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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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  • #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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  • bardic song
  • performance writing
  • performing
  • poetry
  • research practice
  • sense of place
  • writing+walking
January 21, 2024

Bard by Nature

Bardic song and research practice at Dartington Arts School for a new performance piece Bard by Nature (on landscape connection and voice as a tool for collective memory)
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  • poetry
January 21, 2024

Weymouth-on-Sea/ writer-in-residence 2019

exploring the relationships to sea over winter with local communities at Weymouth Library libraries as cultural hubs writing residency 2019; a milestone in my project..
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  • #lovethecoast
  • creative connections
  • landscape connections
  • memory of place
  • nature
  • nature connections
  • socially engaged arts project
  • spirit of place
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..
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  • poetry
December 13, 2023

Heart of Stone soundtrack

Words, music, spirit of place. Heart of Stone was and is all of these, inspired by real memories and stories of quarrying on Portland when..
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  • audio
  • creative connections
  • memory of place
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..
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  • landscape connections
  • schools
  • socially engaged arts project
November 28, 2023

Creative Nature Connections

East Devon National Landscape 60th Anniversary 2023 Thrilled to be working with ace printmakers Emma Molony, Rosie Stiling and Simon Ripley from Double Elephant this..
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  • climate change
  • creative connections
  • museum
  • workshop
November 28, 2023

Environment and Me Project

with Dorset Museum and People First Dorset 2022 https://www.dorsetmuseum.org/the-environment-and-me-project/ People First Dorset and Dorset Museum partnered on this co-creative community project co-funded by Wessex Water..
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  • poetry
November 28, 2023

Museum at Home 2020

with artist Christine Allison at Lyme Regis Museum 2020 https://www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/museum-at-home/ this followed three seasons of Tea and Conversations, working with and taking inspiration from selected..
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  • poetry
November 9, 2023

Geopoetics 2023

This June I was delighted to dedicate a weekend to two of my great passions – rocks and poetry, co-leading a Geopoetry weekend with Professor..
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