Peterborough Arts Festival Brochure, 2015

VIVACITY CULTURE AND LEISURE PRESENT

Your official guide to the

Peterborough Arts Festival 2015 In association with

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THE FESTIVAL THIS YEAR BRINGS TOGETHER A COMPLEX ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLE, COMPANIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE, ALL WITH ONE SIMPLE PURPOSE: MAKING THE FESTIVAL GREAT!

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his year’s festival will turn the city centre into a playground where a combined arts outdoor production will bring together the visual arts and performing arts in a large scale immersive festival presented over two days and two evenings.

We are working with Magnetic Events (Peterborough Enchanted City) and No fit State Circus (Open House) plus an array of other international street art companies.

Peterborough Enchanted City will illuminate the city centre and transform into a kaleidoscope of light and kick start a weekend of projection, performance, installation, sound and illumination. The Multimedia spectacular of light and sound installations will transform historical buildings such as the Guildhall into temporary artworks, telling stories, presenting cultures and enabling audiences to experience a new

exploration of the city and see it in a completely different light.

Magnetic Events and No Fit State Circus are companies with an international reputation for their extraordinary productions.

We would like to give a big thanks to all the volunteers who are giving up so much time over the Festival weekend this year working with No Fit State Circus and Magnetic events, without whose commitment none of this would be possible.

We would also like to thank our sponsors BGL and Peterborough Presents… who are vital in sustaining the Arts Festival and keeping it free for audiences, Vivacity has to raise approximately £100,000 per year for the Festival. We are asking this year for your help so if you enjoy a performance, please do donate generously in the Festival purple donation buckets.

We look forward to welcoming you to

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Hunt & Darton

Hunt & Darton Cafe is a fully functioning cafe that blends art with the everyday.

Creating a social and artistic hub where spontaneity and performance meet great food and drink. Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton expose the inner workings of their business by presenting everything as art – from the food served, the people serving, the décor and public display of their bank balance to the lovingly handpicked charity shop crockery.

Grand Theatre of Lemmings

King Kong The Grand Theatre of Lemmings have pioneered Street Theatre for over thirty years and their latest venture; an epic larger than life production of “King Kong” has just returned from Tamil Nadu in India where according to the local press, it “mesmerised” the audiences. It all takes place in the smallest theatre in the world ‘Seeing is believing’!

Acrojou

The Wheelhouse Blending acrobatics, hand-built structures and sublime visuals, Acrojou create unique contemporary circus productions for events worldwide; performance crafted from circus, theatre, story and soul.

‘Driven by a passion for the emotive impact of visual and physical storytelling, our work is born of ideas which move and affect us, and we hope the work will do the same for those who experience it.’

‘One of Britain’s most exciting dance and circus companies... Stunningly inventive’.

Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, 2013

Trash Dollys

Cape Alley Enter Cape Alley, a nether world of beautiful dereliction where a rag tag band of outlaws dance to their own strange tune. Blending dance and theatre forms to create visually striking and captivating work, Trash Dolly’s are expressive and dynamic performers who forge fantastical storytelling with striking physicality. Cape Alley was developed at Sadlers Wells as part of the Breakin Conventions Back to The Lab. Commissioned by Bristol City Council and Pavillion Dance south West, Co-Produced

by Restaged and Swindon Dance.

‘If you want to see something different, something unique, something unpredictable and inspiring, then the Trash Dollys will not disappoint.’

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Balloonatic

This wonderful balloon-art street act helps transform every event into a carnival, party atmosphere. Decorating people with incredible hats, giant costumes and hilarious balloon toys gets everyone laughing and they will even amaze passers-by with their astonishing models.

They are undisputedly the UK’s most extravagant balloon artists.

Stickleback Plasticus

Cat Litter Using comedy, puppetry, song and improvisation, these furry felines will bring catnip joy to all audiences. From oversized rubbish bins, our mischievous cats reflect on their lives, mice, milkmen, food,

and the death of Fat Bob. Nothing, and no-one, passes these mischievous cats by without comment.

