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Exploring relationships of mothers & children
Mother in the Mother is an arts project based at Knowle West Media Centre and run by arts practitioner Pippa Robinson. This ambitious year-long project explores the relationships between women, their mothers and their children. Mother in the Mother is based on the stories and testimonies of a diverse group of women, including three, four and five generations of some families. The overarching aim of the project was to give these women a voice and to articulate the reality rather than the ideals of motherhood via their experiences.
The project has been facilitating creative workshops with mothers from Bristol since March 2013. These women included mothers with post-natal depression, mothers who are estranged from their own mothers and young mothers. The workshops encouraged the participants to examine and explore their own stories and in turn create short films and hand-made books to express and explain their experiences.
Finally after numerous events and creative workshops Mother in the Mother’s multimedia exhibition will open on Saturday March 14. This event will be a celebration of motherhood and will mark Mother’s Day. Incorporating portrait photography, sound, sculpture, stories and interactive craft, the exhibition invites us to consider and value the role of mothers within society.
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There is an online collection of the participant’s stories of motherhood, mothering and being mothered at www.motherinthemother.co.uk/stories. The stories illustrate the breadth of experiences that mums can go through: from joyous and celebratory to sad and traumatic. The stories take in themes including absent mothers, mending broken relationships, emergency caesareans, and being a young mother.
For more information see http://kwmc.org.uk/
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