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Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival and Activate oer these delightul outdoor

perormances or Light Night 2011 on 24th and 25th September. This programme

sees six new commissions o work by artists as well as some surprising street

theatre around the Bournemouth Lower Gardens. For more inormation about what

else is on during Light Night and the whole o Bournemouth Arts Festival By the Sea,

please see the main programme brochure or go to: www.artsbournemouth.org.uk.

Much o the work presented at this estival is new work or the outdoors by new and

emerging companies, three o the pieces are premieres. We have drawn together

some background on the artists we are working with – or more inormation on

estival perormance times go to the main brochure or website, see details above.

Meet the Artistsin the

Garden

Roustabout Theatre Company - My Secret Garden

Roustabout Theatre are a company based in the South West led by Toby Hulse,

a director and playwright who specialises in making theatre or amily audiences

and in educational contexts. He has created work or theatres and companies

across the UK, touring nationally and internationally. Inspired by the novel by

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Roustabout present My Secret Garden, produced by

Theatre Bristol and Co-commissioned by The Tobacco Factory Theatre, Fuse

Festival, 3 Foot High People’s Festival, Winchester Hat Fair, Oxord Playhouse

and Activate Perorming Arts in partnership with Bournemouth Arts by the

Sea Festival. The show invites the audience to enter a secret garden that can

only be reached through a door hidden or many years. The long abandoned

garden can be brought back to lie, i we dig deep in the earth, and uncover the

treasures that lie buried in the soil. A magical, muddy adventure or children

aged two to fve and their adults. Each show is approximately hal an hour long

starting rom 10.45am throughout the day on September the 24th.

Artist Biographies:



The Paper Cinema- An Illuminated and Phantasmagoric Concise History of

Bournemouth’s Most Eminent Victorians

The Paper Cinema is an illustrated song, a shadow, a smoke, a mirror, apuppet show, a cinema show, side show, magic show, a show and tell, a

show o. It exists in the meeting o live music and moving drawings. What

happens at the accidental meeting o inkblots, photocopies, cardboard, angle-

poise lamps, the occasional table, video technology, a laptop and a banana

box? The Paper Cinema are based in Dorset and are supported artists at

Battersea Arts Centre. Specially commissioned or the Bournemouth Festival,

The Paper Cinema presents an illuminating and antastical story o the most

eminent patrons o Bournemouth’s Victorian scene – those who are commonly

overlooked in other histories. This work will be located in the bandstand ater

dusk. The Paper Cinema have lovingly created this piece which incorporates

beautiul illustrated projections and a specially written score.

Web: www.thepapercinema.com Times: 8:15 – 8:50pm

Michele O’Brien - The Spice Box

Street Theatre Storyteller Michele O’Brien is a character actor who creates

visual perormances which take the listener on a journey into their own

imagination. Michele O’Brien created Poole’s award-winning ‘Granny Cousins

Ghost Walk and is an experienced Drama Practitioner interested in workingin the Early Years sector with story-telling. Michele is Poole based and travels

internationally. The Spice Box is a one-woman show introducing the Tudor

‘Spice Box’: rom a time when ‘Spices were more valuable than gold’. An

intricate and interactive box ull o Eastern promise and where treasures

abound, The Spice Box was co-commissioned by Activate Perorming Arts,

Arts Bournemouth and Poole Arts Development Unit and is supported by Arts

Council England. The Spice Box was part unded by a Bournemouth Arts Grant.

The show can be seen at 11:30am at Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum

and at 2:30pm in the Lower Gardens on the 24th. Web: www.micheleobrien.co.uk

LissomLilt - Nous Voilà

LissomLilt are a new company o graduating acting students rom The Arts University College at

Bournemouth. LissomLilt’s Nous Voilà! is supported by Cirque Bijou and the Step Up programme

as well as Activate Perorming Arts in partnership with Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival. “Nous

Voila!” ollows the day-to-day lie o a group o wayaring clowns as they make their way through the

world. They make a living rom their impromptu tours wherever they fnd themselves making camp.

This is the frst ull piece o street theatre that this exciting new company have created (and can beseen throughout the day on 24 September rom 11am to 5pm.) Web: www.lissomlilt.co.uk



Ramshacklicious - The Small Time

Ramshacklisious Theatre Company is the playground o siblings, Holly and

Jack Stoddart. They have toured street theatre estivals around the UK, Ireland

and Europe since 2006 with their anarchic blend o character and comedy,

storytelling and puppetry. Holly and Jack collaborate with other truly amazingartists rom many dierent disciplines. The Ramshaklicious devising process

is exploratory and playul and always produces high quality, accessible yet

subversive physical musical comedy theatre or non-theatre spaces. The

company is based in the South West region. The Small Time introduces Maud,

Godrey and Clement who proudly present The Smallest Traveling Vaudeville

Show In The World! Mounted on their musical tricycle, towing behind their tiny

theatre, they search out people to entertain with their absurd and bizarre array o

variety acts. (Their show is at 1.30pm and 4pm on Saturday 24 September.)

Web: www.ramshacklicious.com

Jessie Percival - Following the White Rabbit

Jessie is an emerging artist living in the South West. Along with LissomLilt,

Jessie is supported by Cirque Bijou and the Step Up programme as well

as Activate Perorming Arts in partnership with Bournemouth Arts by the

Sea Festival. Jessie has based this work on the white rabbit rom Alice in

Wonderland. Aware o time, rabbits go in search o the rabbit hole. Popping up

rom dierent locations the white rabbits infltrate the estival. (See the rabbitthroughout the day rom 12 midday to 4pm) Web: www.ollowingthe.blogspot.com

Public Attraction- Valerie Walker’s Walking Tour of Bournemouth

Public Attraction is a theatre company who use physical comedy, improvisation

and live music to take people on unique and exciting journeys. With a passion

or people, places and all things peculiar, they are determined to get audiences’

bottoms o seats and into the playul world outside o the auditorium! Public

Attraction is an emerging company based on the South Coast, where they are

currently an Associate Artist at The Point, Eastleigh. They work closely with

various community groups to tell the stories and visions o local people. Public

Attraction’s ‘delightul’ tour guide Valerie Walker collaborates with musicians ‘The

Lucky Ones’ to create an un-missable alternative tour o Bournemouth’s searont

and Lower Gardens. (Each tour is around 45 minutes long at 11am/1pm & 3pm

on 24/25 September, and starts at Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum)

Web: www.publicattraction.co.uk (website currently under construction)For up to date ino please visit: www.acebook.com/publicattraction



Activate Performing Arts / 7-9 The Little Keep, Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1SQ

T: 01305 260954 / F:01305 268752

W: www.activateperformingarts.org.uk / E: [email protected]

Activate Perorming Arts is a company limited by guarantee no. 3439777 and a registered charity no. 1069622.

Disabled access: Please note that all o the events take place outdoors. Althoughwheelchair accessible, some events may take place on grass. For the Walking Tours

you will need to be able to navigate your way around the gardens.

Meet the Artistsin the

Garden

What we do:We connect people to what’s happening in outdoor perormance,

theatre and dance in Dorset and across the South West. We want the

perorming and outdoor arts to create a vibrant place or audiences all

across Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset. This means working with artists, makers, technicians,

venues, producers, teachers and other arts organisations to produce and develop more

perormance. We hope you enjoy the work we have supported or this year’s Bournemouth Arts

by the Sea Festival. Sign up or the latest arts news and opportunities by visiting our website:

www.activateperformingarts.org.uk

For more information:

www.artsbournemouth.org.uk

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