The Tower of London has an epic sound and light display to commemorate the centenary of the end of the first World War.
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| These pictures are from my UK Red Hat friend Kathleen who lives very close to the Tower of London |
The Tower Remembers will fill the moat with thousands of individual flames: a public act of remembrance for the lives of the fallen, honouring their sacrifice.
This new artistic tribute will run for eight nights, leading up to and including Armistice Day 2018. A moving ritual.
Beyond the Deepening Shadow is an evolving installation, which will unfold each evening over the course of four hours, between 17:00 and 21:00 each evening, with the Tower moat gradually illuminated by individual flames.
The unfolding visual spectacle will be accompanied by a specially-commissioned sound installation; a sonic exploration of the shifting tide of political alliances, friendship, love and loss in war.
At the center of the sound installation lies a new choral work, with words from War Poet Mary Borden’s Sonnets to a Soldier. A powerful symbol of remembrance.
Beyond the Deepening Shadow will begin with a procession led by the Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London. Emerging from the fortress, the Yeoman Warders – themselves all distinguished former servicemen and women – will ceremonially light the first flame.
In a moving ritual, a select team of volunteers will then proceed to light the rest of the installation, gradually creating a circle of light, radiating from the Tower as a powerful symbol of remembrance.
Members of the public are invited to return to the Tower of London to see the installation evolve each night, and to join in this public act of commemoration.
The display will conclude at 21:00 every evening.
"They do not know that in this shadowed place it is your light they see upon my face."
Mary Borden
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