At a glance SAT 27 JULY 11am - 4pm
VENUE JAMES ASHWORTH VC SQUARE (1)
11am
CRAFT WORKSHOPS ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN ALL OF THE WORLD COMPOST MENTIS
11am
THE VEGETABLE NANNIES
ROAMING
11.30am
BEES: THE COLONY BERYL & CYRIL’S GREAT BARNSLEY BAKE OFF GROW
QUEENS SQUARE B (6)
11am - 5pm
11.30am 11.30am
WILLOW PLACE (2) CORPORATION STREET WEST (3)
CORPORATION STREET EAST (4) QUEENS SQUARE A (5)
12pm
MR LUCKY'S PARTY
CORPORATION STREET WEST (3)
12.15pm
THE VEGETABLE NANNIES
ROAMING CORPORATION STREET EAST (4)
12.30pm
BOOM BIKE BOURRÉE
12.30pm
TWO OLD MEN
QUEENS SQUARE A (5)
1pm
ROAMING
2pm
LOBSTER À LA CART BERYL & CYRIL’S GREAT BARNSLEY BAKE OFF COMPOST MENTIS
2.30pm
BEES: THE COLONY
QUEENS SQUARE B (6)
2.30pm
BOOM BIKE BOURRÉE
CORPORATION STREET EAST (4)
2.30pm
THE VEGETABLE NANNIES
ROAMING
2.45pm
MR LUCKY'S PARTY
CORPORATION STREET WEST (3)
3.15pm
CORPORATION STREET EAST (4)
4.15pm
GROW BERYL & CYRIL’S GREAT BARNSLEY BAKE OFF TWO OLD MEN
QUEENS SQUARE A (5)
4.15pm
BOOM BIKE BOUREE ACOUSTIC
CORPORATION STREET EAST (4)
1.30pm
3.30pm
CORPORATION STREET EAST (4) CORPORATION STREET WEST (3)
QUEENS SQUARE A (5)
4.30pm
LOBSTER À LA CART
ROAMING
5pm
PARADE
JAMES ASHWORTH VC SQUARE (1)
5.45pm
FINALE
CORONATION PARK (7)
SUN 28 JULY
VENUE
12pm
BOLLYWOOD BRASS BAND
MAIN PARK (7)
12pm
BEES: THE COLONY
SENSORY GARDEN (8)
12.15pm
PULSE
OPEN AIR THEATRE (9)
12.15pm
MADAME BONBON AND HER MANSERVANT NOBBY COMMUNITY FEAST
MAIN PARK (7)
12.30pm
ROAMING
1.30pm - 5pm
THE PEOPLE'S STAGE
MAIN PARK (7)
1.30pm
BOLLYWOOD BRASS BAND
ROAMING
2pm
BERYL & CYRIL’S GREAT BARNSLEY BAKE OFF MADAME BONBON AND HER MANSERVANT NOBBY BOLLYWOOD BRASS BAND
2pm 2.30pm
OPEN AIR THEATRE (9) ROAMING MAIN PARK (7)
3pm
BEES: THE COLONY
SENSORY GARDEN (8)
3.15pm
PULSE
OPEN AIR THEATRE (9)
3.45pm
BERYL & CYRIL’S GREAT BARNSLEY BAKE OFF BOOM BIKE BOURRÉE
MAIN PARK (7)
4.45pm
OPEN AIR THEATRE (9)
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SATURDAY 27 AND SUNDAY 28 JULY 2019 CORBY TOWN CENTRE AND CORONATION PARK
WELCoME
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Welcome to the second annual Grow Festival, two days of foodthemed performances, experiences and workshops across Corby town centre.
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Saturday & Sunday
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This year’s festival is inspired by the theme of food, celebrating all things culinary and sharing the food cultures of Corby. Families can whet their appetites with adventure, hilarious street performers, spectacular art, music and an enormous community feast. There’s something for everyone to enjoy.
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Venues & Map
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With Thanks
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Timetable
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Grow 2019 is the second in a series of outdoor festivals commissioned by Made in Corby and co-produced with The Core at Corby Cube funded by Arts Council England through the National Lottery. As Corby is one of the fastest growing boroughs outside of London, the festivals are aptly inspired by themes of water, light and food – all essential ingredients for growth. We especially want to thank our Grow Festival Community Panel, and the many local people volunteering their time to make the festival happen – we couldn’t have done it without you. Throughout the weekend, and afterwards online, there will be opportunities to give a small donation to help us keep the festival free for everyone. Please give whatever you are able to. And remember to follow us online to be the first to hear details of Grow 2020!
