2025 Festival Dates: 5 & 6 July

Of Earth and Sky

Bold Venture Park, Darwen

Become Light

 

by Theresa Lola

 

Today
I am in awe
of how electricity curls out from hung art works
and travels through the plug sockets of our eyeballs
into our bodies,
until our ribs glow like streetlamps.
And I realise people are like art,
buildings and bodies will bend their boastful bones
towards them to receive the light they carry.
And I realise I want to be that kind of light,
the kind others stretch out the matchstick
of their fingers towards
and can borrow
a curl of flame
to keep them warm.
This neighbourhood has the spirit
of a college cheerleader and a pleasant prophet
the way it offers me new ways to access purpose.
And I am reminded that day will come,
when the building I am in will become
a glow stick,
planes passing by
will mistake me for a rocket
and make space.

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Funders

Sponsors

2019 Trusts & Foundations

The National Festival Of Making Delivery Team

National Festival of Making is supported by the Arts Council England, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Brian Mercer Trust and Foundations and Partners. This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

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