Name: Advance with Feathers
Start: 2016-05-21T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2016-05-21T21:30:00+01:00
Location: Stirchley Baths

Advance with Feathers

Stirchley Baths is a vibrant community hub at the heart of Stirchley. First opened in 1911 as a public swimming pool and washhouse, the building closed in 1988 for repairs, never to reopen for the next 28 years. An award-winning conservation project in 2015, funded in part by the Heritage Lottery Fund, brought the iconic but derelict building back to life. Reopened in 2016 it is an exciting venue with a rich sense of Edwardian heritage, above and below ground.

Stirchley Baths

This Saturday 21st May Stirchley Baths presents a very special performance, for one time only, of Advance with Feathers. The live performance is the conclusion to a year long collaboration with artist Justin Wiggan who has created new work around the redevelopment of Stirchley Baths and the themes of hope, transition and future. At the performance you will also receive a limited edition 7″ vinyl recording of the new sound piece created.
<IMG ALT="IMG_20160517_134430" SRC="https://s.evbuc.com/https_proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstirchleybaths.org%2Ffiles%2F2016%2F05%2FIMG_20160517_134430.jpg&sig=ADR2i7_LyGwhbS9sVzp4dQssS0IayYv9Nw">Saturday’s performance will be a moving sonic experience for the audience who will be part of an installation of film, building materials and balloons while award winning opera singer Suzanna Purkis fills the main hall with voice from on high in her lifeguard chair.
Justin and the ‘Centre for Curious Sonic Investigation’ worked to produce the project with Kate Andrews, and several volunteers. Participants patients from Stirchley’s St. Andrews hospital, children from Cotteridge Primary School and the local community to collect words and sounds that participants associated with hope, transition and future.
Advance with Feathers has been funded by Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund.

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