Arnolfini Producer, Helen Cole has been collecting memories of remarkable performances for a year. We See Fireworks is the beginning of that collection derived from the personal stories of a growing group of international thinkers, artists, writers and audience members. We whisper in the darkness, telling of fair grounds, car parks, clubs, amateur theatres, religious ceremonies, weddings, accidents, love, loss, longing, fear, friendship, expectation and adolescence. We spin stories as if the moment is still unfolding, conjuring the event for you who are listening, wiring you in until our memories become yours.

This is your opportunity to join us and add your performance memory to the collection. Each audience member is invited in alone to experience a single story. After this short, one-on-one performance, you will be taken to another space to add your own memory. Think about a performative moment in your life. It can be a ‘proper’ theatre show or a personal encounter, a fleeting glance at a passerby or a story unfolding before you. You chose and describe it to us in your own words. Eventually your voice will join a vast online collection, becoming the material for a changing, touring installation that whispers from the walls of the spaces that we visit.

After all, these performances can never really happen. They only exist somewhere in the back of your mind.

It is important that if you are interested in contributing to We See Fireworks, you are happy that your words may be used in public online, in installation, broadcast or in print.

Following your We See Fireworks experience, greenroom invites you to dig further into your memories, and join one of greenroomunited’s Oral History volunteers for a short interview on your memories of our 25 year history. These interviews will contribute to a developing online archive – a family tree of artists and audiences who have passed through the organisation over the years.