Basic Info
Release: October 01, 1998
Runtime: 15 min
Status: Released
Jazz Slave Ships
1998
15 min
Overview
Jazz Slave Ships was a site-specific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and London-based performer Vanessa Richards that involved the creation of an ancestral altar. It took place in two U.K. ports in October 1996: on the West Coast in Whitehaven, Cumbria (the last English slaving port), in an 18th century bonded warehouse used to store liquor and guns used in the slave trade; and on the East Coast in Hull, Yorkshire in Wilberforce House, the birthplace of the anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce and now a museum of anti-slavery. The production took place over a 3-week period that began Sept. 30, 1996.
Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
- Canada
- United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
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Cast
Jan Wade
Vanessa Richards
Crew
Vanessa Richards
Writer
Elspeth Sage
Director
Elspeth Sage
Executive Producer
Jan Wade
Writer
Paul Wong
Director
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