A new project at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve has been launched by Writer in Residence, Louise Kenward. Three Little Words is a public engagement project that encourages you to look again and think about the language of place, and to engage in creating new descriptors of the area.
The project comes from a wish to find an accessible and inventive way of playing with words. Inspired by the What3Words location app, the project will run throughout the summer, collecting your own three word groupings. What3Words has divided the world up into three metre square areas, each allocated its own unique sequence of three words to identify it.
Three Little Words is inviting visitors to create their own three word identifiers for particular areas of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. You can do this for any part of the landscape, seascape or skyscape. You can search for the three word address the app has created and respond to those, or simply create your own.
There are places for you to write and hang your submissions at the Discovery Centre on luggage tags, and in the hides around the reserve, or you can submit them online to our growing bank of Three Little Words which will feed into the project and a final exhibition/publication.
You can, of course, continue writing beyond your chosen three words, using them, or the three words from the app, as a starting point for a poem or a longer piece of writing, connecting with Rye Harbour.
Three Little Words is part of the Writer in Residence project run by Louise Kenward. You can get in touch with Louise directly to submit your words online via Twitter or Instagram, or by email (links below). There is also a monthly e-letter with writing prompts and resources that you can sign up to and see previous sessions on the link below.
Twitter: @Instability_Env
Instagram: @inhabiting_instability
Email: inhabitinginstability@gmail.com
E-letter sign up: https://us20.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=042bd94a68ec548290147aa87&id=0043d7dde1
What3Words: https://what3words.com
