Uth Ink Murmur (2008)

The Word on the Street is Uth INK:

Youth share their artistic Voices with the Sudbury Community.

2008

If you bring your cell phone with you when you take a walk around Sudbury, you can have a theatrical experience. Green Ear shaped signs were installed throughout neighbourhoods in Sudbury designating site specific stories told by youth in our community. The signs display a free phone number with a four-digit code – if dialed in, you can listen to a short play that is set in the exact place you’re standing written and performed by young people from the Sudbury community.

These audio installations were a part of a province-wide program entitled 'Uth Ink: Playwrights in the Community Program'. Using [murmur]’s internationally acclaimed oral history project as inspiration, the stories were recorded, posted online, and developed into site-specific installations for our community to enjoy. If you can’t experience the installations in person, you can listen to them online at www.uthinkers.ca. The Sudbury Uth Ink project was guided by professional playwright Marjorie Chan and led by artist and youth facilitator Greyson Gritt.

The Uth Ink project was created in Sudbury with the Playwrights Guild of Canada and the Foundation for the Recognition of Excellence in Drama, in partnership with [murmur] and Myths & Mirrors Community Arts. Uth Ink was created with generous funding from a three-year province-wide grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, The Laidlaw Foundation, and the Ontario Arts Council’s Arts Education Partnership Initiative.