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SIRF13 is presented and produced by Stockton Borough Council with financial support from Arts Council England
Your guide to Four AMAZING days in august 1st-4th August
WELCOME Welcome to the 26th SIRF The first weekend in August is always a great time to be outdoors in Stockton and a chance to discover and rediscover all that is special about the town and the spirit and vibrancy that SIRF brings to Stockton. SIRF marks its return to the Riverside where we open the Festival with Theater Titanick’s show of metal, fire and music, Furnace Symphony, and end there with our stunning finale Compagnie Off’s Girafes. You could bump into roving Rhinos on the High Street, visit the creche for baby vegetables on Trinity Green and enjoy the passion of fire and tango in Parish Gardens. We’re welcoming back old friends to the Festival; Bad Taste Company, Motionhouse and Pif-Paf, and introducing new artists; Compagnie Retouramont, Emke Idema and Pere Faura. And, of course, we have our Community Carnival filling the High Street with Stories of the World! Join us for another unstoppable, un-missable and unbelievable weekend of fantastic festival fun – we might be 26 this year but there is no sign of us growing up yet! The SIRF Team We’d love to know what you think so please join us on Facebook and Twitter. www.facebook.com/riversidefestival www.twitter.com/sirf2013
FESTIVAL LAUNCH Theater Titanick (Germany) Furnace Symphony A UK premiere The festival launch celebrates a return to the Riverside in a spectacular flame-filled fashion! Theater Titanick are no strangers to SIRF – last seen re-enacting the sinking of the Titanic, this time they are back with a bang or a blast to be more precise! Furnace Symphony takes inspiration from the drama and alchemy of steel making – a fitting celebration of our rich steel-industry heritage. This is a symphony with a twist created by an orchestra like no other - the six musicians don’t sit down on comfortable chairs but take their place between three towers of fire. They don’t play the violin or the trumpet but archaic instruments from the Titanick factory and this wouldn’t be Titanick if the wondrous steel constructions didn’t develop a life of their own. Driven by vanity and rivalry, the gifted musicians not only play the musical score with virtuosity, but also play on the entire range of human feelings. Comic scenes are followed by moments of thrilling suspense. The tension rises and one begins to wonder whether all this can ever end well? The performance culminates in ethereal song, flames and fireworks and in a touchingly poetic way they actually make steel ring out. WHEN Thurs 1st 10pm WHERE Riverside
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WHEN Fri 2nd & Sat 3rd 10pm WHERE Swallow Yard
Compagnie Retouramont (France) Gravitational waves A UK premiere Compagnie Retouramont takes everyday spaces and transforms them with an exciting combination of video projection, sound and aerial dance. Gravitational Waves will take place in Swallow Yard (former Swallow Hotel Service Yard). This usually hidden space will become a festival venue for the weekend with the UK premiere of this breathtaking show. A sculptural framework attached to the facade of the building provides the dancers with a unique performance space to explore the interaction between architecture, sound, projected images and movement. Dancers animate the space in multiple dimensions where the movement is not only seen but heard as the sculpture transposes their every move into sound. Audience numbers will be limited within Swallow Yard so please get there early for a show you don’t want to miss! Access to Swallow Yard is from Tower Street (next to the entrance for Castlegate Car park)
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Emke Idema (Netherlands) Stranger
A UK premiere Trinity Church is one of our favourite venues and will provide an atmospheric setting for “Stranger”, a life sized board game exploring the mechanisms at work when people look at other people and how easily we can form opinions about others based on first impressions. In a playful and inquisitive way, game participants confront their own values, intuition and prejudices by judging others purely on their appearance.
STRANGER’s concept is brilliant, with risky edges’ De Volkskrant Free ticketed event
WHEN Fri 2nd 12noon, 4pm & 8pm Sat 3rd 12noon, 4pm & 8pm Sun 4th 12noon, 3.30pm & 7pm WHERE Trinity Church
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Advice to parents, this show is not suitable for children under 16.
