Seven Poet Trees
A performance installation co-directed by Ackroyd & Harvey and Zena Edwards with sound by Isa Suarez.
Under the night sky and in the shadow of a big tree held high from a crane, young people and residents of Lewisham will perform poems exploring the connection between human beings, trees and the people who live in the intensity of an urban environment like London.
Three poets have worked with three youth groups in Lewisham; Forest Hill School, Young Lewisham Project and Action for Refugees in Lewisham, to write poems inspired by the trees, gardens and allotments that surround where they live. They have explored the relationship between trees, place, and people, inspired by the history of the area once covered by the Great North Wood and which has connections reaching back to Queen Elizabeth I and the colonisation of North America.
These poems will be performed at the event in Lewisham’s oldest municipal park, Mayow Park in Sydenham, alongside a radical planting installation of a Pin Oak tree from artists Ackroyd & Harvey.
Poets: Mark ‘Mr T’ Thompson, Arji Manuelpillai and LiLi K. Bright.
Find out more about the project: www.sevenpoettrees.com
This is a free event, booking a ticket helps to shape audience size expectations.
Partners: Street Trees For Living, Apples and Snakes, Horniman Museum & Gardens.
Supported by Arts Council England.
We Are Lewisham is presented by Lewisham Council and the Albany as part of the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2022.
