"Hope Central Each day when we wake, we are born again. What we decide to do with that day connects us through ourselves to each other. The Earth spins and we hope…
Hope Central wants to ask you what you hope for. Using an automated voicemail system, you can phone up and leave your answer.
The Hope Central soundscape will then bring together your messages; visions of hope for a better world, personal stories of what the future might hold, providing intimate responses to the question, building an audio portrait of people’s hopes.
Hope Central is designed to deliver a social commentary about what people hope for, taking audio references from people’s messages and intertwining them with sound, music and the connective spirit of storytelling and immersive listening.
Hope Central presents a sound piece, drawing on the experience of connecting while physically apart, and the unity it can bring when people, as both talker and listener, speak to each other.
Hope Central has been commissioned by Creative Black Country through Arts Council England Funding as part of a programme of events making Creative Connections in the region.
The project has been developed by Rick Sanders, a Black Country poet, artist and maker, working with sound artist Bill Laybourne and website designer Holly O’Meara.
Hope Central will broadcast online every day from 7th April to the 8th May 2022, allowing people to listen live to the collated voices and soundscape.
A special performance event will take place to launch the soundscape into the atmosphere on the evening of Wednesday 6th April at General Office in Stourbridge.
Hope Central is supported by Creative Black Country, Workshop 24, General Office, and Arts Council England’s Creative People & Places.
Why not get involved and leave your message of hope by calling: 01384 894 680 Visit www.hope-central.org for further details."
