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SOUNDwalk: This Way To The Revolution
Location: Bramhall Music Building, University of Birmingham campus
Duration: 1 hr
Created by Iain Armstrong & Annie Mahtani
Towards the end of 1968 a group of several hundred students occupied Birmingham University’s Great Hall for over a week, in protest at the lack of student involvement in university decision-making. This walk is inspired by this combustible moment, drawing on events that led up to the occupation both locally and beyond.
It features first hand accounts and audio from archive footage of the student occupation including interviews with Catherine Hall and Jenny Wickham; readings of excerpts from various articles in the University newspaper Redbrick published during 1968; audio montages of archive footage of student occupations, protests and marches from around the world during 1968 including Aston University and Birmingham School of Art; audio from footage of university student activists Defend Education Birmingham during their occupation of the clock tower and Aston Webb building in 2013; various audio documents of other protests and demonstrations including Anti-War rally Birmingham 2015, Black Lives Matter march Birmingham 2016, Footbal Lads Association march 2018, NHS In Crisis march London 2018.
Commissioned by Flatpack Festival 2018
SOUNDwalk: This Way To The Revolution
Location: Bramhall Music Building, University of Birmingham campus
Duration: 1 hr
Created by Iain Armstrong & Annie Mahtani
Towards the end of 1968 a group of several hundred students occupied Birmingham University’s Great Hall for over a week, in protest at the lack of student involvement in university decision-making. This walk is inspired by this combustible moment, drawing on events that led up to the occupation both locally and beyond.
It features first hand accounts and audio from archive footage of the student occupation including interviews with Catherine Hall and Jenny Wickham; readings of excerpts from various articles in the University newspaper Redbrick published during 1968; audio montages of archive footage of student occupations, protests and marches from around the world during 1968 including Aston University and Birmingham School of Art; audio from footage of university student activists Defend Education Birmingham during their occupation of the clock tower and Aston Webb building in 2013; various audio documents of other protests and demonstrations including Anti-War rally Birmingham 2015, Black Lives Matter march Birmingham 2016, Footbal Lads Association march 2018, NHS In Crisis march London 2018.
Commissioned by Flatpack Festival 2018
To experience this location-based walk please download the free SOUNDwalker app to your smartphone. The app will stream audio if you have a good connection, but this can use up your data and battery life. You can use wifi to download the audio files in advance so it will run offline. Open the app, select ‘This Way To The Revolution’, click the download button.
Travel to the Bramhall Music Building, University of Birmingham, open the app and select the ‘This Way To The Revolution’ walk from the menu. Plug in your headphones then make your way to the listening points shown in the app where the audio tracks will begin to play.
To experience this location-based walk please download the free SOUNDwalker app to your smartphone. The app will stream audio if you have a good connection, but this can use up your data and battery life. You can use wifi to download the audio files in advance so it will run offline. Open the app, select ‘This Way To The Revolution’, click the download button.
Travel to the Bramhall Music Building, University of Birmingham, open the app and select the ‘This Way To The Revolution’ walk from the menu. Plug in your headphones then make your way to the listening points shown in the app where the audio tracks will begin to play.
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