Sea Beats
Partner Organisations: Harambee Pasadia, Mental Health Swims Seaham
Creative Practitioners: Hannabiell Sanders and Yilis del Carmen Suriel
Researchers and Experts: Suzanne Green
Co/Lab Curator: Dr. Suzy O’Hara
Documentation: Colin Davison (photography), Alan Fentiman (videography)
Sea Beats took place throughout the summer months of 2022. Musicians Hannabiell Sanders and Yilis del Carmen Suriel (co-founders of Harambee Pasadia) worked with coastal communities and organisation Mental Health Swims across Seaham and Sunderland.
Through a series of collaborative music making workshops, they helped foster new connections with the coastline through rhythm and percussion, storytelling, and music making with traditional instruments and objects found on the beach.