Exciting times!

We welcomed our new Duty Managers for their induction today;

Emily, Rachel, Oscar and Lainie 🥰

The museum garden was looking bright and lovely to greet the new crew. Happy days.

Wonderful to hear our participants' feedback on Session 1 - the power of lived experience to ignite change. Lots of appreciation for Bridging Gaps, Surfing Sofas, Museum of Homelessness, James Dillon, as well as for the 'powerful sense of responsibility' communicated by Bola Owolabi

The group at Don Robin's House have been flicking through magazines for poetry inspiration this afternoon. Looking forward to seeing what everyone creates!

This was one of my fave Spoken Minds workshops. Many thanks to Amanda Sinclair for bringing her good vibes and photography wisdom to Leeds.

I launched the 'Spoken Minds' project back in September, where I delivered workshops to amazing groups of people with lived experience of homelessness.

I found it tough at times, but now we have an anthology & an EP that will be released in May!

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Poem: The Best Of The Last ❤️

This one’s for my 80s and 90s babies! ☺️

#Poetry #Spokenword

Our Poet in Residence Surfing Sofas gigs and dates 2024!

In partnership with Lyrix Organix we are gassed to announce these dates. More info and booking:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/poet-in-r…

Thanks to our funders Arts Council England, London The Linbury Trust Paul Hamlyn Foundation

CAMPAIGN WIN

The ONS has u-turned on plans to stop collecting data on deaths of people experiencing homelessness, something we started 2024 campaigning against.

Our Gill Taylor who led on this for MoH responds here:
museumofhomelessness.org/news/campaign-…

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I'll be joining the Arts & Homelessness monthly convo at 10am this morning! Hope to see some of you there.

.Surfing Sofas will be taking to the stage at #Museums2024 , followed by a workshop with the poet and Museum of Homelessness's Matt and Jess Turtle 🎤

Join us then to hear Objects and Concepts, an album telling the invisible stories of the UK’s homeless community 👉 ow.ly/jjaw50R2qZ9

This is so exciting!! 🔥🔥🔥

Looking forward to this! 📣📣📣

Coming soon…

Incredible opening day of our new Pathway ICS programme yesterday. Gill Taylor put brutal truth and honesty front and centre with the brilliant James Dillon, the wonderful artists of Museum of Homelessness Surfing Sofas and the amazing women of Bridging Gaps One25. 1/2

We had a fab time with Nell Hardy Response Ability Theatre the other day, exploring ourapproach as staff to supporting people & managing stress. Really great, thought provoking workshop, thanks Nell (& Arts & Homelessness International for helping to set up)

This was a great session! Thank you for having me there :)

Agreed! This was a fantastic evening!