Pantomime - pantomime hat and story

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

39843

Title

Pantomime - pantomime hat and story

Description

The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'Disney princess in your Cinderella shoes
your Snow White ball gown
skipping round the room
Imagine you lost
Dark woods
dark woods and you all alone
Find your way home now.

Find your way back soon
to me, sitting here, learning ways
to live, fill the time
without you. Left home
Living your life
finding yourself
Finding yourself, looking sometimes behind you.'

By Neil Baker

Image: Babes in the Wood badge 1980s, hat 1995 and script 1907

Date

1907

Location

Museum of Childhood

26 Children's Winters is a project that has challenged writers to respond creatively and emotionally to objects housed in the collection of the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh. The writers were selected from 26 and they were allocated different groups of objects that related to childhood experience during the winter time, in the past and in the present. The written responses were in the form of a sestude - 62 words exactly, 26 in reflection. Those sestudes are presented here alongside the Museum objects.

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