The Faculty of Arts at The University of Winchester, in collaboration with The Point, Eastleigh, The Winchester Hat Fair and the street arts company Wet Picnic, are staging the second edition of Emerge Street Arts Festival. The Emerge Festival is designed to promote new and emergent talent in the exciting and growing field of street arts. Through two strands the Festival will promote community awareness of, and engagement with, street arts through workshops with schools on a London 2012 Olympic theme, and also through a weekend where exciting emerging street arts companies and performers - seeking to establish professional careers in this field – are invited to be part of a professional development programme where they will be provided with discussions, seminars and workshops on various aspects of professional development within the outdoor arts sector, and have the opportunity to showcase their work to a public audience as well as a range of professional street arts programmers, directors, producers and experienced performers in a range of public sites and settings within the centre of Eastleigh.

Emerge Schools Day
Saturday June 11th - Leigh Road Recreation Ground 12:30 – 2pm
As part of Jump Out, The Point’s free outdoor dance day in Eastleigh, Emerge will organise a series of performances working with local primary schools to explore street arts and carnival using a London 2012 Olympic theme as their inspiration. Wet Picnic, a successful street theatre company, have been commissioned by The University of Winchester to work with four primary schools in the Eastleigh borough to create imaginative, colourful and exciting outdoor pieces which will be performed in Leigh Road Recreation Ground on June 11th.

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EMERGE FESTIVAL 2011

 

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Friday May 20th 2011 Emerge Professional Development Day for selected artists and companies

Saturday 21st May Eastleigh and Sunday 22nd May, Winchester.
Emerge Festival brings a vibrant showcase of emerging street theatre to Eastleigh and Winchester. Between 11am and 4pm on both days, 10 UK street arts companies will be performing imaginative new work at various outdoor locations.

The Festival is free and open to all. No tickets are required.

Eastleigh: Leigh Road Recreation Ground, Leigh Road and The High Street.

Winchester: The High Street, The Square and Market Street.

Participating street theatre companies:
Hocus Pocus Theatre – Sideshow of Curiosities (Norwich)
Bright Shadow – Style a While (Canterbury)
Becky Hall – Double Dare (Bristol)
What’s Coming out of the Box – Take the Pose (Ramsgate)
Park Bench Dance Theatre – Wait for the Beginning (Hove)
Public Attraction – The Bandstand Breakfast (Portsmouth)
Misrule Theatre – Square One (London)
Handprint Theatre – A Suburban Silent Movie (London)
Vreni May and Heather Keskinen – Beni the Buzzard (Bristol)
Steve Apelt – The Head Gardener / The Conductor (Bridgwater)

Students from the University of Winchester’s pioneering BA Street Arts Degree will also be showcasing work at the festival, created as part of their Trans-cultural Context and Street Arts module.

To view photos from the 2010 Emerge Festival - please visit here

Emerge Festival: Friday 9th July 2010, University of Winchester and Saturday 10th July 2010, Eastleigh, Hampshire