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Past Events

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16 Sep 2020 – 22 Sep 2020

In Memoriam

Luke Jerram

A large metal sphere with prongs of fire on the end is suspended over the canal, reflecting on the water.

11 Oct 2019 – 13 Oct 2019

Fire Garden

Cie Carabosse

Four people stand in a circle holding sound emitting globes as part of Ray Lee's Congregation, presented by 101 Outdoor Arts in Newbury.

27 Apr 2019 – 28 Apr 2019

Congregation

Ray Lee

Supported by Without Walls, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Out There Festival, Oxford Contemporary Music, Oxford Brookes University, 101 Outdoor Arts.

In the foreground, two white men in beige suits are stand on a sandy floor, one holding a wooden handled spade that has another spade balanced on the end. There is a large audience watching in the background.

21 Sep 2018 – 22 Sep 2021

La Baina Trampa Fritz Fallen

Le G. Bistaki

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 – 28 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 – 05 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

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22 Jul 2016

The Colour of Time

Antonik