Secret Life

Fred again.., Brian Eno - Trying

In 2023, poet and community artist Leanne Moden visited the village as part of a project called Live & Local: LivingRoom, which supports artists and performers to work with community groups to make art. 

Leanne spent time at the café and the hub at Clent Connects, chatting to local people, and running writing workshops about the area. The conversations and workshops inspired poetry, stories, and writing that formed the basis for a twenty-minute podcast, all about Clent. 

Thank you to the following members of the community for chatting to Leanne, sharing their stories, and contributing ideas for the podcast: Dick, Ron, Nigel, Andy, Claire, Judy, Susan, Roger, Tony, Buff, Chloe T, Matt, Roland, Nina, Brian, Chloe H, Oscar H, Jack, Malcolm, Margaret, Joshua, Anita, Linda, Jacqui, Hilary, Stuart, Kate, Irene, Elizabeth, Sally, Sara, Allan, Richard, Pauline, Paul, Austin, and Roger. 

Thanks to everyone who attended a writing workshop, and a special thanks to the folks who read out their poems and stories on the podcast: Brian Robinson, Sue Dennis, Janet Steele, Pam Yarwood, Kate Gallimore, Hillary Thomas (read by Leanne Moden), Nina Warwick, Roland Straw and Laura Senior.

Finally, thank you to Clent Connect for commissioning the project, and to Live & Local for funding the project.

Clent Connect Podcast with Live & Local LivingRoom

Residents attending Arbury Court Library shared the objects and their stories which illustrate feelings of sanctuary or home with artist Issam Kourbaj. 
These stories accompany a collage of photographs of the objects, displayed at Arbury Court Library. 

Artist: Issam Kourbaj.
Sound artist: Hannah Kemp-Welch
Supported by: Mourad Kourbaj


Field recordings courtesy of Radio Aporee and friends:
A field of rye in Poznan, Poland. Recording by Maciej Janasik.
Ukulele concert by Coconami in Cologne, Germany. Recording by Udo Noll.
A campfire burns in the countryside outside Berlin, Germany. Recording by Udo Noll.
Knitting with wooden needles, Lucy Warren. 
Turning pages at the Women’s Art Library, Hannah Kemp-Welch.
A music box plays The Blue Danube, Hannah Kemp-Welch.
Sunday choir gathering, Lviv, Ukraine. Recording by Jüang Ren.
Georgian musicians waiting at the gate in Boryspil Airport, Ukraine. Recording by John Grzinich. 
R. Lindum-Greene plays the handpan drum.
Extracts from the Bagpuss theme. 
Children in the playground, Amsterdam suburbs, The Netherlands. Recording by Jillis Molenaar.

SANCTUARY at Arbury Court Library Issam Kourbaj

Nimrod

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Puhpowee is a term I first encountered in Merlin Sheldrake’s book Entangled Earth. A word of the Potawatomi Nation-a Native American tribe of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River and Western Great Lakes “Puhpowee” speaks to the “unseen energies that animate everything”. 

This is one interpretation (1.5) of a piece I have been working on over the last few weeks, the promise of spring and coming through the darkness, both metaphorically and literally. Trials not yet over, but with Rest and Recuperation and increasing Resilience become more manageable. Revitalising. Restoration. Resonance. Regrowth. Round and Round...

Puhpowee 1.4

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