Print this page
Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:13

Last chance to book tickets for the tech musical, Connected: From Gaslight to Satellite

Written by
Rate this item
(0 votes)

w598_2266780_gaslight1Sheltered housing residents will take to the stage next week as part of a musical and technology initiative entitled Connected: From Gaslight to Satellite. All part of the fantastic tenantspin’s programme at FACT.

The Positive People’s Platform are a group of over-50s residents from Sheltered Housing Schemes from across Liverpool, they have been working with tenantspin, FACT and professional artists to create a musical that tells some of their tales, woes and experiences of technology. 

The project is being delivered in partnership with Liverpool Mutual Homes, the Positive People’s Platform and will bring guests together for an evening of musical and technological entertainment.

Connected: From Gaslight to Satellite is themed around how the participants feel about technology and learning how to use technology for their own benefit along the way.

The residents, who are all over 55, have been exploring what technology means to them, how it's impacted on their lives and how it's changed over the years in a series of workshops. They are working together with Artist Alison Kershaw and Musical Director Jonathan Raisin to write and rehearse a series of original songs based on their experiences.

The aim of the project is to help develop the participants’ digital skills, well-being and confidence through an exciting new medium.

Musical Director Jonathan Raisin uses his experience as a songwriter and composer to incorporate the technology themes and stories that the participants initiate. Jonathan has worked in Liverpool for nearly 25 years as a musician and project coordinator. He has performed in many of the city's theatres (and most of the bars), composing music for a number of shows, and running workshops with half the world. Jonathan is co-director of Lost Voices and, for the Capital of Culture in 2008 produced The Rightful Owners of the Song with local singers and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

He said: “The call out to take part in the project went out to residents in LMH Sheltered Housing Schemes, with an age range of 50+. We particularly aimed to engage the existing LMH Positive People’s Platform group, consisting of representatives from each of the schemes, in order for them to act as advocates for the project. Around 20 different people attended in all, and as the project has evolved the following regular participants formed the final group:”

The Electric Blanket is a programme of activity that has been running since 2009. Developing the work tenantspin has been pioneering for the last 12 years, working with older people and technology, in this case LMH’s Sheltered Housing Residents. The programme has developed over the last three years and is pushing back the boundaries of what can be achieved by innovative support programmes for tenants in sheltered housing schemes.

tenantspin Producer Edwin Pink: “I am really pleased with how the Electric Blanket Programme has developed. The Connected: Gaslight to Satellite Musical has all of the elements we strive to have in our tenantspin projects, it is a genuine collaboration between everyone involved.

“It is great we can be connected 24/7 to family and friends, and work, but there will always be new technology and at some point I may not want to, or be able to, keep up with it all. The group all have different levels of technology in their lives, texting, skyping, emailing, whatever suits them and keeps them connected. However what they all have in abundance is a lust for life and an energy to express themselves.”

Date: Tuesday 3 July
Time: 7pm 
At FACT Liverpool
Price £2.

Find out information and get involved –

http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/the-all-singing-all-dancing internet/
http://www.positivepeoplesplatform.co.uk/

See you there.

Read 1427 times Last modified on Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:34

Related items

  • Make Shift Do @DoesLiverpool on Saturday 29th October Make Shift Do @DoesLiverpool on Saturday 29th October

    Does Liverpool makeshiftdoSinging Glowing Pumpkins, T-Shirts Printing and Electronic Jewellery the chance for a tour around the Liverpool maker space - Who could ask for more. 

    Liverpool loves it's maker spaces and are always seeking opportunities to show it off, so this opportunity to find out how to make electronic jewellery and Singing Pumpkins, is the perfect chance to go and have a look around. It will also give you the time to ask about all the other goodies that they have their, whether it be the 3D printing or laser cutting; or maybe even the vinyl cutter.

    Will this Crafts Council initiative give you the making bug? We think so.  

  • Liverpool Central Library to host contemporary Book Art Fair Liverpool Central Library to host contemporary Book Art Fair

    bookart

    Liverpool Central Library will host a unique opportunity for visitors to meet artists who make ‘book art’ and to buy directly from them on 8 and 9 July.

    Founded by former Chairman of the Bluecoat Simon Ryder, the fair is now in its third year. Works for sale include cards and hand-crafted notebooks; limited editions of books of text and illustration; hand-made papers; and unique book sculptures. Prices range from around £5 into the hundreds.

  • More Workshops from FACTLab More Workshops from FACTLab

    fact jelly

     

    There are more workshops to come from Thiago and Rademes, the two Brazillian Techno artists who have been based at FACT Liverpool for the last 6 months or so. These are free, fun and informative so do check them out.

     

     

     

  • Review: Group Therapy:Mental Distress In a Digital Age Review: Group Therapy:Mental Distress In a Digital Age

    All of us know someone or have some mental health issues on some level. A failing capitalist society makes us very unhealthy indeed. We are in a time of 'hyper attentiveness', always being connected to a screen based world. It is also a time of great efficiency with our technology, a kind of Utopia.

  • Review: Type Motion at FACT Liverpool Review: Type Motion at FACT Liverpool

    It has taken twelve years to get this exhibition up and running at FACT. Originally it started out as a lecture in Germany in the late 90's at Munich University and now it has evolved into an exhibition first shown, in a reduced capacity,  in Germany in 2000. There is also a 460 page book, only in German currently, with 900 illustrations where 20 experts contextualise the phenomemon and a 25 hour running time DVD Box set.