We meet the winners and honourable mentions of the SWS22 Awards. They discuss their work and process, and tell us what inspired them.
Last Listener at the Mid Atlantic Frost Fair is a soundscape of a poem by Michael S Roberts, an English poet and polymath. It chronicles a mythical, dreamlike and almost hyperstitional journey of the poet and protagonist through a frozen world.
7 Dec, 2020
Laura Mitchison captured the history of two hospitals closing down through the soundscapes they carried throughout their histories.
Birling Gap, Eastbourne, UK
An audio piece about the mythical landscape of Birling Gap – a wild cliffy landscape in East Sussex, UK
Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 9ES, UK
St Mary’s Old Church is London’s only surviving Elizabethan churchyard, where the tombstone inscriptions have been lost to weather and time. This self-directed audio trail pieces together the fragments of story. Produced October 2021.
2023-09-05 18:00
Online
We meet the winners of the SWS22 Awards. They discuss their work and process, and tell us what inspired them.
21 Dec, 2022
Touching the liminal space between geographical marvel and the subtle signs of a tragic history, hidden within the landscape.
‘Walking with Toddlers’ is a comic audio play about the joys and frustrations of going for a walk with a young child, co-written and co-produced by Angie Belcher (writer, director, comedian, and facilitator) and Eleanor Rycroft (Senior Lecturer in Theatre and gender historian). It uses the juxtaposition of an idealised walk imagined via ‘Minarra’s Mindful Mummies Podcast’ and the reality of walking with a toddler, to consider how care-giving can create both obstructions and opportunities when trying to get from A to B.
Clifton Down, Clifton, Bristol, UK
Night-Walk is an output of the Walking and Re-Creation project. Our project responds to our belief that social and health inequalities are linked. and uses a historical lens on walking to address unequal access to pedestrianism in our own moment.
