Returning to Britten Pears Arts

Together with Jennifer Farmer, Ella Jarman-Pinto, Charlotte Marlow and Yshani Perinpanayagam, Laura will return to Britten Pears Arts for a residency exploring process and space.

(with the hope that) the fire will not consume us

Together, can we
Shed suits of armour, bury breastplates, surrender shields
Resilience no longer accepted graciously, a prize to be won for enduring, coping
Persisting and stomaching and masking and braving and and and
That crown ceases to tangle in our hair
Because we choose as our adornment and anointment
Cloaks of radical softness, divine constellations of interconnectedness and Community

Holding, charging, changing
Fury and fripperies and tenderness and tension and
Rage and wonder and grief and galaxies
Sharing the same bowl of ice-cold cherries
(with the hope that) the fire will not consume us

An offering, an invitation, an invocation, a roar, (with the hope that) the fire will not consume us is collective creative exploration on holding space for both healing and rage.