An international arts project titled Everything Is New will be launched on January 20th 2014 by Scotland-based art collective Transgressive North and children’s charity Scottish Love In Action; grassroots NGO-based organization that cares for over 500 destitute children through the Light Of Love Children’s Home and School in Tuni, India. The project features a remarkable international cast of electronic, folk and indie musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers. All proceeds will be donated to support the organization and India’s Dalit (“untouchable”) children.
According to the project’s website, “the goal of the Everything Is New project is to empower the children of the Light Of Love Children’s Home, many of whom have been rescued from bonded labour, child prostitution, homelessness and abject poverty. The project creates the opportunity for the children to ‘star’ in the cultural forms they themselves consider most meaningful – popular music and cinema.”
The Everything Is New project will be released in three parts. The first piece entitled Sun Choir is a full-length album created by Edinburgh-based indie pop band MARRAM. The album will feature musical collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, Owen Pallett, doseone, White Hinterland, Margaret Bennett, and feature lyrics by Alexander McCall Smith, Irvine Welsh, Valerie Gillies and Tom Leonard. Over 1,000 voices, choirs, orchestras, and drums contribute to the album.
The second part of the art series entitled BOATS will be a 29-track compilation of songs created by an impressive international lineup with tracks sampling from the Light Of Love’s Children Choir. The artist list includes: Dan Deacon, Four Tet, YACHT, Gang Gang Dance, Transgressive North, White Hinterland, El Guincho, No Age, Capybara, Deerhoof, High Places, Sun Airway, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Taken By Trees, Bear In Heaven, Keepaway, Physical Forms, Marram, Matthewdavid, Ramona Falls, Slanter, The Ruby Suns, Califone, Rustie, Lucky Dragons, Son Lux, Jamie Stewart, Julian Lynch, Rroxymore, and Max Tundra. According to Everything Is New, “BOATS aims to get the voices of the Light Of Love Children’s Choir heard across the world as part of the most exciting and innovative music today.”
The final piece of the artist trilogy is a 70-minute film entitled Everything Is New and will focus on the children of Light Of Love Children’s Home in India. Controversial Scottish writer and filmmaker Irvine Welsh is the film’s executive producer and narrator. Irish director and film critic Mark Cousins described Everything Is New as “an inspiring movie about the turning of the earth and the play of children. It tells a mythic story of togetherness, peril and hope. It is a valuable film and memorable one.”
According to the project’s website, “the film sets out to create an empowering new fable for the children of the Light Of Love Children’s Home, where children defy adults and prevailing orthodoxies to bring change and renewal to a dying society.”
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Written by Rachel Pozivenec