We started our community workshop series this week, facilitated by Ligia Macedo. Beginnings can be difficult, but Ligia is a friend of the project and her activity last year was received with a very warm and positive response, so we knew we were in safe hands!
Ligia facilitated a creative writing workshop themed around Inside Out and Outside In. We explored different ways to connect with our internal feelings and external surroundings – and expressed these through written and spoken words. We walked to the cemetery (a favourite spot from last year too!) to experience the “calm” and feel “untroubled”. Before writing a collaborative poem and a private text to ourselves of how to hold onto feeling “serene” in nature, when living in a “chaotic” world
This is the poem we created collaboratively, after collecting and selecting words through the session:
Wishes are blue
But dreams can come true
Smell of wet dog
Not like fish and chips on paper
Curious tears like water down a window
Brings fresh tangerine sunshine
Murmurations of the mind
Paintbrushes the identity of Joaninha
Thoughts of people who are no longer here
Boundaries could be the food for anger
The rosary garlic flowers gargoyles into angels