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WEAVING VOICES AS THREADS OF COMMUNITY
Teresa Brayshaw (TB) and Hannah Butterfield (HB)
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This chapter, entitled WEAVING VOICES AS THREADS OF
COMMUNITY has been created by Teresa Brayshaw and Hannah
Butterfield, the two academics, facilitators, and theatre makers who
worked at Leeds Beckett University, the UK partner of the Weaving
Voices project. Teresa is a trained Feldenkrais Method practitioner
and training as a Clean Language facilitator and uses many of the
underlying principles from these professional practices in her artistic
work. Hannah is a Community Arts Practitioner currently undertaking
a practice led PhD exploring Cultures of Welcome and SociallyResponsive Facilitation.
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The following chapter might be considered many things: a dialogue
between the two authors; think-pieces on some of the words
and language we use to describe our experience; a collection of
miniature stories and narrative threads; an exercise in weaving microreflections. Think of it as a partial lexicon that is woven to enable
you, the reader, to explore some of the emergent knowledge which
has surfaced for us throughout this project. With this in mind we
encourage you to approach this writing with playful curiosity
and to “…start anywhere, stop anywhere. Don’t worry about reaching
the end.”119
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The entries in this lexicon have emerged from numerous thoughtthreads. They vary in length and texture and are expressed in
different writing registers. They reference the voices of thinkers
outside of this textual weave, which in turn point to further resources,
which we hope you might follow.
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When considering the question of how to begin any new artistic
project, it can be useful to think about the idea of beginning as a
point of departure, rather than the start of a completely new project.
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