Friday 24th
PARADE: Nutkhut: Sari-Sari nights
7.30pm - 8pm
FREE
Starting outside St Peter's Church, leading to Derby's Market Place
A rich mix of Bollywood dance, music and animatronic sculptures winding through the streets of Derby culminating in a dance finale with a flourish to open Derby Festé 2010. The show will be performed by nutkhut performers and dancers from Derby.
nutkhut is one of England’s leading performance companies and have produced shows for the Mayor of London, Liverpool 2008, fashion company Diesel and Her Majesty the Queen. An ArtsAgenda commission in association with Festé. *** World Premiere. ***http://www.nutkhut.net/
HEADLINE: Derby's Biggest Outdoor Disco: featuring ‘Charity Shop DJ’
When: 8pm - 11pm
Cost: FREE
Market Place, Derby
Celebrating who we are and the music that has shaped us.
Put on your dancing shoes and dance the night away at Festé’s BIG DISCO. A fantastic line up of local heroes-turned DJs will keep you on the dance floor with a wide range of disco classics from John Travolta to Dizzee Rascal.
Dress up in your dazzling disco outfit from your favourite disco era. Bring your family and friends and enjoy BIG DISCO MUSIC throughout the ages - for all ages.
Déda associate choreographer, Katie Green and company will lead the way with their own take on some classic disco moves.
Local Dj's include:
Nel : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=129167457115807
Dave Clasby : http://www.sustrans.org.uk/
Ceejay : http://www.comedius.co.uk/
Beth De Lange : http://www.kaleidoscope-music.org.uk/
the mighty D and G : http://www.noparkingcollective.com/
Food and refreshments on the side lines to keep you going
Ant Hampton (Rotozaza) and Glen Neath: The Bench
10am - 8pm
FREE
On Park benches throughout Derby's city centre
An intriguing conversation with a stranger… The Bench mixes real and fictional tensions to create a funny and somewhat surreal 45 minute experience for two people, meeting for the first time. Like Rotozaza’s Etiquette (in Quad Café, Festé 2009), The Bench is an ‘Autoteatro’ performance: This is your stage. You are the actor and the audience. There is no-one watching - other people around won’t be aware of it. You wear headphones which tell you both what to say and do. By simply listening and responding accordingly the dialogue and small movements fall into place.
Not having met before, the conversation is naturally a little awkward...
So, a bench like any other bench
I suppose so.
Take a look around. What do you see?
Grass. Trees. Sky. Buildings. A dog
A dog? Are you sure?
People
There’s almost certainly people
You can’t go anywhere these days without there being people
Anybody we know?
We?
Anybody you know?
Do I know you?
We share an acquaintance. Now let me look at you
Feel free...
How do I end up on a bench with a stranger?
At the heart of the work lies a creative act of your own: an introduction.
You and a friend (eg, 'Bob') want to do The Bench, but instead of experiencing it together you think of someone Bob has never met, but 'should'. You then arrange for Bob and your friend to meet and do The Bench together. Bob does the same for you: he thinks of someone he'd like for YOU to meet.
To book your ‘Bench’ experience and reserve mp3 and headphones, follow the simple instruction, go to http://www.anthampton.com/bench_derby.html or contact QUAD box office on 01332 290606
Co-Commissioned by Derby Festé, Norfolk and Norwich Festival and Fusebox, USA.
Architects of Air Luminarium
WHEN: 1pm - 5pm
COST: £2 each or £5 for a family ticket
WHERE: Cathedral Green, Derby
Immerse yourself in this incredible inflatable luminarium. Once inside you can wander freely through labyrinthine tunnels and cavernous domes or just lie back and enjoy the ambience of saturated lights as vivid reflections of liquid colour spill across the curved walls.
See it illuminated from within on Friday night !
Architects of Air has toured its Luminaria throughout the world, this is its first visit to Derby.
http://www.architects-of-air.com/the-experience.html