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Carnival Bentham coming soon!

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I recently attended the Carnival Bentham AGM and have the marvellous news that it is happening again this year on Saturday 4th of June 2016 so put it in your diaries everyone.

We have of course participated ourselves in this event every year so far with our now famous “Pony 3000” act (seen at Lancashire Encounter last year) and Rough Magic Theatre’s Tim Austin was the official Bentham storyteller for last year’s theme of Tales of the Riverbank.

After much wracking of brains we have a tentative theme for the carnival of decorated umbrellas! I say tentative because last year I advertised the theme on this blog and then it was changed at the next meeting! This theme does seem apt for Bentham’s usual weather though!

This reminded me of a tweet I saw a while back of a Magritte inspired walkabout act, so I looked them up again and they are from an Australian company called La Galerie Mobile and they also have other walkabouts that make interesting use of umbrellas (see below)

 

I was also reminded of this little scene from the James Bond film “Live and let Die” though hopefully we can manage without the ‘orrible murder before-hand!

So those are a few ideas to get people’s minds working.

Start thinking creative umbrella-wise Bentham folks!

Look out London,….Here I come!!!

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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If you have been wondering if I’ve fallen down a deep well for the last few weeks, due to the lack of fresh news on my blog, then you’d be wrong.

What I have in fact been doing, (amongst other things) is making the costumes you see in the photos above.  These are for the “Feast of St. George” GLA Festival.  I shall be doing my “Jabberwocky!” shadow puppet suitcase show in Trafalgar Square on Saturday the 20th of April between 1 and 6pm.  Click HERE for news article.

I will wear the St. George themed costume for this event but the medieval dress costume can be used for performing the “Jabberwocky!” show at any other medieval themed events.  We can also use it for one of the new children’s party ideas we are working on.

This is the first performance I am doing through the street arts agency Continental Drifts and also my first performance in London.  It will be interesting to see how (if at all) the London audiences differ from audiences elsewhere in the country.  I was very amused, when I was in London once, that a local was puzzled by my Northern accent and asked if I was from Scandinavia!

The “Jabberwocky!” show is, of course, perfect for St. George’s Day because it involves the slaying of a big nasty monster by a brave hero with a sword.  The singing that I do in the show also has the feeling of a medieval folk ballad about it.

The journey is going to be suitably epic as we will be departing from Lancaster by Megabus at 3.20am and arriving back at 2.05am the next day.  It is not as bad as it sounds, because we should be able to have a snooze on the bus.  A gallant knight, (in the form of my husband, Tim) is coming too and will hopefully be able to take some photos during the day.  Wish us luck on our arduous quest!  I shall report back on how it went in my next blog post.

I have also finally got confirmation of what shows we will be doing at Mintfest this year in Kendal.  We are very pleased to be presenting our fabulous “Fred Fettler’s “Pony 3000” – The Transport of the Future!” show.  This was originally commissioned and performed in High Bentham as part of “My Last CARnival” last year.  We will be doing the show on the 31st of August and the 1st of September 2013 there will be more details as and when they become available on the “Where You Can See Me” page.

We shall also be doing a new show for Child Safety Week at the end of June.  We have been doing a lot of negotiations with a publisher to see if we can secure permission to do a show based on a famous modern children’s book and we hope to be able to tell you more about that very soon.