We’ve Chosen Here explores the connection between loss, location, legacy and community. Through a series of eleven workshops theatre maker, Lizzy Fretwell, worked with a group of Luton residents to create a series of tributes to their lost loved ones. These tributes were then read and recorded and transformed into podcasts. Lead Artist: Lizzy Fretwell Health and Wellbeing Supervisor: Moriam Grillo Sound Engineer: Justin Taylor
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We’ve Chosen Here explores the connection between loss, location, legacy and community. Through a series of eleven workshops theatre maker, Lizzy Fretwell, worked with a group of Luton residents to create a series of tributes to their lost loved ones. These tributes were then read and recorded and transformed into podcasts. Lead Artist: Lizzy Fretwell Health and Wellbeing Supervisor: Moriam Grillo Sound Engineer: Justin Taylor
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July 16, 2020
Final Reflections
‘We will all experience loss in our lives and in these last few months that is what has united us: everyone has lost something…I could not foresee how much loss we would experience as a country, as a world, in such a short amount of time when I thought up this project.’ As we come to the end of the first We’ve Chosen Here series of podcasts, lead artist-Lizzy Fretwell, reflects on the process of releasing this series of podcasts in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown and the Black Lives Matter protests. She talks openly about the grapple with the ethics of releasing these podcasts during this time and the events for the participants that poignantly coincided with their podcast release. She also talks about the next stage of the project, opening up We’ve Chosen Here as a platform for anyone to send in their story of a place that sparks positive memories of a lost loved one. If you would like to send in a podcast, please email: wevechosenhere@gmail.com. Thank you to everyone for listening and showing their support throughout this project.
June 27, 2020
Generous Like A Tree - Hasna Weaver
‘It decorates the garden with colours, fragrance and fruit. Planted in his name, a Sadaqah Jariyah that benefits my son from beyond the grave’ Our final podcast is brought to us by Hasna Weaver, a beautiful piece called ‘This Tree’ dedicated to her son, Nafis, who died suddenly at just 21 years old from sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS). Hasna explains in her introduction to the poem that Nafis was an extremely generous individual and that trees played an important role in their relationship as he was growing up. The family planted trees in Nafis’ name in Palestine, in their garden and hope to plant a tree at his grave. This is part of the Muslim practice of Sadaqah Jariyah, a charity that will benefit those who have passed and continue their legacy by benefiting others.
June 18, 2020
'A Walk in the Park' - Malcolm Fretwell
‘However, the colour is still present in my memories of the walks around the lake with my Mum, and the pleasure she found in it.’ Our penultimate podcast is brought to us today by Malcolm Fretwell, with ‘A Walk in the Park’. This tribute to his Step-Mum, Coral Fretwell, describes one of the many trips they took together to Wardown Park after Coral moved to Luton in her final years. The piece explores the poignancy that develops in simple routines like this, when our loved one is no longer there to do them with us, but how these places can still hold memories and take us back to those special times.
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