We’ve been all over this exhibit since it opened earlier in the year and now the official site take a look at Star Wars Identities, which will run at the O2 until 3rd September.
The interactive exhibit — aimed at children 9-12 but thoroughly enjoyable for all ages — has been on the road since 2012, a collaboration with Montreal-based X3 Productions that weaves a scientific and anthropological storyline through some very familiar faces and scenes. The moral of the exhibition’s storyline is deceptively simple: “It’s the choices that you make that shape you,” says Laela French, the director of archives at Skywalker Ranch, who credits the exhibition’s writer Genevieve Angio-Morneau as the driving force behind the fresh take on identity and the forces that shape us. “That’s such a powerful message for teenagers, because that’s when you’re really stepping out on your own, stepping away from your parents, stepping out of your fantasy play world and practicing adult thinking….So who you choose to be your mentor and to be your peers will affect very directly who you become.”
