SPILL Festival of Performance 2018 Brochure

THU 25 OCT — SUN 4 NOV 2018 IPSWICH SUFFOLK

WELCOME TO

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Welcome to SPILL, an adventurous international festival of contemporary arts, lovingly crafted in Ipswich. For 11 days this autumn we are presenting a packed programme at sites across the town. You don’t have to be an art expert to join in and everyone is welcome.

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During SPILL you can experience over 100 different artworks, both indoors and out, many of them taking place multiple times. The festival includes live performances, sound and music, film and video, plus projects exploring heritage and place, all made by some of the world’s most exciting contemporary artists.

About a third of the festival is totally free. A third of events are a fiver and our top price tickets are just £10. SPILL Passes offer great ways to save across the festival and with events for kids and families, plus a late‑night programme for adults, there really is something for everyone.

The theme of this year’s festival is Time and we are honouring the past with a programme of artworks marking 100 years since the end of the First World War. Using audio technology originally employed in war and emergencies, and the voices of women and girls, Clarion Call will ring out twice daily from Ipswich Waterfront and beyond. You are unlikely to have experienced anything quite like it before.

Front Cover: Nabil, ‘Visiting Thahab’, photo by Nabil Vega.

Back Cover: ‘Clarion Call’, Bryon J. Scullin, Hannah Fox and Thomas Supple, photo by Thomas Hyland.

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Handmade banners, stitched by women across the UK for Artichoke’s wonderful Processions project, marking 100 years since some women got the vote, form an exhibition trail across the town (page 16). Turned Red Earth pairs nature writing contained in letters and diaries of WW1 servicemen with photographs of uprooted flower specimens, creating disarmingly moving images (page 18).

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the festival, brings condensed contemporary versions of all 36 Shakespeare plays to Ipswich Town Hall.

Comically and intimately retold using everyday objects as characters on an ordinary table top, this huge performance undertaking by one of the UK’s foremost theatre companies is simply unmissable (page 40).

Imagined Touch, a multi‑sensory Australian live art project, explores the world of Deafblind culture (page 66). And get the kids in your life to tell us what play structures to build in Block Magic (page 20).

The SPILL OPEN presents 20 works by early makers with something meaningful to say. Supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and selected from 688 international applications, the OPEN is a chance to check out the future, today.

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Across the festival you are invited to make an offering of written bad news to our Pyre Parade effigy, housed in La Tour Cycle Café at Ipswich Waterfront. Then on Saturday 3 November join us for The Pyre Parade (page 84), as our effigy makes its way noisily through town to Christchurch Park where – full of everyone’s bad news – it will be engulfed in flames, burning up the darkness and clearing space before winter. May it bring us all peace and wellbeing. Our time is most certainly now.

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SPILL Central is a special festival takeover of the former Wharf next to Ipswich Town Hall.

This is our festival info point, box office, café bar and place to catch the very best alternative music, cabaret, gigs and parties SPILL has to offer.

Created in 2007, SPILL Festival is produced in‑house as an initiative of Pacitti Company — an arts charity based in the Suffolk county town of Ipswich. Alongside SPILL we also make our own art projects and run a year‑round programme of events, courses, groups and classes at our Think Tank studio building, which is also available for hire.

SPILL questions traditions of art and society and contains work some people may find challenging.

We seek a culture of open discussion around this, so let’s talk it out — together we can change the world.

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ACCESS Access is something we take very seriously as makers of SPILL Festival and we work year‑round on how to best serve the diverse needs of all our guests and visitors.

Our starting point is an inclusive offer — there are no special exceptions. We don’t believe that access should be something additional or have to be requested.

Every venue in SPILL 2018 has step‑free access or easy‑to‑use lifts to relevant floors.

About one third of all events are FREE, and the most expensive ticket is just £10. Day Passes, Weekend Passes and All‑Seeing Passes offer the best value for those wanting to see lots across the festival.

We aspire to the Plain English Campaign when using words to publicise the festival. We write with you, the reader, in mind.

We champion artists describing their work in their own words.

If you have any queries, or simply can’t get the measure of something, please telephone or email us and we will do our best to describe whatever it is in a different way.

This year, in addition to providing BSL interpretation at several events, we’re creating opportunities for BSL users to chat about various parts of the programme.

Keep an eye on spillfestival.com, plus our Facebook and Twitter to see all of the latest access announcements as we get closer to the festival.

BSL INTERPRETED

THU 25

SPILL Launch Speeches, 18:30

FRI 26

Eaten, Mamoru Iriguchi, 15:00 Diamond, David Hoyle, 19:30

SAT 27

Walk‑round of Processions Exhibition Meet at SPILL Central, 11:00 Ipswich Art Gallery BSL Hangout, 15:00 Icons, Le Gateau Chocolat, 20:00

TUE 30 WHY NOT ALSO TRY …

Imagined Touch by Jodee Mundy Collaborations, enter the world of deafblind artists Michelle Stevens and Heather Lawson in this immersive installation for up to 15 people at a time (page 66)

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Lunchtime Talk with Jodee Mundy, 13:00

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Walk‑round of Processions Exhibition Meet at SPILL Central, 11:00 Ipswich Art Gallery BSL Hangout, 15:00

FESTIVAL PATHWAYS Here’s what we will be doing on a couple of the busiest nights in the festival.

