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Sarah Acton |             Black Ven

Sarah Acton | Black Ven

writer and performer for community collaboration and site response in natural and worked landscapes coast/sea/land

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  • creative connections
  • local history
  • memory of place
  • museum
  • nature connections
  • spirit of place
  • workshop
May 6, 2025

Lyme Stories

creative writing and conversations connection to heritage objects and landscape at Lyme Regis Museum Categoriescreative connections local history memory of place museum nature connections spirit..
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  • local history
  • museum
  • workshop
  • writing
March 24, 2025

Lyme Stories and Creative Connections

at Lyme Regis Museum Three five week LYME STORIES courses connecting to local heritage place and people with a new communty of local writers, and..
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  • poetry
March 24, 2025

Exeter and Dorchester Stanzas 25

in association with the Poetry Society stanza network and new partners Dorset Museum and QuayWords Literature Works, invitation to all local poets Devon/ Dorset to..
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  • Geopoetics
  • nature connections
  • poetry
  • workshop
October 31, 2024

Into deep stone paths/Purbeck/Geopoetics 2024

my research into Portland/Purbeck stone, quarries and stone industry continues I’ve been working with Burngate Purbeck Stone Centre for over four years’ to deliver Geopoetics..
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  • landscape connections
  • memory of place
  • spirit of place
  • writing+walking
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,..
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  • audio
  • memory of place
  • oral history
  • performance writing
  • poetry
  • site response
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..
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  • local history
  • oral history
  • rural Dorset
  • working class lives
August 14, 2024

History Club at Tolpuddle Old Chapel; everyday heritage celebrating rural working class histories

Sarah is working with Tolpuddle Old Chapel all of this year to set up the Reimagining History Club and deliver workshops/inspirations to encourage research and story sharing on themes of everyday working class lives in rural Dorset.
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  • archives research
  • landscape connections
  • local history
  • memory of place
  • research practice
  • sense of place
  • writing
  • writing residency
  • writing+walking
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.
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  • performance
  • performing
  • spoken word
  • tour
May 1, 2024

Following The Fleet/Drifters Seiners SW tour

Drifters/ Seiners with Jason Singh commissioned by Sound UK and with film by CommonGround and live music collaborations of spoken word and poetry with musicians;..
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  • #lovethecoast
  • audio
  • memory of place
  • music
  • performing
  • spoken word
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..
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