: inherit;">We've had two weeks away from the <a href="http://boothcentre.org.uk/">Booth Centre</a>, for the project <a href="http://arthur-and-martha.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Armour">Armour.</a> So much happens so fast in the lives of people who use the centre, two weeks here takes some catching up. At the reception desk, we were greeted by Peggy. She explained that the cards and flowers we saw as we came in were for Michael, who had sadly passed away a few days ago. He joins many other people we have met who experienced homelessness, and died too soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We spent much of the morning with John Felix, a documentary film maker (who made two beautiful, sensitive films about arthur+martha projects before <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pk_IDGLofg">The Homeless Library</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Jkbd1m8wY&feature=youtu.be">Stitching the Wars</a>). John was with us to start the Armour film, interviewing participants, filming some of the afternoon session. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As with our previous experiences working alongside John, people seemed very at ease with him, sharing their stories with candour. Over the course of the day, we started to see the project afresh, through the comments gathered by John. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="goog_2103528208"></span><span id="goog_2103528209"></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Key themes that came up included: People felt safe to reveal their inner selves to the group, a deeper often more vulnerable side of their lives and personality than otherwise would be shared. Many of the group described themselves as having literacy problems, and having problems at school, but that these were helped by the sessions. They felt they had the support to do something new, something that was difficult at times but incredibly rewarding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One member spoke about the abuse suffered as a child, but how doing the workshops allowed them to speak about this, and share their story with family and friends. Others spoke about how having the time and space to be creative, to think, was enabling them to see the world differently outside the sessions...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The film will eventually be shown publicly in exhibitions and online, but right now as it develops we are able to see ourselves a little differently and perhaps understand more of the complex lives that this project reflects</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
<br />arthur+marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854602346306054083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-52007907522584503472017-07-31T07:28:00.002-07:002017-07-31T07:28:49.047-07:00Angels with delight take flight<a href="http://arthur-and-martha.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Armour">Armour project</a> 20th July 2017, <a href="http://www.boothcentre.org.uk/">Booth Centre</a>, Manchester.<br />
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You never know when an idea will take flight and ascend beyond the original thought, carried by other people. Our workshop on 20th July was just such a moment. The Armour project is about self-protection and the many ways we find safety, physical or mental. The project has been running with this idea for awhile at The Booth Centre, working with homeless people, several of whom are army veterans. Today, instead of putting on layers of self-protection, we asked people to imagine what might happen if they were removed. </div>
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I was concerned we'd be asking people too much to take away their protective layers, which are so necessary for survival on the street. But calculated risk-taking is part of what we do, as any artist. I read a little of Sir Galahad by Tennyson, the moment the warrior realises if he is to let in love, he must remove his armour. It was all that was necessary. Soon the tight little band around our table were writing about vulnerability as if it was a taste of freedom. I guess they're tough enough to put their armour back on whenever they wish; but they recognise the relief of being able to let it go.</div>
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The resulting pieces, written as tanka (an old Japanese form of love poetry) were scribed or sewn onto pieces of cloth, to be included as parts in the cloth suits of armour we are constructing. You might say these pieces are idea-armour.</div>
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Although the tone of this session was serious, and there were many moments when the group skidded close to tears, it was shot through with humour and a sense of togetherness which softened the hard edges. I particularly enjoyed Phil B's 'grumpy old guy' piece, which starts off with the excellent line "Bog off and get knotted", a sentiment I share, especially first thing in the morning.</div>
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The day was given great intensity by Lee who worked with us for the first time, leaping into it all with the urgency of someone facing their devils. It was also hugely supported by Melanie Miller, a stalwart helper of our projects who quietly and gently aided people along the way.<br />
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Philip Davenportarthur+marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854602346306054083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-39356376456072773082017-07-19T06:01:00.000-07:002017-07-19T12:59:48.011-07:00Behind brittle barriers<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Guest blog
by singer-songwriter Matt Hill </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.quietloner.com/"><span class="InternetLink"><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">www.quietloner.com</span></i></span></a></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Here's a
question. Is it possible to get a group of non-musicians together in a room for
a couple of hours and get them to write a song? I was asked by Arthur &
Martha to come to the Booth Centre in Manchester to help them find out. I'm
pleased to report that it certainly is possible! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Although none
of our group had direct experience of writing songs they were certainly no
