Adelaide Road was an interactive project linking the RSC's work at the Roundhouse with its season at nearby Hampstead Theatre. With poet in residence Aoife Mannix, the residents of Adelaide Road, and the participants in the project, we have shared our explorations online.
March 9, 2011
Participants read poems inspired by the archives as well as Camden and Adelaide Road.
by Aoife Mannix
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March 7, 2011
On Saturday, February 12, I ran a workshop at Swiss Cottage Library with the Camden Poetry Group getting them to write poems around the idea of roads and journeys. This is a group of local poets who've been holding regular meetings for the last forty years.
by Adelaide Road Participants
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February 9, 2011
On Friday I went to the Charlie Ratchford Centre, a resource centre for Camden residents aged 60+ that is located just off Adelaide Road. Here's a poem I've written about the people I met and that I hope captures some of the spirit of the place.
by Aoife Mannix
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February 9, 2011
For this workshop, Aoife read participants my 'Prologue' poem and then asked the participants the following questions - if you were a road, what kind of a road would you be? If you were a map, what kind of map would you be?
by Adelaide Road Participants
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February 9, 2011
I blow past chilled blocks of question marks, their windows icy with the pause of December. The end of the year spinning from the thread of a crane. Blue hoarding boards blank with future graffiti snapshots.
by Aoife Mannix
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January 27, 2011
For our second workshop at the archives, participants were asked to write a letter to their imaginary ancestor on Adelaide Road and time travel back to when they were alive.
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January 27, 2011
Here's two poems I've written inspired by going to see the RSC's productions of Julius Caesar and As You Like It at the Roundhouse.
by Aoife Mannix
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January 27, 2011
For our first workshop, senior archivist Tudor Allen selected a fascinating range of material connected with Adelaide Road for us to use. Each workshop participant was asked to sit down in front of the item they found the most interesting.
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January 27, 2011
For memory is neither friend nor foe
but just a path that runs in reverse.
And as a rule it's the one that plays the fool
who makes the best sat nav reader so set
aside your fear
by Aoife Mannix
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January 27, 2011
An Introduction
How do we think of home when we move around so much and our friends and families are spread across the world? What importance will buildings play in our lives as we face global warming, the government's cuts take hold and the web knits us together in new and exciting ways?
by Geraldine Collinge
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