Tag: community poems

• Writing Resistance

  

  It’s been a turbulent time for so many communities this summer as rioting spread from the Southport tragedy, and Teesside was targeted as an early flashpoint. After checking in with individuals in our TWP family who we knew to be particularly vulnerable, we were left with that frantic feeling inside – what can we do?…

  Kirsten Luckins

  August 28, 2024

  By our members, Poems, Video, Writing resources

  community arts, community poems, community writing, counterdemo, poetry, resistance, riots, social commentary poems, spoken word, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, women

• Crowdsourced Creativity #2

  

  Back in June we held a special in-person edition of TWOOMPH! (the open mic with OOMPH!) at Hartlepool Hub, as part of Crossing the Tees book festival. We always have shenanigans of some kind at TWOOMPH!s, and this time we rather cheekily nicked a poem format from the brilliant King Ink (James Whitman & Helen…

  Kirsten Luckins

  August 6, 2024

  Poems

  collective poems, community poems, Crossing the Tees, crowdsourced poems, performance poetry, poetry, spoken word, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, women

• Crowdsourced Creativity

  

  You may have seen some of our recent socials from Love Local festival at the National Trust’s Ormesby Hall in Middlesbrough. We had a lush time, sending a team of four poets to chat with the public and collect their thoughts and impressions into some communal poems. It’s all part of training some of our…

  Kirsten Luckins

  July 23, 2024

  Poems

  community poems, Love Local, Ormesby Hall, participatory arts, poetry, poetry in the community, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, women