Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin

Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin is part performance, part creative writing workshop, and a digital art intervention.

Members of the public are invited to join Rhiannon in creating poems made from shredded documents which are then animated and added to a growing collection, written by people in Portsmouth, Lincoln, Brighton, The Hebrides and London.

The animated poems are uploaded onto the Slow GIF Movement channel on Giphy (with 39 million views), which allows your poem to be read and shared globally on messaging apps and social media.

Once your poem is part of the collection it can go on to be screened in other places as the project travels, including (so far) advertising billboards in Brighton, Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, and Wellcome Collection in London.

Developed for outdoor touring with support from Applause.

Rhiannon Armstrong is the 2019 recipient of the Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance. She makes works with empathy, interaction, and dialogue at their core, and brings the audience-focus of a theatre background to richly inclusive, interdisciplinary work. This work includes performance, installation, street interventions, web-based works and audio projects. Recent work includes ‘The Soothing Presence of Strangers’ for BBC Culture in Quarantine, ‘Public Selfcare System’ and ‘How to Hold, Behold, and Be Held’ for Wellcome Collection.