Song: The Future Showcase
Hello all, and welcome back!
It's been some time since the last update of the Song: the Future blog, but I'm coming back to you one more time to announce the Song: the Future showcase event!
The project is drawing to a close, but before it does we would like to take a moment to reflect on its aims, outputs and where the next project might lead. To this end, we have gathered together a number of outputs from the Song: the Future performance, and put them together for a public showcase at the Leeds City Museum later this month. How successful were we in discovering the commonalities in our shared cultural heritage? Come along and decide for yourself!
On the 17th and 18th of February, you'll be able to find us in the Thoresby Room of the City Museum on Millennium Square. So come and take a look, and say hello to the wonderful team!
Open Exhibition: 10am-4pm
- An interactive mobile performance Song: The Future (bring your mobile phone and earphones to play the performance at any time)
- A series of documentary films on the history of UK-China textile industry and share post-industrial revival process (on display in rotation)
- New digital creative display using audience response collected from Song: The Future (on display in rotation)
- Song of the Female Textile Workers Film Screening: 3:30pm
Refreshments: 4pm-6:30pm
Panel Discussion: 5pm-6pm
Displays will include another limited run of the Song: the Future web app, screenings of the original Song of the Female Textile Workers at several points throughout the days, artistic interpretations of the data collected during the performance's original run at Leeds Industrial Museum, and the screening of a number of bespoke documentaries about the evolution of industry in Shanghai, exploring its shared heritage with the Leeds area.
Of course, your feedback continues to be of utmost importance to this research project, as we seek to strive forward into the research's next steps. As such, you will have the opportunity throughout the event to provide your thoughts and comments online, or in person in the room.
But that's not all! Join us on Friday from 4pm for refreshments, followed by a panel discussion at 5pm! The panel will feature the project lead, Haili Ma, and our partners Chris Sharp of Leeds Industrial Museum and Nick Bax from HUMAN, and will be chaired by none other than yours truly, your benevolent narrator, Duncan Leggat!
So come along, grab some refreshments, and for one final time explore the exciting world of Song: The Future!