Wayback when in February 2020 we had our first sharing of song poems from our pilot Come On In project in Lambeth.
After placing poets and musicians in local community spaces and facilitating conversations with the people there, we commissioned a bold and beautiful set of new work from these artists.
Of course the date must be ringing alarm bells. Any future life we had planned was put on hold.
After already embracing a cross-form artistic exploration of these special places we turned to film as another component. This March (2022) we were so excited to get stuck in and film our 2nd Come On In song cycle from Loughborough Farm.
What is Loughborough Farm?
Loughborough Farm began in August 2013 and has been growing ever since. The vision was to create a patchwork of community growing spaces on pieces of derelict or underused land. Our main site is on Loughborough Road where we produce food throughout the year for our volunteers, local residents and The Platform Cafe, our community cafe.
Find them on Twitter @LoughFarm
Find the Platform Cafe on Instagram @platformcafe.lj (closed for refurb until June 2022)
Anthony Joseph
an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician.
We’d recommend checking out his fab album: “The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives”
And he has an upcoming gig in Manchester 25th May tickets here!!
Find him on Instagram @anthony.joseph_poet & Twitter @adjoseph
Destinie Paige
is London-based director and photographer. Destinie is inspired by dramatic and conceptual cinema, human facial expressions and femininity. People of colour and women are very strong motifs within Destinie’s work, she wishes to always represent under-represented social groups to the public as a way of seeing the beauty within these particular communities. Destinie recently curated an exhibition at Photofusion: BLK BXY JOY.
Follow her @onlydestt on Instagram & Twitter
Elaine So
is a multi-talented percussionist and has previously worked on Richard II at the Globe with our AD Dominique Le Gendre.
Follow her on Instagram @soelaine
Adam Walters
is a versatile composer who has written music for concert performance, for dance and for film. Check out our previous interview with Adam when he first the project here
With thanks as ever to our wonderful partners Speaking Volumes and to Iguana Studios in Brixton.
Read more from our Artistic Director Dominique about our upcoming programmes in Rye!
https://buff.ly/4fMIIAW
THIS WEDNESDAY! Join the London Sea Shanty Collective, Hackney Voices and other singers to raise money for Medecins Sans Frontieres' life-saving work ..
StrongBack Productions is thrilled to have been awarded a grant from a private Estate Fund in support of their SongMaps Rye Programme.
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