The Arts and Climate Change Event
Romsey Memorial Park - Saturday 16th July from 10.30am
The Arts and Climate Change Event is a participative, community event being put on by TTR as part of the Arts Festival. The aim is to see climate change positively - i.e. as an opportunity to be creative in the light of the challenges posed - and the arts are a fun and engaging way to demonstrate this.
From 10.30am there will be artists running workshops on making creative things from recycled materials/rubbish (please bring discarded toys which will become sculptures thanks to mod roc), and everything made will be incorporated into the drama which will evolve as the day progresses.
Karl Hibbert has been working with Romsey Youth Theatre, a community dancer, Mountbatten School and Green Buttercup, on creating a field of "creative creatures" (the result of climate change) and a piece of physical theatre which will have a voiceover narrative telling the story of the triumph of regeneration over waste.
Everyone attending will be invited to join the procession around the park which will assemble at the Bandstand at 1.30 and move off around 2 pm (the VIPs are arriving then - they will be met by me at the TTR stand).
Gordon Clark of The Lantern Theatre has put together a Junk Band which will accompany the procession and also go round town with the Town Crier during the morning.
There will be displays of art from recycled materials by Romsey Young Carers and also the drawings from Heather Butler's "Sketchathon" around town in the morning, which is part of the event, will be on show.
Romsey Ladies’ Choir will send off the procession with a set of songs from the Bandstand; when it returns there will be a performance of the slaying of the monster of rubbish (which we hope will have acquired some more in its travels as people will be invited to attach stuff to it) and the Ladies' Choir will end with another set of songs culminating in (we hope) a community rendition of the TTR song "Turn The World Around".
The whole thing will be photographed by a budding young photographer, Bex - we hope there will be pictures in the library later.
All the "creative creatures" will be recycled into TTR's Carnival float the next day.
We desperately need extra bodies from 10am to help put up gazebos and generally help out should there be a rush of people and the artists running workshops can't deal with them all.
We don't have a face painter as such but we do have an experienced stage make-up artist who is willing to work with anyone who wants to join in.
Stewards needed - please contact Mavis on 01794 515529 if you can help. Steward tunics will be provided.
Just turn up and present yourself at the TTR stall from 10am if you want to help.
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http://www.transitiontownromsey.co.uk/?p=665 for more information
