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October 31, 2024

Wild Words at the Holloway

Following deep green thread of WildWriting down to the Symondsbury Estate holloway – a secret world of birds, ferns and as Robert Macfarlane says, ‘concealement,..

October 31, 2024

Book of the EXE audio commission for Literature Works/ Quay Words

In collaboration with violins by musician Emma Welton, and produced by ArtWorkExeter for River Radio this is my final commissioned piece for the summer residency..

August 14, 2024

Quay Words/ Literature Works writer-in-residence summer 2024 at Custom House ‘Vessels’

Sarah is the Quay Words summer writer in residence for Literature works at Custom House in Exeter summer 2024 on the theme of Vessels.

January 25, 2024

Drifters The Fleet South West Tour with Jason Singh

I’m delighted to be on a double bill with sound artist and musician, Jason Singh who performs his live score of the 1929 silent film..

December 13, 2023

Talking Tent

Dorset National Landscape 60th anniversary and onwards! This project has been a big and important part of my life in recent years, and as it..

November 30, 2023

Earthshapers

Geopoetics conference 2020 commission a poetry cycle and audio, voices echo and return later a thread I am pursuing today writing for oral transmission and..

November 8, 2023

Caught in the Net R&D 2023

a new outdoor performance – a joyful play celebrating Dorset mackerel, music and dance This autumn the Caught in the Net R&D devising and making..

November 22, 2022

Seining along Chesil published by Little Toller 2022

an oral history celebrating Voices of a Dorset Fishing Community published December 2022 podcast for The Clearing: www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/a-walk-along-chesil-by-sarah-acton/ Seining Along Chesil by Sarah Acton The..

July 8, 2019

Portland Museum writer-in-residence

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