Whalley Range All Stars

PIG Come and see Gloria, a 30 foot long sleeping sow in a pen. You can see her snuffling, opening and closing her eyes, and hear her snoring. A farm-hand invites ten people at a time into the pen to take a peek at a 10-minute long, unexpected piece of theatre inside her belly. PIG has captured the imagination of audiences all over the world and attracts crowds curious to discover what’s going on inside. TV crews have flown from as far afield as Seoul and Miami to film the show, designed as a family show; suitable for all ages 4-and-above.

‘An outstanding theatrical piece’.

The Guardian

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No fit State Circus Open house

OPEN HOUSE is an immersive, ever-evolving large-scale circus installation where anything can happen and everything becomes an excuse for performance and spectacle. Flowing through the town and setting up in the city centre, unfolding deckchairs, flags, umbrellas and unveiling specialist circus structures. There is no big top, but a colony of musicians, acrobats and aerialists exploding out of caravans - a joyous menagerie of circus chaos, bringing the town to life.

The Bruce Airhead Show

The metamorphosis of a man and a six-foot balloon. Bruce Airhead, with a volunteer, uses a voice-activated vacuum cleaner to inflate a six foot balloon. Then to the crowd’s disbelief, wearing only brightly coloured lycra shorts and choreographed to music, Bruce slides inside the balloon. First his head, then his torso, until finally the last leg slowly disappears from sight. Once inside, Bruce dances the balloon to a fast changing sequence of music. Watch out for the explosive finish.

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Magnetic Events

Peterborough Enchanted City Magnetic Events in partnership with the Projection Studio will illuminate and transform the city centre into a kaleidoscope of light and kick start a weekend of projection, performance, installation, sound and illumination. The Multimedia spectacular of light and sound sculptures will transform historical buildings such as the Guildhall into temporary artworks, telling stories, presenting cultures and enabling audiences to experience a new exploration of the city and see it in a completely different light. n The Peterborough Enchanted City will take place on both Friday and Saturday nights

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Magnetic Events: Enchanted City

FOR TWO NIGHTS, THE CITY CENTRE WILL BE TURNED INTO A KALEIDOSCOPE OF LIGHT AND KICK START A WEEKEND OF PROJECTION, PERFORMANCE, INSTALLATION, SOUND AND ILLUMINATION.

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he multimedia spectacular of light and sound sculptures will transform historical buildings such as the Guildhall into temporary artworks, telling stories, presenting cultures and enabling audiences to share experiences and a new exploration of the city so they see it (literally!) in a completely different light. Peterborough Enchanted City is an innovative outdoor programme co-created with community groups working with the artistic teams from Magnetic Events and The Projection Studio who will curate the programme. Magnetic Events is a company with an international reputation who has worked on projects such as lighting Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s Jubilee and the Houses of Parliament for the London Olympics.

Vivacity’s Festival Manager Sheena Carman explains: ‘They’re kind of temporary artworks, projected onto the buildings, so people will be able to see the city centre in a completely different way. And, as in previous years, we’ll be working with different communities to create these temporary artworks. Everything that is projected is created by people in Peterborough, by the community.’

Magnetic Events will be projecting on the Friday and Saturday nights, between about 7.30pm and 10.30pm. There’ll be plenty of opportunity for other public interaction and involvement.

Magnetic Events and Vivacity have been working with St Johns Church, Peterborough Youth Offending Team, Paston Community Centre, POSH Football Club, Ugandan Asian Society, and local artists to create the projections in the city centre, a big thank you to all participants including all the people who sent in selfies!

Robin Morley, director of Magnetic Events on Peterborough: Enchanted City What will you be bringing to Peterborough for the Festival?

First of all, it’s not just about what we’re bringing, but what we’re creating in Peterborough with Peterborough people.

We’ve been asking people: ‘Did you

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and old. We’re also looking at the archives of 40 Years On from the Museum, and revealing things from the past that people may not know about. All this will lead into discovering some of the extraordinary characters in Peterborough.

know Peterborough is an enchanted city?’ and we’ve had a great response to that question. So what we’re doing is creating an amazing, immersive two-evening event on that theme, working with a whole range of groups from across the city to create a series of projections in the city centre which will be entertaining, exciting and challenging. It’s a massive Peterborough spectacular, projected onto the Guildhall and St John’s church – very large, very bright projection pieces. Ross Ashton, who I work with, is a world-renowned projection artist who has projected onto the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and a whole range of other extraordinary places, including a Hindu temple in India.

