Volunteers sought to work with ArtLat to create Out There Festival float

SeaChange Arts are looking for ten local volunteers to work with Latin American Carnival Arts Company ArtLat to make a large scale float, which will be used in the Amazonas Spectacular performance at the Out There Festival in September.

As a volunteer you will get to work with the company on carnival arts construction and sculpture, to make sections of the giant float. Lead artist Raul Ordoñez is a dominant figure in southern Colombia’s art and has been instrumental in developing one of the most beautiful carnivals in the world, Carnival of Blacks and Whites.

Sessions will run daily from 1-4pm during the week from Tuesday 15 May to Friday 25 May (excluding Thursday 17 May and weekends) at the Drill Hall, York Road, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2LZ.

Volunteers need to be 18 years +. A keen interest in visual arts, or a visual arts background would be useful but is not essential.

For more information or to apply please contact Laurie on 01493 745 458 or email laurie@seachangearts.org.uk by Friday 11th May 2012.

Amazonas Spectacular

WORKSHOP FOR ARTISTS AND CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS WITH  COLOMBIAN CARNIVAL FLOAT ARTIST, RAUL ORDONEZ on SAT 19 MAY, 3pm –6pm.

SeaChange Arts is offering a free creative professionals’ masterclass in Carnival Sculpture with leading Latin American carnival artist Raul Ordonez (Columbian Carnival of Blacks and Whites – UNESCO World Cultural Heritage) who will be in residence at Seachange Arts’ Drill Hall this May.

Artists and creative professionals are invited to join this leading Latin-American carnival  artist for a workshop in the practice of carnival sculpture.

Raúl will return to Great Yarmouth with a large scale production Amazonas Spectacular, a contemporary Latin American experience, for the Out There Festival in September.

For more information or to book a place at the session, please contact Sarah James on sarah@seachangearts.org.uk.

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Out There Festival 2011

Of course, there’s more than 5 good reasons to visit the Out There International Festival of Street Arts and Circus…….

Over 2 fantastic days, we welcome performers from 11 nations to Great Yarmouth. 5 shows make their UK premiere, we’ve 11 artists with new shows for 2011, and 1 world premiere!

Enjoy showcases of some fantastic SeaChange Arts projects, 12 wonderful workshops (where you can have a go at tightrope walking, parkour and juggling) plus 1 spectacular night time street party.

Last year 60,000 people joined us. This year make sure you are 1 of them!

…..and don’t forget it’s all for FREE!

Take a look here to start your trip Out There! 

To see more information on East Coast Net about the Great Yarmuth Out There International Street Arts Festival, click here

St. George’s Day Parade

Without Walls

Without Walls and TippingPoint are inviting proposals for a new outdoor performance co-commission worth up to £30,000.

The TippingPoint commissions are an initiative for professional artists who wish to create new performance work in the context of climate change. We are delighted to announce that Without Walls has partnered with TippingPoint to co-commission a new work for the outdoors worth up to £30,000.

Proposals can be made by practitioners of any performance discipline, as individuals or groups, by artists on their own or together with partners or producers. Applicants are invited to submit projects that stimulate audiences towards the radical and imaginative thinking necessary to comprehend and successfully navigate a world shaped by climate change.

TippingPoint is offering up to 7 awards this year. This is an open call so please pass the information on to your networks and any individuals you think might be interested in applying.

To download an application form, the full criteria and for more information on the work of both organisations please visit:

www.tippingpoint.org.uk            www.withoutwalls.uk.com

Proposals must be submitted by Monday 6th December at 5pm. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to develop ideas a little further and attend an interview.

Background information

Without Walls has been developed by the country’s most strategically significant street arts festivals with the aim of helping to develop and strengthen the landscape of outdoor performance in the UK. The festivals all share a commitment to working collaboratively to achieve a greater degree of sustainability for their respective festivals and the sector in general. By coming together to present and develop work from a new and emerging generation of street artists, the festivals aim to create a more secure environment within which new work can flourish and new audiences can be developed.

The eight member festivals are:  Lakes Alive www.lakesalive.org/  Norfolk & Norwich Festival www.nnfestival.org.uk  Brighton Festival – www.brightonfestival.org  X.trax, Manchester – www.xtrax.org.uk  Greenwich + Docklands International Festival London – www.festival.org  Winchester Hat Fair – www.hatfair.co.uk  Stockton International Riverside Festival – www.sirf.co.uk  The Bristol Do www.thebristoldo.com.  Our Associate partner is City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council.

TippingPoint offers a range of activities centred on exposing creative artists to the enormous challenges of climate change; at the heart of this lies a series of meetings involving very high quality, intense dialogue between artists, scientists and others close to the heart of the issue. Events take place in the UK working in tandem with Oxford University and internationally by working in collaboration with the British Council and other partners.

Norfolk Tour of Britain

The Norfolk circuit of the Tour of Britain  race will begin on Tuesday 14th September 2010 from the Market Place in King’s Lynn and end mid-afternoon on Thursday 16th September on South Beach Parade in Great Yarmouth.

