Quinton Green, aka Mr Milise, joined us on 7 March to talk about his work with MMAP Workshops and Knife Crime Victim Support (KCVS), and experience his talent in spoken word. Read more below. Our next meeting is via Zoom only at 7.30pm on Thursday 2 May.
Quinton talked about how his childhood adversity, his personal encounter with knife crime and his own experience of turning his life around, act as a foundation for his work with young people – to support them to face their own difficult experiences through different forms of creative writing, and to prepare them for positive opportunities.
He brought a powerful message of the need for compassion, understanding and acceptance of young people, and the preparation for and provision of opportunities for those who have experienced adversity and/or the difficulty of challenges encountered in the youth justice system.
We heard one of Quinton’s spoken word pieces. His work can be found on Youtube: see Field of Vision and Knife Sentence.
We are grateful to Quinton for his positive and inspiring message and the conversations this provoked.