High jinx on the streets of Gillingham Gillingham High Street, Saturday, 19 June 12noon to 4pm
Bang On! A thunderous junk percussion duo who lay down the high street funk using a massive drum kit made from recycled objects.
CinecabaGoGo CineCabaGoGo, the Cinema in the Back of a Black Cab, is pulling up on a street near you. Let the Usherettes transform you into a movie star.
High jinx on the riverside Riverside Country Park, Sunday, 20 June 12noon to 4pm
Dizzy O’Dare presents
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Roll up for The Tiny Travelling Tightwire Show! Local arts commission Poppet wants to show you the delights of her tightwire skills but she is shy and needs your help and encouragement. A fun and entertaining roaming tightwire show for all ages incorporating Poppet the puppet and Alana Jones, one of the UK’s leading tightwire artists in the UK. Performance times Acts will perform regularly throughout the afternoon. To find out when visit www.fusefestival.org.uk a couple of days before the event or pick up a timetable on the day.
Musical Ruth A wimple-wielding madcap who drives an extravagant mobile piano and packs more dance moves than Travolta.
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Close Act Set the microscope to reverse as giant insects are roaming the streets, eyes all-seeing, mandibles in motion and buzzing with intent.
Strictly Dumb Prancing With more than a smidgen of mischief, an over-sequinned couple combine skilled acrobalance with dubious tango skills.
Come and play with Sparky, the Imagination our Nation puppet Come and meet Sparky, Medway’s own Imagination our Nation puppet, who will be wandering the riverside all afternoon. A young Sparky was first introduced to Medway during last year’s festival. Puppets grow much quicker than humans and Sparky is back for this year’s festivities, taller, stronger and more mischievous than ever. www.facebook.com/sparkychampion www.twitter.com/sparkychampion www.imaginationournation.co.uk
Imagination our Nation A five-year project that will culminate in 2012 with a major event at Victoria Park in East London.
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A 15-day celebration of arts and creativity in Medway
it’s arts From new commissions by world-class performers to home grown talent.
High Jinx on the streets of Medway Friday, 18 to Sunday, 20 June Weekend two mixes family jinx and musical revolutions on the streets of Gillingham, Rainham and Strood
it’s yours Intimate and immediate performances that put you at the heart of the action.
it’s free Let the adventures begin. The festival runs from Saturday, 12 to Saturday, 26 June, featuring hundreds of performers. For the full line-up visit www.fusefestival.org.uk or phone 01634 338319
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Welcome to a weekend of high jinx around Medway… Gillingham • revolutionary theatre that will bare your musical soul and the region’s heartbeat • an afternoon of high-street capers and chaos for all the family
Rainham • meet a mischievous puppet and tiny tightwire artist at the Riverside Country Park
Periplum presents
1000 Revolutions Per Moment… live on the streets of Gillingham Friday, 18 and Saturday, 19 June 7 to 8.30pm and 9.30 to 11pm Take a journey with us, into the musical vaults of your mind and through the streets and venues of Gillingham. Discover a world that is shaped by where you wander and by the music that has changed your life. This stunning piece of theatre, from the internationally-acclaimed Periplum, needs you, the audience, to bring it to life.
Strood
Email 1000revolutions@googlemail.com to sign up for one of the performances and be prepared to bare your musical soul. The revolution will not be televised. It’s live and it’s on the streets of Gillingham.
Meanwhile, in Capstone and Cliffe… Periplum returns to Medway after it’s successful performance of Arquiem at Rochester Castle, during the finale of the 2008 Fuse Medway festival.
London’s Central School of Speech and Drama presents
The Doctor’s Daughter Capstone Farm Country Park, Saturday, 19 June 4 to 6pm Cliffe Woods, Sunday, 20 June 4 to 6pm Created especially for Fuse Medway Festival, this is a funny, dramatic and family-friendly tale of trickery and infatuation, inspired by Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well. Helen is in love but with the wrong boy. She has a cunning plan and arranges things so that he has to marry her. But is she clever enough to keep him and can she decide if she really wants him after all?
1000 Revolutions Per Moment has been created specifically for Gillingham, celebrating its people and places and to find out what lies at its heart.
• sparkly fun and workshops on the waterfront
Capstone and Cliffe
Entry is free… bring something comfy to sit on and all children must be accompanied by an adult.
• exciting children’s theatre
Don’t forget, it’s all free
Also on…over in Strood Matt Ashdown and Lucy Noakes present
Cornfield
SPARK Local arts commission
Open viewing: Sat, 19 and Sun 20 June, 12noon-4pm, Hundred of Hoo School On the outskirts of Medway there is a deep-rooted farming community that is often forgotten. Cornfield is a dreamlike, walkthrough exhibition that will plant the topic of local agriculture back where it belongs, in the foreground. The visual feast, created by Matt, Lucy and pupils from the area, will take place in the school environment, accompanied by insights into the reality of farming life. www.cornfieldproject.wordpress.com Matt and Lucy have been curating exhibitions together for two years through local arts organisation Moogie Wonderland, but this is their first collaborative installation.
Hidden Door Productions present
SPARK Local arts commission
Sparkle Strood Waterfront play area, Canal Street, Saturday, 19 June 12noon to 4pm Artists from Hidden Door Productions will be bringing a touch of colour, joy and celebration to Strood Waterfront with a profusion of sparkly and colourful mobiles. Explore the free performances and activities, including a drop-in art workshop. Become a friend of Hidden Door Productions on Facebook and find out more about the workshops and artists.