strangers to creativity and ideas came thick and fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We started by thinking about the theme of our
song – that of armour and protection. We did some exercises to help us find
words associated with armour and words related to how armour makes us feel –
safe, secure, protected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">To give us some
inspiration we spent some time listening to and discussing a song called 'I am
a rock' which was a hit song for Simon & Garfunkel back in 1965. The
character in the song is someone who has been hurt deeply and is now a loner,
without friends, hiding behind a self constructed wall. </span></div>
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<i>'I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty, </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">I am
shielded in my armor, hiding in my room, save within my womb. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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one and no one touches me. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">I am a Rock,
I am an island.' <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">© Paul Simon
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSVNxLB-A"><span class="InternetLink"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I am a Rock, on youtube</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">We wondered
what might have happened to this person to make him that way? We thought the
most likely cause would be a family or relationship breakdown.<a href="http://england.shelter.org.uk/campaigns_/why_we_campaign/tackling_homelessness/What_causes_homelessness"> Those kinds of problems are a known factor in causing homelessness</a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">and we found other parallels to the
issues homeless people face. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">The discussion
touched on the extreme vulnerability of sleeping rough, when a sleeping bag is
your only armour. We talked about how drugs and alcohol can create an emotional
fortress giving a (false) sense of protection. Above all we felt a sense of
strong sadness that the person in 'I am a rock' was cutting themselves off from
possible support and help. We decided our song would have some elements of
positivity about love, faith and support. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘The whole thing </em><span style="background-color: white;">(‘I am a rock’)</span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is about me. But I am coming out of it. I want to face the music, not run away- to give up on love is to give up on life.’</em><span style="background-color: white;"> Karlton</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">When we came to
write our song we zoomed in on the word 'barrier'. A barrier can be something
that is put in place to keep people out. But it can also be put in place to
offer us protection and keep us safe. We liked that it had two different sides
to it. We discussed the implications of this – positive and negative – on
people who put up barriers to others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">An effective
technique in songwriting is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration">alliteration</a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">where several words beginning with
the same letter are strung together. We decided to adopt this and went for
'Behind brittle barriers' as our title. We included the word 'brittle' to
reflect that emotional barriers can be broken down, given the right amount of
love and support. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";"><i>'I didn't know I had this in me.'</i> Christine.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">After some
thrashing out of melody and chords (we definitely wanted the song's music to
sound upbeat) we arrived at a finished version just as our 2 hour deadline
approached. We then ran downstairs to do a very quick and impromptu
performance! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/boothcentre/videos/1813662448660279/">(video link) </a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">As a songwriter
I've never worked on a song that was finished so quickly or one that was so
truly collaborative. Each person in the group contributed something useful and
different and the song reflects that with a broad range of ideas. Above all
what I get from the song is a sense of hope – that everyone – brothers,
sisters, fathers, mothers – are hiding behind barriers of some kind, but that
they are brittle and with hope and faith in each other we can find the support
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Behind brittle
barriers you can't feel safe <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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barriers you can't feel the bass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Barriers block
the way, push obstacles away <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Cradle me in
your arms and keep me safe <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Don't let me
loose or lose my faith <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Behind brittle
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Clashing
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Sisters and
mothers (Behind brittle barriers)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Encased in
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brothers (Behind brittle barriers)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Soul, child,
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">Barriers block
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri";">People behind
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arthur+marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854602346306054083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-55830561602822285752017-07-10T02:54:00.001-07:002018-01-08T02:54:19.172-08:00A sense of place<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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'The role of the Outsider is to speak out.' Jack Silverstone<br />
