SURGE is Scotland’s annual festival of street arts, physical theatre and circus. Delivered in partnership with Merchant City Festival, SURGE fills the streets and spaces of Glasgow with exciting new Scottish work and cutting edge international performance, every July.
UNBOSI Marble Awareness Roadshow
United Nations Board of Significant Inspiration
The United Nations Board of Significant Inspiration continues their research in Scotland, connecting with inspirational people and places with their Marble Awareness Roadshow!
Join them for interactive marble run making; experience their giant marble run machines, and be a part of their Guinness World Record attempts as they share inspiration one super-charged marble at a time!
George Square
29/07/2022 1:00pm – 5:00pm
30/07/2022 1:00pm – 5:00pm
31/07/2022 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Club Supreme Installation
Ramshacklicious
A playful exploration to discover what being ‘Supreme’ means to you. A fantastical journey, overseen by the Worshipful Masters team of Personal Assistants, who guide potential members of Club Supreme through a series of multi-media theatrical experiences to realise their full Supreme potential.
Candleriggs /Old Fruit Market
29/07/2022 1:00pm – 6:00pm (Candleriggs)
30/07/2022 2:00 pm – 5:00pm (Candleriggs/Old Fruitmarket)
31/07/2022 2:00pm – 5:00pm (Candleriggs/Old Fruitmarket)
Sound Foraging
Ardal Bicnic
Join Ardal Bicnic on their sound foraging rambles around the festival. We will be creating samples and soundscapes of all the sounds around us, using our portable sound backpacks.
Come and have a look and try out our different equipment, trying out using contact mics, hydrophones, and having a go at manipulating sound loops using the pedals attached to our packs.
This show is part of a Four Nations Bursary Programme supporting artists to create new outdoor work (in partnership with Surge, Outdoor Arts UK, ISACS and Articulture Wales)
Walkabout
29/07/2022 1:15pm – 2:00pm, 3:00pm – 3:45pm
Tidal
Ofelia Omoyele Balogun & Kim Noble
Tidal is a dance theatre show that underlines the importance of creating bridges and connection through ancient knowledge in challenging modern times.
Join dancers Ofelia and Kim in a celebration of ancestry and feminine lineage, looking at their Welsh, Norman and Yoruba Roots to find common ground within mythology and cosmology that they translate through their bodies and dance.
This show is part of a Four Nations Bursary Programme supporting artists to create new outdoor work (in partnership with Surge, Outdoor Arts UK, ISACS, Articulture Wales, Greenman Festival, Out There Arts, Spraoi Festival and Articulation)
Hutcheson/Wilson Street
29/07/2022 1:45pm – 2:05pm, 3:45pm – 4:05pm
Tape That
Hands Down Circus
Tape That is a charming, light-hearted non-verbal acrobatic duet. Two performers construct a visual world using colourful tape, object manipulation and partner acrobatics. A simple roll of tape transforms from DJ decks to a spyglass, and is stretched to create physical barriers and obstacles for the performers to navigate.
Tape That is a playful exploration of the world we live in; when challenges present themselves, just how many problems can be fixed with a few rolls of duct tape?
This show is part of a Four Nations Bursary Programme supporting artists to create new outdoor work (in partnership with Surge, Outdoor Arts UK, ISACS, Articulture Wales, Greenman Festival, Out There Arts, Spraoi Festival and Articulation)
Hutcheson/Wilson Street
29/07/2022 2:30pm – 2:55pm, 4:30pm – 4:55pm
Alright Doll
Eilidh Reilly
Alright Doll is an outdoor art installation that examines the mainstream media’s portrayal of gender-based street harassment and violence. A protest, a provocation, a divergence; the work reconnects the narrative to the female voice as it questions the myth of the unlucky woman.
This show is part of a Four Nations Bursary Programme supporting artists to create new outdoor work (in partnership with Surge, Outdoor Arts UK, ISACS, Articulture Wales, Greenman Festival, Out There Arts, Spraoi Festival and Articulation)
Candleriggs
30/07/2022 12:00pm – 5:00pm
31/07/2022 12:00pm – 5:00pm
The Roving Court
Beside Ourselves Collective
Roll up, roll up! The Roving Court is coming to your town!
