Visitors to Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe can enjoy a “sound and ecology micro festival” celebrating sunrise around the world this weekend (Saturday, April 30-Sunday, May 1).
The free festival is built around a portable auditorium called PITCH that has been designed and built by local young people. The auditorium will play natural sounds recorded at sunrise all over the world.
Local people are being invited down from 12 noon on Saturday 30th April to lunchtime on Sunday 1st May
The mission of one 79-year-old Californian woman to breathe life into Peckham Rye’s American garden
Other activities include:
- Acoustic Commons Study Group (Ella Finer, John Bingham-Hall, Lawrence Bradby, Tushar Hathiramani, Flora Pitrolo, Bianca Stoppani, Luisa Ulyett, James Wilkes, Lis Huang)
- Alluvial Soundings by Margarida Mendes and Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell, Hannah White)
- Crystal radio workshop with Hannah Kemp-Welch, Sasha Engelmann, Brigitte Hart and Georgia Muenster (Shortwave Collective)
- Speaker building with Nick Sigsworth (Tanum Sound System)
- Pinhole photography / solargraphs with Ky Lewis
- Bat box building and site walk with Rebeka Clark, who runs Stave Hill
- Loom weaving with Common Agency Projects (Shane Waltener and Laura Glaser)
- Field recording how to with Volkan Kiziltug and Ciara Drew
- Bat walk with Iain Boulton (London Bat Group)
- Dawn Chorus walks with local naturalists John Cadera and Richard Page-Jones
- Walk from Lambeth Garden Museum to Stave Hill with Carole Wright (Blak Outside)
For more details and to book free tickets, click here.