Speak Machine 2017
A response to the E17 Art Trail theme of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths), Speak Machine is a creative collaboration between its originator, the filmmaker Dee Honeybun, and the E17-based poetry collective, Forest Poets. The project began with a conversation between Dee Honeybun and Mike Sims (Forest Poets) about a possible collaboration for the E17 Art Trail 2017, and how the Pumphouse Museum, with its unrivalled collection of the engines, vehicles and other machines made in Walthamstow and the Lea Valley, could provide the inspiration. The first stage was an exciting open mic evening at the Rose and Crown pub in March, at which poets and writers performed STEAM-inspired poems. Recordings of these performances have been incorporated within the finished film. Lines from participating poems have been sampled and remixed into the community poem ‘Speak Machine’.
Speak Machine |Screening
Screening of Speak Machine at the Pumphouse Museum
Speak Machine 2017
Animations illustrate the collaborative poem Speak Machine, with Forest Poets
Open Mic Evening - Screen shot
The open mic evening took place on 7th March at the Rose and Crown in Walthamstow. The evening was recorded and the video will be used later in the year for the Speak Machine film.
Speak Machine 2017
Animations illustrate the collaborative poem Speak Machine, with Forest Poets
Open Mic - Screen shot
The open mic evening took place on 7th March at the Rose and Crown in Walthamstow. The evening was recorded and the video will be used later in the year for the Speak Machine film.
Speak Machine 2017
Moving machinery at the Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Speak Machine 2017
The Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Speak Machine 2017
The fire engine in action, Firestation Museum at the Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Speak Machine 2017
Fire Station Museum at the Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Speak Machine |Screening
Screening of Speak Machine at the Pumphouse Museum
Speak Machine |Screening
Screening of Speak Machine at the Pumphouse Museum
Animating for Speak Machine
Speak Machine
The poem was written out to help participants choose lines to create animations for
The Pumphouse Museum Walthamstow
The museum is housed in a former Victorian waste water pumping station. It is devoted to the technology and industrial history of the area with particular emphasis on the transport and manufacturing innovations which have taken place in the Lea Valley.
Peter Spence, Chief Executive, Pumphouse Museum
Peter Spence is the Chief Executive, Volunteer Manager and Treasurer at the Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Paul, Toni, Frank
The Pumphouse Museum has a firefighting collection which includes a Merryweather horse-drawn pump and Dennis fire engine. Paul is an ex Royal Navy firefighter and volunteer, Toni is a trainee and is learning about the firefighting side of the museum and Frank is the leading fireman, volunteer and also a Governor for the museum.
Interior of the Pumphouse Museum
Mike Sims, Lindsay
Mike Sims, poet with Lindsay, Museum Governor and Senior Curator.
Dee Honeybun, Lindsay
Dee Honeybun, Filmmaker with Lindsay, Museum Governor and Senior Curator.
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
Model of the Bremer Car
Frederick William Bremer (b.1872) built Britain's first car with an internal combustion engine. The son of a German immigrant, he lived in Walthamstow and put the car together in a workshop behind the family's home on Connaught Road. Variously described as an electrician, engineer and bicycle maker, Bremer built the car for personal pleasure rather than commercial profit. It was first driven in 1892, preceded down the road by a red flag.(BBC A History of the world)
Model of a railway carriage
Interior of Pumphouse Museum, Walthamstow
