Longbridge Light Festival by Chris Poolman

www.longbridgelightfestival.co.uk Longbridge Town Centre B31 2TW

25 October 2014 6pm - 10pm

Longbridge Light Festival

Free Family Workshops For All Ages

Welcome to the first Longbridge Light Festival - Back to the Future

Time: Friday 6pm - 8pm

The Light Festival aims to be an annual celebration of the amazing history of Longbridge and its bright future through light and art. We have a jam-packed evening planned for the whole family, from films and workshops to lighting installations and artworks, designed to appeal to all ages. We are excited to be working with some incredibly talented artists based in the West Midlands, UK and across Europe who are creating a series of light and artworks specifically for Longbridge. The Light Festival is part of a larger project by WERK on behalf of Bournville College, designed to support the regeneration of the area. We are grateful to all the residents, individuals, community groups, schools, local businesses and Councillors from Longbridge and the Northfield Ward for helping us shape this festival event programme. Come along and join the FREE family fun at what’s promising to be an exciting event!

Location: Bournville College Reception, ‘The Street’

Saturday 4pm - 9pm

Dress Your Bike workshop

Ross Whatmore Time: Friday 6pm - 8pm Saturday 6pm - 9pm

WERK Time: Friday 6pm - 8pm Saturday 6pm - 9pm Location: Bournville College Reception, ‘The Street’

Artist:

Robert Grose Time: Friday 6pm - 8pm Saturday 6pm - 9pm Location: Bournville College Reception, ‘The Street’

Artist:

Beth Fisher Time: Friday 6pm - 8pm Saturday 6pm - 9pm Location: Bournville College Reception, ‘The Street’

A Sense of Place Workshop

Time: Saturday 5pm - 7pm

Northfield Arts Forum

Sci-Fi Costume Making Workshop

Partners:

Dr Bike Workshop

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Time: Saturday 5pm - 9pm

Centro will be providing; free Dr Bike cycle safety checks, free cycle security marking, subsidised gold rated D locks, information on cycling maintenance & training courses for all the family.

Time: Saturday 7pm - 7.30pm

Time: Saturday 12pm - 3pm Location: Bournville College Reception, ‘The Street’

An arts and crafts workshop run by Northfield Arts Forum, creating a wonderful window display for the Longbridge Light Festival. The finished displays will then be used as part of the backdrop for the “Music! Dance! Draw!” Project finale show in February/March at the NAF Arts March event. In partnership with Northfield Arts Forum.

Design and make your own luminous sci-fi themed costume in fifteen minutes! In partnership with Bournville College Art and Design students.

Dr Bike with Centro

Homemade Science Fiction Effects Workshop

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Futuristic Animations Workshop

Create your own lo-fi science fiction effects using simple materials and tools. This workshop involves drawing and painting onto plastic OHP sheets. Project them onto buildings in the new town centre on the Saturday night!

Time: Saturday 6pm - 9pm

Using coloured lights and a series of basic images, children will be able to create their own futuristic animations of Longbridge.

Utopian Hats, Jewellery and Accessories – Aladdin Sainsbury’s

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Location: Bournville College Reception, ‘The Street’

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Performances

Prepare for the River Rea cycle route with by lighting and dressing up your bike using inventive methods and materials. In partnership with Bournville College Art and Design students and Bike man Dan.

Location: Northfield (Mill Lane) & Bournville College Reception, ‘The Street’

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Please note children must be accompanied by an adult.

Location: Northfield (Mill Lane) and outside Bournville College Conference Centre, College Street

Juneau Projects Location: Austin Park

Beaniebugs

This workshop will involve making hats, jewellery and accessories from recycled materials to go with your sci-fi costume.

Time: Saturday 6pm - 9pm

Unidentified Flying Object Lanterns Workshop

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Construct a UFO Lantern from recycling and upcycling old materials. Carry it around the festival and take it home to use again. Note: takes between 30 − 45 minutes to create. Please bring along a clean jar.

