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SPAREPARTSFESTIVAL20/07/14
FREE ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH FLEETWOOD FESTIVAL OF TRANSPORT
WELCOME TO SPAREPARTS
SpareParts is a new transport inspired arts festival taking place in Fleetwood this summer. Developed in conjunction with Fleetwood’s world famous festival of transport (Tram Sunday), the festival is designed to capture the imagination of audiences who attend this already well established event.
Over twenty different artists will be performing in a range of different locations around Fleetwood – check the timetable to make sure you don’t miss out on the free programme of events.
SpareParts has been brought to you by LeftCoast in partnership with the Fleetwood Festival of Transport and Wyre Council with additional support from Without Walls. LeftCoast is a new arts programme across Blackpool and Wyre that aims to get more people inspired and involved in arts activities of all kinds.
It is funded by Arts Council England and a consortium of partners across Blackpool and Wyre. Sign up to our newsletter at www.leftcoast.org.uk to see what other exciting events are happening this year.
Acrojou - WHEELHOUSEAn exciting performance centred around a stunning rolling house featuring theatrical acrobatics and moments of breath-taking risk, all housed within an exquisite wheeled structure.
12:30pm, 3:00pm
The Bobbysocks TRANSPORT ACAPELLAThe Bobbysocks are an all-girl acapella group who will be performing a transport inspired blend of swing, boogie-woogie and alt country tunes; creating a mash up of contemporary tunes with 1940’s classics.
Various times and locations
Boz & Mr D
LIVE PAINT & WORKSHOPSGraffiti artists Boz & Mr D will be showcasing their love of street art, by creating a mock up New York subway, through their talent for graffiti. There will also be two small cardboard subway trains for children to get creative with and paint.
All day
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WHATS ON
Don’t miss: SpareParts Parade: Starts at London Street from 3.30pm
Culture Cart - LINO CUTTING A pop-up art workshop and gallery travelling throughout the UK on a handcrafted cart pulled by a vintage bicycle. The Culture Cart will host pop-up lino printing workshops throughout the festival, creating prints of vintage vehicles and transportation.
All day0
Curious Cargo
LOLLIPOP PATROL Cross them at your peril! With excessive enthusiasm and a slippery grip on reality, SpareParts welcomes Lollipop Patrol. Experience their traffic trauma and comedic nature, as they walkabout through the festival.
11:00am 1:00pm4 9
Dan Fox - BOOM BIKESThe Boom Bikes are pedal powered music machines, with mobile battery powered sound systems built onto tricycles providing pop up stages all over Fleetwood
1:00pm 2:30pm 4:30pm4 9 3
Daniel Weaver - SPANNERMANA mobile showcase of instruments made from recycled and found materials. This includes a xylophone made from spanners, singing bowls, musical cutlery gongs and other strung oddities.
12:00pm & 2:00pm 4:00pm0 7
Dead Good Poets
TRANSPOETATION PERFORMANCEA special performance of slam tram and vintage verse from the one and only Dead Good poets. Special guest Trevor Meaney with warm up from Steve Stroud in the Mount Pavilion.
On moving trams thoughout the day 5:45pm7
Impossible Theatre CHROMAVANChromavan is showcasing a unique colour experience, housed in a caravan using innovative lighting technology. Enter the caravan for the ultimate colour experience.
All day3
Motionhouse - TRACTIONMotionhouse will be providing one of the highlights of the festival with Traction. A stunning Transformers-esque performance featuring six dancers intertwining with three JCB diggers from this internationally established company. Don’t miss it.
1:00pm & 5:15pm5
More Music MUSICAL INTRODUCTIONFrom instant ukulele orchestras to songwriting and samba bands workshops, the first Mount Pavilion Artists in residence, More Music from Morecambe will be at SpareParts to say hello.
1:00pm, 2:30pm & 4:00pm1
The SpareParts Parade route is marked by the red line and will start at 3.30pm from London Street.
Map key
Euston Gardens The Beach
The Mount Pavilion North Euston Hotel
Marine Hall Marine Hall Gardens
The Esplanade Pharos Lighthouse
Town Centre Pharos St / Pharos Pl
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SPAREPARTS MAP
Note: All locations and times correct at the time of printing.
