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Floating Words

Paper Boat Story Workshop
Floating Words: Paper Boat Story Workshop | Canal Dream CIC

Dream overview

The Canal Dream project started with a paper boat story workshop.

Designer Chuntian created a toolkit inviting passers-by to create their own paper boat stories based on animals and plants from the canal.

Dream Time

2 April 2022, 1-6pm

Dream Location

Canal No 5, London N1 8PZ

Paper Boats (1913)
By Rabindranath Tagore

Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream.
In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of
the village where I live.
I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and
know who I am.
I load my little boats with shiuli flowers from our garden, and hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the night.
I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the little clouds setting their white bulging sails.
I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down the air to race with my boats!
When night comes I bury my face in my arms and dream that my paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars.
The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading is their baskets full of dreams.

Floating Words: Paper Boat Story Workshop | Canal Dream CIC
Floating Words: Paper Boat Story Workshop | Canal Dream CIC

Team

Creative Designer

 

Chuntian Hu

Special Thanks
 

Onur

Fei Long

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