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We started our <a href="https://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/armour/">Armour </a>field trip with a visit to <a href="https://www.thelowry.com/exhibitions/home1947">The Lowry for the exhibition Home 1947, </a> a new work by Sharlene Obaid-Chinoy, reflections on the Partition of British India. Through short documentary and drama films Home 1947, shows us this world not through the words of historians and politicians, but through the eyes of those who lived through it. Such parallels to our project '<a href="https://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/the-homeless-library/">The Homeless Library.</a>' 'Home, a sense of being, a sense of place...'<br />
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Throughout the day the group wrote poems, as a way of focussing their minds on the experiences and distilling deep-felt reactions into words. But the process of writing itself brought up issues for many. One person described themselves as illiterate; dictating lines of poems to be written down by a 'scribe' was a powerful experience, a disturbing luxury. To be allowed onto paper, to be acknowledged after so long! It's a delight that can bring pain. Another group member told us that they'd never been praised, so to suddenly be told that a piece of writing was good was far more challenging than the usual round of expected abuse. <br />
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Visiting the exhibition with the group from <a href="http://www.boothcentre.org.uk/">The Booth Centre,</a> gave us insights into both this exhibition and the afternoon visit to the <a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-north">Imperial War Museum North</a>. Together we form a group from disparate backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, many of whom have experienced or who are still experiencing rough sleeping, life on the margins. But this time the conversation and tears shed, were directed at the trauma of the other people, the refugees fleeing across the Indian sub-continent in the largest ever human mass migration. Or meeting and conversing with David, a World War 2 veteran who'd fought at Juno Beach during D-Day, and then in the vicious Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes, at the IWMN.<br />
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David described fighting for his life against hostile forces, and the elements. Our group listening to him nodded their heads; many of them have faced those things over and over again.<br />
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'I don't know why people ignore us. The homeless see everything. Even the police come to us for information. They understand they need our help. We've seen it all.' Ian <br />
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The poems that we worked on were love poems to weapons. They're strong pieces of writing, but what also exists in these pieces, and at times overwhelms the words on the page, is the story between the lines.<br />
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<i>A big thank you to... Danielle Garcia at IWMN for arranging our afternoon, to Mathew for sharing his wonderful knowledges and patiently answering all our questions and most of all to David, the World War 2 veteran, who brought the conflict and aftermath alive.</i><br />
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Lois Blackburn and Philip Davenport<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #363941; font-size: 14px;"> </span>arthur+marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854602346306054083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-45483262028911352842017-07-07T06:07:00.005-07:002017-07-07T06:07:39.486-07:00The art of ethics<i>Ethics</i><br />
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Like a softly spoken, middle-aged version of the famous scene from Fight Club, I explain, ‘What is said in the room, shared in this group, stays in here.’ That message is repeated weekly during our sessions with people who have experienced homelessness, when things get open and honest - and often they do. It marks the success of the sessions that people can talk about their lifestyles, health conditions, history, but these are big, difficult, often raw, deep-seated things, that nobody wants to have to deal with, let alone live with. Then there are the issues of drink and drugs, mental health and learning difficulties that compound it all, or are the results of unresolved problems. But are the things we share when we are under the influence of drink or drugs are they the same as when we are straight? Or if we are in the turbulence of a health condition at what point do we lose capacity to make decisions, do 'they' have the mental capacity to sign 'their' name on the artwork/poem? And have it published? These are the uncomfortable discussions we have with carers of people of dementia for example.<br />
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As the artist/facilitators, with journalistic instincts, there is a big push and pull to our sessions. It's what's happening right now with our current project <a href="https://arthur-martha.com/portfolio/armour/">'Armour'. </a>When individuals start to reveal a little about themselves for instance talking about surviving abuse (tragically a common thread amongst homeless people) or their mental health, it often appears they are experiencing release, but it can be a painful one. Like throwing-up the contents of your stomach, it's uncomfortable, but there is relief.<br />
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During a recent session one of our group shared, there was a sense of urgency in the talk, we all supported in our ways, much of what was shared obviously hit a chord with others. I'm talking about Peer Mentoring at its best, that support and learning you get from people who have found ways to survive, found their ways through difficult circumstances. I can help, but only help in certain ways, (it takes a village…) so we all listened, we tried to empathise - although some things are just so out of your experience you just can only imagine - and then I brought us back to art, to making. And the atmosphere changed again. And our minds and bodies were distracted, refocused.<br />
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Phil and I have often come back to the subject of ethics over the years. We have worked with academics who can hardly get things off the ground, being strangled in the red tape of ethical approval. As artists not tied to an education establishment, we can be much lighter on our feet, work and take advice from the organisations that are hosting our sessions, and most importantly, take advice and the lead from the people we are working with. I think we get it right most of the time. If we have any doubts we keep art, poetry and interviews anonymous, enabling a voice to be heard, but not identified.<br />
