About Naz · Poetry Champion for Bedfordshire Naz Knight: writer, word mechanic and Poetry Champion for Bedfordshire Naz Knight is Bedfordshire’s Poetry Champion, appointed by HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire Mrs Susan Lousada, and leads the county’s Poetry Together work through BedfordSHARE — Bedfordshire’s Poetry Together umbrella campaign. As CEO of …
Words Chose Me · Poetry reflection This Is My Story, This Is My Song This Is My Story, This Is My Song is a line that has stayed with me for much of my life. It carries both a spiritual memory and a personal invitation: to remember that our lives …
Words Chose Me · Creative practice reflection Poetry as Narrative Documentation My creative practice has always been rooted in a belief that words can do more than describe an experience. Words can hold it. They can give shape to what has felt overwhelming, hidden, fragmented, silenced or difficult to say …
Words Chose Me · Workshop reflection Our House: Who Killed Eve? at Bedfordshire Police HQ This week, our hand-built 3D advent calendar house rolled into Bedfordshire Police Headquarters and took up residence in front of the RASSO team. Twenty-five doors. Twenty-five fragments of story. One question that refuses to sit …
Words Chose Me · Practice reflection Narrative Justice: More Than a Single Story So, today, I am focusing on narrative justice and the stories people are permitted to tell about themselves — and the stories that are too often imposed upon them. In a town of many languages, migrations, faiths …
Words Chose Me · Workshop reflection Emotion Fields: When Feeling Becomes Frequency Emotion fields move like waves. They rise, fall, tighten, expand and ripple through the body in ways that feel uncannily like frequency. Once cymatics shows us sound drawing geometry in water, it becomes difficult not to wonder what …
Words Chose Me · Workshop reflection Frequencies & the Human Instrument: How Sound Tunes the Body This reflection begins with a simple recognition: we are always being sounded by the world around us, and the body is listening in more ways than we usually allow ourselves to notice. Traffic, birdsong, …
Words Chose Me · Workshop reflection Word Mechanics & Light Language: When Speech Becomes Geometry This reflection begins with a question cymatics leaves quietly waiting for us: if a pure tone can draw geometry in water, what are our sentences drawing all the time? It sits close to the spirit …
Words Chose Me · Workshop reflection Cymatics: When Sound Draws Sacred Geometry Cymatics began as an observation, but really it is a meditation on what happens when sound becomes visible and vibration starts to look like a language of form. It sits in that place where science brushes up against …
Words Chose Me · Workshop reflection Hu(e)man: Sound, Light and the Name Written in Us Hu(e)man began as a workshop, but really it is a meditation on what it means to be human when you remember that you are made of light, sound, colour, frequency and vibration. It sits in …
