The inside of a yurt, lit up in shimmering colours.

How to be Held: Songs of Self-Soothing

Name: How to be Held: Songs of Self-Soothing
Start: 2025-09-25T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-25T19:00:00+01:00

Date

Thu 25 Sep 2025

No Booking Required

Settle on cushions and beanbags, feel as the world fades from day to night and back again, and be held by a sound world that breathes with you. Choral harmonies, synth textures, natural soundscapes, and looped melodies flow through a 360-degree sonic environment. Each track responds to a real self-soothing hook, lyric or riff offered anonymously by the public, and re-imagined by artists across musical styles. Come and go as you like, or stay for the full three-hour cycle, which repeats like a lullaby or a phrase we hum to get ourselves through tough times. Songs of Self-Soothing is a work-in-progress by nature: always evolving, always responsive to its surroundings. Originally commissioned by Wellcome Collection as a digital experience during the Covid-19 lockdowns, Liberty Festival marks the first time it can be experienced in person, as a site-specific installation within the set of When the World Turns, by the director of the show’s UK tour.