13.30 – 15.30 Friday 16th October 2026
The Brampton Museum
Newcastle-under-Lyme
ST5 0QP
Half-day Workshop with Güler Ates, all welcome, no previous experience in sound art is required.
This workshop aims to bring together communities of North Staffordshire to explore how sound and music can hold memory, identity, and belonging. Through collaborative listening, storytelling, and creative sound-making, participants transform personal and collective experiences into shared narratives that honour the area’s cultural richness and histories of migration. In response to the In Perpetuum installation previously at Museum of the Home, this workshop aims to bring together communities of North Staffordshire to explore how sound and music can hold memory, identity, and belonging. Through collaborative listening, storytelling, and creative sound-making, participants transform personal and collective experiences into shared narratives that honour the area’s cultural richness and histories of migration.
Artist and Facilitator: Güler Ates
Güler Ates works with Video, Photography, Printmaking, Sound Art and Performance. At the heart of her work lies an exploration into the experience of cultural displacement. Manifestations of Ates’s work are realised through performance and site-responsive activities that merge Eastern and Western sensibilities. The architectural sites that Ates works within are of a particular era with specific links to colonialism, now post-colonialism, and the ‘East’, and she finds that they are interesting to work in, in their own right. Ates conducts research into the history of these sites, which informs the source of the fabric that becomes a costume or veil for her performing model to wear. As part of the performance, the subject tells a story drawn from the history of the site, exploring her feeling of cultural duality.
Co-facilitator: Oghosa Ize-Iyamu
Founder and Creative Director of Confessions from an Observer (@conceptuallyosa)
