Brouhaha International Festival 2017 A celebration of Local and International work International...

Brouhaha International Festival 2017

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Welcome offer where local meets international. Discover and watch stunning carnival parades in Edinburgh and Liverpool that engage groups, neighbourhoods and communities. We look forward to seeing you in costume or on the road.

Giles Agis Executive Director Brouhaha International.

Our society faces challenges of the scope and intensity not seen in decades. Daily we see

a rolling back of personal freedoms, the mainstreaming of far-right, anti-immigration anti-Islam homophobic extremists, validating hate speech and encouraging discrimination and hatred. We respond to this challenge through creating a cultural offer that brings people together from different backgrounds and perspectives to celebrate the richness and diversity of our multicultural multi-faith contemporary British society.

So a big Brouhaha welcome to our 2017 festival, fourteen days of local, national and international

indoor and outdoor performances, carnival parades, schools and community workshops, a conference ‘New Voices in Carnival’ and finally Liverpool International Carnival’. So far 2017 has been an exciting year for us with carnival projects in Cape Town South Africa, Toulouse France, with more projects to come in the USA, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal. Join us in celebrating a diverse and unique arts

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Sandfest International ResidencyEdinburgh International ResidencyCentral Library International PerformancesBeeston Festival CarnivalEdinburgh Festival CarnivalInternational DinnerSchools International DayInternational Carnival CollaborationsNew Voices in Carnival ConferenceSoca Vs Dancehall eventLiverpool International CarnivalCaribbean Music Festival

Calender of Festival Events4th-6th July7th-9th July10th-12th July 15th July16th July17th July18th July19th-21st July20th-21st Jul 21st July22nd July22nd July

Performers from within brouhaha’s emerging artists programme will take part in a two day residency delivering

music and dance work for young people from Sandfield Park Secondary School. The results of the residency will be performed at this school led festival event.

Date: 6th JulyTime: 18.30-20.30Cost: FREE tickets booked through contacting Sarah Spoor email [email protected]. sch.ukLocation:

Sandfest


International Artists Residency Edinburgh

Supported by Creative Scotland and in partnership with Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival and Saheliya (a

black minority ethnic womens support organisation) Carnival makers, dancers and musicians deliver a residency event. Children, young people and adults from Edinburgh diverse communities finalize performance work to be presented at carnivals in Edinburgh and Liverpool.

Date: 7th-9th JulyTime: 10.00-17.00Cost: FREE places booked through [email protected] Location: Saheliya 125 McDonald Road, Edinburgh EH7 4NW tel: 0131 556 9302 www.saheliya.co.uk


Liverpool Central Library Date: 10th-12 JulyTime: 12.00 - 14.00 & 15.00-17.00Cost: FREE open to the publicLocation: Liverpool Central Library William Brown St, Liverpool L3 8EW

2016 saw Liverpool Central Library became a major festival partner with open access carnival arts workshops and a full range of international performances. For the second year Brouhaha International continues to work in patnership with Central Library, focusing on encouraging artistic and cultural activity. So come and discover something different between the book shelves.


Beeston Festival Carnival

Date: 15th JulyTime: 12.00-17.00Cost: FREE open to the publicLocation: Cross Platts Park, Beeston, West Yorkshire.

Working in partnership with Beeston Festival Brouhaha presents drum groups from Portugal and the Netherlands and street theatre from Italy at this one day festival organised by and for local people to celebrate the life and diversity of their community.


Edinburgh Festival CarnivalDate: Sun 16 JulyTime: 14.30-16.00Cost: FREE Location: The Mound, Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh Festival Carnival is presented by Brouhaha International and Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

A magnificent carnival parade with live drumming groups from around world and large character costumes. Live performance will be taking place in Princes Street Gardens from 15:30 onwards.


lnternational DinnerDate: Mon 17 JulyTime: 18.00-21.00Cost: £10. Tickets only from [email protected]: Liberity Living, Victoria Hall, 29 Hatton Garden, Liverpool L3 2EZ

Our festivals best kept sercret, a night of food and drink from around the world, international companies cooking up something special, eating followed by drinking, dancing to live music.


Schools International Day Date: Tue 18 JulyTime: 09.00 - 15.30Cost: Free (Closed to the public)

Building on the successes of our 2016 schools engagement programme Brouhaha International continue to develop and deliver workshops and performances by international companies within primary and secondary schools across Liverpool.

These activities ensure that high quality international work is seen in school environments, giving children and young people international arts experiences that provide valuable learning and development opportunities as well as all participants recieving arts award acreditiation ‘Discover’.

Our school partnerships include:

LIPA Primary SchoolThe Academy Of St. Francis Of Assisi Windsor Street Community Primary SchoolSandfield Park SchoolKings Leadership AcademySaint Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Primary School St Michaels in the Hamlet Primary SchoolRice Lane Primary School


International Carnival Collaborations

International dancers, musicians, street theatre performers and acrobats collaborate on new carnival arts performances, working within our 2017 theme ‘Many Voices One Song’ with work presented within ‘Liverpool International

Carnival’ in Sefton Park.

