SPAN’s Big Sing!
SPAN’s Big Sing brings Songs of the Land and Street Art Opera films to the Saundersfoot harbourside schooner!
Event Details:
Date: 24th of May
Time: 7:30pm onwards
Location: Saundersfoot Harbour
Price: FREE. No booking required.
Please contact info@span-arts.org.uk to discuss access requirements.
Join us for SPAN’s Big Sing at Saundersfoot Harbour on the 24th of May. In this celebration of music, performance and song, we are joined by Music Theatre Wales with their new Street Art Opera films, and composer James Williams with the final massed choral performance of his Love Stories to Nature Commission, Songs of the Land.
Songs of the Land is the final performance for SPAN’s most recent Love Stories to Nature Commission. In this project, James Williams has composed a choral piece of music that celebrates the coming together of stories gathered from choirs across Pembrokeshire, reflecting our changing relationship to the land. In this massed choral performance, all of the choirs who contributed to James’ composition will perform the final piece at Saundersfoot Harbourside for the first time.
Stay with us until after dark, where Music Theatre Wales’ new Street Art Operas will enliven the Saundersfoot Coastal Schooner with large-scale, cinematic projections. These new pieces from Music Theatre Wales harness collaborations with street artists, animators, writers, physical performers and filmmakers to lift the impact and language of Street Art into moving image animations with operatic storytelling and music. Watch two pieces, Rahmat-Mercy-Trugaredd and Out of Time, come to life and share contemporary operatic stories about our times.
Inspired by Sufism and hip-hop culture, Rahmat-Mercy-Trugaredd reveals how creativity can be harnessed as a spiritual practice. In blending henna and graffiti-inspired visuals with powerful, soaring music, this uplifting work celebrates Sana’s journey of empowerment, as the world around her blossoms.
Out of Time is a darkly comic and fantastical tale of a future apocalypse in which nature reclaims its beauty and abundance. As the natural world thrives, is it too late to apologise to the Earth? From whimsical to psychedelic, an operatic rage ensues.
Join us at Saundersfoot Harbour on the 24th of May for a spectacular evening of song! As the sun begins to set over the harbourside Schooner, join us from 7:30pm onwards to experience the Songs of the Land massed choir, music performances from local performers, and Street Art Opera’s from Music Theare Wales.
