Artist, Tom Campbell invites participants to be part of a 'Rubbish Performers' collective that will take to the streets on Friday Sept 17th for Culture Night in Cork City.
Two workshops will take place in the lead up to Culture night where costumes will be prepared from 'rubbish' and performers will be introduced to movement techniques and interactions with costumes and each other.
The “Rubbish” Performance is a mobile, urban intervention using recyclable and non-recyclable rubbish transformed into costumes for the performers.
First performed in Florence 1997, performers came together with whatever they wished and proceeded to get wrapped from head to toe to create “Rubbish” costumes.
Culture is Rubbish, Rubbish is Culture!
This performance will directly support the work of 'Trees Please' a Cork based voluntary environmental group that plants native Irish Trees
Dates and Times for Workshops are
Wednesday 8th September 8pm - 9pm - at Circus Factory, Centre Park Road, Cork
Wednesday 15rh September 8pm - 9pm - Circus Factory, Centre Park Road, Cork
Pre-requisites for Performers / Workshop Participants
You must be available for:
At least one workshop nights (8th and the 15th) participants are welcome to attend both.
And for the walkabout performances on Culture Night Friday 17th between the hours of 6pm - 10pm.
Participants are encouraged to bring rubbish to the workshops, this should be clean (with no food waste left ) and can be any household waste with no glass.
There is a very limited availability for these workshops and performance so please do not sign up if you are unable to make the time commitments as this will have an impact on the whole group and the final public walkabout performance.
Participants must be 18 years +
All participants will be asked to fill and sign a number of standard participation forms before attendance at the workshops and taking part in the Culture Night performance. Attendees will be notified about these via email closer to the first workshop date.
Learn more about Tom Campbell here http://www.tomcampbellart.com
Learn more about Circus Factory at www.circusfactorycork.com or visit www.pitchdfestival.ie for full programme of events
Pitch'd Circus and Street Arts Festival is kindly supported by Arts Council Ireland Festival Investment Scheme, Cork City Council and Cork City Arts Office.