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Flex Dance Company (UK)
Bilbobasso (France)
A SIRF commission
Sparks fly (literally) in Parish Gardens as Bilbobasso combine bold fire with the intensity and infinite tenderness of Argentinean tango. When a mysterious young woman and a ruthless gangster meet, their attraction seems destined for tragedy, but can the dance save her?
Parked
Innovative dance theatre performed by Durham based Flex Dance Company, a group of leading learning disabled artists. Parked is Flex Dance Company’s first piece created specifically for outdoor audiences, building on their reputation for engaging dynamic dance work in traditional theatre spaces.
WHEN Sat 3rd 2pm & 4pm Sun 4th 1pm & 4pm WHERE Trinity Green
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Polar Blending in with their surroundings, three inanimate objects form the scene: a park bench, a lamp post and a rubbish bin. Eight performers animate the scene through a series of short stories using dynamic movements and the subtlety of ambient sound effects. For each of them the scene is host to a memory, a place that holds significance in their life.
Descend into a world of dangerous cabaret, where lovers give themselves to desire and the flames of passion light up the night. WHEN Fri 2nd & Sat 3rd 10pm WHERE Parish Gardens
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WHEN Fri 2nd 1.00pm & 3.30pm Sat 3rd 12.45pm & 3.00pm
Compagnie Mobil [Netherlands]
WHERE High Street
Sulky M1
An unconventional man unexpectedly appears with his peculiar vehicle, the Sulky M1. No one knows where he is from or where he is going. But he is alone and undoubtedly seeking company. He is even prepared for all eventualities, a tea party or a dinner for two... At first everything seems to be under control, but suddenly a cloud of smoke appears! Sulky M1 deals with the theme of loneliness in a heart warming way, playing with fire during a fun-filled spectacle full of explosions! 12 SIRF2013 www.sirf.co.uk
WHEN Fri 2nd 12noon, 2pm, 4pm (High Street) Sat 3rd 1pm, 3pm, 5pm (Trinity Green) Sun 4th 12.30pm, 3pm, 5pm (Trinity Green) WHERE High Street Trinity Green
PLUNGE BOOM (UK)
Vegetable Nannies and the Allotment It has been a while since the Vegetable Nannies last appeared on the streets of Stockton but it’s time to take up our parenting duties again! Wheeling an ancient Victorian pram laden with a prized collection of vegetables, the Nannies are out for the day, showing off their allotment cherubs and telling many a tale, like every proud parent would. Come and get kitted out at the Allotment with gloves and trowels before getting stuck into the domestic duties of feeding, bathing, perambulating and other general T.L.C for the baby vegetables! www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2013 13
Without Walls (UK) SIRF is a founder member of Without Walls, a consortium of leading arts organisations and festivals dedicated to commissioning, presenting and supporting new outdoor work by UK artists and companies. SIRF13 will welcome nine new exciting and diverse shows commissioned by Without Walls: Funded by Arts Council England
Inspector Sands
So you think you know all there is to know about Stockton High Street? Well prepare to be amazed by what histories and mysteries lie behind the shop fronts!
Witty, intimate, strange and epic, A High Street Odyssey will dissect the characters, reveal the secrets, consider the future and stare deep
into the soul of the Great British High Street. It will never look the same again. A 25-minute promenade audiotour for 30 intrepid souls from award-winning company Inspector Sands. Free ticketed event.
WHEN Fri 2nd 11.00am, 12 noon, 1.00pm, 3.00pm, 4.00pm Sat 3rd 11.00am, 12 noon, 1.00pm, 3.00pm, 4.00pm WHERE High Street
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Magna Mysteria Maria Morrelini has disappeared. The last time you saw her you were in the audience watching as she and her sisters performed their act. You watched as she stepped through the mirror on stage and disappeared. She hasn’t been seen since. Receive your tarot card from the Magna Mysteria Machine to begin your search (available from Rediscover Shop from 30th July). First you find the character on your tarot card and then the world will unravel for you. Magna Mysteria takes place over the course of a day from 3pm-6pm with a finale each night at 8pm - the locations will be disclosed during your search.
