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Alvechurch Library
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Alvechurch Library
Alvechurch Library is in a modern building next to Alvechurch First and Middle Schools in the centre of Alvechurch village.
The Library is open five days a week providing the full range of library services alongside adult learning courses, readers' groups, creative writing and craft groups. It is a welcoming space in the heart of the community.
Address
Birmingham Road, Alvechurch, Birmingham, B48 7TA Directions
Harry and Grace and the Great Piperland Wood Festival and What Happened There…
Ian Billings
With Doreen Springer, Rob Waller, Linda Williams, Christine Mellor, Ian McGarr, Thelma Crook and Christine Lucas of writers@alvechurch
Alvechurch Library occupies the same campus as the Middle School, and plays host to a number of community groups including a very active writers’ group led by published author Irene Yates. Childrens’ author Ian Billings led a workshop in which the writers came up with ideas for a radio story for children. Ian then moulded those ideas into a complete story and challenged Year 7 at the school to come up with the sound effects using only objects they could find in the building.
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Credits
- Ian Billings Website
Writer and Storyteller - Year 7 at Alvechurch Middle School
Sound Effects - Niall Gault
Sound Recordist - Andy Partington Website
Sound Editor - Alyson Williams
Library Manager
Special thanks to Sue Sheridan, Head of English at Alvechurch Middle School.
Bewdley Library
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Bewdley Library
Bewdley town is described as the most perfect small Georgian town in Worcestershire and the library is right in the heart of the town, alongside the Health Centre.
The Library is open five days a week providing the full range of library services alongside adult learning courses and a readers' group.
Address
Load Street, Bewdley, DY12 2EQ Directions
Library Blues
Nicola Jones
Bewdley Library is about to relocate into a new purpose-built building shared with Bewdley Medical Centre. Playwright Nicola Jones, whose work includes commissions for BBC Radio 4, was asked to write a play inspired by this move, and the concept of “Books on Prescription”. This service is offered in Worcestershire and is aimed at helping people with mild to moderate psychological problems. Nicola’s play is written with a light touch, imagining a conversation between two contrasting library books speculating about their potential borrowers.
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Credits
- Charlotte Martin
Liz - Stephan Bessant
Jack - Peter Leslie Wild Website
Director - Andy Partington Website
Sound Designer - Jackie Passey
Library Manager
Broadway Library
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Broadway Library
Broadway is a beautiful Cotswold village and the library has a prime spot close to the centre, just off the High Street.
The library is open four days a week providing the full range of library services. Parking is available close by with designated disabled spaces.
Address
Leamington Road, Broadway, WR12 7DZ Directions
Broadway Describes Itself Like This…
Deborah Alma
Broadway is in one of the most rural areas of Worcestershire, in the heart of the Cotswolds. Famous for its chocolate box cottages and tower, the village attracts thousands of tourists every year. Deborah Alma (aka The Emergency Poet) spent a Saturday morning meeting visitors the library and listened to what they had to say about their local environment. What does Broadway mean to them? How would they describe the place they live? The result is two “found poems”, made up entirely from the words they spoke to Deborah. Poems made from the words of Erin (age 5), Terry, Leslie, Teresa, Ray, Pat, Michaela, Sharon, Barbara, Rowena and others. Thank you for your conversations! The music is provided by Worcester band Granny’s Attic, who were finalists in the BBC Young Folk Awards two years ago.
Music: “The Hills” by Granny’s Attic (from the CD “Better Weather”)
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Credits
- Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - Jodie Ford, with thanks to Barbara Dovey
Library Manager
Bromsgrove Library
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Bromsgrove Library
Bromsgrove Library is a brand new library located on Parkside, a joint enterprise project between Worcestershire County Council and Bromsgrove District Council providing space for Bromsgrove Library, Bromsgrove Customer Service Centre, the local Registration Service and the local Job Centre Plus office.
The library is a busy community hub open six days a week providing the full range of library services alongside adult learning courses and a readers' group.
Address
Parkside, Market Street, Bromsgrove, B61 8DA Directions
Musical Pots
The Flying Potter from Eastnor Pottery and Anna Martin
The Early Hurly Burly group (a music session for pre-school children and their carers) were visited by Ethan from Eastnor Pottery (aka the Flying Potter) who helped the children to create “musical” pots. Once the pots had been fired, they were returned to the group who were then joined by music facilitator Anna Martin who helped them shake and bang their pots into musical life! The sound piece traces the journey of the pots from their creation to performance in the newly opened library at Bromsgrove.
