Chance Encounters
Public workshop at the Wigtown Book Festival, Scotland
Info
- Project date: Summer 2022
- Project location: Wigtown, Scotland
- Project partners: Wigtown Book Festival
Overview
In 2023, we were invited to the Wigtown book festival to run a public drop-in writing workshops called Chance Encounters. We invited members of the public to share stories about their own chance encounters, each story determined by a roll of the dice.
Then put their stories in unmarked envelopes.
When more passers-by came to share their stories, we gave them a story from one of the sealed envelopes to take away. In this way, we contributed to a chance, serendipitous exchange of stories between strangers.
The project was inspired by Will’s book Hello, Stranger: Stories of Connection in a Divided World (Granta 2021/2).
