Join us for the screening of Charlotte Ginsborg’s new series of short films, Our future, our past, whisper it to me.
Responding to the new garden city in Ebbsfleet and the surrounding area, Our future, our past, whisper it to me has been developed in collaboration with local residents, and combines poetry, performance, and documentary to investigate people’s sense of belonging, what home means to them, their experiences of the area, its history, and their vision for the future.
Taking inspiration from the title of Ebenezer Howard’s book, Garden Cities of To-morrow, and Henry George’s utopian novel, Looking Backwards, the film encompasses the memories and future aspirations of both older residents and younger generations in order to meditate on the cultural history of the area and the impacts of the new development at a key moment of transition.
By drawing on traditions of oral history and contemporary spoken word practice, and working with both younger and older generations from a diversity of backgrounds, the work seeks to foreground often unheard voices and give participants creative agency to represent their vision for the future of the area.
Our future, our past, whisper it to me has been commissioned by Cement Fields as part of This Must Be the Place, a long-term project working with local people in Ebbsfleet and the surrounding area to explore and shape the new garden city as it is built.
This Must Be the Place is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and by Ebbsfleet Development Corporation.
The launch follows our half-day conference, This Must Be the Place: Placemaking with Young People.
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