What will those projections consist of?

They will feature the voices and the faces of local people – video, still images, colours and sound – running continuously.

Peterborough Presents... and Vivacity are working with us to create a programme of hundreds of selfies of people from Peterborough. In essence, Cathedral Square will become a huge smartphone onto which these are projected. It’s Peterborough’s selfie of the city! It will be funny, it will be interesting, and you will discover things you don’t know about Peterborough... It’s also a chance to come into the centre and have fun – to bring family and friends and enjoy the show.

It sounds like it has a documentary element...

It’s definitely got a documentary element to it.

It’s contemporary – so it’s got portraits of residents, young

How important is it that it’s by, and about, the people themselves?

It’s fundamental. It is about a sense of pride, a sense of belonging – and also transforming the everyday into the extraordinary. Along the way we’ll be celebrating the life of Peter Boizot, as Pizza Express celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. We’re also working with the fans of Peterborough United, to create a wonderful portrait of fans of all ages – including a four month-old baby wearing a POSH strip!

Is it always exciting for you, seeing these spectacular events unfold?

Yes, it is – and what will be exciting will be the responses of people watching.

Some may be seeing themselves, or people they know. And some of those portraits will morph into others, and one of the things we’re asking people to do is getting people to photograph their pets, because we know cats and dogs are part of the family! So, you might have a portrait of a dog owner morphing into the face of their dog...

We’re really looking forward to hearing people’s reaction to it because we’ll be planning a programme for 2016, after the Arts Festival. We will invite people to post their experiences – including pictures and videos from the event – onto Facebook, Twitter and other social media, we’ll invite them to make comments back to local media, and also there will be the digital record of the projection which will go onto the Facebook site as well. So there will be a huge scrapbook of the event, and we hope to capture with that people’s feeling on how we can further develop the project next year and for the next Arts Festival.

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peterborough presents!

PETERBOROUGH PRESENTS… IS A CONSORTIUM OF LOCAL ARTISTS, ARTS ORGANISATIONS AND COMMUNITIES WORKING TOGETHER TO CREATE GREAT ART IN OUR CITY.

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y great, we mean art that is new, diverse and, most importantly, relevant to local residents. This will be achieved through developing new networks, programming new arts activities and delivering large scale events that reach wide audiences.

Peterborough Presents… is the city’s Creative People & Places programme, supported by ACE, PCC and NNF Bridge, and led by Vivacity in a consortium with Creative Peterborough, Metal, Step Up Community Association and Voluntary Arts.

Josie Hickin, Manager of Peterborough Presents said ‘Peterborough Presents is a great opportunity for us to find ways to unlock talent, energy and creativity from across the city allowing communities and grass roots organisations to play

a leading part in inspiring others to get involved with the arts’ n To find out more contact Josie.

Hickin@vivacity-peterborough.com Magnetic Events have been working alongside local visual artist Luke Payn to devise the optical feast, which will be dusted with influences of pop-art. Luke has really enjoyed collaborating with Magnetic Events on the project: ‘lighting up our city, draping the curves of our architecture with shimmering and shifting lights, repurposing retail units into outdoor cinema is going to be a magnificent spectacle. www.facebook.com/ peterboroughpresents Twitter: @pboropresents Instagram: @peterboroughpresents

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SELFIE PROJECT

Cathedral Square and Bridge Street will undergo a magical metamorphosis for Peterborough Arts Festival this year. Peterborough Presents has commissioned Magnetic Events to create an Enchanted City, featuring a series of projections that will contain up to 300 selfies submitted by local people. The projections will illuminate glass and brickwork in and around Cathedral Square against an autumnal night sky.

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Metal present s: The Harvest Bakery: bread-making and craft workshops at Café Valise Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 11am – 4pm (drop-in and bookable workshops) Metal, Chauffeurs Cottage, 1 St Peters Rd (behind the town hall), Peterborough, PE1 1YX

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n preparation for the Harvest Festival weekend on 19th and 20th September, arts organisation Metal are inviting you to their pop-up Café and Harvest Bakery to have a go at baking bread and sharing family recipes. You can book onto a free hour-long workshop to bake your own loaf or just drop in to watch a demonstration over tea and cake.

