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Art Work Exeter's summer project for Exeter Custom House is River Radio - a community radio project that invites Exeter residents to explore the sounds and stories of the River Exe and bring them to life for listeners across the city - and across the world!
AWE is running a series of FREE creative artist-led workshops… but places are limited and booking up quickly. Sign up while they are available!
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On Sunday 21st July...
Join poet and sound artist, Kerry Priest, as we explore the quayside, and think how language and water work as both a conduit and a container for meaning. We will spend the day foraging for words and sounds, leading towards a communal sound poem to be played on River Radio.
The workshops are suitable for people with lots of writing experience or none. They will be of particular interest to anyone interested in using sound and a chorus of voices in performance.
There will be plenty of time for creative writing, with prompts inspired by the historic quayside and the materiality of the eddies and flows of water. We will explore different types of listening as a means to create writing: Inner listening, outer listening, bodily listening. For our final piece, we will think about the voice in space and how resonance and echoes affect how we interact with the spoken word. We will create a communal 'polyphonic poetry' piece together to be broadcast 13th-15th September on Art Work Exeter's River Radio at Exeter Custom House.
Workshops are free to attend.
You are welcome to join for the whole day (please book on for both parts), or half day:
10am - 1pm: Foraging at the water's edge: Listening as a way into writing. Building up a cache of memories, sketches and images from the past, present and future of the quayside.
2pm - 5pm My Language is a River: Working towards a final communal performance. We will bring together threads from the day into a poetic sound collage piece influenced by the rhythms and motions of water.
Kerry Priest is an award-winning poet and interdisciplinary artist, working with text, performance, and sound design. She uses the principle of ‘polyphony’ as a form of entangled practice with the natural world and as a means to foreground the acoustic, psychological, and communal properties of language. Her pieces have appeared at the Royal Opera House, the Minack Theatre and on BBC Radio 3.
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River Radio is part of Art Work Exeter’s cultural partners programme with Exeter Custom House funded by Exeter Canal and Quay Trust. This project is funded with the support of the Creative Arc Programme, an initiative funded by the University of Exeter, Exeter City Council and the UK government through the Shared Prosperity Fund.
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