Keep up-to-date with the latest news from the 2011 Stockton International Riverside Festival:
Share your memories of SIRF as it celebrates 25 yearsposted on 31/01/2012 New
As Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF) gears up for its silver jubilee this year, regular festival goers are being invited to share their memories of the past 25 years. Stockton Council’s festival organisers are looking to put together an exhibition of photographs, programmes and people’s memories of SIRF – which started as a one day [...]
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Gone in 20 minutes showcase 2011 – the audience voteposted on 10/08/2011 New
The winners of the Gone in 20 Minutes Showcase 2011 were announced at the Stockton International Riverside Festival. BiDing Time won the £2k Prize with Rantbox and Tangled Feet won the £2k Audience Prize awarded jointly by text voters in Spitalfields and Stockton with The Hide.
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Graeae – The Iron Manposted on 10/08/2011 New
Ted Hughes’ classic modern fable, The Iron Man, has been adapted by Paul Sirett for this bold new outdoor theatre production. The unexpected arrival of The Iron Man casts a shadow of fear across a small farm community. But when an enormous dragon from outer-space threatens to annihilate the planet, it is the Iron Man [...]
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Bad Taste Cru – Tribal Assemblyposted on 10/08/2011 New
Bad Taste Cru are a pioneering UK Hip Hop theatre company and over the years have become one of the UKs top bboy crus. A self-confessed collective of ‘B-boys, skaters, writers, MCs, friends, film-makers, outcasts, geeks and weirdos’, their common bond is their love of hip-hop culture and the power of dance. Tribal Assembly fuses [...]
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Nutkhut – Sari Sari Nightsposted on 10/08/2011 New
Nutkhut’s latest production sees a sari shop explode into a colourful night-time procession through the centre of town. A beautiful mannequin modelled on a Bollywood star is paraded through the streets, accompanied by tailors on bicycles, parasol dancers, Maharajahs on stilts and other exotic imagery, including a radiant lotus flower float and a ‘maypole’ of [...]
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Voala – High!posted on 08/08/2011 New
This year’s SIRF Finale was one of the most spectacular we’ve ever staged. It was a stunning UK premiere featuring Argentine/Spanish aerial company Voala, with pyrotechnics from Alchemy Fireworks. Taking inspiration from the heady optimism of the 1960s, High! featured a giant, psychedelic mobile suspended from a 120 tonne crane, 13 extraordinary acrobats performing below [...]
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Whalley Range All Stars and Babokposted on 07/08/2011 New
Meet some Imaginary Friends courtesty of Whalley Range All Stars and Babok.
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Bangditos Stunt Showposted on 07/08/2011 New
Nobody does daredevil stunt shows quite like SIRF favourites the Bangditos…
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Highlights from the High Streetposted on 07/08/2011 New
Some video highlights from some of the very best acts from this year’s SIRF – highlights from the High Street Featuring highlights from Cabinet Fatalia – Fatalia, Scuba Club Collective – Images of Villages, Pause – Accidental Collective, Professor Smith’s Mobile Myths – Kitunda Argyle and The Hide – Tangled Feet. Highlights from [...]
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Ragroof Theatre and Cie. Vendevalposted on 07/08/2011 New
Bridges y Puentes uses a multiplicity of languages – spoken, sung, played, and danced – to explore the experience of migration. Interviews with migrants to Stockton, Brighton and Mulhouse (France) form an integral part of the soundscape, which also includes a beautiful mix of live and recorded music from all corners of the world. The [...]
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