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She is currently coordinating The Mother Lode Project, which aims to extract the gold from challenging experiences of motherhood by giving opportunities for artists who are mothers to work with those who may be experiencing mental health difficulties as a result of motherhood. To be held at the De La Warr Pavilion in 2019.</text>
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            <text>2018: 100 years on &amp;amp; what have we got? Hastings Women’s Voice @ Hastings Arts Forum, Hastings, UK – group show featuring ‘For the mothers’, a poem about motherhood</text>
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