Surfing Sofas

If you can do one thing today to mark #WorldHomelessDay, please share this info widely and try to attend this important vigil in #London. We will be there with @our_MoH and many more to remember all those we've lost this year. 💔 📣 17 October, 6- 8 p.m., #DowningStreet

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Get long to this today people, help curate the next One Roof Festival and after enjoy the unique experience of the worlds best lyrical performance by the one and only @SurfingSofas as he showcases some beautiful new work. Prepare to be amazed

Today experience the lyrical genius of @surfingsofasuk

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I'm having an album listening party at Old Diorama tomorrow - We're livestreaming it too, book your tickets below for the zoom link. eventbrite.co.uk/e/spectra-of-d…

This is humbling - Cheers Liz ❤️

✳️2day #LeedsStreetSupport Partnership becomes a network member of @MEAMcoalition yes✊🏽 We are so excited & ready 2 take the next steps 2 improve services & systems for/with people facing #MultipleDisadvantage ChangeIsPossible NewLearning NewOpportunities ✳️#SupportChange✳️

As part of Prince William’s @HomewardsUK Homelessness: Reframed exhibition @SurfingSofas created Spectra of Displacement, a poetic exploration of homelessness, capturing the diverse and complex experiences of those affected. Surfing Sofas is a poet whose work focuses on experiences of homelessness and social justice, and is also the poet in residence at the Museum of Homelessness. Home is where the car is:   Some store their clothes Inside their boots. With the irony of not needing A foot or clutch to change gear.   Some lose their drive, Once they burnout, then crash. And some people are Driven to insanity’s strange lair.   Steering their way through The rugged terrain of the rocky, racing Roads of life.   Encased in their Four-wheeled metal shells Through the hottest days And through the coldest nights.   But…   Does anyone notice How broken they are? Does anyone focus To notice their scars? No house to call home, And nowhere to go, They’ve been left to make some Kind of Home from their cars.   Some have parking tickets All over their cars. Some have – cardboard taped on The windows on their cars. To block out the light of the moon and the glow of the stars Then they search for 40 winks, So they can doze in the cars.   On their own in the cars, It gets cold in their cars, And some nights get scary, All alone in their cars. Hoping this won’t be forever, But in the meantime, They do what they can To feel at home in their cars.   I know what it’s like to live a life Engulfed with years of hardships But imagine living in your cars, Through the coldness and the darkness. People driven to wish For a home to get them started. But sadly, for the time being Home is where their car is 🥺 One more day to visit @saatchi_gallery to visit the #HomelessnessReframed exhibition as it ends tomorrow. There is some discussion that it might be displayed at a few locations around the UK but nothing confirmed. #PrinceWilliam #Homewards

Spoken word artist @SurfingSofas created ‘Spectra of Displacement,' an album of poems exploring the main forms & experiences of homelessness. The selection of poems, that can be read & listened to at #HomelessnessReframed, discuss street homelessness, sofa surfing & much more.

Our CEO @LigiaTeixeira caught up with artist @DavidTovey1975 and spoken word poet @SurfingSofas at the exhibition on reframing homelessness at the @saatchi_gallery with @HomewardsUK and Eleven Eleven Foundation. A reminder of the power of art to engage people

Thanks for having us with your lovely teams Mia xx

Great to have the legend @KeatLiz lead our Beacon and OWL bitesize training today talking our her work with multi disadvantages people and Health and assisting our partnership work.

@With1V @saatchi_gallery @DavidTovey1975 @pinkonero @MarcDavenant And it is an honour to know you too! Thank you for your lovely words, and I'm so glad you got to check out the exhibition in real life! #HomelessnessReframed

Homelessness: Reframed at @saatchi_gallery Art exhibition backed by William to offer fresh perspective on homelessness including the work of @DavidTovey1975 @SurfingSofas @MarcDavenant culturalee.art/prince-william…

My 294th #PaulAtherton's #ALondonersLife2 - Londoners love to find friend's works in major Galleries. Spot both @DavidTovey1975 & @SurfingSofas art work on display in @saatchi_gallery for opening day of @HomewardsUK's #HomelessnessReframed Exhibition. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon

@StuartHobley @HomewardsUK @saatchi_gallery @OneFestivalofHA Thank you Stuart, I'm glad you got to view the fantastic work in the exhibition!

I made another album! 🥲🎉 However, you can only listen to it by visiting @homewardsuk's #HomelessnessReframed exhibition at: @saatchi_gallery - where you can watch the album visualiser 👀 Many, many thanks to everyone who supported me in putting this project together 💜

✳️TY 2 all #LeedsStreetSupport partners involved in the @MEAMcoalition interview, a real demonstration of the city’s collective conviction✊🏽 #MakingEveryAdultMatters #PeopleFirst #SystemChange for/with people facing multiple disadvantages Let’s seize the opportunities🙌🏽 #Hope