Expedition launch at Southbank
By Hannah // Tuesday 4 Sep // 22:45:14 // 1 Comment
Cape Farewell launches its first international Youth Expedition
Sunday 9 September, 3-6pm, Southbank Centre
3pm Gamelan, Sea Shanties and Film in the Royal Festival Hall
4pm Comedian Marcus Brigstocke compères a programme of speeches, performance, conversation and film in the Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall
4.45pm Voicelab Sea Shanties and Accordion ensemble led by Martina Schwarz
5pm Youth Team Launch at Festival Pier in front of Southbank Centre with fanfare from London Philharmonic Orchestra
Cape Farewell Youth Expedition Launch!
Sunday 9th September 2007
Cape Farewell launches its first international Youth Expedition
Sunday 9th September 2007, 3-6pm, Southbank Centre, London
Twelve students, from the UK, Canada and Germany are launched on the Thames to a brass fanfare from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Embarking on a landmark arts, science and media project, the students will voyage from Longyearbyen to the frozen extremes of Spitsbergen, Svalbard in the High Arctic. Come and help us cheer them on their way.
Comedian, Marcus Brigstocke, hosts festivities at the launch; joined by David Buckland, artist, founder and director of Cape Farewell; Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre. The event also marks the departure of Cape Farewell’s Greenland, Art & Science expedition. Cape Farewell artists, past and present, including Vikram Seth, Siobhan Davies, Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, and scientists Prof. Diana Liverman and Dr. Simon Boxall will be there on the day, together with Southbank Centre’s Voicelab singers and Martina Schwarz accordion ensemble performing specially commissioned Sea Shanties.
Kampung Reading Gamelan Group play a repertoire of music touching on our relationship to the sea and our environment in the Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall, against a backdrop of Arctic Footage. To the right of The Ballroom, explore the multi-media exhibition mapping the Cape Farewell voyages.
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Come down to Southbank today from 3-6pm and help us cheer the twelve students on their way today, as the expedition launches on the Thames to a brass fanfare from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.