XTRAX is delighted to offer a weekend of professional networking and meetings alongside the Stockton International Riverside Festival, 3-6 August.
We invite colleagues to experience the festival, meet other professionals, and discuss and debate the current issues in the street arts sector.
The professional networking at SIRF takes place 3 – 6 August.
The long-established festival is a popular meeting place for festival professionals and artists from around the world. As well as presenting international work from established companies, it includes much new work that has not been widely seen. We invite you to discover projects that may be ready for immediate touring as well as building relationships with artists whose work is still evolving.
The festival includes:
- Opening and closing show from Cie Bivouac and CirkVOST
- 30+ shows from UK and international companies
The professional networking meetings include:
Friday 4 August, 11am-12:30pm at the ARC, Stockton-on-Tees
Meet the Without Walls Network
Without Walls invites artists, producers, and other creatives to find out more about the network and meet some of the partner festivals.
This is an opportunity for artists and other industry professionals to connect with festival partners from across the network and find out more about ways in which we can work together.
Saturday 5 August The ARC, Stockton-on-Tees
10.30 – 11.30 Introduction to Street Arts in South Korea
We are delighted to welcome Producer Jin Yim from South Korea to XTRAX, to work with us on creative connections and exchange in the street arts world between UK and South Korea.
Jin will lead a presentation about the Street Arts in South Korea, introducing other Korean delegates attending SIRF and giving an overview of key developments in this vibrant region. We will also be joined by Lorna Rees, Director of Gobbledegook Theatre and Co-Chair of Outdoor Arts UK to share her experience of taking her work Seoul Street Arts Festival. In the coming years, we will explore how we can develop connections between UK and Korean Street Arts in a meaningful and sustainable way.
Find out more about the street arts in South Korea here and Jin’s recent work on ‘Next Mobility’ in South Korea, as part of KAMS Connection research project in 2021/22.
11.45 – 12.30 Information Sharing
We will introduce a number of projects relevant to the international street arts sector including Arts Info Point, Street Arts in Lithuania, Environmental Power project from Squid Soup and more.
