When: 21st-23rd October
Where: Various venues, Cardiff
Sŵn Festival, which takes place this weekend across the Welsh capital, has been working alongside Cardiff University to research the festival experience. As part of the collaborative project, the pair have revealed that they’ll be hosting a special Sŵn Music Museum within the Castle Arcade during the festival. The museum will be exploring 10 years of Sŵn Festival and the changes and developments within Cardiff across that time. It’ll also be inviting music lovers, venues and well-known names to contribute their own pieces of musical history.
Dr Johann Gregory, co-ordinator of the Creative Cardiff Research Network at the University, said: “This is an exciting opportunity for the University to work with a festival community and talk about music memories as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sŵn. As the festival landscape grows and grows, the research project, which runs in tandem with the Museum, will offer fresh insights into the ecology of festivals and their cultural value.”
Meanwhile, Dr Jacqui Mulville, leader of the Festivals Research Group and Sŵn Music Museum curator, said: “In asking people to share objects in our museum we want to explore how central music is to their lives and, as an archaeologist I am interested in how objects represent the recent, as well as the far distant, past. Also, 2016 has been a year of musical news, with anniversaries such as 10 years of Sŵn and 40 years of punk, the loss of high profile musical stars including Bowie and Prince and the closure of city centre music venues such as Fabric in London. I think it is a good time to reflect on just how much music matters to us.”
The Sŵn Music Museum will be open to the public on Friday 21st October between 12-5pm and between the same hours on Saturday and Sunday. It is free for everyone to explore. Find out more about the music museum via their Twitter page.
For more information on this weekend’s Sŵn Festival, visit their official website.