Time: Saturday 6pm - 9pm

The Northfield to Longbridge section of the River Rea route will be temporarily illuminated with handmade art works created by local community groups and schools. Walk or cycle along as the sun goes down and enjoy the inventive, lo-fi light effects. In partnership with Network West Midlands, Birmingham City Council and St Johns Rainbows, Brownies and Girl Guides.

Spoken Word Beatfreeks and Spoz Spoken word live performances by Beatfreeks and Birmingham’s former poet laureate, Spoz.

Location: LPAP | SPACE, High Street

Artists:

Amy Greaves School of Dance Time: Saturday 6pm - 7.45pm

Dance Performance A contemporary sci-fi infused dance performance. In partnership with Amy Greaves School of Dance and Sainsbury’s.

Location: Sainsbury’s Café

Face-Painting Workshop Free alien face-painting.

Time: Saturday 8pm - 10pm Location: Beefeater

Location: Bournville College Reception, ‘The Street’

Gods Heart for Longbridge

Location: Rea Valley Route, Northfield (Mill Lane) to Longbridge (Tessall Lane)

Cycle Route

Christingle Making Workshop Create a sci fi spin on a Christingle. In partnership with God’s Heart for Longbridge.

Time: Saturday 9pm - Late Location: Greenlands Select Social Club

Location: Bournville College Reception, ‘The Street’

Jazz Band Live performance from a jazz band in Longbridge Town Centre’s Beefeater. In partnership with Beefeater.

Live Artistes Greenlands Select Social Club will programme a night of live artistes carrying on into the night. In partnership with Greenlands Select Social Club. Note: Over 18’s only.

Programme details accurate at time of print and are subject to change.

Travel Information Arriving by Car

Arriving by Train

Arriving by Public Transport

If you are using Sat Nav, the postcode is B31 2TW. There is a car park situated on the Bristol Road South, just across the road from the town centre. With a parking fee of £1.50 per day. Longbridge train station is an approximate five minute walk to the town centre and is based on a cross city train line from Birmingham New Street and runs approximately every 10 minutes and takes 21 minutes. Longbridge Town Centre is well situated and easily accessed by a number of bus routes including: Buses: 45, 49, 63, X62, 143, 144

Talk Artist:

Stuart Lester Time: Saturday 6pm - 6.45pm Location: LPAP | SPACE, High Street

Film Programe Street Lighting: Guardians of our streets, nosiest of neighbours, polluters of the night Tweeting lamp posts, big brother, swing set lamp posts and what is a SMART city really? Join Stuart Lester for an eye opening workshop, talk and gain insight into what these giant metal structures mean to us and how innovative, sustainable and cutting edge technology is fast becoming the norm within lighting and our built environment.

Artist:

Flatpack Futuristic Film Café

Time: Saturday 6.10pm - 9pm

Lunar Toons

Flatpack Location: Bournville College, Conference Centre, College Street

Space-age family shorts Time: 6.10pm Magic Lantern Show Moving glass slides presented by Mike and Theresa Simkin Time: 7pm

Slow Light

Shorts and animation Time: 8pm

Food and Drink

*Festival discounts available in selected venues, please ask in store for details.

10am - 11pm

Cambridge, Hungry Horse College Street *

7am - 11pm

Beefeater College Street *

7am - 8pm

Subway Bristol Road *

Open till late

Greenlands Select Social Club (see map)

6.30am - 7.30pm

Costa Coffee High Street

7am - 10pm

Sainsburys High Street

11am - 10pm

Stone Willy’s Kitchen High Street

11.30am - 11pm

Queens Fish & Chips Longbridge Lane

8.30am - 5pm

Greggs High Street

Back to the Future

Longbridge Light Festival Site

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The new town centre has landed Where once stood the largest car factory in the world, now stands the new Bournville College. Bringing with it new knowledge, opportunities and expectations, the college resembles a building that has landed from the future.

