Journey through nature and find peace with Kohinoor (poet, writer, grassroots community organiser & activist) as she shares a selection of poems expressing gratitude for nature's wonders and exploring our connection to land.

Poems featured: Bangladesh by Mohammad Shahadat Hossain (01.11), The Water Lily by Nalini Jyotsana Chaturvedi (02.49), The Second Olive Tree by Mahmoud Darwish (03.55), My Friend The Forest: A poem in the style of Warsan Shire by Tom Kane (06.47), and Four Tree Poems by Saili Sabnis (09.01)

This episode is intended to be listened to whilst you visit our Peace Garden - a small urban garden created for the local community to learn about and connect with nature whilst offering space for peace, reflection and the celebration of life. The Peace Garden in located just next to The GAP and in-front of The Old Print Works' house Myrtle Cottage in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. If you're unable to visit, we encourage you to listen whilst immersing yourself in an alternative green space.

To find out more about the Peace Garden and The GAP in general, visit our website and follow us on Instagram

To find out more about Kohinoor and her regular community poetry events, follow on Instagram

Funded by Arts Council England

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This is a live recording of a community conversation held at The GAP at the begining of October 2022.

For this event we invited members of our communities, and participants on the programme, to gather together and explore the themes that emerged from The Other-Wise Project. We explore what it meant for young people to take control of their curriculum and create a curriculum for living, we then explore the idea of exclusion, and why exclusion is built in to the structure of institutional learning, and finally we explore the idea that if all schools had "What does a better world look like and how do we build it?” at its centre, what sort of learning might we structure?

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As part of The GAP's 2022 programme, The Other-Wise Project - a series of creative and participatory explorations with young people that explores, challenges and rethinks the old ideas that shape contemporary education. Funded by Arts Council England.

Recored and produced by Sunny Singh.

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Just Another One Of Those Days - Written by Arron Singh Gill and Beth Slinn and performed by The GAP's Youth Theatre

Why do we exclude people and then expect them to be part of society?

When the school becomes a site of coercion and punishment, where else might we learn?

These are two important questions that The GAP's Youth Theatre creatively and critically investigated when exploring the content of a new piece of writing that was especially commissioned for the Youth Theatre. The play follows a young boy from Balsall Heath as he seeks community and justice following his school exclusion.

The play has been adapted for radio and is introduced by Arron Singh.

Recorded and produced for audio by Kate Thompson.

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As part of The GAP's 2022 programme, The Other-Wise Project - a series of creative and participatory explorations with young people that explores, challenges and rethinks the old ideas that shape contemporary education.

To find out more about school exclusions check out the work of No More Exclusions.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.