A High Street Odyssey
Who was Mr Boot? And Mr Smith? Who is Claire? And when did she get so into accessories? And who is here now? What’s that man doing? And what on earth does that woman have in her bag?
Mercurial Wrestler
Magna Mysteria takes place on your phone via text messages and phone calls, in hidden locations around the town and online via twitter. Keep all methods of communication open and always look in the least obvious places. Oh, and one final piece of advice:
Always keep your arms where you can see them. Free ticketed event.
WHEN Fri 2nd, Sat 3rd and Sun 4th, 3pm – 6pm and 8pm WHERE Town Centre
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Les EnfantS Terribles
Oxford Contemporary Music
Imaginary Menagerie
Audible Forces
Audible Forces is a sight to be seen and heard! Trinity Green will host a collection of wind powered musical installations and these intriguing kinetic, sonic creations produce other-worldly sounds as nature’s unseen force breathes life into them. This captivating collection is inspired by sound artist Max Eastley’s explorations into Aeolian (wind driven) instruments, from their mythology and curious history, to contemporary explorations of them. Six of the finest sound artists around today (Mark Anderson, Jony WHEN Fri 2nd, Sat 3rd, Sun 4th 12noon – 8pm WHERE Trinity Green
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Easterby, Kathy Hinde, Dan Fox, Nathaniel Robin Mann and Mike Blow) have joined Max and each created their own instruments that harness the wind. Their instruments form a unified experience made up of an ever changing sound world that captures the imagination. Produced by OCM and Oxford Brookes University Sonic Art Research Unit. Co-commissioned by Without Walls and Brighton Festival.
Roll up, roll up, roll up. The most magnifical, tremendible and fantasticulous travelling circus arrives on Stockton High Street, recalling Stockton’s tradition of welcoming a circus to the town each Winter. The caravan of curiosities has arrived to entertain, amuse and beguile you. Packed with Vaudeville, circus, puppets, dance, music and magic, a cast of professional charlatans will regale you with tales of wit, virtue and courage, all loosely based upon Aesop’s fables and rendered with a bizarre theatricality all of their own. WHEN Fri 2nd 1.30pm, 7.30pm Sat 3rd 3.30pm, 7.30pm WHERE High Street
Motionhouse Captive
Breathtaking, highly energetic and intoxicating: four dancers perform inside a large steel cage. Disorientated and shaken, they use their skill and instinct to survive, creating a dazzling performance at breakneck speed. Captive is inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem The Panther and considers how a human, like an animal, can be plucked from normal life and plunged into captivity. A dazzling blend of dance and aerial work. Captive is created with support from Six Summer Saturdays and Swindon Dance. WHEN Sat 3rd 1.30pm, 4.15pm, 8.15pm (Church Road) Sun 4th 4.45pm, 7.30pm (High Street) WHERE Church Road High Street
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Pif-Paf
Rag and Bone
With storms on every horizon, three exiled souls collide in a no man’s land, all looking for more, one from our world and two from far away. Pushed to keep moving they adventure through cockeyed and transforming landscapes, getting entangled, propelled and lifted to new heights. But what happens when inner demons come out? Will they pull together or will they pull apart, or will they offer each other Something To Hold?
Figures spring to life from a wasteland of discarded rubbish on Stockton High Street! This is the Bone Yard – a scrap heap, or your back yard; constantly changing and growing. Rag and Bone dance, delight and despair in a world drowning in junk. But are they alone? Did that rubbish move? And are the ‘Bone Yard Tales’ really a series of myths telling of the destructive power and addictive nature of waste, or just stories spun by Rag to distract Bone from bashing bits of metal all the time?
