Lost Pigeon Radio

One of our unique creative collaborations, showing every night at Hidden Door 2026

LOST PIGEON RADIO is an evolving broadcast artwork and expanded audio-described tour woven through the wider world of the festival from artist Juliana Capes.

Sometimes transmitted live and sometimes through pre-recorded fragments, the work is inspired by the onsite pigeons and their role as messengers, witnesses and navigators of the Paper Factory past and present. Lost Pigeon Radio offers a shifting bird’s-eye perspective on the festival world. Listen in the 19canteen, or tune in through accessible via QR codes on site or remotely online at stream.zeno.fm/jfxwms5j9mcuv.

Festival goers can also contribute to Lost Pigeon Radio by sending their descriptions of The Paper Factory, artworks and experiences via voice note or message to wa.link/ea4err

Designed partly to support blind and visually impaired audiences, neurodiverse audiences and remote listeners, the project also exists as an artwork in its own right — a listening experience that will fly pigeon like between accessibility, storytelling and description.

Transcripts of Lost Pigeon Radio can be found at hiddendoorarts.org/event/lost-pigeon-radio-transcript

About the Creative Collaborations

Threaded throughout the 2026 programme are a series of newly commissioned interdisciplinary collaborations and site-responsive works, waiting to be encountered by visitors as they explore The Paper Factory.

Artists, musicians, poets and performers have joined forces to create something unique for this year’s former factory space. Throughout the festival, recurring works and programme-wide collaborations inhabit the building’s “Last Shift”. Together, they build a shifting portrait of The Paper Factory, both real and imagined, through fragments of its past, present and possible futures. 

This year’s festival explores how spaces and objects hold memory, and how traces of everyday activity become preserved, misremembered or reimagined over time.

Audiences will navigate the site as the programme unfolds around them. Unique experiences will be shaped through individual routes, encounters and personal perspectives. No single path will reveal the whole picture as works overlap and unfold throughout the building.

These recurring works and programme-wide collaborations will feature every night of the festival from Wednesday 3rd – Sunday 7th June.