The people of Lavender Hill
Quarantine
Information
This experience is available from 6 Mar to 14 Mar
Tickets: Free
From 6 Mar, you will be sent instructions with the audio file, route details and further information how to access the audio-walk.
Running Time: The walking route is roughly 30-35 minutes, but the audio-walk is around 70 minutes. There is seating along the route.
This event is an audio-walk that takes place across various locations around Lavender Hill in Battersea.
The audio-walk route will begin and end at Battersea Arts Centre.
The people of Lavender Hill is an audio walk composed for and from Lavender Hill.
Subverting the usual historical city walking tour, you’re invited to pause – perhaps at the hairdressers, the corner shop, or the late night takeaway. Hear from the people behind the counter in this audio portrait of individuals who all happen to work along the same street.
Intentionally made with a mix of people who have citizenship – by birth or application, and people who don’t – by choice or circumstance, The people of Lavender Hill asks how we come to be somewhere, why we stay, and what it means to live side-by-side. It invites reflections that span nationalism, neighbourliness and plans for tomorrow.
The people of is a complex, transient, portrait of place, re-made across different cities, from Recklinghausen, Germany to Manchester, UK – and now London.
‘It’s more than remarkable. Truly. It’s a completely new view of a place that only seems familiar.’ Recklinghäuser Zeitung on The people of Recklinghäusen Süd.
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PART OF A PUBLIC ADDRESS
A Public Address sees award-winning theatre collective Quarantine take over the former Town Hall – now Battersea Arts Centre – to ask: who gets heard in a place like this today?
Part of Wandsworth’s year as the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture.
Biographies
Quarantine is an award-winning ensemble of artists and producers making cross-disciplinary work that explores what it means to live right now. Founded in Manchester in 1998, they create and tour projects around the world that are both intimate and immediate in their relationships with people, and global in their reference and scope.
Quarantine is known internationally for intellectually rigorous, socially progressive and inventive art that questions who gets seen, whose stories are told and who stands in for whom. Questions about representation lie at the heart of their work.
Credits
A Public Address is a BAC and Quarantine co-production, supported by Arts Council England.
Part of Welcome to Wandsworth, London Borough of Culture. London Borough of Culture is a Mayor of London initiative.
The people of…:
Concept Kate Daley, Richard Gregory and Sarah Hunter
Lead Artists Kate Daley and Sarah Hunter
Dramaturgical Support Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea
Web & Graphic Design Lisa Mattocks
Access
PRE EVENT INFORMATION
This is an audio-walk that takes place across various locations around Lavender Hill in Battersea. The audio-walk route will begin and end at Battersea Arts Centre.
As the audio-walk takes place outdoors, we would advise dressing appropriately for the weater.
The entire route of the audio-walk is wheelchair accessible. All road crossings will have drop-curbs.
As this is an outside walk, there is no need or expectation to enter any of the businesses along the route, unless you would like to, but some of the businesses do have steps. At BAC, where the route begins and ends, and is the only stop where you may need to go inside, there is step-free access available. There are some parts of the route that may be slightly narrow due to road works, potholes, and signage, as well as some uneven surfaces.
The audio-walk and route map is avialble via a web page that can be accessed on a smartphone. Once you have booked a ticket, from 6 Mar you will be sent an e-mail with further details on how to access the audio-walk. This will include a map, access information, and a link to the audio file.
If you do not have access to a smartphone, you can borrow an MP3 player from BAC when the building is open. Anyone borrowing an MP3 player will be required to leave an ID or driving licence as a deposit when collecting it from the BAC Welcome Desk. Please also note that we have a limited number of MP3 players available, and they will be prioritised for people who do not have access to smartphones.