Empty boxes

A very special cross-arts project from the Brontë Parsonage Museum for the next days:

Empty Boxes

A Residential Project in Creative Writing and Musical Composition for Adults.
Brontë Parsonage Museum, 12th - 19 th January 2008

Empty Boxes offers a unique opportunity to be part of a very special creative commission. The project will include privileged access to the Brontë Parsonage Museum during its annual closed period and the chance to work with a professional creative team in developing a new piece of chamber music with voices which will be performed in Haworth Parish Church on Friday 18 January. The project is open to all, regardless of experience in writing or music.
The inspiration for this project is the highly charged atmosphere of the Brontë Parsonage during its closed period, when the house is closed to the public and the rooms are largely cleared of furniture and artefacts for conservation work. What can be heard in these empty spaces? What feelings experienced?... Empty Boxes aims to give participants the chance to respond creatively through writing and musical composition to the extraordinary setting of the empty Parsonage, never previously accessed by the public in its eighty year history as a museum.
A maximum of 25 adults will work in collaboration with prize winning poet Alison Prince, composed Andrew Keeling and the Lawson Piano Trio. They will have special access to the Parsonage and its collections during the project week during which there will be a series of workshops in creative writing and composition culminating in a premiere performance of the piece.

Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Music