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But back to that push and pull of being an artist/writer/storyteller. There are times when we listen to someone telling their stor,y when it's getting uncomfortable, the story is getting dark, difficult, in truth. As the audience, these are the stories we are waiting for, the ones to be re-told, the ones with the power. And generally, the person who is telling the story, is keen to tell. And we try never to push, pick or prod. But it does make me feel uncomfortable, why do we want to hear about the extremes in life? Is it the same drives as wanting to watch a scary film? Taking us to the edge? Phil and I have been working with marginalised, often vulnerable people for many years now, we certainly certainly don't have all the answers, only continual questions. Including questions for ourselves.<br />
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arthur+marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854602346306054083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-76265538535249699512017-06-26T03:28:00.001-07:002019-09-06T02:54:59.376-07:00Fear<div style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">The Booth Centre: there was also anxiety in the air this morning, it hit like a shock wave as I came through the door. Someone was trying high level intimidation, with raised fists, loud shouted outbursts, staring competitions. He was dressed in black, he paced the room, moving erratically and occasionally launching into another confrontation, while the staff tried to defuse his anger. Because people in the Centre are very attuned to threat, their radar was on alert. They looked over each other's shoulders while talking, there was an unsettled feel, objects kept being knocked off tables, people bumped into one another. It was as if an earthquake had dropped in for a cuppa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">As is the often the way there, I spoke to some people I have known for years and some I'd only met this morning. Every conversation was fragile, lightly touched by the presence of fear, yelling its head off in the corner. The first person I talked with was fighting back panic, he said. The next was joking with me, but kept checking the threat potential. The last had been awake four days straight, out on the streets. He'd not been eating, because of grief. He looked shrunken, like a an inhabitant of an institution, with over-large, over-bright eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">But walking alongside fear, and just as powerful, was the feeling of being thoroughly, immediately alive, and the intensity of each shared moment. A day at The Booth Centre is like this, you can squeeze several hours-worth of living into an instant. There’s a surreal-ness to the fast-forward rush of it all. It came as absolutely no surprise that the footballer Ryan Giggs suddenly turned up with a camera crew to meet folk, sign autographs, and add a further manic element. Suddenly beaming smiles and a celebrity frisson punctuated the atmosphere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">In the afternoon, making an oasis of stitching and poems, we read The idea of order at Key West by Wallace Stevens, a poem about reducing chaos. Its subtitle might be how to insure yourself against the effect of the world by finding safety in art. Or in other words, how to write your way out of fear. The writing was made sharper by the recollection of our morning demon, a malevolent drug dealer stalking his own mad shadows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>When I was fighting didn't think that was dangerous</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>When a knuckle duster knocked out my tooth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>Didn't think that was dangerous </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>And when I was driving 130mph, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>Didn't think that was dangerous.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>When I hold a knife, that's the closest I come.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>That's closest:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>“If I'm not careful with this</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>In my hand</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>It is dangerous.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>Anonymous</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>fish and chips I like to order</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>I don't like the word chaos</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>it brings disorder</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>danger comes in all sorts</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"><i>suicidal thoughts.</i></span></div>
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Philip Davenporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06814187609721838587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597655639592622541.post-69112620075604666102017-06-21T06:42:00.000-07:002018-01-08T02:55:31.331-08:00Turtle<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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After the incredibly beautiful free written outcomes of my first session I wanted to try a more structured way of writing for the second session so I developed a simple imagining format that focused thoughts in a more meditative and positive way. Those taking part were then guided from a fixed ideal point through a series if questions that resulted in a narrative text as if spoken.</div>
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We then did two edits getting rid of unnecessary language turning the thoughts into poems and then did a final rewrite on brown paper. Focusing on the theme of armour we'd looked at a variety of animal shells and military helmets and decided to take a direct papier mâché cast from a large turtle shell. The final layer consisted of the poems torn up to become a pattern forming the protective shell made up of a mixture of the positive language. </div>
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Once again some utterly moving stories emerged and it was a privilege to work with the group. </div>
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