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Photo of students on the Phil/Lit weekend in Wales

For many years, ÌÇÐÄTV Philosophy and Literature students and faculty spent a weekend off in some beautiful spot, doing creative work with a text and having a lot of fun involving performances, conversation conviviality, fresh air, and taking ideas and texts into our lives outside of the classroom. Led for many years by Martin Warner, reflecting his energy, dedication and wisdom. Here we were in Wales where we worked with traditional ghost stories ...

This is a video and photograph of Abdi performing his work at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre as part of the ‘Empowering Young Voices Project’.

In his poem, ‘The Graveyard of Dreams’, Abdi expresses how a young person living in poverty can collide with expectations of youth culture and desire to fit in. Abdi joined our six-week poetry workshop series. He went from writing love poems to writing this insightful and politically charged poem about what it is like to grow up in Coventry ...