Day 7: A Word-less Construction
🏴 Creadigaeth ddi-eiriau
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“I'm Rachel and I run boom saloon, a global media movement to democratise creativity for good. Boom Saloon work in collaboration with STAND, a peer support group for people living with young onset dementia - that is people who are diagnosed with dementia under the age of 65 - and their families and friends in Fife, Scotland. Boom Saloon have been working with STAND since 2019 to support them tell the true story of those living with young onset dementia, in their own words ."
Let’s reimagine what a ‘poem’ is and have some fun! Poems, at their core, are a collection of words brought together and constructed into a form. For many, terms such as ‘poetry’ and ‘creative writing’ can feel intimidating; for others, words may simply be inaccessible. Today, we’ll create a word-less ‘poem’ by playing with objects to construct a physical form. This reminds us that creativity can take any shape; it needn’t be prescriptive or expected!
To find out more about boom saloon visit: https://64millionartists.com/boom-saloon
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Gather any objects you have around you – stationary, books, tables, bags - don’t worry what the objects are as this is all part of the fun.
Using any means possible, construct a form from these objects. You might tape them together, you might build the tallest tower, you might create a bridge.
Challenge yourself to push your construction as far as you can, whether that’s via height, length or combination of multiple materials. (Here’s where friendly competition might be fun!)
You may want to gather your objects first and think about what you’d like to construct – and how – before you begin, or make it up as you go along.
Think
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Terms such as poetry and creative writing can feel incredibly daunting – they are filled with stanzas and haikus and villanelles, written by people such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Yeats. And yet... at their core, they are nothing more than the words we each use day in, day out. These three Word Play prompts encourage and guide you to think about the words that surround us each day and how we can play with them to discover that, in fact – we are all poets, even if we didn't know it!
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