• Prometheus Awakes

    A giant walks amongst men in Stockton High Street as the Greek myth of Prometheus is retold for the sensational SIRF opening show.

  • The Bell

    The SIRF finale from Periplum is a potent tale of hope and redemption featuring promenade action, stilts, aerial performance, soaring music and singing.

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  • SIRF 25 programme highlights

    UK and international companies and artists will transform Stockton with startling images drawn from ancient myth, folk tales and machines of the modern world.

Prometheus Awakes

Prometheus Awakes

A giant walks amongst men in Stockton High Street as the Greek myth of Prometheus is retold for the sensational SIRF opening show.

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    17 May 2012 | 1:28 pm

  • 76 days until the 2012 Stockton International Riverside Festival! #sirf12

    17 May 2012 | 8:05 am

  • #sirf12 Take a sneaky peak at this year's Stockton Community Carnival costumes - http://t.co/JfLFMSC1

    9 May 2012 | 7:59 am

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    9 May 2012 | 7:57 am

  • #sirf12 There are six strands to our Olympic-inspired Stockton Community Carnival this year - http://t.co/JfLFMSC1

    8 May 2012 | 6:43 pm


Stockton Weekender

Tees Music Alliance present a stellar range of music and comedy including Willy Mason, We Are Scientists, James, The Go! Team and The Pogues as part of the Stockton Weekender event that runs alongside SIRF.

SIRF Programme

Stockton Community Carnival

Stockton Community Carnival

You don’t need to be in London to experience the spirit of the Olympics – this year the Stockton Community Carni...more

15:00 - SAT To Be Confirmed To be confirmed

Gone in 20 Minutes (Gi20)

Gone in 20 Minutes (Gi20)

SIRF is once again working with Remarkable Production on the second Gi20 national showcase to support 10 emerging artists and companies to present new projects as work in progress to national/internat...more

00:00 - WED To Be Confirmed To be confirmed

Seasaw

Seasaw

Tilted Productions's work led by artistic director Maresa von Stockert, is characterised by its combination of vivid imagery, innovative dance and an integral use of props & set as well as landsca...more

00:00 - WED To Be Confirmed Without WallsTilted Productions

Motor Show

Motor Show

Motor Show is a performance that explores themes of young love and coming of age:  innocence, secrecy and intense overpowering emotions - while the dark and chaotic world turns around them. Motor ...more

00:00 - WED To Be Confirmed Requart and RosenbergWithout Walls

Falling Up

Falling Up

A physical tale of 4 women's physicality, 4 real stories about 4 real bodies, circus without the glitter and bodies not conforming to stereotypes – celebrating strength and reality rather than some ...more

00:00 - WED To Be Confirmed Mimbre

White Suit

White Suit

White Suit combines close harmony singing with larger than life physical performance to tell the story of a landmine survivor. Its surreal theatrical storytelling is a ferocious satire on the brutali...more

00:00 - WED To Be Confirmed Helen Chadwick Song TheatreWithout Walls

Push

Push

Push is an exploration on the quality of touch and its physical and emotional resonance. Athletic yet sensitive, the work continues a conversation that began in childhood between ...more

00:00 - WED To Be Confirmed Without WallsCompany Chameleon

TROLLEYS

TROLLEYS

Part dance.  Part ballet.  Part outdoor spectacle.  TROLLEYS is a new ballet for five supermarket trolleys.  Five shopping trolleys randomly appear in a public space. Two meet and fall in love. On...more

00:00 - WED To Be Confirmed Without WallsShaun Parker and CompanyC-12 Dance Theatre

The Bell

The Bell

SIRF’s finale will be “The Bell” performed by UK company, Periplum.  The show has been redeveloped to include performers...more

00:00 - SUN North Shore PeriplumThe World Famous

Terracotta Army lantern installation

Terracotta Army lantern installation

Our collaboration with Beijing Chaoyang Intercultural Association is an installation in Trinity Church of over 100 lanterns based on the Terracotta Army....more

00:00 - WED Trinity Green Beijing Chaoyang Intercultural Association

Circus Ronaldo

Circus Ronaldo

Flemish Circus Ronaldo makes a return visit to SIRF.  It is one of the most exciting contemporary circus companies in Europe, bringing together three generations of the Ronaldo family in a show which...more

00:00 - WED Trinity Green Circus Ronaldo

Gigantikow

Gigantikow

Over a week, German artist, Richard von Gigantikow, will create an interactive labyrinth from recycled wood on Trinity Green with the help of local artists, musicians and visitors, which will be cerem...more

00:00 - WED Trinity Green Richard von Gigantikow

Water Fools

Water Fools

French performance troupe, Ilotopie, transport you into a mythical, whimsical watery wonderland where cars drive on the River, street lamps emerge from the depths and a 5 metre-high Queen watches over...more

00:00 - WED River Tees Ilotopie

Prometheus Awakes

Prometheus Awakes

The huge opening show, Prometheus Awakes, is a collaboration between La Fura dels Baus, the company that prod...more

00:00 - WED To Be Confirmed La Fura dels BausGraeae Theatre

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