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Credits
- Ethan from Eastnor Pottery Website
Potter - Anna Martin
Music Facilitator - Sheila Farrell
Additional Recording - Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer/Editor
Special thanks to the children, parents and carers of the Early Hurly Burly group at Bromsgrove Library.
Catshill Community Library
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Catshill Community Library
Catshill Library is a small community library joined to Catshill Middle School. The library is open five days a week for 15 hours each week. The full range of library services is provided as well as childrens' activities and a readers' group.
Address
The Community Room, Catshill Middle School, Meadow Road, Catshill, Bromsgrove, B61 0JW Directions
This is the Sound of Catshill!
Matt Windle
Performance poet and professional boxer Matt Windle spent a day at Catshill Middle School with a group of twelve students developing their ideas about how Catshill could be represented in poetry. They divided into three groups, each giving their unique version of what Catshill sounded like to them – and anticipating how it might change in the future. Catshill Library is located within the school buildings.
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Credits
- Matt Windle Website
Poet - Pupils of Catshill Middle School
Poets - Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer/Editor - Nicki Hitchcock
Library Manager
Special thanks to Paul Essenhigh and the staff of Catshill Middle School.
Droitwich Spa Library
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Droitwich Spa Library
Droitwich Library is a busy town centre library.
The Library is open five days a week providing the full range of library services alongside adult learning courses and a readers' group.
Droitwich Customer Contact Centre is also located in the library.
Address
Victoria Square, Droitwich Spa, WR9 8DQ Directions
Salter's Screen
Red Shoes
Droitwich Library is housed in a building which stands on the site of Salters Hall, which was demolished in the 1930s and replaced by Salters Super Cinema which finally closed in the 1960s. After years of lying derelict the building was re-opened as a library and retains the proscenium arch and the gallery. With the help of BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester, local people were invited to share their memories of the cinema, recordings of which were passed to Mark and Carolyn Evans of the band Red Shoes. The resulting song, Salter’s Screen, draws on some of those recollections.
Words and music by Mark Evans and Carolyn Evans (copyright Twister Publishing).
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Credits
- Carolyn Evans
Vocals - Mark Evans
Accoustic Guitar - Nigel King
Accoustic Guitar; Mandolin - David Henderson
Cajon - Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - Bev Orlowsky
Library Manager
Special thanks to Justin Hughes
Evesham Library
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Evesham Library
Evesham is an old riverside market town situated in the centre of the Vale of Evesham. The library, which is spread over two floors in a large and airy building, is in the centre of the town. It is open six days a week providing the full range of library services alongside adult learning courses and children's singing and reading events.
Address
Oat Street, Evesham, WR11 4PJ Directions
This Passion for Walking
Deborah Alma
Every week, the Evesham Walking for Health Group meet at Evesham Library and set off on a walk out of town. It’s a social group which draws together people from diverse backgrounds many of whom have been advised by their GPs to take up walking as an aid to their health and well-being. They were joined for a day by Deborah Alma (aka The Emergency Poet) who interviewed them as they made their way from the library up to the Leicester Tower, a landmark on the site of the Battle of Evesham. Deborah’s poems use the words of the Evesham Walking for Health Group, led by Rosemary Restall: Pat, Jacqui, Ivor, Terry, Barbara, Richard, Gary, Janet, Sandra, Sue & Barbara.
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Credits
- Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - Caroline Faulkner
Acting Library Manager - Barbara Dovey
Assistant Library Manager
Hagley Library
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Hagley Library
Hagley Library sits at the heart of the community. Alongside the more traditional book lending, it also offers activities and courses including arts and crafts, I.T. skills, playgroups and family history workshops.
Address
Worcester Road, Hagley, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY9 0NW Directions
Landscape Garden
Corinne Frost
At Hagley Hall the Eighteenth Century landscape garden is being slowly rediscovered largely thanks to the passionate work of Joe Hawkins. Joe talked extensively about his role at Hagley Hall, his views on the history of landscape gardens and the importance of recovering the past through the landscape itself. Cellist Corinne Frost listened to the conversation and picked up on his passion for the garden and its recently discovered treasures for her improvised piece “Landscape Garden”.
