Designs of the time: Town Crying

Town Crying Gallery

See Alnwick's award-winning town crier John Stevens 'crying' at various locations across the region in the gallery.

Landscape/Portrait

In contrasting stereotypes with real-life identities, Landscape/Portrait poses the question 'is this you?'

Forma

Forma is one of Europe’s leading production agencies for high quality, interdisciplinary contemporary art.

Culture10

Culture10 is a curated programme of cultural events and festivals across the North East region.

Town Crying

In Vital Signs artists worked with communities across the region to ask who we are, how we are and how we would like our lives to be.

By asking such fundamental questions, Vital Signs provoked discussion about how our designed environment affects everyday life, and about the aspirations people hold for their lives and for the places they live in.

Vital Signs is commissioned by Dott 07 and produced by Forma.

Vital Signs - Town Crying
A Lone Twin project

Performance art group Lone Twin is renowned internationally for creating performances through making journeys and explorations into places. In Town Crying, Lone Twin collaborated with Alnwick's award-winning town crier to create a unique series of proclamations that told stories of places, events and communities back to the people of the region.

The scripts performed were developed from conversations and chance encounters between the artists and people who live, shop, work or visit these various locations. Through collecting stories, ideas and opinions, the artists built up a catalogue of ideas about how we want to live. These personal, anecdotal and often humorous commentaries were broadcast by the town crier at events ranging from car boot sales and markets to festivals and the Metro system.

If you missed the town crier click on the MP3 file below to listen to a script performed at Eldon Square in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Download the scripts below that were performed across the region from 19 - 29 July.

Find out more about the artists Lone Twin and Alnwick Town Crier.

Vital Signs formed part of North East England's world-class festival and events programme.