11am-12.30pm
Come and be inspired by the beauty and grandeur of spring in West Norwood Cemetery.
Join local writer and storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton in this creative writing workshop. Pomme will lead a walk through the cemetery to notice the seeds of new life and growth. This is a free workshop, but booking is essential as numbers are limited. This event is suitable for aged 12yrs and older.
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We will celebrate the coming of spring and the hope it brings, creating poems and fragments of stories through observation, images of spring, imagination and memory. We will explore the seeds of growth that have been scattered throughout our lives, and the seeds we scatter too.
Our walk will take us to St Stephens Chapel where we can shelter, develop our writing and share a few words of what we have written, if you feel like it.
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More on Pomme:
Sally Pomme Clayton (do call her Pomme!) is a pioneering storyteller and writer who has been creating performances, books and plays for more than 40 years, and has played a pivotal role in the storytelling revival. She creates unique work for theatres and museums, gardens and galleries, festivals and broadcast across the UK and beyond. Recently appearing at: Museum of Comedy, Bloomsbury Festival; West Horsley Place; Exeter Lit Works; The Royal Opera House; Chelsea Physic Garden; Cambridge Junction; The British Library; Thames Festival; Kings Place; Edinburgh Literature Festival; The British Museum; Dhaka Lit Fest, Hakaya Festival, Jordan.. Her ground-breaking shows focus on powerful female protagonists, such as 'The Frog Princess Punked' a feisty feminist fairytale with girl punk band and live projections. She is Associate Artist at Omnibus Theatre and author of 15 children's books. Her latest books are: 'Violet and the Sea Giant' (Autin Dance 2022); 'The King with Dirty Feet' (Otter-Barry Books 2021/2018) winner of The Oxford Book Award best picture book 2019; 'The Phoenix of Persia' (Tiny Owl Books 2019) nominated for the Greenaway Award 2020 and the UKLA award. She wrote five-star reviewed 'The Little Prince' (based on the book by Saint-Exupéry) for Omnibus Theatre (2019). Many of her books focus on female heroines and she has just published her first book for adults, 'The Mighty Goddess- world myths' illustrated by Sophie Herxheimer ( The History Press 2023). She is currently leading 'Remembered Remedies' a story sharing project at Chelsea Physic Garden. She co-founded The Company of Storytellers with Ben Haggarty and Hugh Lupton in 1985 spearheading and transforming storytelling across the UK.
For more information about Sally and her work, follow this link: www.sallypommeclayton.com/
