Tag: poetry in the community
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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…
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A Child’s Eye View
How does a poet-in-residence turn the conversations they have with the public into a body of original work? Read on for reflections from Audrey Cook, thinking about her three poems in MIMAzina issue #32 and how they came about from working with children at MIMA’s Art Trolley during the exhibition People-Powered: Stories from the River…
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These little tributaries of ideas…
We are nearing the end of our first poets’ residency at MIMA, which will culminate in Audrey Cook and Sara Dennis performing new work written in response to the art and audiences of the People-Powered exhibition at MIMA’s Art Social #13 this Thursday 26th November, from 5pm-7pm. As our poets prepare to share their work…
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People-Powered Poetry!
This summer and autumn, we will send two poets to be in residence at MIMA, responding to their ‘People Powered’ exhibition.
Tees Women Poets 