The Sky Is Filled With Thunder
2022 - Present
At the heart of the project is a desire to make space in which children can be seen, and can truly be heard.
The Sky Is Filled With Thunder is a live performance featuring a multi-layered audio artwork created in collaboration with and featuring the voices of children from the place wherever it’s presented. Experienced either in a group setting, or alone, it encompasses their thoughts on home, migration, family history, hope, anger, fear, grief and joy.
It celebrates children in all their emotional complexity, with all their wild dreams and uncertain futures. They have something to tell us. They want - they need - to be heard.
The Sky Is Filled With Thunder, Thamesmead, 2022
If we really listened to children, what would they want to say?
Meet the team
PARTNERS
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
Peabody
Windrush Primary School
Hawksmoor Youth Hub
ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
David Harradine
Sam Butler
PRODUCTION
Hansjorg Schmidt, Lighting Designer
Andrés Saenz de Sicilia, Sound Design
Sam Evans, Production Manager
“Fevered Sleep never underestimates the imaginative intelligence of a small child“
The Financial Times