Songs of the Water at #JourneysFestival2024.

Name: Songs of the Water at #JourneysFestival2024.
Start: 2024-10-11T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-12T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Soft Touch Arts

Schedule

Fri Oct 11 2024 at 10:00 am to Sat Oct 12 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Soft Touch Arts | Leicester, EN

Friday 11 October 10.00am-4.00pm + 6.00pm-9.00pm
Saturday 12 October 10.00am-4.00pm
Songs of the Water is an audio visual installation inspired by rediscovering our ancestral connections to water as lifeblood that sustains all people; what we learn from it, how to protect it, how we connect with it, and how to preserve it in such a challenging environmental climate. The work brings together artists, oral histories, and citizen science as a way to explore new ways of looking at how we live with our waterways in urban environments. By listening to, recording and responding to urban river ecologies, communities around Leicester are invited to creatively explore how species entangle in polluted and clean waterways – and to go out and discover their local surroundings.
This audio installation is created by Kaajal Modi, made through engagement workshops and communal listening sessions in collaboration with sound designer Kitty Turner; and working with participants in partnership with Soft Touch Arts using hydrophones and DIY underwater listening technologies.
https://artreach.org.uk/journeys-festival/event/songsofwater/