Artist:

Mathew J Watkins and Poolman & Rowe Longbridge Train Station

Set within the new Longbridge town centre, the inaugural Longbridge Light Festival contains a combination of newly commissioned artworks, special events, Longbridge Public Art Project (LPAP) artists-in-residence work in progress and an exciting participatory programme. Local businesses and community groups will also be opening their doors to the general public as we go ‘Back to the Future’.

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Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm Location: Exterior of Bournville College

Greenlands Select Social Club

Composition for a Railway Station

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The investigation of the audible environment of the train station and the railway tracks result in a transformation of the possible daily noises to create a unique and new interpretation of the sound space.

Longbridge Lane

Bournville College

Location: Three Red Tanks and Longbridge Train Station

WILL I BE MISSED?

The Kipper and The Corpse

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Location: Longbridge Train Station

For Longbridge Light Festival Famed will install a neon site specific work above the entrance of Longbridge train station ‘Will I Be Missed?’. The question ‘who’ or ‘what’ will be missed is not only pointing to the past or present, but looks ahead to the future (both personally and socially).

Stuart Whipps will be projecting a series of photographs of the MG Rover factory in the weeks, months and years following its closure and details of a 1979 1275GT mini that will be restored in 2014/15 as part of the LPAP.

Feedback

The Quartic Rides Again!

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One Five West present ‘Feedback’, an interactive digital and sculptural installation, that invites audiences to activate the work through their movement, sound and touch.

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BAZ have constructed a tube carriage from a future fictitious Birmingham transport network based on the Austin Allegro’s Quartic Steering Wheel. This is powered by the open source ‘litre of light’ eco technology.

Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm Location: Longbridge Train Station

Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm Location: Under the A38 Bridge

Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm Location: Urban Chill in Bournville College

BAZ

Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm Location: College Street

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One Five West

Stuart Whipps

Austin Park

Artist Performances

Location: Lamposts, High Street

Anna Schimkat

Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm

16 So

Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm

Inspired from the Red Weed in the science-fiction novel War of the worlds from H.G. Wells, the Red plant grows on street lights, glows in the dark and changes the atmosphere of the city at night.

Cathy Wade’s commission will transform markers in the landscape of Longbridge through illumination. Revealing the past and near future in the existing architecture as beacons, signalling the transformation of the area, while retaining its distinct identity.

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Chris Poolman and Elizabeth Rowe Back to the Future Curators Commissioned by WERK

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LPAP | SPACE

Past of Longbridge As a wider proposition, the Back to the Future theme captures the difficulty that many areas undertaking a process of regeneration face: the need to look to the future, whilst celebrating a past that is vital to the identity of the local community.

Red Weed

Cathy Wade

Found Sculpture Sightlines of Longbridge

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High Street

Note: contains flashing lights.

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Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm

The Sustainable Town Centre How do we imagine the future of our town centres? The new Longbridge town centre raises a number of questions in relation to the ecology of the city, the politics of regeneration, sustainable living, mobility and energy usage. But in looking to the future, we are in some ways looking to the past – the ‘Back to the Future’ of our subtitle. Older methods of negotiating the city, cycling for example, are becoming increasingly popular and the Longbridge Light Festival presents a number of commissions and special events that respond to issues of sustainability within the new town centre.

Location: Retail Unit, High Street

We-currency will be a reflection of social value and community. At its heart will be a large-scale light sculpture, which reflects the communities’ cohesion; if the community is working together, towards the same goal, then the sculpture forms a perfect sphere. But if people stray and don’t unite, the individual component block will move away from the centre and the sphere will collapse.

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Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm

Moritz Werhmann

We-Currency

Location: College Street

Austin Social Club

Alter Ego Alter Ego is an installation between art and science that has to be entered in pairs. It uses light and a special glass to morph two peoples bodies/images into one and other.

