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The Festival of Imagineers 2016 is a
week-long programme of interactive
exhibitions, workshops and activities by
imagineers from all walks of life.
Expect a series of amazing FREE
experiences to watch, try for yourself, join
in and influence as you become one of our
Addictive TV
creative collaborators.
From Monday 26 September our Imagineer
making space, the Daimler Powerhouse,
will be open to the public from 12 – 4pm
daily. Come along and discover more
about the work of Imagineer and plans
to transform the building into a centre of
excellence for the creation of outdoor and
site specific performances.
The week culminates on Saturday 1 October Osadia
with the Festival of Imagineers taking to
the streets with a series of inspirational
performances in city centre spaces
throughout the day.
Take a look through our full programme to
find out what you can do and see.
Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo Valse
IMAGINE.
FESTIVAL OF IMAGINEERS 2016
Get involved in Imagineer’s creative processes with a week of
research, development and experimentation. Alongside artists,
engineers and designers, this is your opportunity to engage, respond
and feed back as together we develop new projects.
Monday 26 September – Friday 30 September, 12 – 4pm daily, Daimler Powerhouse
Daimler Powerhouse
Witness Wandering Web
Artists Residencies Join visual artist Julia O’Connell Post-digital arts organisation Ludic
and writer Chris O’Connell, co- Rooms bring their passion for
Walking with Elephants directors of Coventry’s award creative technology to explore a way
Join artist, engineer and designer winning Theatre Absolute, as they of connecting people on a journey
Nick Martin (the creator of begin a period of creative research where a web both connects them
Imagineer’s Godiva) as Imagineer focusing on the Daimler building and determines their direction of
Productions explores ideas for and the stories and lives of the travel through sonic and /or digital
a major performance planned labourers and tool makers who impulses.
for 2021. Be part of the team worked there during the building’s
beginning to scope out the initial The exploration will be the starting
manufacturing past. Their research
design concepts for the production point for a wider project charting a
will also look ahead to the future
exploring why the Elephant is such trail around the city in 2017.
of Daimler with its new occupiers
an important symbol for Coventry. ludicrooms.com
Imagineer Productions.
A sharing event will take place
with the artists responding to their
research findings as well as a
number of opportunities to share
your personal, family stories linked
Imagine Sponsored by to Coventry’s manufacturing past.
Witness will receive its full
premiere in 2017.
www.theatreabsolute.co.uk
IMAGINE. FESTIVAL OF IMAGINEERS 2016
Monday 26 September – Friday 30 September, 12 – 4pm daily, Daimler Powerhouse
Exhibitions
Come along and take a look at a
series of exhibitions showcasing
our participatory and education
programmes, including
development plans for the Daimler
Powerhouse and an introduction to
our major Imagineer projects for
2017 – 2021.
Likeable Bikeable City
Likeable Bikeable City The Imagineerium Project Likeable Bikeable City
Imagineer Productions has been An exhibition showcasing a new
working with 5 primary schools interactive cycle-powered system
across Coventry to explore art, of transport and city centre trail for
design and engineering through Coventry, inspired by the interlinked
Roald Dahl’s story, Fantastic Mr trikes that propelled Godiva to London
Fox. In the six month Imagineerium aboard her cyclopedia in 2012.
Project, they learned the skills
In 2016 we will trial the prototype
and principles necessary to create
trikes with the public along a
designs for Terrible Tractors to be
short trail, joining with a Slow
included in a new large scale theatre
Roll starting from the Daimler
production by Imagineer in 2019.
Powerhouse on Monday 26th
The exhibition documents the learning September at 6.30pm. Slow Roll
process and features drawings, Coventry is a group of people who
models and computer-aided designs meet up to cycle slowly around
created by 150 children. the city for 5/6 miles, taking in
The Imagineerium Project the scenery and have a chat along
Transformations
the way. The cycle starts with a
An exhibition charting the
story about cycling from one of
development of Imagineer’s
the group and often finishes in the
innovative project with young people
pub. Imagineer are partnering with
aged 16-25 years who are not in
the Slow Roll and Wheels for All
employment education or training.
on this trial ride with the hope of
The project is focussed on working
establishing the concept of Coventry
with the most vulnerable young
as a Likeable Bikeable City.
people in Coventry and Warwickshire
on authentic performance and Walking with Elephants
constructive projects. This exhibition explores ideas for a
major performance currently being
The Daimler Powerhouse
developed by Imagineer Productions
A look at Imagineer’s plans to
for 2021 with designer Nick Martin
refurbish our production workshop,
and writer Nick Walker. Discover the
the Daimler Powerhouse, and
intriguing array of elephants located
our ambitions to transform it
in Coventry and explore the history
into the region’s first dedicated
and significance of the elephant as a
centre of excellence for creating,
symbol of Coventry.
commissioning, and co-producing
new outdoor work and innovative
engagement projects.
