Where Light Falls Audio Description: Scene Setting and Instructions – Coventry Cathedral
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Where Light Falls audio description: scene setting and instructions
This is a set of audio description files for sight impaired visitors. Each audio description is its own sound file and is named accordingly. You will know when a new track is starting as you’ll hear the words “Where Light Falls audio description for sight impaired visitors” and then the name of the sight.
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Welcome to Where Light Falls, a spectacular light and poetry show commemorating 80 years since the start of the Second World War and the hope and resilience of the city of Coventry. Discover a trail of light, sound and poetry telling the story of the old and new cathedrals.
79 years ago on the 14 November, in the midst of heavy bombing throughout the city, the people of Coventry took shelter in the cathedral crypts. Others climbed on to its roof, to throw incendiaries on to the ground below, or ran in to the nave to put out fires.
Out of this destruction, Coventry established itself as a City of Peace and Reconciliation, borne out in the hope and resilience that came with the Post-War rebuilding of a new cathedral.
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Loss and Destruction
Part of Historic England’s Loss and Destruction season. Historic England presents Where Light Falls, spectacular light and poetry shows that honour the people who risked their lives to protect the places they loved. St Paul’s and Coventry Cathedral, two buildings with opposing fates during the Blitz, become the canvas to uncover hidden wartime histories.
Historic England commissioned two new works of poetry for Where Light Falls, facilitated by The Poetry Society and in collaboration with community groups. In Coventry, poet Jane Commane worked with Caludon Castle School, Coventry Older Voices, Good Chance and other local poetry groups to ask ‘What does the cathedral mean to you?’ Their responses helped inform the poem In a New Light.
Where Light Falls is made up of five projections. If you need assistance to find any of the sites, please ask one of our stewards to direct you.
- Site 1 is on the outside of Barnabas House on Priory Row.
- Site 2 is past Barnabas House, down the slope and where the side of the new Cathedral building.
- Site 3 is on the left hand side of the porch of the new cathedral.
- Site 4 is on the right hand side of the porch of the new cathedral.
- Site 5 is up the steps into the ruins of the old cathedral and focusses on the spire.
