Pasifika Voices and the Astronaut HD
Автор: Pacific Connections
Загружено: 2018-10-26
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In 2015, dancers and singers from Fiji came to St Andrews to perform their theatre piece about Climate Change - Moana. The University had recently bought the Byre Theatre and there was local unrest that the space might just be turned into another conference centre. This was the first time a department and the theatre linked up to put on an exhibition and a show. It was my job to create the interface in the theatre between the academic and the theatrical. The entire building was changed into a representation of a Pacific Island. One section of the exhibit noted that for those who live in centre of the Pacific, their closest neighbours are the astronauts on the Space Station; we had a model Space Station and a big astronaut stuck to the wall. When the group arrived we decided to take the singers up St Salvator's Tower and have them sing a ditty up top. We arrived about 15 minutes early and while waiting for the key holder to the tower the group started to chant inside the chapel … almost Gregorian, it was beautiful … and what do you know an Astronaut walked in; a real life proper astronaut astronaut, Doug Wheelock, like he had peeled off our wall and wandered in to the chapel. Actually, he and his robot making colleague were in Scotland to promote the sciences, but for the folk from Fiji (and us) it was a true miracle. This wee film tells that story:
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