itswherewego.com is an audiovisual performative archive of memories about the seaside in and around the UK. These are stories of nostalgia and loss, but also of community and hope. This performance explores our communal understanding of these unique spaces and their potential for shared experience.

itswherewego.com is an online adaptation of It’s Where We Go, our 2016 site-specific performance exploring the British seaside and nostalgia, performed at Coastival Festival, North Yorkshire; Herne Bay Festival, Kent; and Tenby Arts Festival, Pembrokeshire. We gave each audience member an audio device and encouraged them to take a walk along the seafront. Then we invited them to contribute their memories on postcards, which you can see above.

In early 2021, we adapted this performance to make it accessible to a wider audience online. We collaborated with photographer Ian Howorth, whose work explores memory, emotion and nostalgia, to add to the stories and help frame these seaside experiences as you listen to them.

We hope the themes in this performance will speak to you, especially during these challenging times, and bring you a little bit of light. Listening to this performance now is about remembering what we once had, and the people we shared those experiences with.

In time, we can share new moments and create more memories. The seaside will be there for us.

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