No Place Like Home - Crawley

Join us in Crawley for the free workshop series ‘No Place Like Home’, exploring culture and heritage, and health and wellbeing. Come explore notions of home and belonging in a supported way with artist Akila Richards

Details

• Food and drink refreshments will be provided.
• Each session will involve different making opportunities
• The sessions will provide experience in oral storytelling, creative writing, and various visual arts.
• All sessions will be fun and open to all – no experience is necessary.

Dates

• Sunday, 13th October 2024 | 1pm – 3pm | @ Crawley Museum
• Tuesday, 29th october 2024 | 7pm - 8:30pm | @ online
• Sunday, 17th November 2024 | 1pm – 3pm | @ Crawley Museum
• Sunday, 2nd February 2025 | 1pm – 3pm | @Crawley Museum
• Celebration in March @ Crawley WORDfest

This is a FREE event—reserve your spot for one or more workshops in this series.

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Akila Richards is a poet, writer and spoken word artist. She has created work for theatre, exhibitions, audio installations, film and digital platforms at cultural and artistic events. Her most recent work featured at Brighton Festival, her ‘Rest Experience’ initiative, in Covert Magazine and in the ‘Glimpse’ anthology by Peepal Tree Press. Commissions included Witness Stand at Brighton Festival 2022 and location based story for ‘We See You Now at Seven Sisters’. Akila’s poetry publication ‘Ritual for a Mango’ was published in 2024 and is writing her first novel.

Supported by University of Brighton’s Community – University Partnership Programme.This University of Brighton project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Funded by AHRC Impact Account and Arts Council England.

is an arts and heritage organisation that enables Black, Asian and ethnically diverse/BPOC* people to tell their story through writing and the creative arts. We were established in 2012.

We give writers and other creatives a platform and community to feel supported, nurtured and evolve their work through the creative pipeline, from start to publication. We share stories and heritage of diaspora communities and bring them to life through various art forms for audiences to learn and take part in cultural heritage. We are an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.

*BPOC stands for ‘Black people, People of Colour’ and is a self-identifying term. While we use the term BPOC, we acknowledge the limitations of this terminology. At the core of our network is the aim to address and overcome systemic barriers that our members face directly or indirectly based on their ethnic or national identities, race or perceived racial identities, or the colour of their skin as per the Equality Act of 2010. This includes people who identify as Black, brown, people of colour, Global Majority, mixed-race, multiple heritage and/or are from the Global South, and/or are East and South-East Asian, West Asian, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, African-Caribbean, Caribbean, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, or First Nations, and diasporas.

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