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UP THE WALL 2011 - call for proposals
Chester Performs is now calling for proposals for sited works for this year’s Up the Wall, an evening festival of live art, intervention, installation and new media works to take place Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd October 2011
Deadline: Thursday 30th June 2011
Taking place for the first time around Chester’s Castle, we are looking for artists to take part by contributing work to the event, either through contextually relevant existing work or newly created site specific performances and installations. We are particularly interested in works which seek to explore our relationship with borders and identity, of how psychogeography, ancient and modern, affects the places in which we live and the cultures with which we associate.
Taking the castle as site and starting point we welcome proposals for performance and live art, mapping (GPS and architectural) and signaling projects, tours and walks, projection and installation.
Full details: http://chesterperforms.com/Content/opportunities.aspx
Posted May 19, 2011
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Posted October 22, 2010
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Up the Wall, only 2 days to go... full programme to download
With only two days to go preparations are in full swing and we are just moving onto site.
As a sneak preview, below is the full event programme, (available in print on the night) and a few tips and wrinkles to help you on your way!
When:
Friday 22 + Saturday 23 October - 7-9pm.
Pieces run throughout the night, so come along at any point between those hours.
How much: FREE
Where:
Chester Roman Gardens and the Groves.
You can experience the work in any order and at your own pace, but a good start point for your journey round Up the Wall might be at the corner of Lower Bridge Street and The Groves (1 on the map on the programme) then follow the map sequentially.
The information point is on the Groves itself, at the base of the Roman Gardens,
For those travelling from out of town this link may help you:
Postcodes are a bit unhelpful for SatNavs around The Groves and take you to places you don't want to be. If driving, then a useful postcode might be for the nearest multi-storey car park:
NCP
Pepper Street
City Centre, Chester CH1 1DF
0845 050 7080
From there you can either walk along the Wall itself to The Groves or cut through (via Park St and Duke St) to Lower Bridge Street to reach point 1 on the map.
Things you need to sign-up for:
Most of the work is durational and can be experienced at any time, but for:
15. Tom Marshman - My Wall in Words - a very limited capacity tour of 10-15 minutes and you need to sign up for a slot at the Info point
and
16. Rachel Henson - Flickers - a very limited capacity individual flickbook journey taking maybe 20 minutes, and you sign up at point 16 on the map.
Last tips:
Please wrap up warm and bring weatherproof clothing!
A torch might be handy too!
Public Toilets are situated further along the Groves beyond Hickories or you can kill two birds with one stone and have a warm-up drink in Hickories or The Albion and avail yourself of the facilities there!
We look forward to seeing you on Friday or Saturday and hope you enjoy!
Posted October 20, 2010
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Posted October 12, 2010
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Coming soon... Up the Wall
UP
THE
WALL
The ancient City Walls in a new light.
Home, shelter and source of security or symbolic divide, fortress or personal prison?
From Israel to Belfast, Berlin to Chester a group of UK and international artists come together to explore what walls mean to them.Interactive digital graffiti... trumpets heralding the fall of Jericho... divided families digitally rejoined... Lady Macbeth haunting the turrets...
Performance and intervention: Michael Pinchbeck/The End - Tom Marshman - Roy Maayan + Anat Katz - Natalie Preece + Darren White - Megan Broadmeadow - Worldshed
Installation: Noise Club - Wild Strawberry - Hagar Cygler - Articulating History - Jo Ashbridge - Isobel Anderson - Louie+Jessie - Forecast
Specially commissioned flickbook: Rachel Henson
Up the Wall is an evening of images, sounds, animated journeys and performances - thought-provoking, playful or downright bizarre, in a whole new focus on an ancient construct.
Friday 22 + Saturday 23 October 2010, 7-9pm FREE
Chester Roman Garden + The Groves
For more information and full programme www.chesterperforms.com
Produced by Chester Performs in partnership with hÅb
Posted September 24, 2010
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upthewall
Chester's ancient City Walls in a new light – a festival of image and sound at nightfall
Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd October 2011
Join us anytime between 7pm & 9pm
Chester Castle
FREE EVENT
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