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Animal Magic

Posted on December 9, 2015 by claire collison

Autumn 15 WTC#1 Using animals in our writing From Aesop’s Fables to Ted Hughes’s Crow, the stories we tell about animals are often stories about us. This exhibition goes on the trail of animals on the page, asking why they have … Continue reading →

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WTC Spring 15

Posted on August 7, 2015 by claire collison

Writing the City I’ve been woefully slow to post our most recent series of WTC, so I’m going to put the entire archive of writing and the photos on one page – let’s call it WTC Spring ’15  Do take … Continue reading →

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Lights! Camera! Action!

Posted on April 16, 2013 by claire collison

The sixth and final meeting in the latest series of Writing The City found us in the Covent Garden branch of the London Film Museum Groovy as a Movie where fragments of just about every film made in or about … Continue reading →

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We’re back! Spring #1 Lubetkin’s Shiny Spandrels

Posted on March 22, 2013 by claire collison

Nothing’s Too Good For Ordinary People Sharp sunshine, an unexpected bonus as we met (some brand new writers alongside returning Writing The City regulars) and off we went, to the London Metropolitan Archive’s Frost Fair exhibition, then back to Mary … Continue reading →

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Writing the Rom

Posted on November 25, 2012 by claire collison

This autumn I was commissioned to design a word safari along the traces of the River Rom, which swills under ringroads, slipping under the marketplace and the shopping malls in culverts, but is visible either end, through gaps in fences, … Continue reading →

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