Welcome to Sustainable City Stories

Hello and Welcome to Sustainable City Stories!

 

Would you like to be part of this project?

Are you interested in contributing to a rich and sustainable living environment in Woolwich? We’re looking for people who live or work in the Woolwich area to take part in ‘Sustainable City Stories’.

If you are interested and available on July 11th, read on!

 

 

 

AIMS

 

The project is inspired by UN Sustainability Goal 11 ‘Sustainable Cities’. By sharing our responses, stories, feeling and ideas about Woolwich we hope to build connections and understanding across difference. We aim to generate ideas for green, sustainable actions that can be taken in the Woolwich area. This is a pilot project with 6 participants. We hope to roll this out on a bigger scale, to link up with cities across the globe and to create large scale a community performance here in Woolwich. Your input will help to shape the next stage of development.

 

 

 

WHAT THE PROJECT INVOLVES

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Step One

You will be provided with a map of Woolwich and a walking route that begins at the Bathway Theatre. We estimate that the walk would take about half an hour at an average pace, but we recommend that you allow about two hours and walk at a time that is convenient to you. This is because we want you to enjoy your walk, talk pictures and record yourself talking about the things that you see considering the questions/prompts we offer below. You don’t need any special equipment to do this, a smart phone is perfect. If you don’t know how to use the voice note facility we can support you in this.

 

Step Two

Send us your photos and voice notes by July 1st . We will email you a Dropbox link with simple instructions, or you could use WeTransfer.

 

Step Three

Join us at the Bathway Theatre, Greenwich Town Hall, Bathway, Woolwich SE18 6QX on July 11th 10am -3.30pm to meet the other participants. We’ll go on the same walk together, sharing some of the voice notes and images as we go. Then we’ll gather at the Bathway Theatre to share our different impressions and thoughts about Woolwich and the project.  We will provide lunch and refreshments and while we eat we will share more of your pictures and clips. After this, we have another brief group discussion and we will ask you to fill in some simple feedback forms for our project.

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Step Four

We’ll create a short film inspired by your walks with a soundscape incorporating your voice notes from your personal walk and comments recorded on July 11th. For this Helen will work with videographer Simin Ma and Sound Artist Matt Eaton. This film will be distributed online and via university channels.

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WHO WE ARE

 

This project is led by Helen Tennison, an in award winning theatre maker and Associate Artist at Bathway Theatre https://htennison.wixsite.com/helentennison and Dr Marianne Markowski https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/faculty-of-education-and-health/marianne-markowski a researcher in in Institute for Lifecourse Development (ILD) at Greenwich University. Sustainable City Stories is supported by Co-creating Liveness In Embodiment Immersion (CLEI) research group, ILD and Greenwich Research and Enterprise (GRE).

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PRACTICAL ASPECTS

We will ask you to sign a release form agreement collecting equal opportunities data and allowing us to use and distribute your voice clips and images.

We will provide refreshments on July 11th

And £100 in the form of a shopping voucher

(this can be spent at over 90 high street shops including clothes shops, electrical shops, Iceland etc)

in recognition of the time you contribute to this project.

If you’re interested please email Helen at helentennisonworkshops@gmail.com or by using the form below

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We look forward to hearing from you!

 

Helen & Marianne

Helen Tennison & Dr Marianne Markowski

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