With music by our composer Kate Whitley and poet Laura Attridge, Our Future In Your Hands was inspired by the seismic global youth movement against climate change, championed by Greta Thunberg.

We can’t wait to return to Gloucester to perform Our Future In Your Hands on 19th November 2021 with our amazing partner, Strike a Light.

What to expect

We’re transforming the giant sports hall at GL1 into a unique performance venue for one night only.

The piece is an epic piece imagining the world recovering from climate change and being reborn again in the future – and an optimistic vision that we think we all need at the moment!

There are two choirs – one representing the voice of anger and protest, and one the voice of future optimism and change. The three soloists portray an astronaut, looking down to Earth from space and seeing the world as a whole for the first time, a man deciding whether or not to have a child, and a woman struggling to find water and survive in an apocalyptic future. Through their stories and the choir’s protest songs, the piece takes us on a journey from terror and destruction to the imagining of how the world could be if we survived and recovered.

As always, the evening will be super relaxed, with casual clothes, informal seating and a bar! You can eat and drink during the performance if you want.

Performed by:
The Multi-Story Orchestra
The Multi-Story Choir

Soloists 
Soprano - Sarah-Jane Lewis
Alto - Kate Howden
Bass Baritone - TBC

Conductor - Christopher Stark

THANKS

Our Future In Your Hands was commissioned by the Buxton International Festival, in collaboration with the Royal Over-Seas League.

This is a Genesis Kickstart Fund project, supported by the Genesis Foundation. The Multi-Story Orchestra are grateful to the following funders who have made this event possible:

Arts Council England
Borletti-Buitoni Trust
PRS Foundation
Granada Foundation
Britten Pears Foundation
John and Susan Bowers Fund
Marchus Trust
Thistle Trust
Three Monkies Trust