Craft-collective Handmade in Peterborough will also be showing people how to make straw-plaited napkin rings that will later be used for the Harvest Meal on 20th September.

So, if you feel the ‘knead’ for a break from the festival frolics, then pop in to the Harvest Bakery and reconnect with the rural self. n To book onto a workshop or for more information about the Harvest Festival visit www.metalculture.com

About Harvest:

On the 19th and 20th September, Metal will be presenting Harvest, a cultural

festival of the land, in Cathedral Square.

The city centre will be filled with the sights, sounds, tastes, smells, songs and dances of the countryside. It will include the reinstatement of a food and craft market in St John’s Square; new Harvest themed artworks by leading UK artists; and Morris, Molly and cultural dancing supported by a host of Harvest buskers. On Saturday evening, a ‘Harvest Wain’ procession will weave its way up Bridge Street to kick start an ‘alternative barn dance’ from 7pm - a free evening of foot stomping folk rhythms from around the world headlined by The Turbans.

On Sunday, in Cathedral Square, international artists Lucy + Jorge Orta will host a meal for 500 people - ‘70x7 The Meal’ is part of their international series of community dinners, and the first outdoor meal in the UK. Guests to the meal have been invited via a network of community ambassadors and a public lottery. Those not attending the Meal will also be able to sample the menu from nearby stalls.

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Your chance to PLAY PETERBOROUGH – now or never!

Discover and explore Peterborough afresh with a new mobile App Play Peterborough Now Or Never! is a playful new free App for mobile devices that takes people on an interactive ‘live art’ journey of discovery around the city to experience and engage with its public spaces in fresh, imaginative and fun ways and see a familiar environment in a new light. It was created by artists Helen Stratford and Idit Nathan, in consultation with Peterborough residents. It will be launched at the Peterborough Festival with a special celebratory large-scale public event in Cathedral Square at 2pm on 5/6 September – everyone is welcome! Meet at Hunt and Darton Café at 1.30pm n www.playthecitynowornever.com

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friday schedule TIME 10:00 19:35 19:50 21:00

