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Migration Sounds x Odyssey Ensemble: Exploring Migration Through Sound

Michaelmas 2024 / 23 November, 18:30 - 20:00 GMT, Convened by COMPAS, Cities and Memory and Odyssey Ensemble

The Story Museum, 42 Pembroke St, Oxford OX1 1BP

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Overview

Experience Migration Sounds, a project between Cities and Memory and COMPAS, University of Oxford, with performances by the Odyssey Ensemble. Join us for this unique live performance hosted in the Story Museum celebrating the power of migrant storytelling.

Join us for a unique live event exploring issues of migration through the mediums of sound and music. The Odyssey Ensemble and Cities and Memory, in collaboration with the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), will present highlights from the global Migration Sounds project in a live context, along with discussion of how sound can be used to highlight and reframe some of the complex debates around migration - in particular forced migration. The event will introduce Migration Sounds and Odyssey, with artists presenting and performing pieces from the project. Artists confirmed so far include:

  • The Odyssey Ensemble
  • Cities and Memory
  • Kid Kin
  • Kim[bal]
  • Arvik Torrensen

The event is free and open to all. Please book your ticket here.

This is a seated event. Entries will be permitted on 23 November 17:30 to valid ticket holders.