Date: 19th-21st July


Event: New Voices Carnival ConferenceDate: 20th-21st JulyTime: 10.00 - 17.00Cost: FREE participation by invitation from [email protected]: Liverpool Community College ‘The Arts Centre’ Myrtle Street

Brouhaha welcomes young costume makers, dancers, musicans and DJs from across the UK and international carnival sector to celebrate achievements and build capacity through workshops and seminars. The two event will host:

Presentations by national and international makers, dancers and musicians; Seminars for unlocking national and European funding; peer to peer learning across the spectrum of carnival arts; workshops by international practitioners and performers from South Africa, Martinique, Curacao, France, Brazil, Trinidad, Ireland and Portugal and participation in Liverpool International Carnival.

New Voices in Carnival


Soca Vs Dancehall Event

Welcome to the ultimate DJ clash with Scoca Vs Dancehall play off. Brouhaha welcomes back the ‘Caribbean Music

Festival’ to Liverpool for a second season, artists include DJ Iray and DJ Icebergg.

Date: 21st JulyTime: 21.00 - 02.00Cost: £5.00 in advance £8.00 on the doorLocation: 24 Kitchen Street L1 0AN


Liverpool International Carnival Date: 22nd JulyTime: 12.30-14.30Cost: FREELocation: Starting, Palm House, Sefton Park

In partnership with Liverpool City Council and Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) Brouhaha has developed a new site

for carnival 2017. This year’s parade will happen within the wider context of LIMF, exposing our work to new audiences, so join us in costume or on the road for our City’s most diverse carnival celebration.

Participating in carnival 2017 under our annual theme of ‘Many Voices One Song’ will be costume sections from Liverpool

and the Wirral as well as national participation by East Midlands Caribbean Carnival Network, not to mention our international groups from Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and Latin America.


Caribbean Music FestivalEvent: Caribbean Music FestivalDate: 21st July Time: 21.00-02.00Cost: £5 in advance, £8.00 on the doorLocation: 24 Kitchen Street L1 0AN

Welcome to day of Caribbean Music Festival event delivered in partnership with event producer

Garvin ‘Scrappy’ Johnson the evening hosts a diverse range of music and artists.

Soca Saturday line up includes Scrappy, Dj Spy - Zouk, Kizomba, Salsa, Batcha, Mus B, Jaysiah, Sherri Ven Dyer, Dj

Icebergg and Dj Hyperspice, with more artists to be confirmed.


Companies at this years festival

3 Points Dance (Catalan/Spain) a 12 piece dance group fusing urban and contempoary styles.

Enjoy (Italy) This walkabout street theatre group from Turin bring a new style of Comedia del Arte.

KalentuRa (the Netherlands) One of Holland’s most sought after percussion ensembles that bring you a new show that takes the audience on a safari through our musical jungle full of diffident rhythmical animals. KalentuRa is best known for their Caribbean drum band that transforms every event into a rhythmic spectacle.

Bombrando (Portugal) BOMBRANDO Percussion and Portuguese bagpipes aims to encourage the participation of the young people in cultural activities, promoting traditional culture. BOMBRANDO provides great moments of musical performance drawing on drum traditions from African, reggae to rock and classical.

Nigerian Carnival (Ireland) are a community organisation who have created a new carnival, they join us for the second time in Liverpool for our 2017 festival.


D’Arte Company (the Netherlands) promote Curaçaoan culture through showcasing the dance music and heritage of the Antillian Caribbean community.

Samba Résille (France) uses Samba music as a tool to mix different audiences and artistic practices, including teaching Brazilian music, vocational training in animation techniques and are the organisers of Carnival de Toulouse.

Pep’s Ecole de Cirque (France) A circus school that has been running for 26 years in Toulouse. The group can do everything, there are jugglers, acrobats, balancers, actors who come together and form a real circus family.

Messy Jam Dance Group (Oxford UK) join our festival for the second year. They present their own distinctive style of Urban Dance a fusion of street, hip hop and contemporary

Dance Group (Netherlands) join our festival for the second year. They present their own distinctive style of Urban Dance and contemporary styles.

Artscape (South Africa) A high energy dance Crew from Cape Town, present a new performance work as we celebrate 25 years of arts work between Brouahha and


Funders We would like to thank all our funders for their continued support:

PartnersWe would like to thank all our festival partners for their support:

Media partners Ubiquity PR

Brouhaha International Street Festival selected to receive the EFFE Label 2017-2018 approved by the International Jury. Brouhaha International Street Festival is now part of the EFFE festival community, facilitated by the European Festivals Association, which consists of festivals that stand for artistic quality and have a significant impact on the local, national and international level.


Giles Agis (Executive Director)Uma Ramanathan (Project Manager)Leona Watt (Administrator)Levi Fearon (Communications Officer)Monique Learmond (Arts Engagement Officer)Ray Allen Mahabir (Carnival Artistic Director)Mandy Baptist (Carnival Artist)Joel Jelen (PR/Marketing consultant)Naomi Scott (Festival Coordination)Garvin Johnson (Caribbean Music Festival)Denise Jones (Liverpool Central Library)Mark Day (Beeston Festival)Roger Spence (Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival)All those teachers, children and young people who took part in our carnival arts in schools engagement programme Our Community partners and international partnersBoard members James Hernandez, Colin Bordley, Ben Osu, Paul Bennetts and Melissa BosoboeAll our festival funders, partners and supplers

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