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Experience a powerful fusion of film, music and cultural history. To mark the centenary of Miles Davis’s birth, Peter Edwards and a five‑piece Nu Civilisation Orchestra Ensemble, featuring Mark Kavuma on trumpet, perform Davis’s music live as the soundtrack to John Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project.
John Akomfrah’s acclaimed 2013 documentary paints a portrait of Stuart Hall – a pioneering thinker, co-founder of New Left Review and one of the most influential voices in British Cultural Studies. Layered with archival footage and Hall’s own reflections, the film explores identity, race and belonging in a changing world.
Hall once remarked, ‘when I ask people where they’re from, I expect to be told an extremely long story.’ His lifelong exploration of identity finds a powerful counterpart in the shifting musical eras of Miles Davis, performed live to illuminate each chapter of Hall’s journey.
Founded in 2008 by Gary Crosby OBE and led by Musical Director Peter Edwards, Nu Civilisation Orchestra has built a reputation as a bold, shape‑shifting ensemble that reinvents itself with every project. More than an accompaniment, the Nu Civilisation Orchestra Ensemble’s performance becomes an integral part of the experience – deepening the film’s resonance and creating a vivid dialogue between music, ideas and cultural change.
