A/Owning
Live music and contemporary dance performed under shop awnings, featuring a collective poem written by Peterborough locals.
A/Owning is a new public artwork by José García Oliva, as part of Words in Public Spaces.
Working with local shop owners across the city, many of them migrant and second-generation families, José has adapted each awning into stages for a city-wide cultural programme. The words on the awnings come from a poem written collectively by people in Peterborough.
On the night, contemporary dance performances and live music will happen under the awnings. The music is written for each shopfront and draws on its sounds, its owners and the places its food and people come from. A part of each piece will also be improvised in response to what is happening around: a door opening, a bus passing, voices at the till.
Refreshments will be served at the final shop location.
Words in Public Spaces is a new public art commission from Metal, part of Peterborough Cultural Alliance's Place Partnership Programme.
Image credit: Alice Mann