About the Event

City of Belmont residents are invited to join a free community storytelling workshop with Blue Joy Theatre Company and artists Mohammed ‘Ayo Busari’, Ken Meyer & Shelby McKenzie exploring the public spaces you move through every day.

Through guided creative prompts, reflective writing exercises, group storytelling activities, and shared discussion, participants will explore routine movement, memory, and perception in relation to the environments they move through daily. Participants will be invited to respond to prompts such as:

• What places do you move through each day?
• What sensory details consistently stand out (sound, light, texture, movement)?
• What small actions or encounters shape your sense of connection or disconnection to a place?

The workshop prioritises collective storytelling, listening, and creative exchange, encouraging participants to transform personal observations and lived experiences into narrative material.

Responses will also be documented and analysed to identify shared themes, emotional patterns, and site-specific insights that will directly inform the development of a new creative project.

Light refreshments will be provided.

All Participants must be 18+

About the Project

Echoes in the Pavement is a socially engaged, interdisciplinary project by Blue Joy Theatre Company responding to the SPACED KTN#4 theme Gestures. It explores how subtle, everyday actions, such as walking, waiting, or exchanging a glance, shape our connection to place and reveal the emotional and social dynamics embedded within public space.

Through community engagement and site-responsive practice, the project investigates how these small gestures carry memory, culture, and meaning, and how they accumulate to influence how we experience and understand our environments. Grounded in the Know Thy Neighbour framework, the work seeks to reframe familiar spaces and foster dialogue across diverse communities.

At its core, the project centres listening, reciprocity, and creation, positioning artistic practice as a way of engaging with people and place through care, attention, and exchange.

This project is commissioned by SPACED and City of Belmont as a part of Know Thy Neighbour #4: Gestures. Any queries about this event can be directed to Rebecca Riggs-Bennett: [email protected]