Music can vividly shape our sense of self, place and belonging – wherever we are, it offers the possibility of escape, sanctuary, and a homecoming. Multi-genre sounds, inherited collections, gig-going and club culture can also form statements of our identity, and archives of our lived experience.

In this informal, accessible workshop, participants will consider their own musical markers of “home”, and use their personal choices of songs as writing prompts, including the following:

• We’ll tune into the formative music and sounds that represent “home”.
• We’ll explore how our relationship with home has been “remixed” over time, across different sounds and spaces (domestic, social, private, in transit).
• We’ll resist reductive takes on lived experience.
• We’ll reflect on how we can continue to use music as a portal for creative writing, and as a means of agency and defiant joy.