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May 08, 2022

Carnival

The Queens Drawers Projects

Event Description

A creative writing workshop on the theme of Carnival led by poet and artist John Lyons.

‘Music is the beating heart of my poetry. The sound of words in a certain order gives rhythm to my poems; it is a way of expressing emotions, feelings, thoughts and ideas about what is happening around me. As a child in Trinidad singing and telling stories were as natural a part of my life as breathing.

Long before I grew to love the beauty of language in poetry, I enjoyed its rhythm of music in storytelling. Those stories were about folklore characters and jumbies (ghosts); and often accompanied with song. My imagination went wild, making these stories heart- thumpingly scarier and scarier. Looking back, I suppose, it was then the seed that linked poetry and music was planted in my mind’.

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The Event

Poet and artist John Lyons led a creative writing workshop on Sunday 8 May.

Following a brief introduction on the motivation for writing participants were

asked to look at observations on nature and an incident that made them sad,

happy or angry using in their writing an emotional tone of sharing the

experience. There was much sharing of ideas, thoughts and writing with lively

discussion, laughter, serious concentration, interspersed with read arounds

sharing and editing.

What the participants thought

"Utterly inspiring."

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Sukie
"A very friendly & creative, lively and happy experience! John facilitated it really well. I met lovely people and I think the workshop encouraged a special sort of creativity from everyone!"

Martin
"Very informative and interesting I learnt a lot. Very thankful I had the opportunity to do this for free I wouldn’t have been able to come otherwise."

Liz
"A truly inspirational session, so informative and so well run and friendly. I too am thankful for the opportunity and Littleport needs many more such events."

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Rosa
"I really enjoyed the session today. I found it really interesting."

Linda
"F***ing! Fantastic"

Roger
"Thoroughly enjoyable and helpful and rewarding."

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Cathy:
"Very enterprising of the Heritage Centre to accommodate these events for the community and important. Thank you"

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Philip
"Very enterprising of the Heritage Centre to accommodate these events for the community and important. Thank you."

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Philip

The Queens Drawers Project

This workshop was part of a series of 5 artist led funded by the Art’s Council Lets Create Jubilee fund from Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - ensuring that creativity plays an important role in local community celebrations for Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

All of the works made will be kept in Adams to go on exhibition on Friday 3 June, after which they will be returned to the maker.

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