Sound Links: Ulster Orchestra Performance

The Sound Links Block Party is a community-led celebration of the street and its people on International Peace Day in September 2024. A partnership between the Ulster Orchestra and Townsend Enterprise Park with Zeppo Arts Management, Sound Links celebrates the heritage of the area and we have commissioned three new works as part of the project, by local composers Úna Monaghan, Rory Friers and Jamie Thompson, which will be performed at 8pm on Saturday 21 September.

Over the past few months, we’ve held several consultation workshops in the local area where members of the public came to share their memories and stories of Townsend Street and offer their hopes and aspirations for the future. We’ve also visited local schools, care homes, day centres and community groups, where our facilitators – writers Natasha Geary, Emily DeDakis, Fionnuala Kennedy and Maria McManus and Ulster Orchestra Animateur Jonathan Simmance – worked with pupils, residents and attendees over several weeks to talk about their memories and ideas. All of this material has been gathered together and given to our three composers to inform the music they are writing for the final event – we can’t wait to hear how they inspire the finished pieces! Visuals relating to the past, present and future of the street will be projected within the Church during the performance, creating an atmospheric, immersive experience.

Everyone is welcome at this final celebration of the Sound Links project in a performance that will remember the area’s past, celebrate its present and shape its future.

For those requiring accessible seating, please ensure you select the relevant ticket type when you make your booking.

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