The Guildhall Square is set to be transformed this month to showcase 13.8 billion years of life, the universe and everything in it.
About Us is the opening event for UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of creativity that combines live performances and multimedia installations to celebrate the entire history of the universe from Big Bang to the present day.
The free, outdoor event will be at Derry's Guildhall Square from Tuesday, March 15 – Monday, March 21, as part of its five-stop UK tour.
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This epic show will be projected at night onto Guildhall Square and Waterloo Place transforming it into a vast canvas showcasing cutting-edge projection mapping, animation, music and poetry.
Multiple live shows will take place every evening from 8pm.
In Derry's Guildhall Square, large video screens containing dynamic theatrical lighting will exhibit content created in partnership with local people.
Acclaimed composer and musician Nitin Sawhney CBE has composed an original score which will be performed as part of the live performances by Codetta, in association with the City of Derry International Choir Festival.
Sawhney has scored more than 60 films and his past collaborators have included Sir Paul McCartney and the London Symphony Orchestra.
By day, pop-up multimedia installations will be open from 10am – 5pm to showcase the boundless creativity of local children and young people with poems and Scratch animations created in schools’ workshops in Derry, Strabane and the surrounding area.
Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Alderman Graham Warke, said: "There is a real sense of anticipation building ahead of this amazing new festival experience for the City and District.
"The fact that so many local schools have collaborated in a creative way in producing some of the poems and animations for the installations is particularly exciting, giving local people a real sense of ownership and participation in the creative process.
"It is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the City and District as a cultural and creative centre, particularly as we approach the ten- year anniversary of our year as UK City of Culture."
UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK is funded and supported by the four governments of the UK and is commissioned and delivered in partnership with Belfast City Council, Creative Wales, and EventScotland.
Live shows are created by 59 Productions, the award-winning video artists behind the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, Stemettes and The Poetry Society featuring poems and Scratch animations by young people from across the UK.
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