education::consultancy
Join us for this series of creative workshops at the National Maritime Museum will take you through the Windrush generation’s use of music and spoken word.
Through interactive activities, the Museum’s collection, and guided discussions, you will gain a deeper understanding of that generation’s impact on British culture and society. The workshops will also explore themes around ancestry, spirituality and the natural, complementary relationship between music and poetry as pioneered by dub poets including Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze.
You will be inspired to craft your own poems using your voice, learn how to use the power of language to explore complex themes and emotions – and how to use poetry for personal and societal change. The sessions will culminate with a live poetry jam on 22 June as part of the Windrush Day celebrations at the National Maritime Museum. This year marks 75 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush in Britain.
This is a paid opportunity and you will receive a participation fee for attending the sessions. Refreshments will be provided and your travel costs will also be reimbursed.
workshops
The team behind BORN::FREE have 15+ combined years in delivering arts education work across the UK and internationally for client groups of all age ranges, access needs and experiences.
Over the years, BORN::FREE has established its own pedagogy for delivering poetry, creative writing, writing for performance, theatre + sound art workshops / alternative learning spaces in a range of environments: from schools to galleries; festivals to pupil referral units; seminars to community centres.
Sessions can be booked to standalone or as a series, with tailoring options available so that content can be adapted and delivered to your requirements.
creative consultancy
BORN::FREE offers creative coaching to individual emerging artists who are seeking advice, mentorship or artistic development – available on a sliding scale, prioritising African and Afro-diasporic* artists. If someone in the team is unable to support you, we will put you in the direction of other artists who can.
Also available to individual artists or collaborators is offering dramaturgy that subverts the white European literary canon, aiding writers + makers in developing anti-colonial approaches to structuring narratives, world-building, literary criticism + performance.
For organisations, BORN::FREE’s team has the skillset to support with embodied, interactive group anti-racist training, honing transferrable creative skills for enhancing teams and nurturing equitable leadership, as well as being a soundboard for teachers, educators and facilitators who seek to deliver a more inclusive education.
*We use the terms ‘Afric/kan’, ‘Afro-diasporic’ and ‘Black’ to describe more heavily melanated people of African descent from Sub-Saharan Africa, and people who are of mixed- or dual-heritages which consists of this demographic. This includes (but is not limited to) how others may describe as: Black British, Black Afric/kan, Black Caribbean, Afric/kan American, Afro-Latinx, Afro-Arab and any other ethnic group usually prefixed by ‘Black’, ‘Afro’ or ‘Afric/kan’.