Please join us for an exclusive first look on Friday 19 June from 18:00–20:00 with speeches commencing around 18:30.
Relaxed Hour – If you would like to visit a more relaxed opening that is also alcohol free, with fewer crowds, no music, and designed for visitors who need to stim freely or make noise, then join us from 17:00-18:00 for a quieter private viewing experience, where staff will wear a mask.
If you would like to join us during this quieter private view, please specify this in your RSVP, along with any guests you’d like to bring.
Please note all visitors between 17:00-18:00 will be encouraged to join in with mask-wearing for the safety of others attending.
One Song is an audio-visual installation and community archive by artist Kadir Karababa that explores how music carries memory, identity and a sense of home across borders.
First begun in 2022, the project is an evolving collection of songs and stories contributed by women who have personal experience of migration or seeking sanctuary.
Built through participation and shared experience, this iteration was developed with members of the Wakefield community. Each participant is invited to share a song that transports them to the place they first called home. These songs form the foundation of the work, bringing together individual memories into a wider collective portrait.
The project is inspired by the artist’s own family history of migration from Eastern Turkey to London, and an interest in how songs are carried across borders while remaining rooted in the places they were first sung.
These songs are deeply personal, connected to family, language and everyday life, and often carried across time and distance. For many, singing becomes a way of reconnecting with places and experiences that are no longer physically present.
Presented together, One Song creates a shared space of listening. Each voice remains distinct, while common themes of movement, belonging, loss and connection begin to emerge.
Sung in their original languages, and accompanied by English subtitles, the songs’ emotional power extends beyond translation. Through voice, tone and musical expression, audiences are invited to connect with the experiences and stories at the heart of the work in a deeply personal way, engaging with both the lyrics and the universal emotions carried within the music.
One Song creates space for stories that are often unheard, offering a way of understanding migration through lived experience and memory.
One Song was originally commissioned by Counterpoints Arts. This iteration has been supported by Arts Council England and Counterpoints Arts. To view the archive of songs that make up One Song and to read more about work visit onesong.co.uk
ACCESS
This exhibition is featured in the Tiled Gallery.- The gallery is Guide and Support dog-friendly (We ask that dogs be kept on leads).
– The room has level access, and allows space for wheelchair/mobility aid/pushchair users or people with Guide dogs to pass comfortably.
-The exhibition includes Audio, Braille, Easier Read and Dyslexia-friendly interpretations.
-Sensory ear defenders are available for use during your visit, and can be picked up at the front desk.
We also offer private exhibition views by appointment.
See our Access Page for more information.