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Image: Matthew Cooper

Photos: Matthew Cooper

Love Stories

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LOVE STORIES is a digital audio trail in the recently restored South Cliff Gardens. Real-life love stories connected to the gardens, told by those who experienced them, with orchestral backing and community choir. A romantic promenade of storytelling, music and song.

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HOW TO ACCESS THE AUDIO TRACKS

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STREAM FOR FREE

Click the button above or download the Bandcamp app onto your device and search Sinfonia Viva / LOVE STORIES. You can stream the five track album here. (WIFI in the gardens may be patchy).


DOWNLOAD FOR 50p

Download the Bandcamp app onto your device. Create and log in to your account, search Sinfonia Viva / LOVE STORIES, and buy the Digital Album for 50p. It will appear in your Bandcamp Collection where you can download and listen offline (WIFI is patchy in the gardens so we advise this option).  


BORROW A DEVICE

If you’d prefer to borrow a device with the tracks pre-loaded, email info@hello-arcade.com for details of how to book one of our ready to go audio players and headphones. N.B devices are limited, so please where possible use the Bandcamp app. 

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WHERE?
Each of the five audio tracks can be enjoyed anywhere in the gardens but we suggest that you listen near to these locations which inspired the stories.

A Map of South Cliff Gardens Love Stories audio trail.

PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK

Don’t forget to leave feedback so that we can continue to make more brilliant creative things happen! #SouthCliffLoveStories

READ THE SCRIPTS

If you would like to read the scripts (spoiler alert), please click on the links below

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1. Between The Esplanade and the Seashore  (PDF) (Word.docx)

2. The Cottage of Love (PDF) (Word.docx)

3. From Then To Now... A Tale of Transformation (PDF) (Word.docx)

4. Love Lives Here (PDF) (Word.docx)

5. A Garden for All Seasons (PDF) (Word.docx)

ACCESS

Read our comprehensive guide (PDF or Word) on how to get to Scarborough's South Cliff Gardens, and where to park if you're coming by car.

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CREDITS

 

Produced by ARCADE
Co-produced with Orchestras Live and Sinfonia Viva (featuring musicians from Scarborough Spa Orchestra)

 

CREATIVE TEAM

Composer Jackie Walduck

Associate Artist Rebecca Denniff

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MUSICIANS

Violin: David Greed

Cello: Diane Stewart

Double Bass: Dave Ayre

Flute: Kathy Seabrook

Clarinet: Graham Quilter

Trumpet: Shane Brennan

Keyboard: Paul Laidlaw

Percussion: Ben Gray &
Nii Kwartey Owoo

Accordion & Guitar: Theo Kendall

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ACTOR

Tim Tubbs

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SCRIPT CONSULTANT

Hannah Davies

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SOUND ENGINEER

Sonny Johns

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ASSOCIATE ARTIST

Allie Watt

STORYTELLERS & COMMUNITY ENSEMBLE

Whitby Community Choir

Lel Meleyal

‘Bright Eyes’

Jean

Lynne Matthews

David Bestwick

Elaine Brooks

Matthew Davies

Jessica Vautier

Liam Farricker

Selwyn Peterken

Rusty and Ron Jones

Theo Kendall 

Oliwia Zalewska 

Aggie Koppert

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PRODUCTION TEAM

ARCADE – Executive Producers Sophie Drury-Bradey and Hannah Davies

Orchestras Live – Regional Producer North Becky West

Sinfonia Viva – Deputy Chief Executive Marianne Barrowclough and Creative Project Producer Hattie Coupe

Commissioned by North Yorkshire Council. Jointly funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund as part of the Parks for People programme.

 

THANKS

Thank you to everyone who submitted their story to us.

Stephen Joseph Theatre

Scarborough Library

North Yorkshire County Record Office

Margaret Boustead

Gemma Alexander

Friends of South Cliff Gardens

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OUR LOVE STORIES PARTNERS

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