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We hope that you enjoy our fantastic food-themed weekend, Helen Willmott Director Made in Corby
Joe Flavin Director The Core at Corby Cube
Don’t forget to buy your tickets for the giant Community Feast in Coronation Park at www.thecorecorby.com or by phone on 01536 470 470
www.growcorby.co.uk
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Thu 25 – Sat 27 July OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD Stan’s Cafe
MR LUCKY’S PARTY Willow Place
Stan’s Cafe offers a grain of truth about our planet: every grain of rice represents someone, somewhere. For this beautifully simple performance installation visitors are invited to put their questions and suggestions to the artists who then build small and large mounds of rice representing the political and social realities in the world. By making normally abstract statistics tangible and placing them in thoughtful relation to each other, this powerful work of art is witty, shocking and ultimately moving. 11am – 5pm
A three day pop up shop like no other
Avanti Display
During a tea party a couple begin a celebration, party hats and even a cake appear, however with each course the weather worsens, the downpour increases and their mood blackens. Imagine yourself in Blackpool’s tower ballroom, with an evocative 1940’s soundtrack, a couple, at first irritated with each other are eventually reconciled and transformed in typical Avanti style with a bizarre, spectacular and unexpected twist. 12pm & 2.45pm
Image: Graeme Braidwood
Sat 27 July
TWO OLD MEN 2Faced Dance Company
Corporation Street West
Compost Mentis features a large compost heap, set in a small allotment, and the Gardener who looks after it. Their relationship begins to break down when he discovers that the compost heap has developed a life of its own, and harbours thoughts fermenting within. Live action, puppet, mechanical and musical interventions ensure that the audience, like the Gardener, are led up the garden path.
LOBSTER À LA CART Artizani
THE VEGETABLE NANNIES Roaming
The Vegetable Nannies are two everyday gardeners who’ve taken their young vegetables out of the ground for a day trip. No doubt the Nannies could use a hand in feeding and taking care of the baby fruits and vegetable. 11am, 12.15pm & 2.30pm
Roaming
The Conquest of the Crustaceans Giant lobsters take over! A truly arresting sight as it rumbles towards you - filling your field of vision and tickling with its tentacles. Lobster à la Cart has been a huge hit with audiences up and down the country. 1pm & 4.30pm
GROW Kapow Dance Circus Theatre SPONSORED BY JOHNSON UNDERWOOD
Featuring 2Faced Dance Company’s trademark fusion of break, street and contemporary dance, the show is twenty minutes of adrenalin fuelled, heart in the mouth acrobatics that will leave you wanting more. 12.30pm & 4.15pm
11am & 2pm
Plunge Boom
Queens Square A
Two Old Men is a tale of two old friends created and danced by internationally acclaimed 2Faced Dance Company. This is a story about two men’s extraordinary experiences, eccentric behaviour and witty tales. Two Old Men will make you gasp, laugh and cry as the old men take you on a lifelong journey all the way to the pub.
COMPOST MENTIS Whalley Range All Stars
Corporation Street West
After delighting audiences at last year’s festival with The Spurting Man, Avanti Display return with Mr Lucky’s Party.
Queens Square A
Grow is a lively, energetic and vibrant dance theatre duo by Kapow. A playful and touching celebration of the power of nature to rejuvenate, take over spaces and grow through the cracks. You will see order and chaos, humans transforming into weeds, seeds and beautiful sunflowers.
JOIN THE PARADE!
This production will speak to everyone about our relationship to one another, to nature and of what we need to thrive.
Follow the Boom Bikes, Lobster à la Cart and colourful food creations as the wind their way through the town centre from James Ashworth VC Square to Coronation Park for a display of colourful smoke, pyrotechnic sparkles and a very loud crescendo of crackers to mark the end of the day. The unique artworks created by the people of Corby working with artist Sarah Walpole will become a colourful canopy above the Community Feast.
11.30am & 3.15pm
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Sat 27 & Sun 28 July THE PEOPLE’S STAGE
Various Locations
On Saturday there will be music from local choir Big About Singing, acoustic singer-songwriter Paul Roberts and home-grown hip hop group The Enablers. There’ll be dance The Core’s Over 55’s group and Bodyrox Dance Company. Solo acts on the Saturday include performance poet Liam Ferguson, who writes about everyday life in Corby. On Sunday in Coronation Park, you can enjoy music from indie-rock band XV Frames, folk from Matthew McGhie, 13 year old singersongwriter Eva Rose and youth music group, Oakley Rangers. The compere for the day will be the highly entertaining local poet Chuck The Poet and Corby Amateur Theatrical Society are set to delight audiences with popular songs from the musicals. SAT 27 JULY - QUEENS SQUARE (A) 1.15PM – 4.30PM SUN 28 JULY - MAIN PARK 1.30PM – 5PM
Wild N Beets
Various Locations
SPONSORED BY PRIORS HALL PARK Beryl and Cyril are hosting The Great Barnsley Bake Off in Corby! A fun filled game for all the family. Who will have a soggy bottom? Will you accept their signature challenge? What’s your secret masterpiece to dazzle the judges? Come along and play The Great Barnsley Bake Off with Beryl and Cyril. No baking is necessary in the game - but all gluten and nut free cakes welcome. SAT 27 JULY – 11.30AM, 1.30PM & 3.30PM – CORPORATION STREET EAST SUN 28 JULY – 2PM & 3.45PM – OPEN AIR THEATRE
Visit www.growcorby.co.uk for the full programme.
