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Your dreams and memories could shape a festival coming to Dovecot

Knotty Ash and Dovecot Park residents are being invited to share their dreams to help shape a special festival commissioned by Liverpool City Council as part of its Creative Neighbourhoods Programme.

Memories and dreams will be gathered, discussed and interpreted through a series of creative workshops, community gatherings, schools activities and pop-up public events, the first of which takes place at Dovecot Multi-Activity Centre on Friday 24 January 2pm-5pm.

Weekly Creative community workshops will continue on Thursdays from 4:30pm – 6:30pm from 30 January until 6 March at Dovecot Multi-Activity Centre. If you live in the Knotty Ash and Dovecot Park area but you can’t make any of the workshops, you can still share your dreams by sending them to izziedreamkeeping@gmail.com, or email to find out more about the project.

The Dovecot Dreamkeeping Society, an artistic residency led by artist Izzie Major, is a fictional organisation dedicated to preserving the memories and dreams of the different generations of the Knotty Ash and Dovecot Park area.

Izzie Major is a performance artist from the North West whose work explores the absurd, the ritualistic, the macabre, the feminine and the grotesque. She is passionate about bringing extraordinary artistic experiences to non-theatre spaces and community settings. Her recent immersive show ‘The Bedroom’ sold-out within one week to a limited audience and took audiences on a weird and wonderful journey inside a bedroom suite of Liverpool’s iconic Adelphi Hotel.

Joining Izzie in the creative team are Sonia Chapman, a theatre producer with a passion for socially engaged theatre and mental health; Phoebe McSweeney, a drama facilitator and community activist and; Craig Sinclair, a visual artist specialising in immersive installation, is an award-winning artist, film-maker, writer and performer based in the North West of England.

Using Surrealist art techniques such as collage creating, dream journals, automatic drawing and writing, the memories and dreams collected via creative community workshops will directly shape the devising process and immersive performance festival, celebration and public art around Dovecot Parade in spring.

Commissioned by Liverpool City Council’s Culture Liverpool team as part of its Creative Neighborhoods programme and supported by the UK’s Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), the residency will also be supported by a public art commission delivered by John Culshaw and funded by UKSPF and Councillor Harry Doyle’s Local Neighbourhood Fund.

Keep up to date with the project by following @izziemajor and @dreamkeepingsociety on Instagram.

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