Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research

 

19 June 2012, 13:00 to 3pm, Workshop/Seminar, Special Collections Reading Room.

 

Lucy and Barney Heywood: Theatre Jukebox presents Mass Observation

 

Theatre Jukebox is an arcade-style cabinet that plays stories instead of records and allows you to choose the chapters you want. It’s like snippets of memory or flicking through photo albums, each card sparking images, associations, snatches of conversations and ideas.
The latest project uses content and inspiration from the Mass Observation Archive, based at the University of Sussex. This material has documented everyday life in Britain from 1937 to the early 1950s, and continuously since 1981. Lucy and Barney Heywood, from Stand + Stare, will discuss how Theatre Jukebox was made and the process of working with the Mass Observation Archive. The session will include opportunities to have a go with the Jukebox and to ask any questions you may have.

 

A short film about Theatre Jukebox - http://vimeo.com/36711723

 

To book a place contact Sam Carroll [log in to unmask]

 

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/

 

Jessica Scantlebury,

The Mass Observation Archive, The Library, University of Sussex, BRIGHTON BN1 9QL, UK

Tel. +44 (0) 1273 678157

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http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm

http://twitter.com/MassObsArchive

 

Mass Observation Anniversaries Conference 

Seventy five years of Mass Observation & Thirty years of the Mass Observation Project

University of Sussex, 4-6 July 2012

http://www.massobs.org.uk/conference.htm