Night of Festivals, London 2016 Programme of events

Saturday 6 August 2pm - 10pm Sunday 7 August 11am - 6pm

Live Performance Stage The Scoop

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The Chimes Installation Adjacent to City Hall

Visual arts installations Queen’s Walk

Storytelling Yurt and Freedom Wall Installation Potters Fields Park

Carnival and Samba performances

Queen’s Walk and across the Festival site SPECIAL Night Time Lit Carnival event parade from the Design Museum to HMS Belfast 8.30-9.30 on Saturday 6 August with 20 minute finale on Potters Fields Park at 9.30pm

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Potters Fields Park, The Scoop at More London and Queen’s Walk

Saturday 6 August 2pm - 10pm Sunday 7 August 11am - 6pm

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WELCOME FROM ARTREACH @NOFESTIVALS /NOFESTIVALS NOFESTIVALS www.nightoffestivals.com

A big welcome to Night of Festivals London, especially created to provide an exciting, colourful, vibrant and FREE artistic celebration, for the whole family, on the Potters Fields Park and More London sites this August.

We hope that you will enjoy our varied and rich programme that includes constant carnival and samba throughout both days of the Festival, live music, dance, theatre, visual arts installations (including the interactive Chimes), family storytelling and of course our amazing Nigh Time Lit Carnival.

We are marking the opening weekend of the Rio Olympics with a special focus on Brazilian and Latin American culture. There is also a strong European dimension with artwork and performances from Romanian, German, and Bulgarian cultural organisations and artists.

NIGHT-TIME LIT CARNIVAL 8.30 - 10pm Saturday 6 August

• 8.30pm Carnival procession leaves the Design Museum at Shad Thames • 40 performers wearing inflatable lit costumes with stilt artists and accompanied by the drummers of Sabar Sounds!

• Procession along Shad Thames, across Potters Fields Park and around More London to HMS Belfast, returning along Queen’s Walk to Potters Fields Park • 20 minute finale performance at 9.30pm (with especially composed recorded music) on Potters Fields Park • The Night Time Lit Carnival is a collaboration between Stelzen-Art, Oakleaf Creativity and Mandinga Arts, directed

by Tom Lanzki.

Have a great time at Night of Festivals – we hope it is magical, fun, and maybe a little thought provoking!

David Hill Director ArtReach www.artreach.biz

PS Don’t forget to share images and comments on social media! #NofFestivals

Many thanks to our partners including More London, Potters Field Park Trust, Southwark Council, The Brigade Bar and Bistro and London Bridge City Summer Festival that is hosting the event.

FREEDOM Project

The Night Time Lit Carnival and visual arts installations (The Plinth Project and Freedom Wall) that form part of Night of Festivals London, are made possible as a result of an exciting collaboration (FREEDOM) between ArtReach, Haus Drei (from Hamburg) and FabriC (from Gabrovo, Bulgaria).

FREEDOM is supported by the European Union through Creative Europe.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

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Saturday 6 August 2pm - 10pm The Scoop 2 - 2.45pm Brazilian Dance Medley, featuring performances of Gafieira, Lambada, Frevo and Capoeira 3.15 - 4pm Masca present physical theatre/mime performance “The Wall” 4 - 4.30pm London School of Samba 4.30 - 5.15pm Brazilian Dance Medley, featuring performances of Gafieira, Lambada, Frevo and Capoeira 5.30-6pm Sambando - vibrant Brazilian samba music 6.45- 7.30 Shademakers Carnival Troupe and Gozart Carnival

Potters Fields Park 2 - 2.40pm Masca Theatre present “Living Statues” 3.15 - 3.45pm Sambando - vibrant Brazilian samba music 3.45pm London School of Samba with 30 costumed performers 4.15 - 4.35pm Richard Layzell – Live Art performance “Speaker’s Corner” 4.45 - 5.30pm Masca Theatre present “Living Statues” 6pm - 6.45pm Kinetika Bloco 60 musicians and dancers!

6.45- 7.30pm Shademakers Carnival Troupe and Gozart Carnival 7.15 - 7.45pm Kinetika Bloco 60 musicians and dancers!

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7.45 - 8.15pm Sabar Sounds Percussion invites you to the Night Time Lit Carnival

9.30 - 10pm Night Time Lit Carnival Finale

Queen’s Walk/More London 2 - 3pm Shademakers Carnival Troupe 3.15 - 4pm Gozart Carnival shares its new Night of Festivals giant puppet 4.30 - 5.30pm Shademakers Carnival Troupe 4.30 - 5.30pm Richard Layzell – Live Art performance “Speaker’s Corner” at the Riviera stage 5.30 - 6.15pm Gozart Carnival shares its new Night of Festivals giant puppet 6pm - 6.45pm Kinetika Bloco 60 musicians and dancers!

6.45 - 7.30pm Shademakers Carnival Troupe and Gozart Carnival 7.15 - 7.45pm Kinetika Bloco 60 musicians and dancers!

