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TVAF 25 Year Celebration – Dementia Spoken Word Piece

A post from Setpember 2016 mentions theĀ  TVAF Dementia Poetry Project The video below shows the performance piece staged as part of the TVAF 25 year celebrations at The Lights in Andover on Thursday 17th November. Thanks to Anna Carr

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Words In The City – Sunday Afternoon at the Stage Door

In this order: Nell Leyshon, Craig Chalmers, Grant Sharkey, In Conversation With Matt West & LST, Stewart Taylor Sunday 30 October, The Stage Door, Southampton I spent all Sunday afternoon at the Stage Door, which doesn’t mean I was hanging

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TVAF Dementia Poetry Project

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As part of the celebration of 25 years of the Test Valley Arts Foundation, today I was leading a group of poets in collecting stories and reminiscences from dementia patients and their carers. We will be using this material to

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