Sonority Turner

Poet - Artist - Creative Community Facilitator 

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Quizzical Whizzbang Stephanie Turner  2015

Inspired by Exhibition: A Token of Concrete Affection 20 November - 18 December (11am - 5pm)

Embassy of Brazil 14-16 Cockspur Street London SW1Y 5BL

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Rus in urbe

rus in urbeˌruːs ɪn ˈəːbeɪ/

noun

literary

an illusion of countryside created by a building or garden within a city."the beguiling rus in urbe of the park"

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PhotoFusion - Healthy Relationships, Term 2  Poems and Photograms in Process

Working towards Visual Poetic Portraits. Watch this space. 

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New T-shirts fresh off the press! Big up the young people from the Tower Hamlets Peabody estate... you got skills yo! 

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I’ve just finished designing an invitation flyer for Plan UK’s upcoming Youth Action Festival (w/S.T.A.D). They’ve invited me to come in next week and coach some of their young people on their presentation skills. 

Every girl has the right to #LearnWithoutFear! Plan’s Because I am a Girl campaign works with girls, with their communities, and with their governments, to implement programmes across the world that help to ensure girls can access a quality, safe education. 

I’m honoured to be supporting the great work they are doing and looking forward to the Youth Action Festival day. Click here to join their campaign. 

“For millions of girls around the world, the right to a good quality education and to a life free from violence is being denied. The shooting of Malala Yousafzai and abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria are extreme examples of an everyday scandal: school should be a safe place for girls to learn and grow, but for millions of girls worldwide, the opposite is true.

Violence at school affects boys too. But the types of violence suffered by girls – especially sexual violence – and the different stereotypes attached to boys and girls mean girls are more likely to see their life opportunities diminished as a consequence of violence in school. Worldwide, 62 million girls don’t go to school – violence is one of the reasons why . The benefits of an education are invaluable to a girl’s life – education can help to build self-esteem, to enable girls to become economically productive and independent, and to become empowered and take control of their lives. In order to break the cycle of poverty and inequality in the world, we need to ensure that every girl has the right to learn without fear.”

- See more at: http://www.plan-uk.org/because-i-am-a-girl/learn-without-fear/#sthash.Lj9t45nZ.dpuf

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Duet…..

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Late night skating.. the ramp in action! 

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Starting some new beginnings working on the grange project at Kilburn Grange Adventure Playground. Yesterday I finished off spray painting and stencilling up a brand new skate ramp with some amazing young people and will be creating a new mural inspired by the community and natural surroundings soon too. Having so much fun! 

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Current

The river runs, the river runs

runs and keeps running away. 

Nothing can stop the river 

running away. No way!

No nothing can stop the river.

The river will take it all away,

nothing stands in the rivers way.

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There should always be two flames burning: one for the anger against injustice and the other for hope of a better future.

Tony Ben, Former British MP

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I went to visit Ruth Shaw Williams an amazing book artist and printmaker to explore and experiment with some new forms for the bee poems. We played with lino prints, letter press, stamps, collage and lots of different book forms. I’l be developing the poems into paper installations and hoping to exhibit them somewhere in the coming months. Check out Ruth’s work here. 

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Let It Go 

Time Is Now 

Hug Some One

Love Your Self 

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Recently I’ve been facilitating some T-shirts making workshops with London Urban Arts Academy in collaboration with Peabody Housing Association. The LUAA is one of the coolest orgs I support, they have a blacked out single decker bus that they have converted into a moving sound studio fully equipped with keyboards, flat screens and some brilliant facilitators. We literally bring the rukus with the bus, drive it up to estates in and around London and roll out T-shirt design, Street Dance, DJ-ing, MC-ing, Music Production and all kinds of wonderful fun.

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“The Other Side To Homelessness”

Advertisement for Depaul who help young people who are homeless, vulnerable and disadvantaged.

Copywriter: Ben Smith 

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Hope is a declaration of what is possible - Yogi tea

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The Awakening by Sonny Carroll

There comes a time in your life when you finally get it ... When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out "ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on." And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and through a mantle of wet lashes you begin to look at the world from a new perspective. This is your awakening.

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The Power of a Single Word..

This may be obvious to some but something to think about especially for those who cuss and curse a lot..

“a single word has the power to influence the expression of genes that regulate physical and emotional stress.”

'Positive words, such as “peace” and “love,” can alter the expression of genes, strengthening areas in our frontal lobes and promoting the brain’s cognitive functioning. They propel the motivational centers of the brain into action, according to the authors, and build resiliency.

Conversely, hostile language can disrupt specific genes that play a key part in the production of neurochemicals that protect us from stress. Humans are hardwired to worry — part of our primal brains protecting us from threats to our survival — so our thoughts naturally go here first.'

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/11/30/words-can-change-your-brain/

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Hope in Hackney - Look Out For Hope Project