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About the Project
from About Us
About Us is one of ten commissions for UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK. The project explores the infinite ways we are connected to the universe, the natural world and one another.
A major live show toured the UK in 2022, visiting Paisley in Scotland, Derry-Londonderry in Northern Ireland, Caernarfon in Wales, and Luton, Hull and London in England. The show combined cutting-edge projectionmapping technology, poetry and music to tell our shared story from the Big Bang to the present day. Local choirs performed a new score by Nitin Sawhney, and poets from across the UK were commissioned to write the show’s narrative.
The show was supported by an extensive learning and participation programme. A competition invited poets and coders aged 4–18 to respond to the theme of ‘connectivity and the universe’ in the form of a poem or a Scratch animation. Selected entries were featured in the live shows. Primary schools in each of the towns and cities on the tour received poetry and coding workshops: the children’s creative work was featured in the show, shaping each of the performances to the context in which it was delivered.
Watch the evening show at bit.ly/AboutUsUnboxed
Watch the children’s videos at bit.ly/AboutUsSchoolPoems
Discover learning resources at resources.poetrysociety.org.uk/about-us
