Community 
Co-Creating

Participation

Apples & Snakes will be a partnering organisation to introduce and liaise poets and participating communities.

Seven poets will be resident in 3 (4)schools, 1 University (Goldsmith’s) and 3 (4) communities groups in Lewisham to write poetry for 7 performance launches in response to the ideas of trees being social creatures communities and to highlight our dependence on them. 

 

Poets will explore contemporary science that indicates that plants ‘know’ much more than we may imagine, have memory and the ability to retain past events. 

They will explore how plants share nutrients with different species, and recognise kin as social beings, how they can feel touch and  communicate with each other through their root systems. They will even exchange and share nutrients to help out neighbouring trees who may be struggling.

 

With this natural phenomena as the everyday existence of nature in mind, the Seven Days project is an excellent metaphor for the vibrant interactions and cohesion between diverse communities in the London borough of Lewisham and its history of diversity and inclusion.

 

We are aware that the global pandemic and lockdown has negatively impacted many communities, especially those from marginalised groups and the narrative of trees as social beings is poignant while running in parallel to human societies under extraordinary circumstances building  a specific resilience through connecting with others.