SATURDAY, 12 NOVEMBER, 2-8PM

The Cabaret of Overlooked Histories is a day of talks, film screenings and performances discussing overlooked histories: the status of events within history, the blurring of fact and fiction, the ways in which history is constructed and how it is understood, accessed and presented visually. The Cabaret, and accompanyling two-week exhibition (details HERE), is the culmination of six weeks of research, discussion and collaboration by Wysing artists in residence Ruth Beale, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, An Endless Supply and Emma Smith, and Wysing Curator, Elinor Morgan.

Full schedule:

2-2.30pm Ruth Beale, Vignette 1: Call & Response- Land Ownership to Data Ownership, Enclosures to Open Source , from an ongoing work around a pageant written by E.M. Forster, England’s Pleasant Land. England's Pleasant Land: A Remake, explores issues of preservation, historicity, heritage and the countryside. The vignettes include a lecture, sound recording, music recital and play rehearsal.

2.30-3.15pm Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, introduces E.H. Carr’s What is History, a seminal work of critical historiography, and his own work, In Defence of History.

3.15-3.30pm Break. Refreshments available.

3.30-3.45pm Ruth Beale, Vignette 2: Journeys in Taste, with special guests.

3.45-4pm Reuben Henry and Karin Khilberg introduce and screen a new film documenting the launch of thirty copies of their new book Apeirophobia from a clay pigeon trap and subsequent shooting down by a professional marksman.

4-4.45pm Dr Henriette Hendricks, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge University discusses ongoingness versus completeness in relation to how we understand the passing of time, and position or project ourselves into moments in time through language.

4.45-5pm Break. Refreshments available. 

5-5.30pm Ruth Beale, Vignette 3: Planning and Infrastructure, Snobbery to Bureaucracy, with David Knight. Vignette 4: Folk Melange and Selective Anthropology: The Reworking of Tradition with traditional music of the Cambridgeshire Collective.

5.30-6pm Panel discussion with residency artists, Dr Henriette Hendricks and Richard J. Evans.

6-8pm Launch of new gallery exhibition of work by residency artists.

7.30-8pm Performance of Bourn Bounds Bob Major in the tower at Bourn Church; a new ringing composition by Emma Smith based on the thoroughfares and boundaries of the village of Bourn and the mathematical extent of Bourn’s bells as rung by their ringers. Performed by the Bourn ringers, conducted by Emma Smith.

The Cabaret is FREE but booking is essential due to limited space. To book email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 01954 718881.