Comrades, we hear Mayday in three related but distinct ways – as the annual celebration of workers’ rights; as the day of pagan rites marking the end of a harsh winter (north) or one to come (south); and as the international distress call (Maydaymaydaymayday). In each, the human voice is calling out for an answer within others.

Polyphony describes a ‘texture’ in which two or more independent voices are discernible, so a ‘polyphonic methodology’ has much artistic and social potential: to make difference audible, to ‘sound’ disobedience, choreograph dissonance, and explore harmonies.

This Mayday, our polyphonic social brings together many voices with artists: Kym Maxwell, Prophets, Zoe Scoglio and Lara Thoms.

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