Come take a break with us! Sky Breaks is an interactive walk/performance of new writing produced by Amber Obasi and Aí Tung in collaboration with Deptford residents.
Free to attend. BOOK VIA EVENTBRITE HERE.
Break (noun) the interruption of continuity or uniformity; a pause in work or during an activity or event.
What is the point of breaks? What happens when we look at the sky, the streets, passers by? What transformations can be ushered in through daydreams?
Sky Breaks, an interactive walk/performance of writing produced by Amber Obasi and 皚桐 (Aí Tung) in collaboration with Deptford residents. It explores these questions, and uses benches, bus-stops, low walls, and other public seating areas across Deptford to consider the power of public breaks. Not just as single moments of time, but as interconnected processes in the creation of change.
In this walk/performance we’ll collectively read passages from Sky Breaks, take time to stop and reflect, and consider what we truly want when we’re not stuck in “business as usual”.
The walk will meet outside the entrance of Deptford Lounge at the alloted start time.
An audio version of the piece, with maps of the route will also be available online after the event if you wish to take part in your own time.
Additional information:
Please meet outside Deptford Lounge promptly for the allotted start time. The event will involve walking up to 1 mile between local sites in Deptford so do wear appropriate clothing for the weather. There are two half-hour walks – one 11 – 11.30am and another at 1 – 1.30pm.
Access information:
- All of our in-person events Friday-Sunday, including this one, will be BSL Interpreted for audiences that require it. For workshops, you will be asked when booking your free ticket if you require the services of a BSL interpreter. For all workshops where one or more attendees require BSL interpretation, we will arrange for an interpreter to be there.
- This event is wheelchair accessible, with accessible toilets.
- Deptford Lounge has Changing Place facilities, an induction loop and assistance dogs are welcome. For more information: deptfordlounge.org.uk/access
- A quiet space is available during the day at Deptford Lounge, in the Music Room, on the first floor.
- If you require additional access provision in order to attend or take part in the Festival, for example, larger print handouts at workshops, or a scribe, please get in touch before the Festival day at: [email protected]
- If you require assistance on the Festival day itself, please come to the Festival Hub in the foyer of Deptford Lounge where we will be happy to help you.
For more information about the access provision available, please visit: spreadtheword.org.uk/access-at-deptford-literature-festival
About the artists
Amber Obasi
Festival artist
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Amber is a Deptford-based artist, facilitator and youth-worker. their practice currently focuses on playing games, paying attention to small details, and dreaming as methods of building connections with others.
皚桐 (Aí Tung)
Festival artist
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皚桐 (Aí Tung) is a sound alchemist becoming. Some of her teachers are peace lily, mugwort, rowan, djembe, fire, grandmother, moon, yin, river, song (...) Recent offerings have included for my children in dreams produced in collaboration with participants from Micro Rainbows; to the water i pray and swarm.wav for the 2022 and 2023 Margaret Tait Award commissions by Sulaïman Majali, and Isabel Barford; and river psalm for Camara Taylor’s show [mouthfeel]."