Times of change

Singleton, Aled 2023. Times of change. [Video]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYrW3cJfhk

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Abstract

This film documents a collaborative project between Aled Singleton with performers at Tin Shed Theatre to explore life in Newport through the 1960s and 1970s. Over the summer we created dramatic interventions which represent the changes that happened in Newport nearly seventy years ago. The stories in this film are developed from my interviews, newspaper articles from Newport Reference Library and Jessica Hammett's Moving to Bettws project. The 1960s and 1970s were times of exciting developments in Newport, such as a new shopping centre, office blocks, out-of-town housing estates, and big bridges. We planned to present these stories as part of a public guided walking tour on Sunday 18 September 2022. Unfortunately, the Queen’s death on 8 September meant that a certain mood would dominate our lives for ten days. The event planned for the day before her funeral could not happen. This film is the result of using the time to step back, reflect, and use the streets to take our work in a slightly different direction. Broadly we take a walk approximately 1.4km or 1 mile long and which has ten waypoints. The route is described in an article on Nation Cymru. This Ffilm Bach a Mawr production was made with Tin Shed Theatre Company and had support from Swansea University and the Economic and Social Research Council.

Item Type:	Digital or visual media
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Related URLs:	https://www.peoplescollection.wales/user... https://nation.cymru/culture/street-life...
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	22 May 2026
Last Modified:	22 May 2026 15:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/187176

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