This summer, we’re doing something a little different at the Gate.
It’s free. It can meet you wherever you are.

This is a recording of letters written between two strangers – Elizabeth Chan and Irfan Shamji – in Summer 2020 and Summer 2021.

It’s an offer. To be still for a moment. To reach out to a stranger.

And I don’t want to pray, but I can picture
the plants deepening right now into the soil,
wanting to live, so I lie down…
among red burying beetles and dirt
that’s been turned and turned like a problem
in the mind.
Elizabeth to Irfan, quoting Ada Limón

Your life is your life.
Know it while you have it.
You are marvellous.
Irfan to Elizabeth, quoting William Burroughs