The Widening Participation team at the University of Sussex, are supporting a project being delivered by academic colleagues in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, addressing oracy skills via conversations around attitudes to LGBTQI+ communities.

The academic team are looking to deliver creative writing workshops to young people aged 13 – 18, aiming to develop tolerant listening and speaking skills, in order to produce a collaborative spoken word poem.

The workshops will be delivered by spoken word poets from the LGBTQI+ community alongside trained facilitators from the team. The spoken-word poem will be recorded and will form part of a sound installation located at a venue in Brighton and Hove.

Groups can be mixed age groups, or single year groups, with suggested groups sizes between 10-30. There is flexibility on dates currently, but it is proposed they will be sometime in the Spring or early summer term.