MAKE.
FESTIVAL OF IMAGINEERS 2016
A range of talks and workshops provide an opportunity for
you to engage in practical making skills or learn more from
established artists and makers about their creative practices.
All talks and workshops take place at Daimler Powerhouse unless otherwise stated.
All FREE to attend however booking is essential via claire@imagineerproductions.co.uk
7.00pm
Presentation: Hi!-Level meeting
with Tyran of Cardboardia
Meet Cardboardia, an independent
community of artists, performers,
event managers and experts from
Russia, USA, UK, the Netherlands
and other countries, who make
extraordinary parades and creative
interventions in cities across the
world through the medium of
people and cardboard.
Imagineer Productions are
bringing two key Cardboardians
from Russia - Sergey Korsakov
and Olesya Kandalintseva - to the
Cardboardia
Festival of Imagineers to explore
plans for a ‘materialisation’ –
IDP is facilitating an exploration of the creation of a collaborative
Tuesday 27 September
urban spaces, running the evening cardboard experience –
as an informal design workshop somewhere in Coventry in 2017.
9.45 – 11.45am (pens, paper, post-it notes; you This will be a big making project
Schools Workshop: know the score) with a keynote engaging with communities,
The Imagineerium Initiative speaker at the beginning to set the designers and makers across the
scene and give a bit of an overview city and even the region.
Using Terrible Tractors as the on Coventry and how it’s currently
inspiration children will explore being transformed. Cardboardia – how to build your
science, technology, engineering ideal world
and maths through the arts. Guests will be encouraged to
take a closer look at Coventry’s Imagine you could step out of
Children will work with engineers
underutilised spaces, those in your normal life and become a
and artists using reclaimed
decline and ones that just don’t character in your own story. How
materials to invent and construct.
work to see what could be done would you make it? Whether you
to improve them – in essence to would like to be an artist or an
6.30pm “Imagineer” how they could be entrepreneur (performer), fully
Tours & Talks: IDP transformed for the public good, immersed or to visit for a while,
IDP Offices, Spon Street either aesthetically or practically. Cardboardia gives you the tools to
build a community or participate
Architects IDP are working with The company hope to generate in a totally unique creative
Imagineer Productions to organise some interesting, innovative experiment.
a distinctive event as part of the and tangible suggestions that
2016 Festival of Imagineers, can ultimately influence the Cardboardia – State of mind!
welcoming members of the public appropriate players and decision To see more of Cardboardia’s
to their studio on historical Spon makers. work, please check video from
Street, Coventry, which was www.weareidp.com Cardboardia Free Will Prison in
previously home to clock-makers Derry (Northern Ireland)
Rotherhams. vimeo.com/150256635
MAKE. FESTIVAL OF IMAGINEERS 2016
All talks and workshops take place at Daimler Powerhouse unless otherwise stated.
All FREE to attend however booking is essential via claire@imagineerproductions.co.uk
Strandbeests
The short city centre walk will take
Wednesday 28 September 6.30pm
us to an unexpected, uninhabited
Trail: Walking with Elephants
and unvisited City Centre
A Presentation and City Walk with
9.45 – 11.45am watering hole, closely passed
Local Historian, Peter Walters
Schools Workshop: in total oblivion by thousands
Drapers Bar, Jordan Well
The Imagineerium Initiative of Coventrians on a daily basis,
(opposite the Herbert)
to view 20 of the beasts in an
Using Terrible Tractors as the Please arrive from 6.15pm
extremely unnatural habitat!
inspiration children will explore for a 6.30pm start
science, technology, engineering
and maths through the arts. In response to a new commission 7pm
Children will work with engineers to create a herd of elephants Making Workshop – Cardboardia
and artists using reclaimed involving the work of Nick Martin,
materials to invent and construct. the maestro and maker of the Join Olesya Kandalintseva
40ft Godiva puppet, Imagineer (Moscow, Russia), Minister of
Productions invite you to an Education of Cardboardia in
6pm evening in which we celebrate the
Workshop: Strandbeests a making workshop to create
beginning of this new work. face masks and costumes from
A salute to Dutch artist, Theo Celebrated local historian Peter cardboard.
