Event
Journeys Festival International Leicester
15 Aug 2019 – 30 Aug 2019
Leicester City Centre
Leicester, United Kingdom
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The Channel by Isobel Tarr
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The Channel by Isobel Tarr
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The Channel by Isobel Tarr
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The Channel by Isobel Tarr
Exhibition
The Channel by Isobel Tarr (Journeys Festival International Leicester)
17 Aug 2019 – 22 Aug 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 16:30
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 16:30
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 16:30
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 16:30
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 53 New Walk
- Leicester
- LE1 7EA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The museum is less than ten minutes walk from Leicester train station.
Event map
The Channel is an installation that enables you to communicate across borders.
About
17 – 22 August 11.00am – 5.00pm (Daily artist workshop 12.30pm – 1.30pm)
The Channel is an installation that enables you to communicate across borders. For six days, people in Leicester will be able to connect with people indefinitely detained in UK immigration removal centres via the sculpture, which resembles an old fashioned phone box. You are invited to listen to messages from real people in these centres and join the conversation by adding your own voice to the artwork.
The workshops and meals offered in the space give us the chance to ask how we can break down borders together in our communities.
To launch and close the installation, Soft Touch Arts invites you to a shared meal to celebrate our desire to connect across borders in Leicester.
Launch Celebration: Saturday 17 August 11.00am – 2.30pm
Closing Celebration: Thursday 22 August 11.00am – 2.30pm
Saturday 17 & Thursday 22 August
Soft Touch Arts 11.00am – 5.00pm
Sunday 18 – Wednesday 21 August
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 11.00am – 5.00pm
For more information please visit: https://www.journeysfestival.com/jfileics2019