BEES: THE COLONY Artizani
BERYL & CYRIL’S GREAT BARNSLEY BAKE OFF
BOOM BIKE BOURRÉE Various Locations
A multi-sensory installation of multiple beehives all hiding a unique, unexpected interior world engaging spectators through taste, smell and touch as well as sight and hearing. Audiences wander amongst the honey-perfumed Bee Colony, occasionally cloaked in smoke, finding a variety of ways to view and interact with the contents. In each there is a surprising conceptual twist, which challenges, charms and confounds expectations – you may find yourself looking into the vastness of space or teased by a telescopic hive soaring into the air. The installation is tended by ethereal beekeepers and atmospherically lit when performed at night. The Bees investigates the complex symbiotic relationship humans have with bees. It is beautiful, humorous and thought provoking.
Sound Intervention
Various Locations
Boom Bike Bourrée bring a joyous mix of medieval dance, folk music and hip -hop! A 21st century street band featuring hurdygurdy, accordion, trombone and beat-boxing all wirelessly amplified through the amazing Boom Bike sound system. SAT 27 JULY - 12.30PM, 2.30PM & 4.15PM – CORPORATION STREET EAST SUN 28 JULY – WITH THE FEAST AND 4.45PM – MAIN PARK
SAT 27 JULY – 11.30AM - 1.30PM & 2.30PM - 4.30PM – WILLOW PLACE SUN 28 JULY – 12PM & 3PM – SENSORY GARDEN “A SURREAL, CHARMINGLY WACKY INSTALLATION” THE GUARDIAN
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Sunday 28 July COMMUNITY FEAST
Main Park
SPONSORED BY ANGLIAN WATER Join us in Coronation Park for an enormous theatrical community feast sharing and celebrating the food and cultures of Corby! The feast is the culmination of months of community growing projects and rescued food from Northamptonshire’s Fruitful Abundance CIC and three local chefs will cook up a delicious menu reflecting Corby’s diverse population and their cuisines. Hosted by Stuart Reid hundreds of diners will be entertained by music, dance and theatre from acclaimed street artists and the People’s Stage will return to showcase local talent. Tickets can be booked at www.thecorecorby.com or by phone on 01536 470 470. Residents of Corby Borough are eligible for half price tickets which can only be booked via phone or in person. From 12.30pm
BOLLYWOOD BRASS BAND
Main Park
Bollywood meets Brass meets Bhangra: The Bollywood Brass Band is the UK’s pioneering Indian-style band, playing the great tunes and compulsively danceable rhythms of the most popular music in the world. Wielding saxophone, brass, dhol drums and a colossal sousaphone, the BBB are one of the most colourful, joyful and exhilarating acts around.
PULSE! Joss Arnott Dance
Open Air Theatre
Joss Arnott Dance present PULSE!, a brand-new dance and live music experience created for the streets. Performed entirely around a unique 3.5m high percussion wheel designed by Eleanor Bull and engineered by Rolls-Royce this adrenaline-fuelled dance and live music production is a combination of rhythmical flare and heart-in-mouth choreography for all the family to enjoy. 12.15pm & 3.15pm
MADAME BONBON AND HER MANSERVANT NOBBY Cocoloco
Roaming
Madame Bonbon brings a magical, topsy-turvy, complex aroma and full-bodied feast to Corby. Her hairstyle alone is a drama. Follow her path as she whimsically creates a sumptuous evening peppered with intricate wit, batty tongue twisters and ridiculous riddles. She’s a barking mad royal personality, sweeping through the town, imparting accusations as vehement as they are bewildering and compliments as barbed as they are humorous. 12.15pm & 2pm
Four hot horns and three funky drummers blend the hottest Hindi film hits with riotous Indian wedding music and Punjabi beats. From 12pm
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To Kettering and Northampton Main Festival Information point NN17 1PN Open Air Theatre
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NN17 1PN Sensory Garden
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Public Toilets with disabled access Main Park
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Queens Square B
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Parking
Queen’s Square A
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Corporation Street East NN17 1NG
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For further information about accessibility please see our access guide at www.growcorby.co.uk
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Moving Performance
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BSL integrated
Willow Place
Smoke & Haze
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Audio Description
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Flashing Lights
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Audience Interaction
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Amplified or Loud Music/Noise
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Special thanks to the team at Bill Gee Projects, the Grow Festival Community Panel (Vince Hanratty, Jayne Incles, Ann Leonard, Chuck Middleton, Amber Miller, Maria Rowe and Susan Shier), Corby Borough Council, Daniel Pickard and Kay McGinley at Willow Place, Rob Purdie and the Made in Corby Consortium (Corby Community Arts, Corby Unity, The Core at Corby Cube and Groundwork Northamptonshire) Vickie Bell at Teamwork Trust, Core Playwrights Ensemble, Stevie Way Art Group, the staff at Adrenaline Alley, the staff at the Autumn Centre, staff and children of Pen Green Nursery, Kingswood Neighbourhood Centre, Hazelwood Neighbourhood Centre and Stephenson Way Community Centre, Fruitful Abundance CIC and all of our wonderful Arts Ambassadors and festival volunteers.
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