Traction at Crewe - SpareParts Festival 2018

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Organised by Crewe Town Council Fleetwood Festival of Transport

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WELCOME TO TrAction CREWE TrAction, Crewe Town Council’s festival of science, movement and arts is back for its third year, featuring a host of free STEAM activities and performances which all the family can enjoy. Marvel at the Blood Hound Team’s supersonic car, take a ride on the Jigsaw Train and paint the pavement with the Urban Canvas – it’s going to be a bumper day of things to see and do!

SpareParts Festival returns to TrAction for 2018 as well, offering a selection of stupendous and spectacular performances and workshops inspired by the world of transport. With highlights including the terrifying Vander Wheel of Death and an acrobat on a 9m pole, plus the ever popular SpareParts Super Scrap Parade, it’s a day you won’t want to miss. Don’t forget that there is free car parking in Cheshire East’s town centre car parks too. Get in on the action at TrAction, a fantastic and fun free family day out.

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The event, organised by Crewe Town Council, celebrates the town’s role in shaping the country’s rail, science and engineering industries.

TrAction Crewe is proudly funded

by Arts Council England, sponsored

by Bentley Motors and Cheshire East Council. It is also supported by ao.com, Balfour Beatty, Cheshire College South & West, CITB, Crewe Chronicle, Crewe Library, Crewe Lyceum Theatre, Crewe Pledge, Crewe UTC, East Cheshire NHS Trust, Everybody Sport and Recreation, Institute of Physics, Reaseheath College, SHIFT, Swansway Garages, Tebbits & Co Solicitors, The Cat 107.9FM and Whitby Morrison.

SUPERSONIC BLOODHOUND CAR SPEEDS INTO CREWE The BLOODHOUND Project centres on BLOODHOUND SSC, a supersonic car that is designed not only to go faster than the speed of sound (supersonic) but to over 1,000mph (1,600km/h). It will cover a mile in just 3.6 seconds.

BLOODHOUND SSC is approximately 13.4m long and weighs 7.5 tonnes. The design is a mix of car and aircraft technology, with the front section being a carbon fibre monocoque (like a racing car) and the back portion being a metallic framework and panels (like an aircraft). The two front wheels sit within the body and

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two rear wheels are mounted externally within wheel fairings. The Car will be powered by both a jet engine and a rocket, which together will produce more than 135,000 horsepower: that’s more than six times the power of all the Formula 1 cars on a starting grid put together.

Over 110 man years of effort have been invested in the design, build and manufacture of BLOODHOUND SSC.

MAKOEDUCATION CODE-ADRONE WORKSHOP

STEP ONTO THE GREEN SCREEN

Learn how to code a mini-drone to take off, fly, turn, do stunts and land safely. Grab an iPad from the facilitators and write your code.

Then, put your new skills to a test with a range of challenges. They are then given a range of challenges that put these new skills to the test.

No previous coding or drone flying experience is necessary. Activity is recommended for ages 8+ TIMES: 10AM-12PM & 1PM-3PM LOCATION: CREWE LIBRARY

Pop into MakoEducation’s green screen and special effects workshop to discover how green screen technology can be used in film and photography to inspire creativity and transport you to any location.

Kindly sponsored by Bentley you can use the green screen to get up close to your favourite Bentley cars, plus get a free photo print.

TIMES: THROUGHOUT SATURDAY LOCATION: LYCEUM SQUARE

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REMADE JIGSAW EXHIBITION

In May 2001, David Jewkes, Mike Chandler and Diane Davy wanted to create a spectacular work of art for a public space in Crewe and Nantwich using 75 massive jigsaw pieces to express the dreams of local communities. The Jigsaw was exhibited in Crewe Station for over a decade.

Now, inspired by Jo Cox’s belief in bringing communities together, the pieces have been given back to the communities for a new generation to

URBAN CANVAS PAINT THE STREETS

Get creative playing with Urban Canvas as they create a gigantic interactive pavement artwork. Perfect for all the family you’ll get the chance to have fun as you co-create the artwork.

Be a “Screever” for the day and join them on Earle Street to create something vibrant, colourful, and spectacular!

TIMES: THROUGHOUT SATURDAY LOCATION: EARLE STREET

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artistically express their aspirations.

The REMADE Jigsaw exhibition will be premiering at Victoria Square exclusively at trAction. From 11-3pm.

TIMES: THROUGHOUT SATURDAY LOCATION: VICTORIA SQUARE

TERRIFIC TRANSPORT

For the transport enthusiasts, marvel at Whitby Morrison’s selection of vintage ice cream vans from their heritage collection. Get musical with Curtain Call Production’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car and don’t miss the XL1, plus many more motors besides.

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SPAREPARTS SUPER SCRAP PARADE TO TAKE OVER THE TOWN In the afternoon we’ll be treated to the SpareParts Super Scrap Parade as artistic contraptions take to the streets of Crewe wowing the crowds and offering the surreal and stupendous. The parade starts at 4pm at Victoria Street and will make its way to Lyceum Square.