Jansen, whose kinetic strandbeest Walters starts things off at Drapers This workshop is an opportunity to
wind sculptures are an extraordinary Bar by giving a little background on learn more about Cardboardia and
feat of Imagineering. the significance and history of the their design and making methods.
much-loved elephant to the City of
Test your dexterity and making Coventry and its populous going To see more of Cardboardia’s work,
skills by constructing your own back to the Middle Ages. here is the opening of Cardboardia
mini strandbeests from Theo’s Embassy in Russian Village.
designs, as a potential prelude to We move from Drapers into the vimeo.com/178163468
Theo exhibiting some of his large city via the Council House and St
scale works as part of City of Mary’s Guildhall as Peter begins to
Culture in 2021. uncover the mystery of the animal
www.strandbeest.com and its Coventry links. By accident
or design there are many more
Make Sponsored by located in the city than you might
think!
MAKE. FESTIVAL OF IMAGINEERS 2016
All talks and workshops take place at Daimler Powerhouse unless otherwise stated.
All FREE to attend however booking is essential via claire@imagineerproductions.co.uk
Thursday 29 September Friday 30 September
5pm – 6.30pm 12 – 4pm
Family friendly Workshop: Talks: Presentation of Ideas
Science Busking with from Residencies
Gaynor Sharpe
12 – 1pm
Nick Martin
With creative scientists – Gaynor Walking with Elephants
Sharp and Linda Atherton.
1 – 2pm
Have fun together – create science Theatre Absolute Winters Tale
and make your own straw oboes, Witness
beautiful midget gem structures and
interesting sounds. 5.30pm
This workshop is aimed at children 2 – 3pm Imagineers at
and families. The development Coventry Cathedral
of the Winters Tale – The Art and the Engineering
7.30pm Teatr Biuro Podrozy
and Dr Haedicke Join John Witcombe, The Dean of
Talk: Tim Hunkin
Coventry Cathedral, Mark Jones,
Imagineer is very proud to present This unique street theatre Director Arup and Professor Louise
Tim Hunkin, one of the UK’s version of Shakespeare’s late Campbell to explore the visionary
best known and loved engineers, play was initially explored during ideas behind the construction of
inventors and creator of the mad a 10 day workshop residency the new Cathedral that resulted
arcade of home-made machines and performance as part of the in an iconic and beautiful building
and simulator rides on Southwold Festival of Imagineers 2015. A housing some of the best 20th
Pier, designer of flying pigs for further developed version will Century art in the world. This
Pink Floyd and contributor to be performed in Poznan in early unique collaboration between Sir
Banksy’s Dismaland. October before a further period of Basil Spence and Arup created a
development. The full Imagineer stunning backdrop for world class
Not only a maker, Tim was also artists Graham Sutherland, Jacob
Productions/Teatr Biuro Podrozy
the writer and presenter of the Epstein, John Piper and others to
co-production will be one of
Channel 4 television series ‘The create some of their most powerful
the headline performances for
Secret Lives of Machines’ and and evocative work.
Festival of Imagineers 2017. Hear
writer of cartoons and books based
performer Marta Strzalko and The evening will also see the
on his Observer cartoon strip ‘The
dramaturg Dr Susan Haedicke launch of ‘Bridge’ a new creative
Rudiments of Knowledge’.
(Associate Professor of Theatre project at its very beginning
Tim will talk about his many and and Performance, Warwick stages. Arup, along with 1,000
varied work, creative inspirations University) in conversation about Coventry children, create a 15
and practices. He may even bring the latest developments. metre bridge made out of rolled
some gadgets for us to play with! A www.tbp.org.pl paper as a prelude to a bridge
rare opportunity to hear from this installation that will be created
original thinker and maker. 3 – 4pm as part of the Cathedral 100
www.timhunkin.com Wandering Web Celebrations in 2018. The 2018
Dom Breadmore, Ludic Rooms installation will provide an exciting
temporary structure for a series
Dom Breadmore presents the of performances/commissions by
ideas to develop the Wandering local national and international
Web that have evolved through his performers.
R&D Residency during the festival.
Arrival for tea and cakes at The
New Cathedral 5.30pm – 7.15pm
INSPIRE.
FESTIVAL OF IMAGINEERS 2016
A programme of ingenious, quirky and extraordinary
performances from inspirational local, national and international
companies transforming public spaces around the City.
Thursday 29 September
3.30 – 5.30pm
Performance:
Godiva Comes for Tea
Moathouse Community Centre
The Moathouse Community
Centre welcomes Godiva for tea.
The community will work with
professional artists to create a Dancing Graffiti
celebratory welcome.
