Overview
Jazz Slave Ships was a site-specific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and London-based performer Vanessa Richards that involved the creation of an ancestral altar. It took place in two U.K. ports in October 1996: on the West Coast in Whitehaven, Cumbria (the last English slaving port), in an 18th century bonded warehouse used to store liquor and guns used in the slave trade; and on the East Coast in Hull, Yorkshire in Wilberforce House, the birthplace of the anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce and now a museum of anti-slavery. The production took place over a 3-week period that began Sept. 30, 1996.
Year 1998
Director Elspeth Sage, Paul Wong
Crew Maureen Bradley (Online Editor), Vanessa Richards (Writer), Kerry Elliott (Production Assistant), Joe Sarahan (Assistant Editor), Simon Herbert (Still Photographer), Jonti Tarbuck (Production Assistant)
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