Welcome a British team Invisible Flock in Astana! They are to perform the play about happy people with real life stories.
The Invisible Flock Team
Victoria Pratt – the project founder, actress
Richard Warburton - the project founder, actor
Richard Huxley - frontman, guitar
Simon Fletcher - acoustic guitar, lead singer
James Hamilton - trumpet
Antoine Dukravets –actor, an assistant of "Happy People" script adaptation.
About the project
“Bring the happy” is a project with the site where people share happy moments. All the memories are embodied into the play of life, which narrates about happy moments. In July we made an installation card in the “Keruen Mall”. People told about happiness, the happiest moments and assessed their happiness from one to ten points.
We have about 6 000 memories in total, in Astana we managed to collect 350 of them.
The project consists of two parts: installation and performance. It is people who are the authors of the play. We invite people to the performance. There we retell all the happy moments to the strains of a band. Memories are divided into sections: love, dances, beloved ones, children, first kiss. That is a two-hour performance.
Another project was implemented in Tbilisi and in many cities of Great Britain. The map shows that memories are similar wherever we go. Almost all of them are about love, children, family. The most interesting thing is that all the happy memories are shared with someone. People are proud of the place they live in, as they have an emotional connection with it. People do not pay attention to the city names, but to the memories the place refers to, like the place where their child was born or where they broke up with a boyfriend. People see architecture and remember the feelings once experienced there.
People are alike, no matter where they live. We’ve met many kind people in Astana, they were generous to share their memories with us. People are poetic, every memory tend to be detailed. We performed in Astana Music Hal, all people were welcomed.
People often ask us about the happiest city, but the thing is that happiness is an incomparable matter. Each city has its own happiness.
About Astana
We’ve been in Astana for several days. We came here earlier to set the installation. To tell the truth, we knew nothing about Astana before coming here. The only thing we saw was a video about EXPO. Therefore, having arrived, we visited EXPO. Then we went to shopping centers, walked along the boulevard near the Baiterek. Once we left for the steppe to see how it looks in the daytime and at night. You have many good parks and public places to hang out with family. We like that.
As for local cuisine, we tasted horse meat for breakfast as soon as we arrived. We also tried shish kebab and beshbarmak. We haven’t tried koumiss yet, though we have time to do that.
Our plane was landing and we witnessed two different sights: a modern city and boundless steppe. That was the moment when we realized that Astana is a magical place. It is the city of future.
