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Live WW1 Walking Tour 29th May

4th April 2016

Oxford in the Great War: Sunday 29th May, 2-4pm

Join this fascinating walking tour around Oxford to learn about the city’s largely forgotten role in the First World War. Discover how many well known colleges and public buildings were converted into hospitals and for military use; the desperate plight of Belgian and Serbian refugees arriving in the city; plus the formative experiences of key historical and literary figures, including Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain and T E Lawrence. A poignant trip into an overlooked period in the Oxford story.

The tour will be led by Jeremy Allen, writer, from UnderConstruction Theatre using research gathered alongside volunteers from the University Museum’s Service as part of an Oxford City Culture Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund supported “Oxford in the Great War” project in collaboration with the Museum of the History of Science, following on from our show While They’re Away. in 2015.

The event is free, but please book a place here as numbers are limited.
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Meet outside the front gates of the Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ.

World War One Audio Walking Tour of Oxford

31st March 2016

L0025824 Operating theatre, Oxford.
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Operating theatre, 3rd Southern Hospital, Oxford dated 1915-16.
1915 – 1916 Nathen (d. 1958) and Dorothy (d. 1986) Waller.
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In 2016 UnderConstruction worked with volunteers from the University Museum’s Service to create an audio walking tour in partnership with the Museum of the History of Science to reveal the WW1 history of the city of Oxford using research originally gathered as part of developing While They’re Away.

Listen to this fascinating audio walking tour to learn about Oxford’s largely forgotten role in the first global conflict of the 20th Century. Discover how many well known colleges and public buildings were converted into hospitals and for military use; the desperate plight of Belgian and Serbian refugees arriving in the city; plus the formative experiences of key historical and literary figures, including Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain and T E Lawrence. A poignant trip into an overlooked period in the Oxford story.

Running time approx. 90-110 minutes depending on pace. Download to listen on your personal device here.

Recorded and edited by Glide Digital

This project was made possible by funding from the Oxford City Council Culture Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Hidden Spire

30th September 2015

Since 2012 UnderConstruction’s Artistic Director, Lizzy McBain, has worked as Creative Director for Hidden Spire, a collaborative project between Crisis and Arts at The Old Fire Station.

Hidden Spire brings professional artists and Crisis members together to create a performance using music, dance, theatre, visual arts and more. The two groups work together every step of the way and aim to produce an event which will stir, enchant, amuse and intrigue.

Everything from set design, script-writing and front-of-house is done as a collaboration between the artists and Crisis members. Hidden Spire isn’t just a production, it’s a process – it demonstrates the value and potential of having a public arts centre and resources for homeless people in the same building. Most importantly, it shows that excellent art and inclusive art can be the same thing.

To date we have created three productions exploring the themes of Hidden (2012), Chance (2013) and Transforming the Ordinary (2015), with the most recent resulting in the writing of a prequel to Shakespeare’s Tempest, called Before the Tempest.

Find more information about Hidden Spire here.

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