Positioned uniquely, perhaps appropriately, between the public library and the psychiatric wing of Homerton hospital, within earshot of Hackey’s Chats Palace, sits Core Arts. With its philosophy adopted from the old art school model, Core offers a creative alternative for users of the mental health services.
For over ten years now writers and poets have gathered here weekly. Along with artists and musicians, they have ranted, written, whispered and wept. Within the setting afforded by post war church hall elegance they have rehearsed their words and honed their art.
Coming here originally perhaps in search of a voice or to find confederacy with like minds a kind of alchemy has occurred, where disparate, sometimes desperate, elements have fused and produced an extraordinary body of written work. Scratched raps, mischievous lyrics and eccentric scribbles, notes and anecdotes, absurd word plays and puns, video diaries and photographic records, haunting stories from hospital corridors, all form what is Not Your Average Type.
Here a new poetry emerges; one that doesn’t rhyme or scan happily; a poetry of groans. A poetry broken down, a poetry that laughs aloud hysterically in its next breath. Here you will find the incomplete works, the uncollected essays, the missing words.
Not Your Average Type is part anthology, part on going project (another nine titles are in the pipe line). The Exhibition is a book blown up, exploded over the walls of their Hackney home are cartoons, musings and clues. The opening and closing nights, soirees of spoken word, and sound performance. There and inbetween you will find what is Not Your average Type.
our last show til February, to thank our local comrades and supporters for a fine year... with free T-shirts and Morning Bride gingerbread people (performing edible voodoo is optional while we play)
