No Place Like Home – Crawley

Name: No Place Like Home – Crawley
Start: 2024-10-13T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-13T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Crawley Museum, 103 High St Crawley, RH10 1DD

Schedule

Sun Oct 13 2024 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Crawley Museum, 103 High St Crawley, RH10 1DD | Crawley, EN

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.
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 hot off the press ‘Glimpse’ anthology by Peepal Tree Press. Her current commission includes a location based story for ‘We See You Now’. Akila’s poetry pamphlet ‘Ritual for a Mango’ is currently being edited for publication and she 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.