This Place Meant

Sound Emergence is a contemplative sound practice led by André Braga-Verissimo and Sasha Maye Bruce. Their work brings together sound, heritage and community to create immersive listening experiences across Kent and beyond. They explore sound as a form of contemplation, deep listening, and collective gathering, working across art, music and history.

Joining Sound Emergence will be the oboist, Maureen Wolloshin. Maureen has a longstanding interest in the now forgotten sonic world of the anchoress. From 1464 for at least 100 years there was an anchoress living in a cell attached to Faversham’s parish church, St Mary of Charity. Pilgrims would have visited the anchoresses to pray, commune, and make offerings. In 1885 the church was thriving, the anchoresses were long gone, and an iron chapel (our Hot Tin) was erected to increase the church’s capacity.

Inspired by this history, Maureen will create a sound piece which imagines and echoes the sonic world the anchoresses would have experienced, and bring it to life through her instruments, people and field recordings taken outside the original church window of The Hot Tin.

Maureen is an oboist, improviser, composer and feministing academic. Her work is an experimental ‘making with’– a co-creating with others, objects and locations.

She plays with Free Women, Noisy Women, London Improvisers Orchestra and Free Range Orchestra, duets with Stevie Wishart and Khabat Abas and has presented her research across Europe.

Event Schedule

● 12pm-1pm – Drinks, home cooked food and social

● 1pm - 2pm -Live sound performance

● 2pm- 3pm –talk and Q&A with the artists (bar open)

What to Bring

This event will be seated due to limited space. Just dress comfortably

Hot, home cooked food and drinks will be available at the bar from 12pm (not included with the booking)

Tickets & Sliding Scale

Please contribute according to your financial circumstances. Paying the upper tier supports the project and helps us offer lower-cost access.

Suggested contribution: £5 – £15 per place. Please book a ticket for every person in your party, including children.

A FULL SERIES ticket for This Place Meant is available for £25, allowing attendance at as many events as you wish.

Tickets here

Children

Children are welcome.

The sound bath will last 60 minute, so It may not be suitable for very young children. All children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Andre & Sasha Sound Emergence, part of And Gather CIC

Sound Emergence