To ensure audiences across all three nights of the festival accessed the GIO Global Orchestra work, we opened the second half of each concert with a 5 minute extract from a carefully selected “spontaneously arising” GIO Global film.

S L O W was played as a pre-lude to Maggie Nichols’ drone based Pibroch for Palestine, including Refaat Alareer’s powerful poem “If I must die” staged on the National Day of Action. (pibroch – theme/ground/variations for pipes)

Passport was screened on the night that Surbhi Mittal’s voice boomed through the PA to introduce her Unbound watercolour score – Passport was an homage to the international collaboration of the Delhi Improvisers Orchestra (founded by Raymond 2024), and Douglas Ewart’s Concentric was conducted with George E Lewis as conduit for his ideas in absentia

Lines on the Floor, a graphic score of dancers shoes dragging a residue on a white floor, was screened before the “Small Groups” sessions on the last night, to emulate the shifting formations and constellations (striking and moving ensembles throughout the stage) (and the movevement workshops for GIObabies and GioDynamics)