Past Outdoor Events

A woman in a yellow t shirt and black trousers leans from a lamppost in front of a large outdoor mixed age audience in Newbury Market Place

27 Aug 2018

Shapers

Ex Nihilo

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union 2016 – 2018.

People in white stand in a circular structure made from natural wooden branches, holding puppet paper-like birds on sticks above their heads.

18 Jul 2018 – 21 Jul 2018

Wayfaring

And Now

Produced by Activate Performing Arts in partnership with North Wessex Downs AONB, Corn Exchange Newbury, 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space & National Trust, with support from the Arts Council.

Five giant puppets walk side by side down the street. From left to right, a Rhino in a blue coat, a man with a black moustache and a burgundy top hat, a zebra in a tweed suit, an antelope in a corset, a monkey in a red jacket and yellow chequered trousers. Are all double the height of the people in the audience.

30 May 2018 – 02 Sep 2018

Carnival of the Animals

Caramantran & Corn Exchange Newbury

A group of cultish characters in outragous costumes encircle a low table, hands joined, in front of Newbury Corn Exchange.

04 May 2018

The Band at the End of the World

Ramshackalicious

Outside the Newbury Corn Exchange in the dark, a giant puppet made of light is high above the heads of the crowd as well as a drummer in a costume illuminated with white lights.

29 Nov 2017 – 30 Nov 2017

Sense of Unity

Presented by Dundu and Worldbeat

A scary scene, a giant man on stilts with an expressionless mask over the face, wearing a red hood that flows for meters behind him, stands in front of an old red bus. People hang like rag dolls from the bus windows, and above the roof a silver sign reads 'this city has ten millions souls'.

27 Aug 2017 – 29 Aug 2017

Silence

Teatr Biuro Podróży

Co-commissioned by Greenwich & Docklands international Festival, Freedom Festival and Hull UK City of Culture 2017.

A large crowd gathered in Newbury Goldwell Park. In the centre is a white block in the shape of a wave lit up from inside. On the block are a number of dancers wearing burgundy and yellow costumers sit crouched over.

11 Aug 2017

Crossing Lines

Pan Optikum

A man with dark hair and black plastic sheets that look like wings on his arms kneels in front of a woman who's skirt is made of paper. Behind them are broken down cardboard boxes and a graffiti covered wall.

01 Jun 2017

Belonging(s)

Tilted Productions

In association with Crying Out Loud

In the foreground, a man in a white t-shirt, black cap and orange gloves stands pushing a large metal bell shaped structure. Behind, Newbury Market Place is filled with large scaffolding structures that have giant metal bells and attached swinging back and forth like pendulums, and a crowd gathered around the outside.

01 May 2017

Ring out

Ray Lee

Supported by Oxford Contemporary Music, PRS Foundation and Arts Council England.

A man in a black suit and white shirt stands in a boat, head thrown back, one hand gripping the boat's mast as a fake raincloud rains water down on him.

30 Mar 2017 – 31 Mar 2017

Vessel

Acrojou

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

22 Jul 2016

The Colour of Time

Antonik

28 May 2016 – 30 May 2016

The People's Tower

Olivier Grosstête and team

Couples in loose, bohemian, gypsy like clothing dance on a small fairground carousel.

05 May 2016 – 06 May 2016

Project VEE & Carousel

Southpaw Dance Company

With support from Without Walls

13 Jun 2015

Open House

No Fit State

18 Apr 2015

451

Periplum

Produced by The Corn Exchange Newbury