Wow…
October 9th, 2009
That was quick- just got a call from ArtsAgenda saying that the first lot of funding has come in! I’m so pleased and I can’t think of a better way to go into the weekend. Hopefully, more will follow soon.
Perpetual Light
October 9th, 2009

Control Tower, Greenham Common
My name is Jessica Curry and I am a classically trained composer whose project Perpetual Light is currently is development. Perpetual Light: Requiem for an Unscorched Earth is a site-specific choral performance, set in nuclear bunkers. It is not only for those who have lost their lives in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Cold War but is also a threnody for the war that never happened, a remembrance of all the people who survived due to the non-detonation of nuclear weapons.
Perpetual Light will be presented to a live audience in 3 UK sites. A 20 voice choir sings the composed requiem. Each performance will be a unique, beautiful, evocative and haunting site-sensitive piece that invites the audience to engage with its simple, powerful message: hope. Despite the fact we have created these weapons with the capacity to decimate the entire world we have not yet destroyed ourselves: we are still here. Perpetual Light isn’t just a memorial to those who died but also a testament to humans’ extraordinary will to survive.
I’m working with wonderful producers ArtsAgenda, with Evolve Exchange and the hugely talented Londinium Choir are also on board. There are currently several funding applications in and I’ll use the site to update you on the project as it develops.
It’s been a year of work to develop the project to the stage where we’re at now and I can honestly say that I’ve never worked so hard or for so long to get a project up and running. It’s a total passion project for me- the piece of work that I feel I need to write and it’s a nerve-wracking time waiting to hear back from funders. Fingers and everything else crossed…








