An astronaut, talking bins, lasers and our celebrity cat are just some of the things popping up on campus for One Night of Wander on Saturday 12 March 4pm-9pm.
Bringing together Green Week, our Apprentice Challenge and Window Wanderland this will be one evening not to miss.
The Urban Astronaut – an outdoor theatre performance with Highly Sprung’s flying spaceman.
There will be two opportunities to catch this 5* show in the piazza, around 3pm and 4:30pm (exact times TBC).
Combining stunning design, unseen before, an aerial performance (using a unique travelling flying machine that suspends the performer 20ft in the air) with simple storytelling and moving dance performance, the Urban Astronaut travels through towns and cities searching for a solution to the environmental disaster that is present in our near future. The answer is found in a simple encounter with a young girl who provides the one thing the astronaut has lost… hope.
A bold new direction in physical theatre choreographed around a bespoke structure, intriguing, enchanting and thought-provoking, Highly Sprung once again take on a global issue with a narrative that makes it at once personal and motivating.
Burping bins aka nodBINS
Throwing away your rubbish has never been so fun! Use the bins on campus and they will ‘talk’ back with voices and noises submitted by students. nodBINS are a network of rechargeable devices that will be temporarily installed in campus bins to emit sound when people recycle their rubbish. Warwick students will be invited via a social media campaign to record and submit sounds that they believe will encourage more students to recycle on campus. 6-8 nodBINS will be installed on the recycling side of bins on campus for one week to coincide with Green Week and conclude with One Night of Wander Gathering…but can you find them all?
Smoothie Bikes
Grab a free smoothie from one of our 2 smoothie bikes…the only price is your leg power. Pedal as fast as you can to blend your own drink!
The Apprentice Challenge
Who will be crowned champions and be ‘hired’ by Baroness Sugar in a special challenge from Escape Live. Teams of students will compete against each other in an all day challenge that will really put them through their paces, resulting in a 5pm boardroom finale in the piazza where you can see how well, or badly the teams have fared throughout the day.
And as night falls watch the campus residencies come alive with colourful windows of wonder – have a wander or if you are feeling brave enough grab a go on a discounted e-scooter and follow our trail around the windows…
Giant Window of Wonder
To accompany last year’s impressive tree of knowledge window still on display in The Oculus, we will be installing a new bespoke window in the Arts Centre, designed and created by Vortex Creates. Come and grab a photo and pose with our giant window and giant Warwick sign!
Window Wanderland on campus
With free decorating kits and workshops delivered by Warwick Arts Centre, we will be filling the campus with over 300 colourful windows on three themes, #WarwickSpring, Green Planet and Rolf the cat! With prizes for the best window in each CATegory we need our visitors to help us pick a winner.
Dappled Light
Rana Begum’s vibrant exhibition Dappled Light will stay open until 9pm so you can explore her paintings, sculptures and installations that play with our perception of light and colour.
The Laser Conveyor
Get creative and beam your own bespoke message across campus – what will yours say? Brought to campus straight from LudicRooms’ City of Culture supported Random String Festival,
This piece encourages students to think about and communicate the best things about being on campus in a light-hearted and poetic way. Students are invited to choose words that reflect their feelings about life on campus via a 90s themed interactive piece of street theatre
Those words are then laser projected on a huge scale for one night on a prominent campus site in a continuous stream of co-created poetry using word tiles that travel along a 2-metre conveyor belt. On campus leading up to One Night of Wander our students may stumble across the ‘Warwick Superhighway Inf@point’…an interactive kiosk dusted off from a forgotten storeroom and not seen since 1995. Using a clunky beige keyboard students will be to submit words that will be available for you to choose for the conveyor belt.
