The Peninsula Papers - a collaborative book
The Peninsula Papers - a collaborative book.
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The Peninsula Papers is a project by artist Lucy Harrison, commissioned by Stream as part of our Peninsula Programme. It takes the form of an experimental multi-authored book set in East Greenwich and the Greenwich Peninsula, where each chapter has been written by, or in collaboration with, a different local group or individual. In addition to the fictional chapters, local people also contributed their reflections on, and experiences of, the area.
Over a number of months, Lucy Harrison immersed herself in both actual experiences and invented scenarios as she worked with a range of local residents to construct a new narrative for East Greenwich and the Greenwich Peninsula, a narrative which moves between past, present and future. The project’s name was inspired by Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers, a novel which was also published as a serial and whose last chapter takes place in a pub at Shooter’s Hill.
Contributors to the book include children from Millennium, Halstow and St. Joseph’s primary schools, volunteers at the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park, young people from the FreshFM youth radio station, and members of the East Greenwich Library Reading Group.
The Peninsula Papers was published in May 2011.