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Tilted Productions Fragile
Two tight-wire artists, two dancers, a trampoline duo and a dancing clown search for the beautiful in the fragile and the fragile in the seemingly beautiful. Fragile’s architectural set creates the illusion of the performance being on a rooftop. Imagine a flat concrete roof where someone has put up a garden with a few plants in pots and some grass. The piece will expose the microcosm of human WHEN Sat 3rd Sun 4th 3pm, 5.30pm WHERE Bath Lane
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activity taking place in this garden. It will look at the lives of those who visit the roof terrace and explore what the garden means to them. While intricate relationships tenderly and brutally entwine, a strange transformation happens to the garden itself enhancing the sense of a warped reality and other worldliness unfolding. Supported by Visualsoft eCommerce
A fast paced tale spun on a thrilling new aerial sculpture by Pif-Paf, within a transforming mechanical world of action, metal and rope. WHEN Fri 2nd 1pm, 4.15pm, 7pm Sat 3rd 3.15pm, 7.30pm WHERE Church Road
Boneyard Tales
Bone Yard Tales’ combination of physical theatre, puppetry and live music revels in the delight of transformation. WHEN Fri 2nd Sat 3rd 2pm, 8pm WHERE High Street
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Bad Taste Company Faust
A SIRF Commission We are delighted to welcome Bad Taste Company back to SIRF with their re-imagining of Goethe’s “Faust” on Stockton High Street. Drinking, gambling, womanising, and general debauchery make the Speakeasy a perfect place for a man to lose his soul, as we see when Faust is manipulated, to both comic and tragic effect, into a deal with the devil where his very soul hangs in the balance. Told through the intense physical and narrative dance style that Bad Taste Company have become renowned for, ‘Faust’ features a unique fusion of world-class breaking combined with Lindy Hop, Charleston, and swinging big band music of the roaring 20’s that taps into the spirit of gangsters, bootleggers, gamblers, flappers, and hep cats of the time. Supported by Dance City and Tees Valley Dance.
WHEN Fri 2nd Sat 3rd 9pm WHERE High Street
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Stockton Community Carnival 2013 – Stories of the World! Saturday 3 August, 12 noon Once again the Community Carnival will bring Stockton to life as it arrives in a blaze of colour and sound and makes its way down Stockton High Street on Saturday 3rd August. Hundreds of participants from local school, youth, community, performance groups and sports clubs have been working hard to create fabulous costumes, rehearse fantastic dance routines and learn wonderful carnival rhythms – we hope you will join us! This year’s theme is Stories of the World and it will explore tales, folklore, traditions and iconic characters of countries across the globe, bringing other cultures to life on the streets of Stockton. The carnival is a reminder of the wonderful and diverse world we live in and we hope you enjoy exploring it with us. Our whistle stop tour will travel to the farthest corners of the globe, making a special trip to each continent on the way. It will bring to life some amazing stories - some you may know, others will open up a world of wonder, giving an insight into other cultures and
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their legends. Our tour will take us from Africa’s Anansi the spider to Russian dolls and firebirds; Chinese horoscope characters to Maori and Inuit gods; from Europe’s Bewoulf to the Trojan horse and much more… The carnival will take a new route this year and parade from High Street to the Riverside where it will end with a fantastic finale showcasing the talents of local performance groups, based on the Stories of the World theme.
The spirit of carnival continues…
1.30pm – 4.30pm, Stockton Riverside Help us spread the carnival atmosphere by staying on the Riverside for our afternoon of family based activity; including music from local bands, performances and workshops – don’t miss it!
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Gone in 20 minutes (UK) SIRF is a founding partner in Gone in 20 Minutes (GI20) a national showcase for emerging UK artists and companies creating outdoor work for the first time. GI20 gives companies the opportunity to try out new shows at three high profile festivals in the UK: SIRF, SO Festival in Skegness and Shoreditch Festival in London. Companies will be competing for two prizes, one awarded by a panel of judges and the other voted by YOU, the audience. Voting information will be added to www.sirf.co.uk so please check back for more information and get voting!
