Monday 20th July
Betty Brawn - The Beginning
Betty Brawn has always been strong, ever since she was a small child… More important prehaps is that she has always had complete faith in her strength. At 6 years old she was already swinging her 5 year old sister around by the ankles and she started to ask her Dad to let her try [...]
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Roll Up Roll Up and Join The Circus!
NoFit State Circus lifts the big top off the circus for their latest creation and invite you to join them in a joyful exploration and celebration of the secret life of public parks. From 27th to 31st July they will be resident in Trinity Green, running a programme of taster sessions, rehearsals, performances and happenings [...]
Read more about Roll Up Roll Up and Join The Circus!Friday 24th July
Inside the Little Box of Horrors
A little insider information of Bootworks - This year marks our 10th Birthday! and we’ve been quietly working away for years on The Box, honing and evolving its form and aesthetic, and only in the last couple of years have made a concerted effort to push it proactively into the public sphere. The Box itself: [...]
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NoFit State Circus
Park Life - Part playground, part bandstand, NoFit State takes the tent off its circus and invites you to join them in a joyful exploration and celebration of the secret life of public parks. For 5 days, they will be resident in Trinity Green park, running a programme of workshops, rehearsals, performances and happenings in collaboration with local creative [...]
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Mimbre
Rooted in a timeless and peculiar world mundane scenes turn into surreal dreams with a little magic and a few surprises. Until Now is a beautifully improbable acrobatic adventure. A poetic universe is fashioned from joyful flips and harmonious balances to speak of journeys, good-byes and the astonishing feats of friendship.
Until Now fuses world-class acrobatics [...]
Nutkhut
Nutkhut pays homage to the little known filmmaking dynasty of Shanta Rao Dutt - ‘The truth is never quite what it seems’ – and his family in Movieplex. Movieplex is a film and performance installation, featuring original memorabilia from the life of the resourceful Dutt family, commemorating the family’s filmmaking highlights from the past 100 years.
The public first [...]
Whalley Range All Stars Compost Mentis
Compost Mentis features a large compost heap and the Gardner who looks after it. Their relationship slowly begins to break down when it’s discovered that the compost heap has a life of it’s own and harbours thoughts that are fermenting within. Puppet, mechanical and musical inventions ensure that the audience like the Gardner are led [...]
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Guixot de 8
Before recycling became a necessity, Guixot de 8 had already started to give a new life to those ‘useless’ objects. They turn scrap into games – some games are simple, others are complex. Some are built from one object; others are built with many pieces of ‘scrap’.
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NoFit State Circus
Park Life - Part playground, part bandstand, NoFit State takes the tent off its circus and invites you to join them in a joyful exploration and celebration of the secret life of public parks. For 5 days, they will be resident in Trinity Green park, running a programme of workshops, rehearsals, performances and happenings in [...]
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Fine Artistes
“Stockton School of Art” at the SIRF 2009.
This year the performers and artists of Fine Artistes will create an Instant Art School in and around the Arc Theatre. This installation will include visits by eccentric artists and lecturers, irreverent lectures on the History of Art, real art classes for the general public, visits by pretentious [...]