We are so excited to be returning to the Baytree Centre, Brixton this Summer Term for another 12 week programme of Poetry Making with young writers aged 8-11 years old.
We will be giving our participants time to write and explore and building their confidence to share their poems aloud with the world.
This time we will be working with returning facilitators Courtney Conrad and Sally Wood and welcome Laila Sumpton to the team as well.
Watch this space for more to come!
Laila Sumpton is a poet, editor, performer and educator who works with schools, hospitals, museums, galleries and charities on a wide variety of poetry projects. She co-founded the arts and education organisation Poetry Vs Colonialism and is an associate artists with intergenerational charity Magic Me.
Laila co – edited ‘Where We Find Ourselves’ an anthology from Global Majority writers published by Arachne Press with fellow poet Sandra A Agard. She has been commissioned by Tate Modern, Poet in the City, the Tower of London and the Royal Free Hospital amongst others and has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines.
Courtney Conrad is an award-winning poet born and raised in Jamaica and currently based in London. Migrating from Kingston as a teenager, Courtney’s poetry interlaces subversive diasporic image, national political commentary and shatteringly personal narrative.
Sally Wood is a writer and producer who has worked with StrongBack for several years. She was an artist and facilitator on last year’s SongMaps Rye project and produced our Come On In short film series. A regular project manager here, Sally also works with writing charities Ministry of Stories and supports emerging playwrights with her dramaturgy skills.
THIS WEDNESDAY! Join the London Sea Shanty Collective, Hackney Voices and other singers to raise money for Medecins Sans Frontieres' life-saving work ..
Check out the latest updates on our @BaytreeCentre poetry project! Young writers are exploring haikus, rhyming couplets, and more. Exciting sessions ahead with experienced poets. Stay creative! 🌟📚 #PoetryCommunity #CreativeWriting @sallyannw00d
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