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Strategic planning for Leicester Literature Festival
Sarah Butler led strategic planning workshops for library staff and stakeholders in 2003.
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Canal Club: PublicWorks
Sarah Butler was commissioned by PublicWorks to write a new fiction for a stretch of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal which formed the focus of Liverpool Biennial’s 5 day conference, Urbanism 09.
The magical story aimed to explore the potential of a place which is frequently dismissed as a ‘wasteland’. The story is called ‘Fishing For Stars’ (inspired by the star shaped lanterns attached to the ‘Club’). It follows three characters, Caib, Rhaw and Bywell (their names are drawn from a mural of ancient tools painted on one of the canal’s walls) who all discover their own routes into a magical parallel universe, where their wishes for the canal come true. Vinyl-cut extracts from the story were installed onto the Canal Club itself, copies were hung by the seating areas, and visitors were given copies to take away. You can download fishing for stars here.
The Canal Club was a temporary structure, created by PublicWorks as a conversation space for local people to explore the possibilities for change in the area.
Almost an Island?
UrbanWords worked with Spread the Word and Art on Greenwich Peninsula on an Awards for All funded project, Almost An Island – a writing project based on the Greenwich Peninsula in East London.
Sarah Butler and Aoife Mannix were writers in residence on the peninsula, September – November 2008. They met with local groups, residents and visitors, and ran free drop-in workshops and activities.
Writing by Sarah, Aoife and workshop participants is showcased on the Almost an Island? blog.
Sarah and Aoife have created a sound piece, combining their own writing with the voices of those living on, working on, and visiting the Greenwich Peninsula. They presented the piece at the Artists Making Places conference organised by Art on the Greenwich Peninsula on 10th November. Listen to the first part of Almost an Island? here.
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