Hannah Lavery


Hannah is a poet, playwright, performer and director. Her poetry has been published widely and her poem, Scotland, you’re no mine, was selected by Roseanne Watt as one of the Best Scottish Poems 2019. Her debut pamphlet, Finding Seaglass, was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press in 2019 and she is working on a collection with Polygon. Her poetry dance film, Thirteen Fragments, in partnership with National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Society of Edinburgh, premiered as part of the Curious festival in August 2021. Hannah is an experienced workshop facilitator and mentor and received the Creative Edinburgh Leadership Award in 2020, for her work with the Writers of Colour Writing Group and for curating and directing a film poetry series, Sorry, I Was On Mute, for Fringe of Colour. She is one of Imaginate’s Accelerator Artists and an Associate Artist with the National Theatre of Scotland as well as Writer in Residence at Lyceum Youth Theatre. She was also selected as one of the Scottish Voices for the BBC Writers’ Room.

All Sessions by Hannah Lavery

  • Day 2

    16th October 2021

  • 15:00  - 15:45
    In a moment that is demanding you constantly choose your side, how do you find your humanity, your own voice, when you are being pushed to find safety in numbers?

    Push the Boat Out is thrilled to be able to support and develop, in partnership with the National Theatre of Scotland, a brand-new live performance commission from one of Scotland's most exciting and challenging voices. In Blood, Salt, Spring Hannah Lavery (The Drift, Lament for Sheku Bayoh) journeys to discover her authenticity and her 'tribe'.

    Intergenerational trauma, in particular the legacy of colonialism, racism, and the reality of living through 2020's political and cultural shifts and shocks, and slowly make way for healing in Lavery's work. She has learned how to heal the salted wounds and move out of her winter and into spring--into hope.

    Blood, Salt, Spring will feature live performance from Hannah Lavery and award-winning musician, Beldina Odenyo. It is interwoven with Thirteen Fragments, a digital artwork commissioned as part of The Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Post Covid-19 Futures Commission and co-produced by The Royal Society of Edinburgh and National Theatre of Scotland, created by Hannah Lavery with Nat McLeary, Beth Chalmers, and Beldina Odenyo.

    Written and directed by Hannah Lavery

    Natali McCleary as Onscreen Artist and Creative Collaborator

    A National Theatre of Scotland and Push the Boat Out co-production

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