ARTIST

TYPE OF SHOW

É HUNT & DARTON POP-UP CAF

7 HOURS

19/21 BRIDGE STREET

FOOD & PERFORMANCE

MAGNETIC EVENTS ‘ENCHANTED CITY’ TRASH DOLLYS

3 HOURS

GUILDHALL

CITY IN LIGHTS

25 MINS

GUILDHALL

DANCE

TRASH DOLLYS

25 MINS

GUILDHALL

DANCE

ARTIST

RUNNING TIME

10.00

HUNT & DARTON POP-UP CAFÉ

12:15

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LOCATION

RUNNING TIME

saturday schedule LOCATION

TYPE OF SHOW

7 HOURS

19/21 BRIDGE STREET

NO FIT STATE CIRCUS

FOOD & PERFORMANCE

1HR 45 MINS

GUILDHALL

CIRCUS

13.00

WHALLEY RANGE ALL STARS

2 HOURS

TOWN HALL

13:00

BALLOONATIC

INSTALLATION /FAMILY FUN

45 MINS

WALKABOUT

FAMILY FUN

13:15

GRAND THEATRE OF LEMMINGS

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL WEST FRONT

FAMILY FUN/THEATRE

14:00

METAL - PLAY THE CITY

30 MINS

19/21 BRIDGE STREET

FUN WALK

14:05

BRUCE AIRHEAD

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL GATEWAY

FAMILY FUN

14.30

TRASH DOLLYS

25 MINS

GUILDHALL

DANCE

14:45

STICKLEBACK PLASTICUS

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL GATEWAY

FAMILY FUN

15:00

ACROJOU

25 MINS

GUILDHALL

THEATRE/DANCE

15.15

BALLOONATIC

45 MINS

WALKABOUT

FAMILY FUN

15:25

BRUCE AIRHEAD

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL GATEWAY

FAMILY FUN

15:55

TRASH DOLLYS

25 MINS

GUILDHALL

DANCE

16:10

GRAND THEATRE OF LEMMINGS

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL WEST FRONT

FAMILY FUN/THEATRE

16:20

WHALLEY RANGE ALL STARS

2 HOURS

TOWN HALL

16:45

NO FIT STATE CIRCUS

INSTALLATION /FAMILY FUN

2 HOURS

GUILDHALL

CIRCUS

17:00

STICKLEBACK PLASTICUS

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL WEST FRONT

FAMILY FUN

17:45

GRAND THEATRE OF LEMMINGS

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL WEST FRONT

FAMILY FUN/THEATRE

18:20

STICKLEBACK PLASTICUS

30 MINS

WALKABOUT

FAMILY FUN

18:30

BALLOONATIC WORKSHOP

90 MINS

BRIDGE STREET

FAMILY FUN

18.45

BRUCE AIRHEAD

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL GATEWAY

FAMILY FUN

19:30

MAGNETIC EVENTS ‘ENCHANTED CITY’

3 HOURS

GUILDHALL

CITY IN LIGHTS

19:50

ACROJOU

25 MINS

GUILDHALL

THEATRE/DANCE

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sunday schedule TIME

ARTIST

RUNNING TIME

LOCATION

TYPE OF SHOW

7 HOURS

19/21 BRIDGE STREET

FOOD & PERFORMANCE

10.00

É HUNT & DARTON POP-UP CAF

2 HOURS

GUILDHALL

CIRCUS

12:00

NO FIT STATE CIRCUS

12:10

WHALLEY RANGE ALL STARS

2 HOURS

TOWN HALL

INSTALLATION/ FAMILY FUN

BALLOONATIC

45 MINS

WALK ABOUT

FAMILY FUN

12:15 12:45

25 MINS

CATHEDRAL GATEWAY

DANCE/THEATRE

ACROJOU

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL WEST FRONT

FAMILY FUN

13:20

STICKLEBACK PLASTICUS

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL WEST FRONT

THEATRE/FAMILY FUN

13:55

GS GRAND THEATRE OF LEMMIN

45 MINS

WALK ABOUT

FAMILY THEATRE

14:00

BALLOONATIC

19/21 BRIDGE STREET

FUN WALK/ DOWNLOAD THE APP

14.00

METAL - PLAY THE CITY

30 MINS 30 MINS

CATHEDRAL GATEWAY

FAMILY FUN

14:20

BRUCE AIRHEAD STICKLEBACK PLASTICUS

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL WEST FRONT

FAMILY FUN

25 MINS

CATHEDRAL GATEWAY

DANCE/THEATRE

TOWN HALL

INSTALLATION/ FAMILY FUN

14:40 15:00

ACROJOU

15:15

WHALLEY RANGE ALL STARS

1HR 45MINS 30 MINS

CATHEDRAL WEST FRONT

THEATRE/FAMILY FUN

15:25

GS GRAND THEATRE OF LEMMIN

1HR 30 MINS

GUILDHALL

CIRCUS

15:30

NO FIT STATE CIRCUS

40 MINS

WALK ABOUT

FAMILY FUN

15:50

STICKLEBACK PLASTICUS

30 MINS

CATHEDRAL GATEWAY

FAMILY FUN

16.00

BRUCE AIRHEAD

45 MINS

WALK ABOUT

FAMILY FUN

16:10

BALLOONATIC

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PIG

Acclaimed street arts Aficionados, Whalley Range All Stars, bring their international hit immersive theatre show, PIG, to Peterborough!

The 9m long sleeping sow, known as ‘Gloria,’ will provide 10 minute immersive shows to privileged audience members on Saturday and Sunday. The catch? Access to shows is through ten strategically placed udder-holes and audience members are encouraged to don ‘pig-tails’ for the event. Do not fear! An instructive farmer will be on hand to guide you through this most memorable experience!

PIG! Has not only been a hit with children and adults across the UK but ‘Gloria’ has garnered a following in far corners of the globe such as Taiwan, Belgium and Ireland.