Join pompous judge, the Right Hon. Ms Titebottom, and greasy barrister, Mr F. Arts Loudly, as they hear your naughtiest childhood crimes, committed years ago but finally brought to justice in a trial by child – yes, your own child – jury.
This show is part of a Four Nations Bursary Programme supporting artists to create new outdoor work (in partnership with Surge, Outdoor Arts UK, ISACS, Articulture Wales, Greenman Festival, Out There Arts, Spraoi Festival and Articulation)
Walkabout
30/07/2022 12:30pm – 1:00pm, 2:00pm – 2:30pm, 4:00pm – 4:30pm
31/07/2022 12:30pm – 1:00pm, 2:00pm – 2:30pm, 4:00pm – 4:30pm
Hey Idiots, Text Me Your Climate Change Solutions!
Adrenalism
“Hey Idiots, Text Me Your Climate Change Solutions!” is an exciting outdoor, interactive theatre show about the climate crisis, toxic masculinity and greenwashing. Physical theatre, music, movement, and inventive costumes combine to create a highly satirical, entertaining, and thought-provoking experience about the toxic personalities and dysfunction contributing to the biggest challenge of our times.
Garth St (Walkabout)
30/07/2022 1:00pm – 1:30pm, 3:00pm – 3:30pm
31/07/2022 1:00pm – 1:30pm, 3:00pm – 3:30pm
Community Street Theatre Tour (Fife)
Surge Community Street Theatre
Surge and Fife Pride announce the return of the Turtles to the streets of Glasgow…a walkabout act with an environmental theme performed by students from Fife College and Edinburgh College.
Walkabout
30/07/2022 1:00pm – 1:45pm
31/07/2022 1:00pm – 1:45pm
Fight
Lasala
The relationship that human beings have with fighting is primitive. It has been present since the beginning of time. LASALA appreciates wrestling as a fundamental element in life in general and in dance, in particular.
With support from Etxepare Euskal Institutua.
Hutcheson/Wilson Street – 2pm Merchant Square – 3.45pm
30/07/2022 2:00pm – 2:15pm, 3:45pm – 4:00pm
31/07/2022 2:00pm – 2:15pm, 3:45pm – 4:00pm
Is It You
Matthew Keys
Take a slice out of your day. Rise up and discover if you are the chosen one. Join a member of the Order of the Venerable Crust and gain a deeper understanding of yourself with a personal reading. Perhaps you are the chosen one?
Is It You is an interactive magical comedy performance. May contain gluten.
This show is part of a Four Nations Bursary Programme supporting artists to create new outdoor work (in partnership with Surge, Outdoor Arts UK, ISACS, Articulture Wales, Greenman Festival, Out There Arts, Spraoi Festival and Articulation)
Garth Street
30/07/2022 2:00pm – 2:45pm, 4:15pm – 5:00pm
31/07/2022 2:00pm – 2:45pm, 4:15pm – 5:00pm
Willy & Wally
Cocoloco
Willy & Wally are up to their necks in mountains of plastic but they carry on clowning regardless. As well as talking a load of rubbish, they perform a multi-dimensional mélange of vaudeville, slapstick, dramatic monologue and poignant climate change dialogue. A comic exercise in Nonsense and Sustainability.
Walkabout
30/07/2022 3:00pm – 3:45pm, 4:30pm – 5:15pm
31/07/2022 3:00pm – 3:45pm, 4:30pm – 5:15pm
Club Supreme Roadshow
Ramshacklicious
A multimedia, theatrical, corporate experience like you’ve never witnessed before! The WORSHIPFUL MASTER and his team of Personal Assistants set you on your path to becoming Supreme.
Using a rich mix of physical theatre, clown, puppetry, projection mapping, live streaming, animation and surround sound design to immerse you in a curious world of grotesque poignancy!
