Muses Within Museums with Sammy Weaver

We’re delighted to welcome back award-winning poet, Sammy Weaver, for ‘Muses Within Museums’ – a creative writing workshop, funded by Culturedale – Exploring Heptonstall’s heritage and landscape.

Let’s unlock the hidden stories held within them – Everyone and everything has a unique story to tell. How can museums and artefacts be starting points for new poems and stories? In a supportive space, you will learn how to creatively respond in strange and surprising ways.

Through a series of engaging writing exercises, you will explore your own understanding of heritage, place and identity and create a ‘woven sound poem’, weaving our individual voices into a shared tapestry of sound. You will come away with a toolbox of techniques to help you generate new luminous writing beyond the session.

We particularly hope this will inspire attendance from those in our local community who can bring along a small artefact, personal treasure or talisman to inspire new stories and bring them to life in a creative and unique way.

Alternatively, you can work with an object from the museum’s unique collection of locally discovered treasures.

Suitable for adults with all levels of experience.