Jazz Slave Ships (1998)

Jazz Slave Ships

1998

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Elspeth Sage

Paul Wong

Cast

Jan Wade

Vanessa Richards

Crew

Joe Sarahan (Assistant Editor)

Elspeth Sage (Camera Operator)

Paul Wong (Camera Operator)

Simon Herbert (Camera Operator)