An idea whose time has come….

Welcome to The Horizon Venture; tales of interplanetary diaspora, told through music, drama, video and spoken word.

It is a live show inspired by the book of the same name, The Horizon Venture, by Vidal Montgomery, who is also the Artistic director of the show.

2009 marked the 400th anniversary of the launch of the Sea Venture, a privately financed ship which set sail from England headed for the New World, laden with enslaved African humans forced into establishing colonial settlements.

Today, the leader of that New World is of African descent. And, 40 years after the Apollo Space Program began its quest for the moon, that leader says “There is another generation of kids out there that is looking up at the sky and they’ll be the next Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin”.

As we take our first tentative steps in exploring worlds beyond our own, the Horizon Venture asks: Who will pioneer the next generation of space exploration ? How will we inhabit new worlds when we find them ? Who will benefit? And who will do the dirty work?

Synopsis:

The Horizon Venture tells the story of a time and a place where humans are not the dominant species on a planet,  and follows the choices that different individuals make in confronting with this new status.

The Horizon Venture follows this story from a point where our first contact with these new civilisations has gone disastrously wrong; After the Colonial Wars – an attempt by Man to dominate the new planet – a fragile peace now ensues.

Before these new civilisations share with us the technology to restore Earth to her natural beauty, men must first prove to these civilisations that they can handle this technology responsibly. However, this will take some time, and there are those who are not prepared to wait ……