Above: the Listening Booth is launched at Exeter Phoenix, February 2018. Photography by Theo Moye.
Dreadnought South West have commissioned the design and build of a very special mobile exhibition space. Known as the Listening Booth, it is deliberately designed to look like a voting booth to remind users of the centenary of the right to vote for some women. Excerpts from the oral histories collected for the Rebellious Sounds Archive have been loaded on to interactive voting cards. Listeners put on a pair of headphones and choose a voting card to place in the slot; this will play their chosen story of women’s activism.
The Listening Booth has now finished its exhibition tour as part of the National Lottery Heritage Funded ‘Rebellious Sounds Archive’ project. If you would be interested in hosting the booth, please contact us.
Previous Listening Booth locations:
14th February – 16th February 2018
Exeter Phoenix
23rd February – 16th March 2018
Listening Booth resident at No1 Royal Crescent, Bath
14th April – 26th April 2018
Listening Booth resident at Cornwall’s Regimental Museum, Bodmin
1st May – 9th May 2018
Listening Booth resident at The Forum, University of Exeter, Exeter
12th May 2018
Listening Booth resident at Exeter Pride, Exeter
14th May – 25th May 2018
Liskeard Methodist Church
26th May – 3rd June 2018
Listening Booth resident at House of Fraser, Plymouth for Plymouth History Festival
8th June – 22nd June 2018
Chippenham Museum, Chippenham
30th June – 8th July 2018
Listening Booth resident at M-Shed, Bristol
13th July – 27th July 2018
Listening Booth resident at Hypatia Trust, Penzance
28th August – 2nd September 2018
Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury
17th September – 28th September 2018
Shire Hall, Dorchester
5th October – 12th October 2018
Dartington Hall (Visitor Information Centre), Devon
13th October – 14th October 2018
WOW Festival Exeter – RAMM
22nd October – 3rd November 2018
Teign Heritage Centre, Teignmouth
6th November – 19th November 2018
Torquay Museum, Torquay
26th November – 10th December 2018
Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth
On 28th November, a special Equaliteas event and pop-up display about Nancy Astor MP will be joining the Listening Booth at Devonport Guildhall. Find out more here.
11th December – 6th January 2019
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
1st – 28th February 2019
Barnstaple Library
6th – 31st March 2019
Exeter Central Library
7th – 22nd May 2019
Frome Library
June – July 2019
Museum of Cornish Life, Helston
Saturday 20th July 2019
Celebration Event at the Museum of Cornish Life, Helston
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