Sunday 7 August 11am - 6pm The Scoop

Potters Fields Park

Queen’s Walk/More London

11 - 11.30am Maracuta - the full “Royal Court” of Brazilian dancers and music

11 - 11.45am Mandinga Arts – carnival – “Animal Farm” meets “The Day of the Dead”

11 - 11.45am Mandinga Arts – carnival – “Animal Farm” meets “The Day of the Dead”

11.45am - 12.15pm Paraiso Samba (performing on the area above the Scoop)

11.45am - 12.30pm Masca Theatre present “Living Statues”

11 - 11.45am Gozart Carnival

12.15 - 12.45pm Batala London – the authentic sound of Brazilian samba-reggae

1 - 1.20pm Richard Layzell – Live Art performance “Speaker’s Corner”

1 - 1.30pm Maracuta - the full “Royal Court” of Brazilian dancers and music

1.30 - 2.15pm Mandinga Arts – carnival – “Animal Farm” meets “The Day of the Dead”

1.30 - 2pm Paraiso Samba (performing on the area above the Scoop)

2.15 - 3pm Mandinga Arts carnival

2 - 2.40pm Masca present physical theatre/mime performance – “The Wall” 3.10 - 4pm Conjunto Sabroso - 10 piece Latin American dance band 4.15 - 4.45pm Batala London – the authentic sound of Brazilian samba-reggae 5 - 5.45pm Conjunto Sabroso - 10 piece Latin American dance band 5.45pm Paraiso Samba with guest performers from Ripple School in Barking (performing on the area above the Scoop)

2 - 2.45pm Gozart Carnival 3.45 - 4.30pm Masca Theatre present “Living Statues” 4.30 - 5.15pm Mandinga Arts – carnival – “Animal Farm” meets “The Day of the Dead” 4.45 - 5.30pm Gozart Carnival

5.30 - 6pm All Carnival finale

11.45am - 12.30pm Mandinga Arts carnival 12.30 - 1.15pm Mandinga Arts carnival 1 - 1.45pm Stelzen-Art – stilt walking carnival troupe from Germany 1.30 - 2.15pm Mandinga Arts – carnival – “Animal Farm” meets “The Day of the Dead” 2 - 3pm Oakleaf Creativitystilt walking carnival troupe from Germany 2.45pm Richard Layzell - Live Art performance “Speaker’s Corner” at the Riviera stage 3pm - 3.45pm Mandinga Arts carnival 4.30 - 5.15pm Mandinga Arts – carnival – “Animal Farm” meets “The Day of the Dead” 4.45 - 5.30pm Gozart Carnival

5.30 - 6pm All Carnival finale

You can enjoy all of the following on both Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August

THE STORYTELLING YURT

From 2-6pm on Saturday and 11am - 6pm on Sunday there will be regular storytelling sessions led by the experienced professional team The Storytelling Café. The theme of the stories will be Latin America and the content is suitable for children of all ages (plus parents and grandparents!) Sure to be popular and only 50 places per story

THE CHIMES INSTALLATION MASCA Theatre

Masca Theatre from Bucharest, Romania, specialises in mime, gesture and physical theatre. Whilst the company has toured extensively across Europe it has never performed in the UK before Night of Festivals London.

For its first ever UK appearances Masca will perform two different presentations from its repertoire: Living Statues - a presentation by ten actors on Potters Fields Park (2pm and 4.45pm Saturday and 11.45 and 3.45 Sunday) The Wall – an intense mime piece with two actors at The Scoop at More London (3.15pm Saturday and 2pm Sunday)

Especially for Night of Festivals London, ArtReach is delighted to present the interactive, giant “Chimes Installation” from Sabar Sounds. Available daytime and Saturday evening on the space adjacent to City hall, above The Scoop. Come and play!!

CARNIVAL and SAMBA ARTISTS

Throughout both days of the Festival carnival and samba keeps the action going throughout each day. See our Festival calendar for detailed timings as to when each group will be appearing. Our core carnival and samba partners Mandinga Arts and Paraiso Samba are joined by many other extraordinary companies this August as part of our particular focus on Brazil and Latin America.

THE PLINTH PROJECT

Night of Festivals has commissioned special visual arts “plinth” installations as part of the European collaboration FREEDOM project. The following can be seen on Queen’s Walk: Be the Change

by Romanian artist Lea Rasovzsky The Society of the Spectacle

by Bulgarian artist Georgi Balabanov ILMGP and Knot

by German artist Petra Kilian Also, look out for UK Live Artist, Richard Layzell, presenting his own unique version of Speaker’s Corner

FREEDOM WALL

ArtReach has commissioned artists Golden Green (from Germany) and Greg Stobbs (UK) to design and deliver urban art “landscapes” on Southwark walls and temporary structures on Potters Fields Park. In addition you can contribute to an urban art piece for community exhibition. Come along to the Freedom Wall on Saturday afternoon and paint with Graffiti Stars!

Saturday 6 August 2pm - 10pm Sunday 7 August 11am - 6pm

Live Performance Stage The Scoop

lues ting varough Celebra om th tion d e e fr a of innov artistic

The Chimes Installation Adjacent to City Hall

Visual arts installations Queen’s Walk

Storytelling Yurt and Freedom Wall Installation Potters Fields Park

Carnival and Samba performances

Queen’s Walk and across the Festival site SPECIAL Night Time Lit Carnival event parade from the Design Museum to HMS Belfast 8.30-9.30 on Saturday 6 August with 20 minute finale on Potters Fields Park at 9.30pm

MARKING THE OPENING OF THE RIO OLYMPICS 2016 LONDON SOUTH BANK

Potters Fields Park, The Scoop at More London and Queen’s Walk

Saturday 6 August 2pm - 10pm Sunday 7 August 11am - 6pm

FREE FAMILY EVENT

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Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

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