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Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm

The Sci Fi Town Centre Longbridge itself exists on the periphery of the city - literally the ‘outer-space’ of Birmingham. Set within a rapidly changing mixed-use redevelopment site, itself resembling a shifting, earthy, lunar landscape, the new town centre site is strangely science fiction. Dominating this space is the new Bournville College, referred to locally as ‘the spaceship’ on account of its distinctive architecture.

Taking inspiration from the classic science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Bournville College will be transformed into an extraordinary other worldly object, as a metaphor for the journey into the future of the unknown. In partnership with Bournville College and Rev’d Colin Corke.

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The ‘Back to the Future’ title theme was chosen because it has a number of interpretations in relation to Longbridge:

Close Encounters of the Longbridge Kind

www.longbridgelightfestival.co.uk

Saturday 6pm - 6.30pm

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Symbol for a Light

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‘Symbol for a Light’ is a new video commission by Joanne Masding. Its starting point is the anglerfish, which uses a dangling, luminescent organ on its head to attract prey and mates.

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Matthew J Watkins will be drawing inspiration from Carl Sagan’s intergalactic documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The artist will be using OHP’s to project handmade painted slides on to the streets and buildings.

Joanne Masding Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm

Times and Locations:

Aillie Rutherford

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Artist Aille Rutherford invites you to take part in an exciting event to delve into the future of Longbridge. In partnership with Greenlands Select Social Club.

Remember Our Future?

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Greenlands Select Social Club

Saturday 7.30pm - 8pm

Location: Retail Unit, Longbridge Lane

Mathew J Watkins Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm Location: Bournville College entrance

Outside Beefeater on College Street

The Lantern Parade features a series of ‘lantern sculptures’ created by artist Ruth Claxton and students from Turves Green Girls’ School. The parade appears unlit but don’t be fooled, the lanterns are coated in a special retro-reflective paint and activated by light – shine a torch at them or use the flash on your camera phone to make the lanterns light up.

Ruth Claxton Time: Saturday 6pm - 6.30pm Location: Bournville College / Austin Park

Town Crier

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Town Crier will be roaming the Light Festival, gathering social digital archaeology from the area and broadcasting this through its speaker array throughout the evening.

Institute for Boundary Interactions Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm Location: Multiple

Light, Artworks and Artist Peformances

Worshops

Flatpack Futuristic Film Café

Bike Rack

Food Venues

The Austin

Artists’ Heavy Object and Ross Whatmore inspired by the history of the car factory, have developed in collaboration with ex worker and resident John Baker a map of ‘The Austin’ to highlight the ghost of the old factory. The map will be installed on Sainsbury’s window for the festival.

Warning Structures

Sonic Graffiti

Artist:

Juneau Projects new work is inspired by prehistoric cave paintings. Through a system of red, green and blue strobing lights the artists create moving drawings on sculptural objects.

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MortonUnderwood will install a number of sonic graffiti pieces around the site. Their sounds— designed to reflect the nature of the site and its history—will shift and transform as the light falling on them changes.

Juneau Projects

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Lantern Parade

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Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm

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MortonUnderwood Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm

Location: Multiple Locations Across Austin Park

Note: contains flashing lights.

Location: Multiple lamposts on College Street and High Street

Window Display Competition

Goods In

Artist:

A series of deliveries to Longbridge recall a time when the factory saw huge volumes of Goods In and Out. No-one knows what is in the crates, but each one is marked with cryptic messages.

Time: Saturday 6pm - 10pm

Artists & Community groups have worked with businesses to create light up sci-fi themed Location: Multiple window displays. They can be seen in various Awards: locations in Longbridge. See a full list of the Saturday 8.10pm – 8.45pm participants at: LongbridgeLightFestival.co.uk. Location: Awards announced during the evening. LPAP | SPACE, High Street

Luke Perry and Redhawk Logistica Time: Throughout Saturday Location: Multiple