About this Event
Join Sophie Herxheimer (award-winning artist/ poet ) and Laura Mitchison (oral historian with On the Record). This is a unique opportunity to work with found texts from a “therapeutic community” archive – the only known example of its type. Under Sophie’s and Laura’s guidance, you will glimpse alternative messages within the case histories and psychoanalytic texts. We’ll create new poems from old words using collage, cut-up, random dealing and other experimental writing techniques.
Novices and seasoned writers are welcome. Booking essential. Please get in touch with [email protected] if you have any access needs.
Picture credit: Lunch token © The Cassel Hospital, courtesy of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archives and Special collections.
Part of a series of workshops curated by On the Record with the Healthy Scepticism Project, part of Science Gallery London's Autumn 2022 exhibition 'Testing Ground'.
This creative writing workshop emerged from On the Record’s research with The Cassel Hospital, a therapeutic community in South London that specialises in supporting people with complex trauma. Funded by BIG South London and Kings College London.
About Science Gallery London
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Science Gallery London, Great Maze Pond, London, United Kingdom
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