Director: Malaika Cunningham
Writer: Joseph Houlders
Producer: Tom Dixon
Sound Design/Composer: Lee Affen with support from James Cooper
Set Design: Bethany Wells with support from Jack Poole and Roanna Wells
Lighting and Video Design: Will Monks
Palace Programmer: Sally Proctor and Sinead Hargan
Performers: Rose Gray, with voiceover by Pauline Tomlin and Reuben Johnson
Palace Archive additional team
Digital Design: Joe Bunce
Illustration/Graphic design: Hannah Roast
With special thanks to Linda Bloomfield, Sarah Lewis-Cole, Tim Jackson, Marit Hammond, Róise Goan, Invisible Flock, Lyth Arts Centre, Clive Wilmer, Lancaster Arts, The Albany, Artsadmin, Ruth Nutter, Ventnor Exchange, Flux Rotherham,Regina Mosch, Stockton ARC, Warwick Arts Centre, Sacha Gray and the team at ArtBomb, Sheffield Climate Alliance, and Rotherham Children’s Capital of Culture, and the many many people who have offered their time and energy to the Palace over the years.
The Palace asks how we find energy for change, despite our fear and anger about the future. It is rooted in utopias. The mystery of the utopias which have gone before, gone wrong, become dystopian. And in the impulse for escape; of doing something radically different to the world we live in.
The Palace is half-built. Right now it has a radio station, a pantry, and a number of escape hatches. The kitchen, which is at the heart of the Palace, is very well used. Utopian scheming is hungry work.
Join us for a feast, a conversation, and a howl of rage this summer.
This project has been on a long journey so far with many twists and turns.
The Palace asks how we find energy for change, despite our fear and anger about the future. It is rooted in utopias. The mystery of the utopias which have gone before, gone wrong, become dystopian. And in the impulse for escape; of doing something radically different to the world we live in.
The Palace is half-built. Right now it has a radio station, a pantry, and a number of escape hatches. The kitchen, which is at the heart of the Palace, is very well used. Utopian scheming is hungry work.
Join us for a feast, a conversation, and a howl of rage this summer.
This project has been on a long journey so far with many twists and turns.
Director: Malaika Cunningham
Writer: Joseph Houlders
Producer: Tom Dixon
Sound Design/Composer: Lee Affen with support from James Cooper
Set Design: Bethany Wells with support from Jack Poole and Roanna Wells
Lighting and Video Design: Will Monks
Palace Programmer: Sally Proctor and Sinead Hargan
Performers: Rose Gray, with voiceover by Pauline Tomlin and Reuben Johnson
Palace Archive additional team
Digital Design: Joe Bunce
Illustration/Graphic design: Hannah Roast
With special thanks to Linda Bloomfield, Sarah Lewis-Cole, Tim Jackson, Marit Hammond, Róise Goan, Invisible Flock, Lyth Arts Centre, Clive Wilmer, Lancaster Arts, The Albany, Artsadmin, Ruth Nutter, Ventnor Exchange, Flux Rotherham,Regina Mosch, Stockton ARC, Warwick Arts Centre, Sacha Gray and the team at ArtBomb, Sheffield Climate Alliance, and Rotherham Children’s Capital of Culture, and the many many people who have offered their time and energy to the Palace over the years.
Photography by Julian Cole
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