TOWARDS LIGHT in FAIR ISLE
CHROMA and Katherine Pogson
24 September – 1 October 2021

Towards Light is a music, art and lepidoptery project inspired by the urgent need to re-think the way humans relate to nature. This project explores the subject with a moths-eye view, to reimagine the way we accompany our fellow creatures, with a respect for what they need to thrive.

The project carries on in 2022 in various forms and locations around London and Norfolk.

In Fair Isle Towards Light is a week-long series of workshops for schoolchildren and adult islanders, responding to the biodiversity of the island and its habitats, creating textile art and new pieces of music for performance, and a chamber music concert. Stuart King leads composition sessions for the schoolchildren, and Katherine Pogson leads textile art workshops exploring our human relationship with nature.

The workshops link music and textile making directly to the embedded citizen-science practices of the Fair Isle community - practices which pay close attention to recording the patterns of non-human nature.

CHROMA has a 19-year history with Fair Isle, starting with Alastair Stout’s Given Days in 2002 – since when there’s been two rounds of the opera Odysseus Unwound; tango composition; Petrouschka; Half-Island Half-Bird and The Tides of the Ocean.

Music Director/clarinet - Stuart King
Artist/PhD researcher – Katherine Pogson
Visuals/producer – Claire Shovelton
Violin - Caroline Balding
Cello - Chris Allan

TOWARDS LIGHT is supported by:
Classic Fair Isle
The Chapman Trust
The Hugh Fraser Foundation
The Hope Scott Trust
The William Syson Foundation