Our new project for POW! Thanet
What happens when we break the silence and use our voices as a form of protest? Can we use our trauma to make a piece of work? Yes! We’re working with theatre-maker Katie McGarry and director-practitioner Annie Sutton to create Broken Record - a special live online performance of stories and provocations for the important POW! Thanet festival on Saturday 6 March, 6-7pm.
Through a series of workshops, Katie and Annie have worked with a group of women from our refuges, team and our local community to explore trauma through creativity. The joyful and inspiring (and sometimes challenging) sessions worked gently towards participants gaining an increased wholeness of self by using professional performance-based skills and techniques to share and gather their personal experiences and stories. Katie and Annie have used these stories to shape the script for the event, which combines storytelling and provocations to create this innovative new piece of work.
This event contains descriptive adult language with moments of violence and abuse. We would like you to know that the content could be emotionally triggering.
““My brain plays my past on repeat, scratching and skipping, like a broken record, until I wear out the needle””
Photo: Lorraine Hirst
Broken Record is a project collaboration between Oasis and POW! Thanet.