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Credits
- Corinne Frost Website
Cellist - Joe Hawkins Website
Head of Landscape at Hagley Hall - Andy Partington Website
Sound Recordist/Editor - Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Website
Research - Caroline Faulkner
Library Manager
Special thanks to Ben Donlan and Paul Reaney (Kidderminster Library).
Kidderminster Library
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Kidderminster Library
Kidderminster is the largest town in North Worcestershire. The library is in the centre of the busy town. It is open six days a week providing the full range of library services alongside activities including arts and crafts, I.T. skills, cookery, playgroups and family history workshops. The library also has an exhibition gallery.
Address
Market Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY10 1AB Directions
Kidderminster Carpet: A Vignette
Mel Biggs (with Heather Wastie)
Kidderminster Library is at the heart of a town built on the carpet industry. Not so long ago Kidderminster exported carpets to all corners of the world, and the town rang to the sound of the power looms weaving the highest quality carpets. Folk musician and singer Mel Biggs was asked to create a short piece in the style of the “Radio Ballads” famously created by Ewan MacColl in the 1960s. She brought together Mark Thomas, who operates the power looms in the Museum of Carpet in Kidderminster, Heather Wastie, poet and songwriter who performs her song "The Tuner's Eye (for Geoff Perks)" as part of the piece. Mel herself performs a ballad called "The Weavers Appeal to the Public" written by W.S. Roberts, Printer Dudley Street, Kidderminster circa 1853. She found it in The Carpet Weaver's Lament and the melody is her own. The piece is topped and tailed with a melodeon improvisation inspired the cross-rhythms and timbres of the Jacquard Wilton Loom, and the eventual carpet pattern which is created line by line.
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Credits
- Mel Biggs Website
Melodeon and Vocals - Heather Wastie
Melodeon and Vocals - Mark Thomas
Voice and Power Loom - Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - Caroline Faulkner
Library Manager
Special thanks to Ben Donlan and Paul Reaney (Kidderminster Library) and The Museum of Carpet.
Malvern Library
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Malvern Library
The original Edwardian library building was extended and re-furbished in 2006 and now offers a light, open contemporary space providing the community with a 'one-stop-shop' for Worcestershire Hub Customer Service Centre, Jobcentre Plus, and Malvern Registration Services. The library is open six days a week providing the full range of library services alongside a programme of children's activities and adult learning courses and exhibition space displaying work of local and regional artists. The Café in the Library is located on the ground floor.
Address
Graham Road, Malvern, WR14 2HU Directions
Elgar's MP3
Alex Jones and Alec Roth
The foyer of Malvern Library is dominated by an artwork by local artist Lee Morris depicting the town’s most famous son, Sir Edward Elgar, wearing an MP3 player. The library enjoys a spectacular view of the Malvern Hills, the inspiration for so much of Elgar’s music. With the help of library manager Delphine Telfer, Lending an Ear convened a discussion with library users about their own relationship to Elgar, Malvern and the Hills. Malvern-based playwright Alex Jones (who wrote the play The Worcester Pilgrim, seen in Worcester Cathedral in 2006) listened to the discussion and imagined what Elgar might see if he were to walk the hills today. In Elgar’s earphones is the music of contemporary Malvern-based composer, Alec Roth, another man deeply inspired by the landscape around him.
Music: Alec Roth: String Quartet No. 4 “On Malvern Hills”, 4th Movement “Ambling” played by the Allegri Quartet. Nimbus Records NI6321 Copyright Wyastone Estate Limited. By kind permission.
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Credits
- Richard Derrington
Sir Edward - Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - Delphine Telfer
Library Manager
Mobile Library
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Mobile Library
The County Mobile Library is stocked with a wide range of adult fiction and non- fiction and children's books. It also has wi-fi and meeting room space. The Mobile Library serves the rural areas of Worcestershire, visiting 175 villages every 4 – 5 weeks.
Address
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This Lemon Cake is Still Warm
Deborah Alma
The mobile library service is central to the lives of many people in the more isolated villages and hamlets of rural Worcestershire. With its regular monthly routes, it has become a lifeline for many people who are unable to get to the town libraries. Deborah Alma (aka The Emergency Poet) spent a day on board the Mobile Library, along with Dave Foley the manager/driver (whose voice you also hear in the piece), meeting the users as it journeyed through a swathe of East Worcestershire visiting villages such as Inkberrow and Flyford Favell. The result is three “found poems” which use the words of people Deborah met and listened to: Eileen Waller, Colleen Shaw, Celia Montreal, Paul & Daisy Bayliss, Sheila Thompson, Pat Shinner, Chris Dudley, Diane Wicks, Jean Long, Ann Hadley, Carole Hughes, Josephine Ganderton, Jenny Osborne, Denise Cooper, Paul Mann, Paul & Daisy (age 4) Bayliss.
