Speaking in Symbols: Family Workshop

Join us for a playful session exploring symbols relating to the items and artefacts found in our West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song exhibition.

You will have the chance to create your very own symbol and encouraged to bring your ideas and stories to life through objects, pictures and words.

Poets Jacob Sam-La Rose and Miriam Nash will show how a symbol can be a tangible object or an idea, and sometimes both. Symbolic objects have held the weight of history, tradition and culture, and have been used as tools for communication; from large ideas to secret messages.

Jacob Sam-La Rose has been responsible for Barbican Young Poets, the London Teenage Poetry SLAM and Shake the Dust (a national youth poetry festival and slam), and is well known as an indefatigable facilitator, mentor and supporter of young and emerging poets.

Miriam Nash is a poet, performer, workshop leader and youth arts producer. She has worked on Writing the City for the British Council Singapore, as well as with Spread the Word, Barbican Young Poets and Urban Words (NYC).

The family programme is generously supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

Places are limited to 40 people per session and allocated on a first come, first served basis