UnA Via Lascia
Inspired by the ancient tale of Lilith, the first women created by God, Lascia is a contemporary circus show featuring trapeze, physical theatre and live music. In a small-scale off beat way Lascia aims to make a statement about power, free speech, imposed rules and the need to understand one another. WHEN Sat 3rd, Sun 4th 1.30pm, 3.30pm WHERE Trinity Green
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Street Genius
Think Outside the Box Think Outside The Box is a combo of comedy and hip-hop with raw break-dance and circus. It’s a journey through time using hip-hop and rock music, exploring what makes us laugh and what drives us to push our mind and bodies beyond what we think is possible. WHEN Sat 3rd, 2pm, 4.30pm Sun 4th 2pm, 4pm WHERE Wellington Square
Moxie Brawl Sit Back
It’s 1942. London Transport Clippies from the 601 trolleybus service are having lunch between shifts. Their imaginations go on a physical journey exploring and transforming the space and their relationship.
They dance with food, on benches and interact with the audience using language taken from the workers handbook of the 1940s. The piece uses images and film of the female workforce during World War 2 and explores its influence. WHEN Sat 3rd1.30pm, 4pm Sun 4th 1pm, 3pm WHERE High Street
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Puppets with Guts Roving Rhinoceros
Two roving Rhinos are on the loose. Short sighted and bad tempered, they’ve escaped from a nature documentary and into the streets of Stockton. Two life-sized Rhino puppets, operated by four puppeteers take over public spaces. Charging audiences, chasing each other, investigating gardens, queuing for the toilet and trying to get onto the bus; they’re a fun, interactive experience.
Musical Mechanical Mr Wilson’s Second Liners
Quintessential New Orleans meets 90’s club classics - a rave funeral without the body. Bursting with colour and sound and rallying impromptu raves on street corners, rousing audiences into a joyful frenzy.
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Pepper-Choc
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that ignorance truly can be bliss. The company will perform on their outdoor rig encompassing aerial silks, swinging trapeze, double trapeze, juggling and acrobatics. WHEN Sat 3rd, Sun 4th 2.30pm 4.30pm WHERE Trinity Green
Inspired by traditional marching bands for funerals in New Orleans and those who follow it (called second liners), a rabble of mischievous northerners form their own traditional Second Line, paying homage to the days of the Hacienda, 90’s club culture and unlikely hero Tony Wilson. WHEN Sat 3rd 1pm, 3pm Sun 4th 1.30pm, 4.30pm WHERE High Street (All other times) Riverside (3pm Saturday)
Acrojou Frantic
A circus theatre duet exploring our relentless devotion to busyness and the process of finding stillness within it. The show is set on a chair built inside a large wheel and the chair structure is able to roll, spin and bear weight from any direction allowing the performers to translate both German wheel and aerial acrobatics onto it, presenting an exciting choreographic environment from circus, dance and physical theatre. WHEN Sat 3rd 12.45pm 3.45pm Sun 4th 2.30pm 4.45pm WHERE High Street
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Worldbeaters (UK) SPARK!
SPARK! from Worldbeaters Music is a magical live music, movement and lighting spectacular in which seven mysterious characters composed of light and sound transform the landscape around them. The cast take the audience on a colourful dreamlike journey combining high impact drumming, dynamic choreography and beautiful lighting design. Join SPARK! Sunday night on the High Street for a fantastic and illuminating build up to our finale show! WHEN Sun 4th 8pm WHERE High Street
Pere Faura (Spain) A UK premiere During the festival, Green Dragon Yard will become the playground for Radio Patio, a quirky show created by Faura’s improvised performance WHEN Fri 2nd 12.15pm, 3pm Sat 3rd 4pm, 6.15pm Sun 4th 2.30pm, 5pm WHERE Green Dragon Yard
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of what he hears on local radio in real time. He could mime to a radio chat show or an insurance advert, score a goal in a football match or spontaneously dance and play air guitar to music. Whatever he does, each show is unique, energetic and great fun.