The aim of these projects is to work performance using a fusion of 12.00pm & 2.30pm
with the city’s neighbourhoods Strauss music and contemporary Dancing Graffiti
to co-create work for future street music wearing reclaimed and A show that combines dance with
festivals and engage communities re-designed ball dresses specially live created digital graffiti art. This
with Imagineer, national and created for ‘after dark’ performance performance collects all kinds
international artists. with inbuilt LED lighting effects of urban graffiti into one playful
exploring the use of technology in story that follows the evolution of a
8pm costume design. character from her birth, through
Performance: The performance will take place her fights, until she discovers
Dusk dance/ light installation in various outdoor spaces in and special inner powers. All the
Hillfields Square and other around the City from Thursday 29th projected visuals are made live!
sites in and around the City September. These performances Funny, smart and poetic.
will appear unannounced in 12.45pm & 3.00pm
Over the weekend of 23-25
unusual spaces chosen by the It Started with a Dance
September six young dancers,
young people involved in the project. A love story with live visuals and
young film makers, two
choreographers, a designer and dance. An exceptional duet between
creatives from Coventry Fab Labs a digital artist and dancer. In this
Saturday 1 October
will work together inspired by colourful magical world everything
the performance of VALSE – a is possible! The new media artist
From 12.00pm moves the projected huge 3D hands
beautiful waltz on stilts by Italian
Performance: live and plays with the heroine like
Outdoor company, Teatro Tascabile
Digital Graffiti with Bandart a puppet, creating an exceptional
de Bergamo which takes place at
The Herbert duet between the two of them.
dusk (7pm) in Coventry Cathedral
on Saturday 1st October. They The technology used in this show
Hungarian artists BANDART
will create a short contemporary has never been shown in any other
Productions is a collaboration
theatre plays before! Beautifully
between dancer-choreographer
made, funny and lyrical.
Katalin Lengyel and new media
Inspire Sponsored by bandart.eu
artist Szabolcs Tóth-Zs. Together
they create outstanding live Tickets are FREE but booking is
animation and dance performances essential via:
and present two as part of the www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bandart-
Festival of Imagineers. tickets-27488776671
INSPIRE. FESTIVAL OF IMAGINEERS 2016
Saturday 1 October
1pm & 3pm
Festival of Imagineers Ye Gods
Performance:
on the streets
Acrojou – Wheelhouse
University Square
A ‘tender, post-apocalyptic love
story’, The Wheel House is an
Urban Astronaut acrobatic promenade show, which
unfolds inside and around a circular
set as it rolls with the audience
walking alongside.
An enchanting story set in a
dystopian future, at a time where
survival relies on sharp eyes, quick 1.30pm & 3.30pm
hands, and above all, friendship. Performance: Ye Gods – Whalley
Join these traveller- gatherers Range Allstars
on the road to nowhere: treading YE GODS is a new show by the
lightly, enduring quietly, and Whalley Range All Stars. It features
always, always moving onwards. a model town which occupies a 5m
diameter circle. Three performers
Acrojou’s flagship show, The Wheel tower over the proceedings like
House, has been touring worldwide gods/figures of fate. They gradually
since 2008 bring this miniature town to life
www.acrojou.com with a witty use of objects that are
12.30pm, 2pm & 3.30pm placed inside buildings and which
Performance: Pif-Paf presents trigger appropriate sound effects.
12pm & 2pm Flycycle & Submercycle Church bells ring out, a factory
Performance: Urban Astronaut – Come away with us on a journey of grinds into action, there’s a boozy
Highly Sprung your wildest dreams, aboard the sing-along in the pub and the local
Urban Astronaut provides a glimpse famous travelling machines, The dog’s home can’t stop its inmates
of a future that might be...where Submercycle and The Flycycle! barking at the church bells. By the
problems surrounding air pollution
Choose a traveling companion, find time these three have finished the
have grown to a crisis point, is there
the Departure Lounge and we’ll take entire tiny town is humming with
any way back?
care of the rest. We take two at a time noise and life.
Combining stunning design and a and dress you in hats so sublime. HOWEVER... all is not rosy in this
unique travelling flying machine With Captain Bigshot, you’ll fly up world. The three performers are not
with simple storytelling and a up and away, crossing continents sentimental and are quite willing
moving dance performance, Urban in turbulent adventures, or dive to undo what they have built up. A
Astronaut searches for a solution to under the sea with Captain Calypso, scene of destruction inflicted by a
the environmental disaster that is encountering denizens of the deep. rogue weather pattern ensues.
present in our near future. Under the sea or high in the sky, all
ages are welcome. Together we’ll The audience look down on all this.
