This spring and summer our team of local artists are working with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds to provide the opportunity for them respond to our Shropshire heritage and land…| JEAN ATKIN
The Hey! Earthlings! Exhibition opened on Monday 16th July in Oswestry Library, to coincide with Refugee Week. Do come and find it! It will stay in Oswestry Library until Wednesday 25th July, and t…| JEAN ATKIN
One of the things I did with the groups of refugees we’ve taken up to Old Oswestry Hillfort over the last two months was to create collaborative poems with them. The words were spoken by people from Ukraine, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Iran, and then I have edited them together. Here’s a poem about how we all stood on the very top of the hillfort, …| JEAN ATKIN
This spring and summer I’ve been working alongside a team of artists to engage with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and help them respond to our Shropshire heritage and la…| JEAN ATKIN