WHAT TO EXPECT

SpareParts Festival will be taking over Crewe town centre with a host of performances and experiences to delight visitors both big and small alike.

Starting at 10am and running right through the day, explore what happens when transport and art collide with a programme of FREE activities and events. To give you a flavour of what to expect we’ve picked out a few highlights to share with you.

SEED BY PIF-PAF

SEED - a surprising and inspiring hitch-hike on the journey from small acorns to great oaks with a Rockabilly Tree-Planting Anarcho-Nomad. Join Wilford planting trees where he shouldn’t - living in his shed and on the run from his past and his arch-enemies, SLUGS, out to get him for his contraband seeds.

TIMES: SATURDAY 11.45AM AND 1.20PM LOCATION: MARKET SQUARE

VANDER WHEEL OF DEATH

Definitely not for the faint hearted, the Vander Wheel of Death has been touring the UK since 1987 wowing audiences across the country. This daredevil rotating contraption sees two acrobats take to the skies and they run the gauntlet on the Wheel of Death.

TIMES: 11.30AM, 12.40PM AND 2.45PM LOCATION: MARKET SQUARE

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DRUM GOD

BY ULIK ROBOTIK

A machine comes to life…. and surprises UliK and the audience when all of a sudden the huge machine, hidden under a red cloth, starts to move to the sounds of UliKs drumming.

Within minutes UliK and the robot are involved in a turbulent ride! UliK Robotik shows how perfectly man and machine can play together. Through the interactive game the robot becomes human and turns the show into an extraordinary experience.

TIMES: 11AM, 2PM AND 4.30PM LOCATION: MARKET SQUARE

VR PLAYGROUND

BY THRILL LABORATORY

Don a VR headset, jump aboard one of the Professor’s playground swings, kick your feet, and be transported away from reality - at high speed.

Can you remember swinging in the playground as a child: enjoying sensations of speed and weightlessness as you swooped high and low?

The World’s first Thrill Engineer, Professor Walker certainly can, and he’s harnessing those sensations to take you on some thrilling, action-packed adventures, where your act of swinging will propel you in unexpected ways through some incredible virtual worlds.

TIMES: THROUGHOUT SATURDAY LOCATION: MEMORIAL SQUARE

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MAKE A SPLASH

BY CARLOS CORTES

Make a Splash is a performancepainting-installation that is created by all the people that take part in this “group action painting”. There will be music, and dance, and a joyful activity that invites people to join in and splash some paint onto our car! After some dynamic “painting moves” the whole vehicle will be covered in bright and colorful splashes of paint...Move aside Jackson Pollock! Our vehicle will become a “smashing” canvas that has been created by tens of participants working together...

TIMES: THROUGHOUT SATURDAY LOCATION: LYCEUM SQUARE

ROBOPOLE BY ULIK ROBOTNIK

A man and a robot. Human being and machine. The story behind RoboPole is as short as it is epical. A man, who looks like he could be the engineer, and a robot try to experiment...

Hesitant at first, but more and more playfully they venture to new heights.

TIMES: 12.15PM & 3.15PM LOCATION: MARKET SQUARE

MUCH MORE BESIDES...

But wait, this is just the beginning. Throughout the day you’ll also see surprising performances and happenings from Bold Art, Dan Fox and his Boom Bikes, Circus Fudge, Dizzy O’Dare, Egg People, the Electric Sunshine Project’s Crash Test Dummies, FlameOz, Handmade Parade, Highly Sprung, The Annual Steam Hammer Rally and Picnic and Reckless Invention, Circus Zambia and Lindsey Piper.

PREPARE FOR A MOST SURPRISING DAY OUT IN CREWE!

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Saturday SpareParts Timetable

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All Day

Making a Splash

Lyceum Square

10am-4pm

VR Experience

Memorial Square

10am-4pm

SHIFT Digital Art Workshop

Lyceum Square

11am-3.30pm

Cogs in Motion

Lyceum Square

11am

Drum God

Market Square

11.30am

Vander Wheel of Death

Market Square

11.30am

MAS African Dance Carnival Workshop

Memorial Square

11.45am

SEED

Market Square

12.15pm

RoboPole

Market Square

12.40pm

Vander Wheel of Death

Market Square

1pm

Barefeet & Circus Zambia Acrobatics

Market Square

1pm

Movema World Dance Parade Routine Workshop

Memorial Square

1.20pm

SEED

Market Square

2pm

Drum God

Market Square

2.15pm

Dan Fox Boom Bikes

Market Square

2.30pm

MAS African Dance Carnival Workshop

Memorial Square

2.45pm

Vander Wheel of Death

Market Square

3.15pm

RoboPole

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3.30pm

Barefeet & Circus Zambia Acrobatics

4pm

SpareParts Super Scrap Parade

4.30pm

Drum God

Market Square