We ran a free CIRCLES themed creative writing workshop at the Nicholson Museum and Art Gallery.
With the curator Alison Nicholls we explored one of the oldest objects in the museum, a cup and ring marked stone found in a Staffordshire field.
We ran our fingers round the dips and elevations of a plaster model and talked about our ‘circle’ objects that we had found or bought or been given by family and friends, objects that mean something to us.
At a Repair Cafe in the Midlands, central England, we made connections between the objects brought and the things we would like to see repaired in the environment.
Read the exObjects writing that has been created in England and India.
Our very first exObjects writing workshop was in the beautiful gardens of the Silk House Hotel.
Everyone brought an object as a starting point. We discovered many things in common as we sat and conversed and wrote in the fresh air.
In the snug surroundings of Spout Brew House we explored the fact and fiction behind a fresh set of objects brought to our creative writing workshop.
We were joined by Devasichan Benny, who travelled to the middle of England for the first time.
Usually based in Kerala in the south of India, Deva was studying green tourism for a global scholarship with British Council India and Goldsmiths University.