One of the poetry installations at London Lines. Picture: Southbank Centre |
First up is a bit of poetry in the form of London Lines, which takes place this weekend at Southbank Centre, and is completely free to view.
Why not head down, take in some poetry, and even help create some?
London Lines, a collaboration between Southbank Centre and Jaybird Live Literature, is a project featuring poetry from all of London's 33 boroughs.
After
a public call-out to poetry organisations and enthusiasts, 33 poets were chosen
– one for each London
borough. Each of the poets either lives, works or has some other significant connection
to the borough which they are representing, such as having been born there or
having celebrated their marriage there.
Poets are from a range of ages and have different heritages.
Eleven poems by some of the poets will appear as art installations on Southbank Centre’s site and the final 22
poems will be created with the public’s help this weekend.
Art installations include a
projection of poetry onto Southbank Centre’s
Royal Festival Hall which can be seen at night-time; a poem printed
on wrappers covering apples at pop-up fruit stall Cherry Berry Company on Southbank
Centre’s Queen’s Walk; a poem on postcards that are hidden in books
in Southbank Centre’s Saison Poetry Library; and a giant mural poem on the bridge between Southbank
Centre’s Hayward Gallery and Queen
Elizabeth Hall.
Members of the public are
invited to come to Southbank Centre
to write a memory, story, thought or idea about a London borough that means something to them
on special cards created by design and
architecture duo Cabinet of
Curiosity. Contributions can also be made by tweeting @litsouthbank and @JaybirdLiveLit using the hashtag #londonlines. Tweets will
appear live throughout the weekend on a giant screen on Southbank Centre’s Clore Ballroom.
The
cards will be used by the 22 poets as inspiration for their final poem, which
will be written overnight on Saturday. On Sunday all the cards and the final 33
poems will be installed on The Clore Ballroom
in a giant 3-D map of the city created by Cabinet
of Curiosity which members of the public can walk through and
explore.
For more information visit Southbank Centre's website here.
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