Lighthouse in Poole will be inviting a range of groups from their community – including Poole Maritime Trust, DEED and the Dorset Ukrainian Community, pupil premium students at local primary schools, local care homes, NHS student nurses, and Young Writers & Adult Writers groups at Lighthouse – as well as sharing on open invitation to the public, to work with them on developing a newly commissioned intergenerational spoken word project around the theme of freedom, and what freedom means for different people, both at the end of WWII and now.

Having recently worked with volunteers from the Poole Maritime Trust on an exhibition celebrating the stories of local people at Dunkirk and VE day, they anticipate collating these stories as a starting point for a series of creative workshops to help frame the project ahead of the final outcome, to be shared in November.