Lea aged seven enthuses: ‘I’ve always just been to big theatres.

But it was so much funnier to see the actors inside a pig.’

Anticipation for Gloria’s arrival has even garnered attention from the region’s poets, who have payed homage with odes and verses, which will be posted onto Gloria’s facebook page.

We spoke to Whalley Range All Star’s HQ who offered some delightful stories about touring PIG! ‘People react to the show in pretty much the same way all over the world. In Taiwan they built a bamboo temple for the pig to lie in, in Spain a group of 100 people watched us put the show up as if it was a show, in France the audience can be very educated about street theatre and treat it the same as an indoor show… …In Hungary they presented the show as part of a contemporary dance festival…in rural Primary Schools near Hastings we got up very early so that the children would arrive in the morning to find a giant pig asleep in their tiny school hall!’.

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Open House

On Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September, the city centre will be a riot of colour and high-energy performances as No Fit State Circus reveal their carnival of fun, Open House. Flowing through the town from Cathedral Square there will be an explosion of deckchairs, flags and umbrellas as a swarm of musicians, acrobats and aerialists fly out of caravans to create a joyous menagerie of circus chaos! This year audiences will also be invited to try their hand at circus skills as well as watch, laugh and be amazed by this free weekend of skilled circus performance.

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Enter Cape Alley, a netherworld of beautiful dereliction where a ragtag band of outlaws dance to their own strange tune.

Cape Alley was developed at Sadlers Wells as part of the Breakin Conventions Back to The Lab. Commissioned by Bristol City Council and Pavillion Dance South West, co-produced by Restaged and Swindon Dance.

Sam Amos, artistic director and choreographer of Trash Dollys, on Cape Alley Tell us about your show, Cape Alley...

It’s a 20 minute outdoor show in the city centre – a brand new dance-theatre piece about four characters who enter and alleyway and create a sort of dream-like world for themselves, to escape the mundanity of their day-to-day life. It’s a very physical, theatrical show, rooted in breakdancing with some contemporary dance in the mix, but it’s also very bcharacter-driven, with a great narrative to it.

Where does the title come from?

It’s actually from a Tom Waits lyric – he talks about an alleyway just at the end of this very corporate, busy avenue, where businessmen and women went to get away from their jobs. Kind of a hippie-like area that they could break away to.

How do you describe the feel of the show?

We’ve always had a kind of folklore feel about our shows.

Every time we put out a Q&A to the audience it always comes back telling us that the show has something quite mystical or fantastical about it. That’s trickled through into Cape Alley as well. I tried to avoid setting it in a specific era, too, so it’s a real mish-mash of everything.

Have shows like Britain’s Got Talent and Strictly brought about a resurgence of interest in dance?

Absolutely. To be honest, it’s been really useful. I’m a breakdancer primarily, and I think that appeals to a general audience.

But a few years ago, before Britain’s Got Talent was around, it was a lot harder to get audiences outside. They weren’t really

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sure what they were going to see. But since those shows have started, they seem to have a lot more time for it and want to see it. We always get audience members now saying ‘That reminds of a bit from Strictly...’ which is cool, because they’re finding things in it that they can relate to what they’ve seen.

What was your personal journey into dance?

I started in a youth company in Hereford, doing breakdancing classes once a week. Because they held annual shows, I got chucked in the deep end, performing almost from the get-go – from the age of nine or ten. Then I left when I was sixteen and joined a circus... I had been debating whether to go to dance school and had been going to dance classes at college for a couple of months, but then auditioned for this circus and did that instead! From there I worked with a few companies in Bristol and Newcastle, and then I started to experiment with my own work in about 2010 – and Trash Dollys came about in 2011. A less formal path into dance!

Was the circus a big influence on you?

Absolutely. It was the first year they’d brought professional performers on board, outside of the family who ran it. It wasn’t like a typical dance company! It was very grass-roots, very hard work, and towards the end of the run we were only getting about three-four hours sleep a night, because we had to man the big top tent. It was a great work ethic. And the Festival has that kind of carny vibe.

Circus and street theatre certainly have much more interaction with the audience...