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Credits
- Deborah Alma Website
Poet - David Foley
Library Manager/Driver - Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer
Special thanks to the users of the Mobile Library who gave us their thoughts and words.
Pershore Library
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Pershore Library
Offering adult and children's books, Dvds, Spoken word, Adult Learning courses, Children's singing and reading events, Computers and Newspapers and magazines
Address
Church Street, Pershore, WR10 1DT Directions
People and Books
Phil Wilkins
Volunteers play a vital role in the library service and nowhere more so than in Pershore. Phil Wilkins’ piece is a celebration of their work.
The piece started life with recorded interviews with some of the volunteers. Throughout the song the percussive noises you can hear were created from the voices of the volunteers. As the song enters phase two, the sounds are created from young people finding noises in the library itself: slamming books shut, flicking pages, tapping computer keys, scraping radiators. The vocal line “I like People and I love Books” is sampled from an interview and sums up the role of the volunteers. The brass band element refers to the brass band competitions which have been running in the town since 1990. The build at the end is a celebration intended to give the feeling of dancing in the library.
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Credits
- Phil Wilkins Website
Writer, Performer and Producer - Emma Powell
Library Manager - Nicki Hitchcock
Library Manager
Special thanks to the volunteers at Pershore Library
Redditch Library
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Redditch Library
Redditch Library is a large town centre library, located next to the Kingfisher Shopping Centre. It is open six days a week providing the full range of library services alongside adult learning courses and a children and adult readers' groups.
Address
15 Market Place, Redditch, B98 8AR Directions
From Here to There
Andy Higgitt
Forty years ago Redditch Library moved from its old Victorian home to a brand new building next to the new Kingfisher Shopping Centre. This year, the library celebrated with a tea party for friends old and new – and many people who had been present at the move came along to share their memories. Lending an Ear was on hand to interview people about that move and about their impressions of the town. The subject of ghosts came up more than once, not least from celebrated local author Anne Bradford, who has written several books on the subject. Another local author, Andy Higgitt of Jestaminute Community Theatre Company, listened to the interviews and came up with a story about the move…from the point of view of one of the ghosts said to live among the shelves. Those interviewed included Glenys Hall, Graham Smith, Jane Duffill, Margaret Green, Brian Hart, Anne Bradford and Kishwar Ahmed.
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Credits
- Rob Swinton
Reader - Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - Teresa Jordan
Library Manager
Rubery Library
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Rubery Library
Rubery Library is situated in the aptly named Library Way in Rubery. It offers a full range of library services including book lending, free public internet, photocopying, Job Club and children's activities. It also hosts a creative writing group, reading group, knit and natter and a quilting group.
Address
7 Library Way, Rubery, Birmingham, Worcestershire B45 9JS Directions
Show us our words
Jenny Hope
Rubery Library sits at the heart of a community on the very edge of Birmingham; a place cut in two by the A38 which almost flies over the town. Jenny Hope was asked to visit Rubery and talk to residents about its identity and geography, particularly as it tries to realign itself in the wake of the decline of Longbridge as manufacturing hub. As she walked and talked she met characters including the best-dressed man in the area (having 300 shirts), and a woman who wants to declare Rubery an independent state.
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Credits
- Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - Nicki Hitchcock
Library Manager
Stourport-on-Severn Library
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Stourport-on-Severn Library
Stourport Library began a 'new chapter' in March 2015, when it reopened in Stourport Civic Centre and became part of a lively community hub, sharing the building with the Town Council and the Coroner's Office.
The library provides the full range of library services alongside adult learning courses and readers' groups and has a meeting room available for hire.
Address
Civic Centre, New Street, Stourport on Severn, DY13 8UN Directions
The Heart of Stourport Town
Red Shoes
The Tontine Hotel was built in 1772 to provide lodgings and premises for the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Company at their newly established depot at Stourport. Lending an Ear interviewed two ladies who grew up in houses attached to the Tontine in the 1950s, Linda Clark and Rita Phillips, both of whom still live in the town. Mark and Carolyn Evans of Red Shoes – who have strong ties to Stourport themselves – listened to the interviews and crafted this song as a response.