Photos: Dan Brady
Radio Patio
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Compagnie Off (France) Les Girafes SIRF finale SIRF13 ends in spectacular style with the welcome intrusion of a herd of 8 metre high red giraffes who will slowly and gracefully process along Stockton High Street finishing on the Riverside to a flourish of pyrotechnics. Tall and slender, the giraffes will glide and flirt with spectators on the way whilst enacting a passionate drama that is too good to miss. The herd is accompanied by a ringmaster, a flamboyant opera singer and
a troupe of circus performers combining elegance and irreverence with original music, circus, theatre, dance and song. Parade Route: The giraffes will start on Church Road at 9.30pm, parade along Stockton High Street, down Tower Street, along Riverside Road arriving at the area adjacent to Riverside car park at around 10.40pm for the final part of the show ending at 11pm.
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SIRF Tickets The Festival is all FREE this year but there are three shows that require tickets to be booked in advance because of their limited capacity; Emke Idema Stranger, Inspector Sands A High Street Odyssey and Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria.
FRIDAY 2nd AUGUST Free tickets for these shows will be available to collect from SIRF Central in the Rediscover Stockton shop on the High Street. Your ticket gets you into the show, but if you are not there for the start other people may be given your place.
THURSDAY 1st AUGUST
TIME
Company
Show VENUE
11 am
Inspector Sands
A High Street Odyssey
High Street
12pm - 8pm OCM
Audible Forces
Trinity Green
12 noon
Emke Idema
Stranger
12 noon
Plunge Boom Vegetable Nannies
Trinity Church High Street
12 noon
Inspector Sands
A High Street Odyssey
High Street
12.15pm
Pere Faura
Radio Patio
Green Dragon Yard
1pm
Pif-Paf
Something to Hold
Church Road
1pm
Compagnie Mobil
Sulky M1
High Street
1pm
Inspector Sands
A High Street Odyssey
1.30pm Les Enfants Terribles The Imaginary Menagerie
High Street High Street
TIME
Company Show VENUE
2pm
Plunge Boom Vegetable Nannies
High Street
10pm
Theater Titanick
2pm
Rag & Bone
High Street
Furnace Symphony
Riverside
Boneyard Tales
3pm
Pere Faura
Radio Patio
Green Dragon Yard
3pm
Inspector Sands
A High Street Odyssey
High Street
3.30pm
Compagnie Mobil
3pm - 6pm Mercurial Wrestler
Sulky M1
High Street
Magna Mysteria
Town Centre
4pm
Plunge Boom Vegetable Nannies
High Street
4pm
Emke Idema
Trinity Church
Stranger
4pm
Inspector Sands
A High Street Odyssey
High Street
4.15pm
Pif-Paf
Something to Hold
Church Road
7pm
Pif-Paf
Something to Hold
7.30pm Les Enfants Terribles The Imaginary Menagerie
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Church Road High Street
8pm
Rag & Bone
Boneyard Tales
High Street
8pm
Emke Idema
Stranger
Trinity Church
8pm
Mercurial Wrestler
Magna Mysteria
Town Centre
9pm
Bad Taste Co
Faust
High Street
10pm
Bilbobasso
Polar
Parish Gardens
10pm
Cie Retouramont
Gravitational Waves
Swallow Yard
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SATURDAY 3rd AUGUST TIME
COMPANY
SHOW
VENUE
TIME COMPANY SHOW
VENUE
11am
Inspector Sands
High Street
3pm
Tilted Productions Fragile
11.30am
Puppets with Guts Roving Rhinoceros
High Street
3pm
Musical Mechanical Mr Wilson’s Second Liners Riverside
Trinity Church
3pm
Inspector Sands
High Street/ Riverside
3.30pm Les Enfants Terribles
High St Odyssey
12 noon
Emke Idema
12 noon
Stockton Carnival Parade Community Carnival
12 noon
Inspector Sands
12pm – 8pm OCM
Stranger
Bath Lane
High St Odyssey
High Street
The Imaginary Menagerie
High Street
