Chapter Arts Centre has commissioned three deaf artists based in Wales – Maggie Hampton, Emily Rose Corby and Alex Miller – to create new work in response to the theme. Using Wales’ history and unique cultural identity, the artists will explore what freedom means through the lens of deaf creativity and lived experience in Wales and beyond.

Maggie Hampton has devised some new poems that are inspired by the theme of this project and will perform them for the first time at this festival. Join Chapter and help to celebrate Maggie’s achievement!

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About Maggie Hampton

Maggie is a Deaf writer and poet. Her first publication was Living Where the Nights Jive, a collection of interviews with disabled women artists (Parthian 2008). She is now focusing on her poetry and is pleased to have poems recently published in the anthologies Beyond / Tu Hwnt (Lucent Dreaming) and One Hundred Poems for Hearing Dogs (Dream Well Writing).

Maggie recently received a bursary from Hear We Are to help develop her writing and a Creative Steps bursary from the Arts Council of Wales to learn how to build a website for her poetry.