Words and music by Mark Evans and Carolyn Evans (copyright Twister Publishing).
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Credits
- Carolyn Evans
Vocals - Mark Evans
Accoustic Guitar - Nigel King
Accoustic Guitar; Mandolin - David Henderson
Cajon - Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer
Special thanks to Justin Hughes
Tenbury Wells Library
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Tenbury Wells Library
Tenbury Library provides a 'one stop shop' for a wide range of local services including Citizens' Advice and Worcestershire Hub Customer Services. The library provides the full range of library services as well as a programme of children's activities, adult learning courses and readers' groups. It also has a meeting space available for hire.
Address
24 Teme Street, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8AA Directions
The Mistletoe Bride [Revised Version]
Chloë of The Midnight Storytellers
Tenbury Wells is well-known for its connections to Mistletoe. In the weeks leading up to Christmas it holds its famous Mistletoe Market as well as the Mistletoe Festival, a unique arts and community event which includes the crowning of the Mistletoe Queen and her Holly Prince. As part of the Festival, storyteller Chloë toured local schools telling a mix of traditional and original folktales. For Lending an Ear, she created her own version of the most famous of these tales, The Mistletoe Bride, and performed it in front of an audience at Tenbury Library.
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Credits
- Chloë of The Midnight Storytellers Website
Storyteller - Caroline Palethorpe Website
Performance Producer - Jackie Passey
Library Manager - Niall Gault
Sound Engineer - Andy Partington Website
Sound Editor
Upton-Upon-Severn Library
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Upton-Upon-Severn Library
Upton upon Severn is a small town of great character and charm that sits on the River Severn, in South Worcestershire. The library is a small community library close to the centre of the town providing the community with a modern library service and a range of local services.
Address
School Lane, Upton-upon-Severn, WR8 OLE Directions
Upton Water Music
Corinne Frost
The River Severn and its accompanying floods lie at the heart of Upton. We interviewed volunteers and staff at the library, asking them for their impressions of this picturesque but precariously located Worcestershire town. The recurring themes were floods, festivals, wildlife, shops and the attractiveness of the place. Cellist Corinne Frost listened to these interviews and responded by improvising a piece of music, recorded in the library itself. In her music she reflects the stories and reminiscences of the interviewees.
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Credits
- Corinne Frost Website
Cellist - Andy Partington Website
Sound Recordist/Editor - Delphine Telfer
Library Manager
Special thanks to: Ruth Ransom, Robina Rand, Angela Haywood and Sue Spackman.
Woodrow Library
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Woodrow Library
Woodrow Library is a small community library located in the Woodrow Centre. The library is located next door to the Council Hub and is open five days a week.
Address
25 Local Centre, Studley Road, Redditch, B98 7RY Directions
I Need Magic
Ian Billings
A lot of young people of all ages drop into Woodrow Library, which in the heart of a small shopping centre in Redditch, after school, at weekends and during school holidays. Writer and storyteller Ian Billings spent a couple of days hanging out at the library with them, encouraging them to create characters and stories from the objects they saw around them in the library. He returned a week later to tell his own tale based on their ideas and characters.
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Credits
- Ian Billings Website
Storyteller - Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer/Editor - Teresa Jordan
Library Manager
Special thanks to the young people of Woodrow.
Worcester St. John's Library
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Worcester St. John's Library
St. John's Library is situated in the heart of the St John's, a community within Worcester. Lottery funding enabled an extension and refurbishment in 2010 adding modern features and space to hire. The library offers a full range of library services alongside activities including scrabble, whist and chess, reading groups, job club, children's events and a café.
Address
Glebe Close, St. John's, Worcester, WR2 5AX Directions
A Day in the Life of St John’s School
Jenny Hope
St John’s Library in Worcester is housed in a Victorian school building which was active as a primary school up to thirty years ago. Library worker Sheila Chance brought together a group of people who attended the school in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and invited them to share their memories with the Lending an Ear team. School dinners, punishments, playground games, swimming lessons and the strange quirks of individual teachers were all discussed and recorded. These recordings were passed on to poet Jenny Hope and the Hive Young Writers who responded to them with a set of poems about life in the building when it was still a school. Very different from the school life of the children today! Former pupils included John, Jenny, Gail, Gill, Maria and Doug.
