Londoners explore their literary talents at August’s Late:Create
September 15, 2008 Specialist projects
Late:Create is an exciting monthly workshop where members get creative using our collections for inspiration.
The workshop was lead by poet Meryl Pugh, and here, our regular blogger Liam, tells us more:
‘This months Late:Create was poetry. We were taught that there are different ways of writing poetry – some rhyme and some don’t. We learnt how about consonance, which means using similar sounds in words. For example, bored and board. We also talked about assonance, which means using the same sounds such as ‘ard’ in lard and hard.
Next we started writing. We each had an object from the museum and had to describe its features, what it was used for and who used it. We went into the galleried to collect this information. Next we were ready to write a poem. Meryl helped us by writing the first word or two of each sentence and we filled in the rest using the ideas and words we had gathered.’
Late: Create is free and takes place 6 – 8pm on the 1st Thursday of every month and is for people who are currently out of work. Future workshops include sculpture and hat-making. The sessions are coordinated by the Museum’s Inclusion Officer, Lucie Fitton. To find out more contact community@museumoflondon.org.uk