A special Jubilee Bank Holiday treat for all the family as part of the Salisbury International Arts Festival.
The city will be alive with original street theatre, dance and spectacle that will delight all ages.
This free event has been a Festival staple for many years and this year it is set to fill the city streets with life, colour and culture once more.
BIG GAY DISCO BIKE | Old George Mall
Fatt Projects
11.00 – 11:35 & 13.15 – 13.50
Big Gay Disco Bike is exactly what it sounds like, a feel-good pop-up big gay disco performed on a bike.
Join cabaret superstar, vocal powerhouse, and overwhelmingly modest (and not at all delusional) drag-icon in the making, Fatt Butcher on a golden disco bike as they bring the D-I-S-C-O to the streets.
Big Gay Disco Bike is suitable for all ages, the show involves some audience participation and music throughout.
Big Gay Disco Bike has been supported by Without Walls and commissioned by Salisbury International Arts Festival, Just So Festival and Hat Fair.
TIMELESS | Market Square
Joli Vyann
12.00 – 12.35 & 14.00 – 14.35
Timeless is about the passing of time and the fear that we as humanity are literally running out of it. Using their unique and dynamic style of dance, circus and theatre on an incredible 7m high rotating hourglass, Joli Vyann tell the story of climate change, its consequences and the larger question of how humanity will cope when this precarious balance with nature tips into chaos.
Four Performers dance, leap, gracefully balance and throw themselves with acrobatic prowess around, on and inside the rotating hourglass. This is a daredevil yet poignantly sensitive representation of the ambiguous nature of time and the threat of irreversibility in relation to climate change.
Timeless has been supported by Without Walls, commissioned by Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Salisbury International Arts Festival, Timber Festival, and Stockton International Riverside Festival.
Co-commissioned by: Bournemouth Arts by the Sea, Imagine Watford, Merchant City Festival, Glasgow, The Point, Eastleigh. Additional support by: Pavilion Dance South West, The Point, Eastleigh, Seachange Arts,101 Outdoor Arts. R&D investment through Without Walls Blueprint.
LOOK MUM, NO HANDS! | Guildhall Square
Daryl Beeton Productions & Mimbre
12.45 – 13.15 & 14.45 – 15.15
Look Mum, No Hands! is a tender story about friendship and growing up.
It explores a visually beautiful, and physically surprising, coming-of-age story about two friends testing their own boundaries. Together they explore freedom, taking risks and independence and how they change depending on who you are. The show uses a combination of theatre, movement and acrobatics as a powerful narrative tool.
Look Mum, No Hands! is supported by Without Walls and commissioned by FESTIVAL.ORG and Hat Fair. With additional support from The Sparks Arts for Children and Blueprint: Without Walls R&D Investment Fund 2021.
NO MAN’S LAND | The Maltings
Collectif and then…
15.15 – 16.00
No Man’s Land is an outdoor aerial site-specific performance, directed and performed by a monster.
Through engaging physically with the site, Collectif and then look at how spaces shift and change creating dreamlike and disorienting worlds with their bodies, ropes and intelligently designed rigging. Exploring contours, boundaries and borders and most importantly the spaces in between.
Keep your eyes peeled for pop-up performances by Festival Associate Artist Harriet Mackenzie on Friday 3rd June.
No Man’s Land has been supported by Without Walls and commissioned by Salisbury International Arts Festival and Certain Blacks.
