Name: Women of the Windrush
Start: 2023-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Pavilion Arts Centre

Organization

Buxton International Festival

Women of the Windrush

Buxton

United Kingdom

Pavilion Arts Centre

Public

Approved

Through mesmerising instrumental music and song, multi-award-winning composer Shirley J Thompson’s opera, Women of the Windrush, portrays inspirational narratives from the lives of a variety of women who travelled to the UK from the West Indies (1940s – 1960s).

Archive film and video projection interweave compelling
stories from a cricketer’s wife, a student nurse, a concert pianist and a new bride, who all relate their experiences of arriving and settling in England. Charismatic and versatile lyric soprano, Nadine Benjamin, embodies the essence of the settlers’ experiences in this operatic re- imagining of Shirley J Thompson’s original film, Memories in Mind (1992).

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