A City and A Garden
Sounds from a Safe Harbour in association with Body & Soul
When: 11 – 20 June .
Cork
Monday – Friday: 8.30am to 9pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am to 9pm
Dublin
Monday – Friday: 10am to 4pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am to 5pm
Where: Cork city streets and the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin. Check A City and A Garden Website for details.
Ticketing: Free to experience in Dublin and Cork via your smartphone from 11 June.
A state-of-the-art sonic experience, combining story and song with the world around us, featuring Gavin Corbett, Louise Hegarty, Lisa McInerney and Melatu-Uche Okorie, commissioned by Sounds from a Safe Harbour in association with Body & Soul
Have you ever considered the myriad lives lived, the many stories and songs and sounds held in the histories of the streets you walk every day? A City & A Garden invites you to rediscover the urban environments you know through your headphones in a different kind of journey; one which shifts perspectives of place, connectedness, environment and history.
Using only your smartphone, discover stories and songs that lie hidden in the trees and bricks of our city spaces, interwoven with narratives and soundscapes guiding you along a Cork city street or the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland in Dublin. Some of Ireland’s most exciting writers and musicians have been commissioned to create four sonic experiences to make the familiar new and the everyday sublime.
Literary curator Danny Denton (editor of The Stinging Fly) has selected four exceptional writers to create new stories. Be led around the National Botanic Gardens with tales from Gavin Corbett or Melatu-Uche Okorie; or follow a story by Louise Hegarty that takes you from North Mall in Cork to Bells Field, or walk with Lisa McInerney from The Shakey Bridge to Red Abbey Square.
The stories will be voiced by Hilary Rose (The Young Offenders, Smother), Conor Lovett (I'll Find You, Endeavour: Coda, Versailles), Dorothy Murphy and Tolü Makay.
Creating soundscapes to these stories are musicians Seán Mac Erlaine (sound designer and musical director), Fish Go Deep, The Quiet Club, with Dorothy Murphy and Tolü Makay contributing to both the narration and music.
Visual installations by artist and designer Deirdre Breen will adorn each route, with WP Cork Developers providing the state-of-the-art technology to guide you through the four trails.
This one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art public art experience requires only a smartphone, headphones and your imagination.
A City and A Garden: Routes
Cork City
Route One: Shakey Bridge to Red Abbey
“Town: A Love Story in Body Parts” written by Lisa McInerney, narrated by Hilary Rose with music by Fish Go Deep and visual installations by Deirdre Breen
Route Two: Mardyke Bridge to Bells Field
“Now, Voyagers” written by Louise Hegarty, narrated by Conor Lovett with music by The Quiet Club and visual installations by Deirdre Breen
Dublin
Route Three: Botanic Gardens, Dublin
“The Name for Things” written by Melatu-Uche Okorie, narrated by Tolü Makay with music by Tolü Makay and visual installations by Deirdre Breen
Route Four: Botanic Gardens, Dublin
“Constance”, written by Gavin Corbett, narrated by Dorothy Murphy with a soundscape by Seán Mac Erlaine and Dorothy Murphy and visual installations by Deirdre Breen
A City and A Garden is free to experience in Dublin and Cork via your smartphone from 11 June.