Featuring Jenny Hope, with Freya S-A, John T, Evie H, Mimi L, Marisol B-G, Leoni S, Jessica B, Josie R, Lewis A, Anna G and Clarissa H-B.
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Credits
- Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - Lynne Shave
Library Manager
Worcester Warndon Library
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Worcester Warndon Library
Warndon Library is located within the Fairfield Centre which also includes a private nursery, children's centre, adult learning centre. The light and contemporary library space provides the local community with a modern library service.
Address
The Fairfield Centre, Carnforth Drive, Worcester, WR4 9HG Directions
Worcester 1916 (All I Heard)
Jenny Hope and Year 5 at Fairfield Community School
Warndon Library has a close connection with Fairfield Community School on the Warndon Estate, so for Lending an Ear pupils spent a morning in the library exploring life in their home city 100 years ago, during the First World One. Paul Harding and Helen Lee of Discover History led a workshop on life 100 years ago, and the pupils developed a picture of life on the Home Front. A few weeks later poet Jenny Hope worked with the same pupils to turn their ideas into poems. The poems were in turn read and recorded by members of the Hive Young Writers.
Featuring readers from the Hive Young Writers Group: Freya S-A, Evie H, Mimi L, Marisol B-G, Josie R, Lewis A, Anna G, Clarissa H-B and Oscar H-B.
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Credits
- Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - John Marshall
Library Manager
The Hive
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The Hive
The Hive is Europe's first ever fully integrated public and university library. The Library, which has over a quarter of a million books shares the building with Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, Worcestershire Hub – a one stop shop for enquiries on all County and District Council services, The Hive Business Centre and a lively café. A full and diverse programme of regular and special events, workshops and courses suitable for all ages run throughout the year.
The Hive is a partnership between Worcestershire County Council and the University of Worcester.
Address
The Hive, Sawmill Walk, The Butts, Worcester, WR1 3PB Directions
We just want people to make a noise
Chris Mapp
This audio response to the Hive comes from an exploration into the site’s past as well as the contemporary sounds of the library. The work is in two parts. Firstly a performance of a new composition combining oral history recordings made by Justin Hughes with sounds sourced from the library as it is today. The musicians will be reinterpreting and responding to the recordings to create a sonic picture of the Hive’s past and present. Secondly an installation piece, devised in conjunction with visual artist Candy Day, invites library users to interact with a collection of sounds captured across a two day sound collecting event at the Hive.
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Credits
- Chris Mapp
Composer, Electronics - Aaron Diaz
Trumpet - Steve Tromans
Piano and Keyboards - Candy Day
Visual Artist - Janine Downs
Library Manager
Wythall Library
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Wythall Library
Wythall Library is a brand new library having recently moved into the new community hub at Woodrush High School. The library is shared with the school and offers the full range of library services. Within the Hub there is a meeting space, cafe, gym and dance studio.
Address
May Lane, Hollywood, Birmingham, B47 5PD Directions
Little Ol' Wythall
Laura Dedicoat, with students from Woodrush Community High School
Wythall Library has moved to sparkling new accommodation Woodrush Community Hub, which shares premises with Woodrush Community High School in Wythall. Poet Laura Dedicoat, who was a student at the school herself, returned to her roots to run a workshop with current students, working with them to develop creative responses to life in Wythall today. Laura – who was Worcestershire’s first young poet laureate – went away to write a poem of her own which draws on sentiment, Wythall facts, the stories from the workshop and a bit of Wythall specific humour thrown in.
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Credits
- Andy Partington Website
Sound Engineer - Jenny Robertson
Woodrush Community High School Librarian - Alyson Williams
Library Manager
About the project
Lending an Ear is an audio arts project involving all the libraries in Worcestershire in the creation of audio art works specific to their library, location and ‘story’. The artworks have been created by artists in collaboration with each library’s community during 2016. Elements of the county’s heritage, culture and unique character have been drawn upon and through music, drama, poetry, stories, fiction, songs and non-text audio a sound map of 22 audio artworks have been created.
The Hive have managed the project which has been delivered by a freelance project management team.
- Peter Leslie Wild Website
Artistic Producer - Charlotte Brennan & Sarah Mitton, Spark Arts Ltd Website
Project Managers - Andy Partington, Swift Professional Audio Website
Sound Engineer - Al Pagan Website
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