High St Odyssey
High Street
3.30pm Una Via Lascia
Trinity Green
Audible Forces
Trinity Green
3.45pm
High Street
Acrojou
Frantic Stranger
12.45pm
Compagnie Mobil
Sulky M1
High Street
4pm
Emke Idema
12.45pm
Acrojou
Frantic
High Street
4pm
Flex Dance Company Parked
1pm
Plunge Boom
The Allotment
Trinity Green
1pm
Musical Mechanical Mr Wilson’s Second Liners High Street
Trinity Church Trinity Green
4pm
Pere Faura
Radio Patio
Green Dragon Yard
4pm
Moxie Brawl
Sit Back
High Street
1pm
Inspector Sands
High St Odyssey
High Street
4pm
Inspector Sands
High St Odyssey
High Street
1.30pm
Motionhouse
Captive
Church Road
4.15pm
Motionhouse
Captive
Church Road
1.30pm Una Via Lascia
Trinity Green
4.30pm
Pepper-Choc
Fishes Have Wishes
Trinity Green
1.30pm
Moxie Brawl
High Street
4.30pm
Street Genius
Think Outside the Box
Wellington Square
1.30pm – 4.30 pm
Stockton Carnival on the Riverside Community Carnival
5pm
Plunge Boom
The Allotment
5.30pm
Tilted Productions Fragile
Sit Back
Riverside
2pm
Rag & Bone
Boneyard Tales
High Street
2pm
Street Genius
Think Outside the Box
Wellington Square
2pm
Flex Dance Company Parked
Trinity Green
2.30pm
Pepper-Choc
Trinity Green
Fishes Have Wishes
Trinity Green Bath Lane
6.15pm
Pere Faura
Radio Patio
Green Dragon Yard
7.30pm
Pif-Paf
Something to Hold
Church Road
The Imaginary Menagerie
High Street
7.30pm Les Enfants Terribles
2.30pm
Puppets with Guts Roving Rhinoceros
High Street
8pm
Emke Idema
Stranger
Trinity Church
3pm
Compagnie Mobil
Sulky M1
High Street
8pm
Rag and Bone
Boneyard Tales
High Street
Something to Hold
3.15pm
Pif-Paf
Church Road
8pm
Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria
Town Centre
3pm -6pm
Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria
Town Centre
8.15pm
Motionhouse
Church Road
3pm
Plunge Boom
Parish Gardens
The Allotment
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Captive
9pm
Bad Taste Co
Faust
High Street
10pm
Cie Retouramont
Gravitational Waves
Swallow Yard
10pm
Bilbobasso
Polar
Parish Gardens
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SUNDAY 4th AUGUST TIME COMPANY SHOW
VENUE
TIME
COMPANY
12 noon
Trinity Church
8pm
Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria
9.30pm Compagnie Off Les Girafes
Emke Idema
Stranger
12pm – 8pm
OCM
Audible Forces
Trinity Green
12.30pm
Plunge Boom
The Allotment
Trinity Green
Roving Rhinoceros
12.30pm
Puppets with Guts
1pm
Flex Dance Company Parked
Trinity Green
1pm
Moxie Brawl
High Street
Sit Back
High Street
1.30pm Una Via Lascia
Trinity Green
1.30pm
High Street
Musical Mechanical Mr Wilson’s Second Liners
2pm
Street Genius
Think Outside the Box
Wellington Square
2.30pm
Pere Faura
Radio Patio
Green Dragon Yard
2.30pm
Pepper-Choc
Fishes Have Wishes
Trinity Green
2.30pm
Acrojou
Frantic
High Street
3pm
Plunge Boom
The Allotment
Trinity Green
3pm
Tilted Productions Fragile
Bath Lane
3pm
Moxie Brawl
High Street
3pm -6pm
Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria
Town Centre
3.30pm
Emke Idema
Trinity Church
Sit Back Strangers
3.30pm Una Via Lascia
Trinity Green
3.30pm
Puppets with Guts
High Street
4pm
Flex Dance Company Parked
Roving Rhinoceros
Trinity Green
4pm
Street Genius
Think Outside the Box
Wellington Square
4.30pm
Pepper-Choc
Fishes Have Wishes
Trinity Green
4.30pm
Musical Mechanical Mr Wilson’s Second Liners
High Street
4.45pm
Acrojou
High Street
Frantic
4.45pm
Motionhouse
Captive
High Street
5pm
Plunge Boom
The Allotment
Trinity Green
5pm
Pere Faura
Radio Patio
Green Dragon Yard
5.30pm
Tilted Productions Fragile
Bath Lane
7pm
Emke Idema
Stranger
Trinity Church
7.30pm
Motionhouse
Captive
High Street
8pm
Worldbeaters
Spark!