Euston Gardens
The Mount Pavilion
Marine Hall Interior
The Esplanade
Town Centre
The Beach
North Euston
Marine Hall Gardens
Pharos Lighthouse
Pharos St/ Pharos Pl
All Day Culture Cart
All Day Transported Future
All day Chromavan
All day Live Paint
All day Lantern Workshops
All day Tramera Obscura
and Terrarium Tram
All Day The Whale
11am Lollipop
Patrol Rag & Bone
12pm
Spanner-man
All day
Cyclo-graphic Splodge-matic
12:30pm
Pint Dreams
12.30pm
Flycycle Wheel-house
12.30pm
Thingu-majig
1pm More Music
1pmBoom Bikes
1pm Traction
1pm Lollipop
Patrol
1.30pm Inner City
2pm Spanner-man
2pm Pint
Dreams
2pm Chutney
2pm Thingu-majig
2.30pm More
Music
2.30pm
Boom Bikes
3pm
Wheel-house
3.30pm Pint dreams
4pm More Music
4pm Chutney
4.00pm Inner City
4.30pm Boom
Bikes
Flycycle
5.15pm
Traction
5.45pm
Dead Good Poets
PROGRAMME TIMETABLE
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The SpareParts Parade starts at London Street at 3.30pm
Pablo Perrezarate FUTURE TRANSPORT SpareParts is bringing you the chance to travel through time! Audiences will be immersed in a dreamy cloud of futuristic sounds, music and light, featuring the dreams of Fleetwood residents about travelling into the future.
All day2
PifPaf
FLYCYCLE & SUBMERCYCLE A roaming piece of interactive theatre, bringing your imagination to life! Participants choose a ‘travelling companion’, are dressed in costume straight from the trunk and are whisked away on a magical trip.
12:30pm & 4:30pm 3
Rag and Bone
PANDEMONIUMA processional whirlwind for town and street combining eccentric human powered vehicles and kinetic contraptions, live brass and percussion and performers. A highly energetic and animated parade not to be missed. The parade starts at 3.30pm at London Street.
Don’t miss: SpareParts Parade: Starts at London Street from 3.30pm
Red Fort Studios CHUTNEY IN THE STREETLooking for a taste of Indo-Carribbean culture and popular music? Well look no further, Chutney in the Street brings professional musicians, singers and dancers to tell the story of a stranger who lifts the demon’s curse over a lost village and eventually wins the love of the Princess.
2:00pm & 4:00pm3
Shane JohnstoneCYCLOGRAPHIC SPLODGEAMATICIntroducing the Cyclographic-Splodge-a-Matic Spin Painting Machine - a human powered live performance painting machine which produces spiral spin paintings in the style of the popular 1970’s vintage toy “Spirograph”.
All day7
SSoCiaL - Roll ‘N’ RockAre you a responsible driver? The SSoCiaL ROLL’N’ROCK is a communal push parade of 20 flagged and numbered shopping trolleys, wheeled from start to finish with the help and members of the public. During the parade, participants will be rewarded for their hard labour with a limited edition rock sweet, colour co-ordinated and numbered with their trolley.
As part of the parade.
Don’t miss: SpareParts Parade: Starts at London Street from 3.30pm
Squirrel & Tiffin - TRAMERA OBSCURA & TERRARIUM TRAM Blackpool based artist Linzi Cason transforms two heritage trams into immersive art installations. Tramera Obscura allowing you to see views of Fleetwood unlike you have ever seen before. Pop in next door for tea in a knitted wonderland with the Terrarium Tram.
All day8
Talking Birds THE WHALEA giant metal whale on wheels that swallows audiences whole to enjoy a charming playful, and submersive theatre experience inside. Performed by a solo actor, for one person at a time or for small family groups.
All day7
ThingumajigPEDAL POWERED ANIMALSA series of amazing pedal powered puppets including a mechanical hippo, an automated beetle, a bicycle fish, a pedal powered swan and a Bee Carousel. Come join in the fun.
12:30pm 2:00pm4 6
Don’t miss: SpareParts Parade: Starts at London Street from 3.30pm
Urban Playground INNER CITYA transport inspired performance parkour show featuring contemporary and urban dance with parkour (free-running). Additional performances at 4pm from young people from Blackpool and Wyre who have been working with the company for the past two weeks.
1:30pm & 4:00pm
Vanessa Card LANTERN WORKSHOPSArtist Vanessa Card has been working with Shakespeare Primary School to make a movable piece of Art for the SpareParts parade, a fantastical creature on wheels. Come along for a drop in lantern making workshop to make your own lantern on the day
All day
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Tin Box Theatre PINT DREAMSPint Dreams is a storytelling and puppetry performance with live Irish folk music. The show tells the story of Edith, a pub landlady who lives by the sea, as she goes on her journey through love and life.
12:30pm, 2:00pm & 3:30pm1
Don’t miss: SpareParts Parade: Starts at London Street from 3.30pm
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Blackpool & Wyre residents discount available courtesy of LeftCoast