What does ‘home’ mean to you? | 25 word stories

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Depending on where you live, your culture, your experience of life, home can mean something very different to each of us.

But to everyone we have spoken to, home means more than a place to sleep.

For this year’s Wise Words Festival we are gathering people’s thoughts about what home means to them. We are working with community groups, schools, refugees and with those who are affected by dementia - asking each to write a few words or a poem on a simple white paper house. These will become an installation within the festival.

We are asking you to share your thoughts and feelings about what home means to you in 25 words or less. It can be prose, poetry, script or a list of words, whatever takes your fancy.

We would like to include as many as possible in our installation at the festival and if yours were chosen, we would work with illustrators and other creatives to add your words to a little house or to the installation in some way. If we receive too many entrants we will use some within our installation and try and share the rest on our website and through social media. #Home #25WordStory

If you wanted to decorate your own house we could probably arrange a house hand-over in Canterbury.

Opportunity for Schools and Community & Groups:

We also offer a two hour school / community workshop to run alongside this project. These are run by an experienced lead poet and a local emerging poet. The workshop costs £125 per group and is open to up to 30 people per workshop.

To Submit your story:

  • Please send it to [email protected] and put ‘25 words’ in the subject box
  • Please also include your name, country of origin and your age (If you wish)
  • Deadline for entries is Friday 1st April 5pm.

Through submitting your work you are allowing Wise Words to use it within this installation. The installation will be photographed and filmed and these images will be used online. We also hope to tour the installation after the festival.

 

 

This idea has been developed in partnership with poet Nicky Thompson and is inspired by a project created by artist Rob Turner.