High Street
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VENUE Town Centre Church Road/High Street /Riverside
Festival Facts! lan what you want to see in P advance. This programme has listings of all events & there is a day-by day breakdown to make it easy to plan ring a raincoat and sunscreen B – the weather can change very quickly. We have been known to experience all seasons in one day! Use SIRF Central on the high street if you need help with anything, you can also buy a limited edition T Shirt or Hoodie while you are in there! ur team in SIRF T-Shirts are O around to help so please do ask them anything you need to know (about SIRF that is!) I f you don’t know Stockton, there is a map in the back of this booklet to help you get around. or the foodies among you head F to Trinity Green to sample some of the best of Stockton’s local independent food retailers …
dine alfresco and keep your energy up between shows. e’re on Facebook, Twitter & W Flickr (under SIRF13) so drop us a line! For Twitter please use the hashtag SIRF13. We’ll be tweeting throughout the festival with updates too. IRF Central will be selling S waterproof ponchos so if the heavens open you can still enjoy the festival without getting wet! IRF is a FREE festival but S this year three shows require tickets. Emke Idema - Stranger, Inspector Sands - High St Odyssey and Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria. The Free Tickets are available from SIRF Central. ublic toilets are located at The P Shambles on the High Street, at Trinity Green, and on the Riverside. here are plenty of car parks T available for visitors see the website for details. www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2013 37
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Riverside
Green Dragon Yard
High Street
Swallow Yard
Trinity Green
Bath Lane
Church Road Plaza
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A tempting range of delicious treats will be on offer with stalls from a range of local independent
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Bath Lane
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Grub on the Green With a packed programme of performances, grabbing food on the go is made easy at Trinity Green this year. Take time out of your busy festival day to dine alfresco with SIRF13 (fingers crossed for sunshine!).
Leeds Street
Please be aware that most of the shows are not seated and some may involve the audience moving around. Strong lights and strobe effects may feature in some of the performances. During SIRF13 there will be some disruption to public transport and car parking in the centre of town – the website will have all the latest info.
Maritime Road
Prince Regent Street
SIRF Central is also the place to shop during festival weekend so come and browse through our fabulous range of festival merchandise. Get organised with T-shirts and hoodies available to buy in advance from the Rediscover shop from 1st July have a look at the website for a sneak preview of the designs!
Accessible SIRF Please contact us if you are disabled and have specific needs. For example, we can help with transport or parking and there is information about Shopmobility services in Stockton on the SIRF website.
High Street
food retailers. So bring your picnic blankets and come find us down at Trinity Green on Saturday and Sunday 12noon-8pm
Riv e r Te es
SIRF Central Not sure what’s on? Not sure where to go? Then head down to SIRF Central where our Visitor Experience Team will be able to point you in the right direction! We will be back on the High Street again this year taking over the Rediscover shop and Writer’s Block will be providing their own brand of quirky fun activities for visitors – remember pulling a funny face for SIRF last year?
Wellington Square
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