Site Festival Procession and Battle For The Winds:
Launch Of The Wind Vessel
Saturday 28th April 1pm-9pm
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
www.battleforthewinds.com
his years Carnival for the Site Festival will not only include the annual procession but also a whole day of activities at the Brunel Goods Shed. The colourful vibrant procession involving hundreds of children will leave Stroud Valleys School at 12.30 and wind its way through the streets of Stroud and finally coming to rest at the Brunnel Goods Shed where a whole day of activities has been planned.
Stroud Brewery will be selling it's award winning beer and there will be lots of food provided by Star Anise, Girish Patel and others. Mould, a young group of artists that meet weekly at SVA will be creatng an alternative village fete called The Fete of Art, with Pineapple Bobbing, coconut shy and more. There will be dance demonstrations from Caperoira and local schools. Music from Hot Feet, Le Vamos, Laerie Fairies, and The Uplifter with Hamish from the Mad Cowscompering and leading us through the day.
With help from Stroud College, artist John Tucker has created a massive wind vessel which will join six other sculptures on the beach at Weymouth in July to herald the beginning of the London 2012 sailing events. Old Mother Gloucestershire and her Wind Gatherers will launch the vessel here in the county for the first time, accompanied by wind song, percussion and dance. Afterwards there will be time to explore poem, story, sound, textile and tents full of terrifically tasty food in a colourfully transformed Goods Shed. An event with something
for everyone.
Lots of young people have been involved in preparations for this event including Stroud Art College who successfully secured the commission for the construction of the Wind Machine and also fifty of Gloucestershire Youth Theatre plus students from Archway, Whiteshill,Stroud Valleys and Sir William Romney's. |
