Home Is Where The Heart Is

Further Info

This story was made at the Theatre Orchard “Storyshed” workshop with young people from Priory Community School, Weston-super-Mare, and adults from Somerset Racial Equality Council’s Friendship group with funding from www.media-box.co.uk

The workshop was led by Liz Milner, Clodagh Miskelly and Paddy Uglow (CreativeMedia.org.uk), and was supported by Watershed.

A parallel Design/Technology project at Priory School to make ‘story gadgets’ for the Storyshed installation was led by Tarim from the Pervasive Media Studio – www.pmstudio.co.uk/collaborator/tarim

For further information on the Storyshed project please see www.theatreorchard.org.uk/

Transcript

Home is where the heart is and mine is Saunton Sands in Devon. It fills me with a sense of calm and grounding. The cry of the gulls, carry my worries away and the rhythmic waves cleanse my mind.
So many memories are embedded in the rocks and dunes, they leap up to greet me like eager friends as I set foot on the golden sand.
I have grown up with this beach as a big part of my life and I am drawn back time and again. It has shared with me the best and the worst of times providing a place of solace and laughter.
I close my eyes and I can feel the sand between my toes and I can picture the tepid rock pools offering up their myriad of colours as the anemones and seaweed gently wave and the shy crab peeks from under his rock. The smell of sun cream wafts in on a warm breeze.
Memories of friends made and a love lost blow across the dunes in silent whispers disturbing the sea grass.
Pictures of my own children climbing the rocks, jumping the waves and collecting ‘Pirate treasure’ from the cave with my father who had cunningly hidden it as they explored, play in my mind like a silent film. And now new memories are being made by those children now grown, memories that will stay and play on the beach with all the others until they are ready to be reclaimed them.
I am  home, I am complete.

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