I really like that aspect of outdoor shows. In the theatre you have that distance between yourselves and the audience, and don’t tend to see them most of the time because of the lights, but outside you’re really up close and can see the whites of their eyes! It’s nice to have the close-knit relationship – it really keeps it fresh.

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Arts Festival LOVE THE PETERBOROUGH “BGL GROUP IS PLEASED TO ARTS FESTIVAL PLEASE HELP US TO KEEP IT FREE BE VIVACITY’S FIRST MAJOR CORPORATE PARTNER. OUR HEADQUARTERS ARE IN PETERBOROUGH AND MANY OF OUR PEOPLE LIVE HERE. THAT’S WHY WE WANT TO HAVE AN INVESTMENT IN THE CITY’S SPORT, LEISURE AND CULTURAL PROGRAMME.” Matthew Donaldson, Chief Executive, BGL Group

Every year Peterborough Arts Festival delivers high-quality international street theatre, circus and participatory arts projects to over 30,000 people of all ages and backgrounds, it also significantly boosts the city centre economy

BGL is proud to support Peterborough Arts Festival BGL is home to some great brands and we’re always looking for talented people.

Visit our job site: jobs.bglgroup.co.uk

However, keeping the Festival free is a major fundraising challenge, our Arts Festival costs over £100,000 to produce each year. This sum is currently met by Vivacity and the generosity of individuals and local business.

We’re asking you the audience to help to secure the festival’s future.

Please give generously to the purple buckets volunteers we have at each performance. You could become a Festival Patron and enjoy immediate benefits receiving acknowledgement in leaflets, websites and social media.

Sign up to our mailing list and follow us to keep up-to-date with the latest Vivacity news!

We look forward to having you on board.

Warm Wishes, The Festival Team!

To find out more please visit our website or contact: dipak.mistry@vivacity-peterborough.com

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gathering of global flavours and exotic smells, this international food court invites you to enjoy the traditional delights of Caribbean, Mexican, French, and many other cuisines, including the aromatic spices of the Far East and the Teriyaki Cuisine on offer, as well as Vegan & Halal options.

The Food Fair also features a beer tent from Castor Ales Microbrewer.

Established in 2009 and committed to making hand crafted beers, Castor Ales are enthusiastic about supporting local history, cultural and charitable events and is very pleased to be supporting the Peterborough Arts Festival.

Live entertainment throughout the weekend includes street theatre, children’s activities and a variety of music in Squeakers Corner ranging from Classical Ensemble, Ukulele, folk, Samba and pop music to steel drums. With all this plus art exhibition and craft tents, come and sample food and drink from around the world, alfresco dining with a twist and soak up the unique atmosphere.

Market on Long Causeway and Bridge Street A diverse and exciting array of stalls selling crafts, spices and gifts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday which will stay open on Friday and Saturday evening, giving you the opportunity to wander though as you view Peterborough Enchanted City up till 10.30pm.

Whether it’s a Hand-Crafted piece of wood, a scarf that has caught your eye or a hand bag, the trade stands in the pedestrian zone of Long Causeway and Bridge Street will have something to attract the most discerning of visitors.

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Hunt & Darton Cafe Hunt & Darton Cafe is a fully functioning cafe that blends art with the everyday. Creating a social and artistic hub where spontaneity and performance meet great food and drink. Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton expose the inner workings of their business by presenting everything as art – from the food served, the people serving, the décor and public display of their bank balance to the lovingly handpicked charity shop crockery.

Hunt & Darton Cafe encourages playful participation and meaningful social encounters through its alternative service from its hosts Hunt & Darton in their iconic fruit or veggie attire, offering comic interaction through their ‘set menu’ performances and themed day such as ‘you do-it day’ and ‘Community day’. At Hunt & Darton Cafe we are proud to satisfy appetites in more ways than one.

