Sleeping with the Dead: Workshop – Canvey: A Space of Dreams

Multi-arts festival shining a spotlight on the Thames Estuary region.

Estuary Festival

You are invited to join a Social Dream Matrix for Sleeping with the Dead. Come and re-remember the forgotten souls of Bethlehem Cemetery

Willow Cemetery

Sleeping with the Dead is an act of remembrance for those bodies reinterred from Bedlam Burial Ground, London (active 1569 to 1738) to Willow Cemetery, Canvey Island. commissioned by YoHa as part of Creative Estuary's Co-commissions.NB: Sleeping With the Dead events take place in a field next to Willow Cemetery - access is via a separate entrance to the Cemetery14:00–16:30: Workshop – Canvey: A Space of DreamsWith Jill Westwood &amp; Lesley MorrisYou are invited to join a Social Dream Matrix for Sleeping with the Dead. Come and re-remember the forgotten souls of Bethlehem Cemetery—collapsed bones beneath the city’s muddy veil. Under the skin of the living, shrouds of memory unfold. Let the spirit of Dr. Feelgood guide us in awakening the echoes of the past, releasing the soul of a place too often overlooked.Social Dreaming Matrix is a process where people participate in one another’s dreams—whether night dreams or associations from active imagination. This session explores how shared social meaning can emerge through art-making and group discussion. Participants are encouraged to observe and reflect on their dreams in the lead-up to the event.Lesley and Jill are artists, art psychotherapists, and educators whose 15-year collaboration—rooted in life along the Thames—draws on new materialist thought. They use art as enquiry to explore materiality, space-time entanglements, and the call of the wild within the cosmic unknown.

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