Ultimate reality is our home. It is here and now, and it is not a special piece of what is happening. We imagine that we are on a journey, that life is a journey, but we are home from the beginning. This is not an easy thing to accept.”
In February, two artists got on a cargo ship, and retraced one of the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle - from the UK to Ghana to Jamaica, and back. Their memories, their questions and their grief took them along the bottom of the Atlantic and through the figurative realm of an imaginary past.

It was a long journey backwards, in order to go forwards. This show is what they brought back.

A journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Selina Thompson’s solo show is about grief, ancestry, home, forgetting and colonialism.
It’s about being part of a diaspora.

Who is it for

Teens 14+ and adults

Access
Accessible toilet, ramp and parking
Audio described & BSL signed performance.

Part Of Takeover Fest

Heart of Glass’ TakeOver, in partnership with St.Helens Libararies, is a curated season of live and participatory arts events, screenings, talks and collaborative commissions that take place in and beyond cultural spaces, in the public realm and in unexpected places across the town of St Helens.. For eight thrilling weeks art, culture and pop-up performances will ignite the streets and the spaces of St Helens. No location is off limits as artists are invited to showcase new and engaging work in libraries, shops, labour clubs and marketplaces. St Helens 150’s edition of the festival examines the idea of identity. In a world where the only constant thing is change, what does that mean to our sense of self?