Hunt & Darton are a Live Art Collaboration between Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton. They have both practiced Art since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2003 and been Working together for 8 years. Approaching Live Art from a Fine Art background, they have a persistent fetish within their practice to consistently re-assess the relationship with the audience, embracing awkward moments, risk taking and constantly trying to close the gap between performer and viewer, often opting for interactive performance in public places. Hunt & Darton are associate artists at Artsadmin and Cambridge Junction. n Find Hunt & Darton at 19/21 Bridge Street (near Town Hall) from 4th – 27th September, open 4 days a week - Thursday-Sunday 10-5

‘A must-visit Fringe experience’  The Scotsman ‘A living breathing baking art project’ Cambridge Journal ‘Great work’ The Guardian ‘A uniquely delicious art installation’ Varsity http://huntanddartoncafe.com/

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PETERBOROUGH SINGS! WELCOMES THE 60-PIECE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TO THE BROADWAY THEATRE FOR CLASSICAL SPECTACULAR.

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hey will accompany the city’s award-winning Peterborough Male Voice Choir, Peterborough Voices and Peterborough Youth Choir in this fabulous celebration of popular classics: O Fortuna from Carmina Burana, The Blue Danube, Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah, Candide Overture, Flower Duet from Lakme, Pomp and Circumstance March, Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves and many more! n Classical Spectacular is at the Broadway Theatre at 7.30pm on Sunday 6th September. Tickets from £14 at n Peterborough Visitor Information Centre, call 0333 666 3366 or visit www.peterboroughmvchoir.org.uk

Peterborough Classic and Vintage Vehicle Show Embankment 5th and 6th September The second Peterborough Classic and Vintage Vehicle Show organised

by Peterborough City Council is taking place on the Embankment on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of September. This fun family event is free and also has a host of shopping opportunities, hot food stalls and entertainment. It starts at 10.30am on both days. Last year over 500 cars attended, it attracted an incredible variety of vehicles

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from Jaguar, Triumph, Volkswagen, Fords, Ferrari’s and Rolls Royce’s to Morris Minor’s and Ford Anglia’s, proving there really is an appetite for events like this in the region.

There will be something for all the family at the show - everyone is welcome. Proceeds from the sale of the show’s programme will be split between charities East Anglian Air Ambulance and Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund.

parkway dreams

A MUSICAL PLAY INSPIRED BY TALES OF TOWN PLANNING, COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES AND ARCHITECTS’ SCHEMES? SOUNDS UNLIKELY, BUT EASTERN ANGLES HAD A RUNAWAY SUCCESS WITH PARKWAY DREAMS IN 2013. TO THE DELIGHT OF AUDIENCES, THE THEATRE COMPANY ARE RETOURING THE SHOW TO THE KEY THEATRE THIS AUTUMN.

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xploring the story behind the work of the Peterborough Development Corporation, Parkway Dreams uses authentic voices of those who worked for the company and oversaw the city’s New Town transformation during the 1970s & 1980s. EastEnders writer Kenneth Emson has recreated the backroom story of the small historic Fenland city that turned into multicultural New Town all told through the eyes of Mary, Jack and Peter – a typical London ‘overspill family’. Packed with television game show spoofs, political satire, all interspersed with original and entertaining songs by Simon Egerton, including ‘It Never Rains

in Queensgate’, the show is a fascinating and funny insight into the development of a typical English New Town.

Parkway Dreams is a product of Eastern Angles’ Heritage Lottery Funded archive project Forty Years On in 2011. Volunteers spent over 6,000 hours conducting interviews, cataloguing archive material and sifting through council documents in order to gain an accurate picture of how the city of Peterborough has changed since 1968.

The company will be touring across the East of England starting in Ipswich before heading to the heart of Peterborough itself on 6th and 7th October and moving onto

numerous New Towns. If you missed it the first time round, or would love to revisit it again, this will be a brilliant opportunity to see a real gem in the Eastern Angles crown.

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Holy Mackerel!

Another hilarious history lesson... with songs & fishty cuffs!

26th - 30th January Key Theatre, Peterborough

01733 207239

vivacity-peterborough.com

Parkway Dreams An original musical play by Kenneth Emson Featuring Peterborough’s New Town transformation, purple bell-bottoms, Chopper bikes and the Clangers!

KEY THEATRE, PETERBOROUGH

6th & 7th October 2015 Eves: 7.30pm.Weds Matinee: 11am Box Office 01733 207239 www.vivacity-peterborough.com

“A brilliant, wonderful, touching show… Top of the class” PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH

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