The answer is found in a simple
weave unforgettable stories. All is not lost, something is reborn
encounter with a young girl
www.pif-paf.co.uk from this miniature disaster area
who provides the one thing
and thus the cycle carries on.
the astronaut has lost...hope.
highlysprungperformance.co.uk YE GODS features striking visuals,
a vivid sound installation, sardonic
wit, random acts of tenderness,
eruptions of irresponsibility and a
micro-apocalypse courtesy of some
weather on wheels.
Pif-Paf www.wras.org.uk
INSPIRE. FESTIVAL OF IMAGINEERS 2016
Saturday 1 October
Festival of Imagineers
on the streets
Cathedral Ruins
12 – 3pm
Performance: Osadia
Cathedral Ruins
Formed in Barcelona, Spain in
1996 by artist Alex Rendon, street
theatre company, Osadia, has
attained something of a cult status
at festivals across the world.
Part street performance, part
artistic hairsculpting show, Osadia
offers an original and provocative
exhibition of hair art with the active
participation of the audience as Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo Valse
volunteers freely allow the artists
to create daring and evocative 7.15 pm 9.30pm
makeovers, to the delight and awe Performance: Teatro Tascabile di Performance: Addictive TV:
of the onlookers who are amazed Bergamo Valse Orchestra of Samples
by the transformed characters that Beautiful, lyrical and uplifting this Cathedral Ruins
descend from the chair. large scale outdoor performance “Ingenious and compelling”
with Italian Company Teatro The Times
Osadia’s transformations extend to
Tascabile di Bergamo features Pioneering audio/video remixers
the new way the volunteers act after
beautiful costumes, powerful visual and electronic artists Addictive
the performance, for now they are
imagery and a stunning Waltz TV have won huge international
the centre of attention and continue
on stilts to the music of Johann acclaim for their latest project
to be so throughout the day,
Strauss. ‘Orchestra of Samples’.
provoking admiration. Their artistic
hairdos will be photographed Set in the atmospheric Coventry Five years in the making, the duo
wherever they go. Cathedral ruins as dusk falls we filmed over 200 musicians around
invite you to don your ball gowns the globe playing all manner of
And so, these ephemeral creatures
and come and join the Waltz instruments, then sampled and
ensure the show continues,
www.teatrotascabile.org seamlessly spliced them together
acting as a visual reminder of the
to create a digital supergroup of
performance. Tickets are FREE but booking is
international artists who never
osadiaonline.com essential. Book via:
met but play together on screen.
jane@imagineerproductions.co.uk
A stunning fusion of sound and
7pm vision featuring artists from Brazil
Pre-performanceTalk: Addictive TV to Kazakhstan, Egypt to Senegal,
Venue TBC across Europe and even Bhutan
in the Himalayas. For this special
performance the duo are joined by
fretless guitar specialist Alejandro de
Valera. Join them on this incredible
musical journey without borders!
www.addictive.tv
Tickets are FREE but booking is
essential. Book via:
jane@imagineerproductions.co.ukINFO
FESTIVAL OF IMAGINEERS 2016
Venues Booking Information
Imagineer Productions All events are free
Daimler Powerhouse
Unit 4 Sandy Lane Business Park Places for all workshops, visits
Sandy Lane and talks are free but limited – for
Radford further information or to book your
Coventry CV1 4DQ place email:
claire@imagineerproductions.co.uk
The Herbert
Jordan Well, To book for BANDART Productions
Coventry CV1 5QP performances at the Herbert visit:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bandart-
Cathedral Ruins tickets-27488776671
Priory Street
Coventry City Centre Places for the evening
CV1 5FB performances on Saturday 1
October in the Cathedral Ruins
University Square (Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo and
Priory Street Addictive TV) are free but limited.
Coventry City Centre To book, email:
CV1 5FB jane@imagineerproduction.co.uk
Moat House Leisure &
Neighbourhood Centre
Winston Avenue
Coventry CV2 1EA
Hillfields Square
Victoria Street
Hillfields
Coventry CV1 5LZTHANK YOU Produced by Funding Partners Acknowledgements Imagineer Productions is working in partnership with Culture Coventry to deliver the third annual Festival of Imagineers. The Festival of Imagineers is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Coventry City Council as well as funding partners Medwell Hyde, Premier Group, Coventry & Warwickshire LEP, Study Inn, Heritage Lottery Fund, Imagineer Technologies, Talent Match, Coventry University, the University of Warwick, IDP, Coventry University Students’ Union and Arup. The festival is also supported by Imagineer Productions’ business patrons including; Shortland Horne, The Imagineering Foundation, MTC Midlands Training Centre, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Coventry Cathedral and Think Higher. All information correct at time of publishing but subject to change. www.imagineer-productions.co.uk @ImagineerUK GodivaAwakes
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