Workshop: GHT Creative Writing Group

About the Facilitator Liz Amos is a Hampshire-based author and poet. Her poetry has featured in event collaborations with John Hansard Gallery, ArtfulScribe, Music in the City and Placeholder Poetry, and is published by Writing Our Legacy (Covert Issue 5) and Nine Arches Press (upcoming). Her debut novel, ‘All the Truths Between Us’, was longlisted for the 2022 SI Leeds Literary Prize. A lifelong art-lover, her work often responds to thought-provoking exhibitions. Liz sees creative writing as a space for us to rest, reflect and imagine new ways of being in the world. She aims to facilitate hospitable workshops where each person comes away feeling refreshed. About the Exhibition While We Slumber by Kitt (A.K.A. Lady Kitt) is an exhibition commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower. The exhibition begins with a simple question: what do we really share when we sleep in close proximity? Drawing on the familiar rituals of sleepovers – midnight feasts, whispered conversations, star-gazing, makeshift forts and sleeping bag stair toboggans – Kitt explores how social sleeping can deepen emotional connection and reshape our understanding of care, intimacy and belonging. Central to Kitt’s research is the idea of ‘emotional heritage’: the way feelings accumulate within buildings, and how they are shaped, shared, and passed on through the communities who inhabit them. At God’s House Tower, this inheritance is layered and complex. Through archival and site-based research, Kitt traces a history of communal slumber within the building – from incarceration in the 1700s and 1800s, to more recent events such as artist residencies and a 24 hour ukulele jam. While We Slumber invites audiences to consider (and experience) how social sleeping might alter our relationship to shared spaces and to one another. Through this lens, the exhibition becomes a reflective, sensory exploration of how buildings remember, and how those memories are shaped and reshaped through collective acts of being together in vulnerability and rest.