New Lanark sets shining example with sound and light show
October 23 2017
Shining Lives saw gables and grounds brought to life as the backdrop for the display of historic images and video footage together with a custom soundtrack to showcase the life of the mills to a modern audience.
The narrative-driven spectacle charts the lives of mill workers and their families to paint a wider social and industrial history of the Clyde and Avon Valley.
Annique Armstrong, Visit Scotland regional director said: “The historic environment forges connections between people and places, so it’s fitting that during Scotland’s current celebratory themed year, we shone a spotlight on New Lanark’s outstanding universal value. The activity brought the region’s historic past to life in the context of a modern, collaborative and innovative Scotland for both visitors and locals who got the chance to experience this memorable event.”
The display served as a denouement to Scotland’s 2017 Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology.
Blank walls were turned into an illuminating canvas
The nocturnal show depicts development of the areas industrial, musical and social history
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#2 Posted by Walt Disney on 25 Oct 2017 at 09:23 AM
Thomas - an interesting counter argument to what is very much an under explored paradox. Better conditions for Scottish workers on the backs of slavery, misery and death.
I remember sitting through countless lectures as a student as the 'merchants' of Glasgow were exhaulted for their philanthropy and largesse in building the merchant city and the second city of empire - all built on theft and slavery. Surely it is about time that Glasgow came to terms with the source of Buchanan's, Glassford's, Ingram's, et al's fortunes?
I remember sitting through countless lectures as a student as the 'merchants' of Glasgow were exhaulted for their philanthropy and largesse in building the merchant city and the second city of empire - all built on theft and slavery. Surely it is about time that Glasgow came to terms with the source of Buchanan's, Glassford's, Ingram's, et al's fortunes?
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The trouble is squaring this with the 'nasty, brutish and short' lives lived within. The selling of New Lanark (purely on the back of the American slave/cotton trade) as some model of social advancement i have always found as risible.
Surely time for a serious historical re-evaluation of the 'utopian' history of this place and its significance in terms of 'globalisation'.
Its the Disney glossing of History that is objectionable (New Lanark and the Yorvik centre are in the same boat).