Trading Places

LEARNING & PARTICIPATION

People, poetry and photography of Lower Marsh

What is the poetry of the places where you live? What are the hidden stories of the street you walk down every day?

Trading Places was a project inspired by the Poetry International Festival 2006. Kwame Dawes' Wisteria: Twilight Songs from the Swap Country is a collection of poems based on the memories of elders in his local community in South Carolina. In a parallel journey of reminiscence Southbank Centre worked with the people of Lower Marsh, Spread the Word an the Lomographic Society International on a project that discovered the hidden poetry of everyday places and captured a portrait of this street through photography.

Working with school children, local young people, residents, shop owners, office workers, market traders and elders we created an interactive wall of songs, snapshots, poetry and memories, a 'Lomowall', at the front of the Royal Festival Hall.

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