Explore The Arch

High Rise
Connecting
Conversations

ExploreTheArch mounted this multi-sensory, interactive video installation in Stade Hall Hastings in December 2022 in partnership with SERIA__ project and Hastings Borough Council. Supported with a grant from the Culture of Solidarity-EUNIC Ukraine Fund, in partnership with the European Cultural Foundation and EUNIC with core financing led by the Goethe-Institut and additional funding by the Institut Français and Instituto Cervantes. EUNIC London facilitated the project with project partners Polish Cultural Institute, Goethe-Institut London and the Estonian Embassy in London.

High Rise Connecting Conversations experiential installation in Hastings featured alongside events in selected Culture of Solidarity cities Athens, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Dresden, Glasgow, Helsinki, Kyiv, Madrid, Paris, Sofia, Warsaw. In Lithuania activities are taking place in various cities.

Installation artist team: @poorlyBeetle, Gail Borrow, Frank Moon, Rod Morris, Dasha Podoltseva.

Musicians: Sam Brown, Frank Moon, Catherine Rajhans and Elizabeth Rajhans.

Videography: Svitlana Dolbysheva, Sasha Lunina, Rod Morris.

Community Engagement Team: Yasmin Aishah, Hannah Collisson, Etienne Cutmore-Kourouma, Rhonda Cutmore, Svitlana Dolbysheva, Jac Holt, Sasha Lunina, Zoe Oliver.

Project Facilitation: Anastasia Mina and Neicia Marsh of EUNIC London and Kevin Boorman and Cllr John Cannan of Hastings Borough Council with Cllr Maya Evans, Cllr Alan Roberts and Cllr Paul Scott.
Project Partners: Estonian Embassy in London, Hastings Borough Council, Goethe-Institut London and Polish Cultural Institute.