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Light Night 2024: Standing Ground

St Mary's Church, High Pavement, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 1HN
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Friday 2 February 2024 | 6-9pm
Saturday 3 February 2024 | 5.30pm - 9pm
St Mary's Church 
FREE EVENT

Standing Ground, part of Nottingham Light Night 2024, is a stunning immersive light and sound experience, exploring our relationship with the natural world.

You can expect to stand in an atmospheric, dark church with lighting showing rainbow colours flooding up to the ceiling.

As we enter a period of accelerated climate uncertainty, the work seeks to find resolution in our connection with nature, and a pathway to hope and optimism. 

Created following a residency with the Harley Foundation, artists Urban Projections and CJ Mirra worked with Ecologist Simon Pickles and Zine artist Harry Hempsall in a collaboration with clients from Aebal care and support service, and Young People from Proto-Type Collective on the historic Welbeck Estate, North Nottinghamshire.   

Through exploration and play, field recordings were created which have been manipulated to create a soundscape expressing sounds of the forest; while AI has been used to create evolving image sequences following the study of ancient veteran trees and archival photographs. 

Warning: Contains flashing images and use of haze. 

Credits:
Artists
- Urban Projections & CJ Mirra 
Ecologist - Simon Pickles 
Zine Artist - Harry Hempsall 
Spoken Word: Seth Hughes - @urfromere 
Composer Assistant and Additional Composition - Jan Musil
Produced by Jon Bevan.
Co-Creation: Aebal - Morgan Stocks, Tony Dickinson, Robert Rusk, Jack Watson, Dan Hill.  Support: Jason Bradley and Joseph Lyons 
Proto-Type - Eseose Okotako, Casey Francis, Lina Vourlou, Jenson Brown, Leo Dawson, Poppy Hewett, Harry Hempsall.  Support: Brendon Gravell 
Partners:  Harley Foundation, North & East Yorkshire Ecological Data Centre 
Technical Partners - Sterling Event Group 
With thanks to: The Welbeck Estate, St Mary’s Church 

Standing Ground is the third part of a triptych of work, exploring our relationship to the natural world through the lens of a changing climate. 

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