The riders enter Great Yarmouth at Bastwick for the final section of the race. The Tour continues on to Caister on Sea past the offshore Scroby Sands wind farm. The race then follows the coast to Great Yarmouth where it travels through the town along the River Yare, before reaching the finishing straight on the South Beach Parade near the Pleasure Beach Gardens.

As the crowds get ready for the riders to race through Great Yarmouth to the finish of Stage 6, SeaChange Arts will be throwing a pedal powered party to celebrate the occasion.

On Yarmouth’s seafront, from 11am artist, Kate Munro will be on hand to help indulge your bike in the travelling ‘Pimp Your Bike Trailer.’   Bring along your bike and decorate it with a little Victorian eccentricity.

At 11.45 and 12.45, the Think Bike Stunt Display Team provide a breathtaking stunt cycle demonstration, and then from 11am you’ll be able to step on board the Out There Pedibus. Take a jaunty journey around town or sit back and enjoy live music… in motion, from local groups The Ferries and Love Hate Fate.  The amazing Rimski and his pedal powered piano will also be on hand from 11.15 am, to regale the crowds with his unique blend of cycle cabaret while Johnny White brings us art-on-a-bike with his fleet of weird and wonderful kinetic sculptures. 

Bringing a little Gallic chaos to proceedings, French street arts company Generik Vapeur will be in Yarmouth’s Market Place at 1pm. Twelve rural bike-riding policemen are lost in town and cause mayhem and panic with a plethora of conflicting information.  Follow their antics all the way to the seafront in this hour of hilarious pandemonium.

For more information, click here

Out There Festival

A massive free festival of international performance and participation took place in St. George’s Park, Great Yarmouth on the 18th and 19th September. Out There is now the largest street arts festival in the region.

Joe Mackintosh of SeaChange Arts says, “We love being Out There! Out on the east coast, we think we’re a little bit special – perched on the edge of the UK and tipping a wink to the continent! Our programme reflects that.”   This year one of the titans of international street arts, Générik Vapeur performed the English premier of their long- running street show, Bivouac, which was a huge success.  Hundreds of people followed the blue-painted performers as they made their way down from St. George’s Parade and along Marine Parade banging and rolling huge oil drums, preceded by a flame throwing iron dog and accompanied by a lorry upon which three musicians were performing.  Fire crackers were being let off to startle the swarming crowd and acrobats appeared on buildings.  The sense of expectancy was tangible amongst the milling spectators and the fireworks finale was magnificent.

From France Chamboule Touthéatre and two of the original founders of the parkour phenomenon performed in a show called Fusion.  Add to that performers from Sweden, Belgium, New Zealand and Australia all brought  a sense of the weird, the wonderful and the unusual.

Local artists were commissioned to lead community workshops to create mobiles, kinetic and metal sculptures and flags and banners to decorate the festival park, and to deliver participatory workshops on site at the festival.

Out There has been developed with the support of the ZEPA network, an innovative project partnering nine French and English festivals to create and share artists, tours and expertise. While born of international partnerships the festival is founded on the historic qualities that make Great Yarmouth unique with its rich heritage of circus and seaside entertainment.

The Out There festival is pure fun and not to be missed -watch out for the 2011 Festival!  For more information click here.

Street Arts: Volunteer Opportunity

SeaChange Arts is proud to present Bivouac by Generik Vapeur!

This year the Marseille based street-arts company Generik Vapeur will present their weird and wonderful piece Bivouac at the Out There International Festival of Street Arts and Circus on September 18th 2010 in Great Yarmouth.

Created in 1984 Generik Vapeur pride themselves on being a ‘traffic of actors and machinery’. Around twenty technician/artists make up the company and they develop their artistic work on the scale of a town or a landscape, finding inspiration from its people and from what can be found on site, whether it is recycled industrial materials or objects from everyday life. Generik Vapeur have no borders and can turn any public space into a creative space, whether it is in France or abroad, and their creativity and artistic production are always developed with the local community.

SeaChange Arts are currently holding auditions for 10 lucky volunteers who will have the chance to perform alongside the company in this unique performance which will transform Great Yarmouth for one night only.

Volunteers must be aged 16+, physically fit, and available to rehearse in the evenings during the week beginning the 12th September. They must also be available on Saturday 18th September for the performance and be prepared to be painted blue!

Group auditions will be held in Great Yarmouth on Friday 4th June from 2pm onwards. To book an audition slot or find out more information please contact Laurie Miller-Zutshi on 01493 846 550, email mailto://creativelearning@seachangearts.org.uk or text 07530 735 491.

Great Yarmouth artists in Lord Mayor’s Parade

Sambistas at the Lord Mayor's Parade

Photographs by Manuel Seixas, from Great Yarmouth, who was the official photographer for the Lord Mayor’s Parade in Norwich last Saturday.   Samba Magdalena joined Norwich Samba for the carnival, with costumes created by Jankie D from Gorleston.

Carnival at the Lord Mayor's Parade, 11th June 2009