Director: Malaika Cunningham
Sound Design: Lee Affen
Dramaturgy: Joseph Houlders
Producer: Linda Bloomfield
Archivist: Tereza Ward
Walking with Delight was an audio artwork based in Cheetham Hill, responding to the Manchester Jewish Museum’s oral archive of testimonies of life in the area, which dates back to the 1920s.
What is often emphasised are the tales of wars, racism and pandemics, and of serious poverty. The stories we used were more everyday, and also more wonderful. Stories that exist within and alongside these hardships, sometimes despite them. Stories about love and delight.
We wanted to connect with the Jewish histories of this area in a different way. We hope that in seeking out and acknowledging moments of delight, we can draw out what is important to us, what gives us meaning and how we might cultivate more love and delight in our lives and communities in the future.
Walking with Delight was an audio artwork based in Cheetham Hill, responding to the Manchester Jewish Museum’s oral archive of testimonies of life in the area, which dates back to the 1920s.
What is often emphasised are the tales of wars, racism and pandemics, and of serious poverty. The stories we used were more everyday, and also more wonderful. Stories that exist within and alongside these hardships, sometimes despite them. Stories about love and delight.
We wanted to connect with the Jewish histories of this area in a different way. We hope that in seeking out and acknowledging moments of delight, we can draw out what is important to us, what gives us meaning and how we might cultivate more love and delight in our lives and communities in the future.
Director
Malaika Cunningham
Sound Design
Lee Affen
Dramaturgy
Joseph Houlders
Producer
Linda Bloomfield
Archivist
Tereza Ward