Sea Change: Walk

Sound artist Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts has created a series of podcasts platforming local voices. These short ‘audio postcards’ include the voices of local people, mixing their local, long term knowledge and expertise with scientists, artists, conservationists in the Royal Docks areas of Newham.

The Royal Docks - Untold histories walk

As you walk between the two sites listen to a short audio feature exploring how the docks have always been a place of mixing and mingling as workers and goods came from overseas via this gateway into the city. Founder of Poetry vs Colonialism Laila Sumpton, Ansar Ahmed Ullah from the Swadhinata Trust and UCL historian Dr Anna Maguire highlight the Bengali seamen known as Lascars.

This series of Audio Postcards is produced by Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts as part of Sea Change, commissioned by the Royal Docks Team in collaboration with University College London and curated by Invisible Dust.

Featuring the voices of Laila Sumpton, Ansar Ahmed Ullah from the Swadhinata Trust, Dr Anna Maguire and members of the Royal Wharf Community Dock ESOL learning group. The poem Jamdani Weavers, by Laila Sumpton (co-founder of Poetry Vs Colonialism and member of the London Sea Shanty Collective).

Wild Goose is performed by the London Sea Shanty Collective.