And be sure to check out the SPILL Festival website too – each member of the team will be sharing their own suggested festival pathways for you to enjoy.

OPENING NIGHT AT IPSWICH WATERFRONT

THE NIGHT OF THE PYRE PARADE

17:30 Experience the world premiere of Clarion Call (page 14).

16:23 Catch the final evening performance of Clarion Call at the Waterfront.

18:00 Head down to the University of Suffolk Waterfront Building for the opening of the Processions Exhibition (page 16) and nearby Block Magic (page 20).

17:00 Join the Pyre Parade, starting at La Tour Cycle Café as it moves through the centre of Ipswich, expect lots of music and movement (page 84).

18:30 Hear from the team at SPILL about the next 10 days of events at the SPILL Launch, La Tour Cycle Café.

18:00 Come to Christchurch Park (Fonnereau Road entrance) as we set light to the Pyre Parade effigy, sending all of the bad news we’ve accumulated up into the night sky.

19:00 The Pyre Parade effigy will arrive at La Tour Cycle Café, we’ll launch the new SPILL Reader, and two other projects (Turned Red Earth, and Kopf Kino) open (pages 18 + 19).

19:30 See the first SPILL OPEN artist of the festival, Amerah Saleh with I Am Not From Here, La Tour Cycle Café (page 24).

20:00 United Bible Studies bring their incomparable experimental and improvisational folk music to La Tour Cycle Café (page 25).

ROUTE ONE 19:00 Stay in Christchurch Park for Ipswich’s bonfire night celebrations (ticketed separately).

ROUTE TWO 21:00 Head over to Ipswich Art Gallery for work by Philip Bedwell and Lady Helena Vortex (page 86 + 87).

22:00 Now a festival tradition, head to SPILL Central for the SPILL Party, with performances by Gaika and DJs (page 88).

21:00 Pop across town to Ipswich Art Gallery to see the first of the SPILL Commissions; Jade Montserrat’s 24‑hour performance, Revue (page 22).

22:30 Come to the first event at the brand new SPILL Central, Bare Bones (page 26).

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TICKETS This year we’ve made it even easier to see everything you want to at SPILL. Passes are the most cost‑effective way of experiencing the festival, and there are a range of options to suit everyone.

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ALL‑SEEING PASS £120

ALL‑SEEING SUPPORTER £240

SPILL WEEKEND PASS £65

SPILL DAY PASSES £25 PEAK DAYS £15 OFF‑PEAK

The best way to fully immerse yourself in SPILL and see everything the festival has to offer. This pass gets you into all 121 events – every single gig, exhibition, installation, and performance – that’s less than £1 each!

All‑Seeing Pass bookers can add a SPILL Reader to their order for only £5.

This is exactly the same as the All‑Seeing Pass but includes a £120 donation which we can double though Catalyst: Evolve to do even more great work in the future.

This three‑day pass gets you in to every event across the Fri–Sun of either weekend.

If you can only get to one day of SPILL, this is the pass for you.

Pacitti Company Members get 20% off multi-performance passes at SPILL. That means you can save £24 on an All-Seeing Pass!

PEAK DAYS Fri 26, Sat 27, Sun 28, Wed 31 Thu 1, Fri 2, Sat 3 OFF‑PEAK DAYS Mon 29, Tue 30, Sun 4

Find out more at pacitticompany.com

HOW TO BOOK ONLINE spillfestival.com

BY PHONE Call the New Wolsey Theatre’s friendly box office team on 01473 295 900 IN PERSON Pop in to buy your tickets New Wolsey Theatre, Civic Drive, Ipswich, IP1 2AS ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT Passes and individual tickets (where sold) are available on the door of all SPILL venues

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Ticket Collection If you book your tickets more than a week before the start of SPILL, your tickets will be posted to you for £1. After this date, collect your tickets from the New Wolsey Theatre Box Office before the first event you plan to attend.

Important Booking Information To help you plan your festival experience we try to ensure all events start on time and all details in this brochure are correct at time of going to press.

All limited capacity shows are subject to availability Please check spillfestival.com before you travel for up to date information.

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IPSWICH ART GALLERY DAY PASS £10 This pass lets you come‑and‑go from the Ipswich Art Gallery for a day in the festival.

DID YOU KNOW that alongside SPILL Festival we also make a year‑round public programme of cool stuff at our PACITTI COMPANY THINK TANK in Ipswich?

There’s loads of great arts and crafts stuff for you to do, talks, kid’s events, even small intimate gigs. We’ve got a whole range of friendly (sometimes unusual) things for you to get involved in. From marimba to mask making, tarot to taxidermy – everyone is welcome.

And did you also know that we are not for profit and a registered charity? We make this stuff because we care about sharing high quality art and education events with a passion. Plus we think it also makes for an interesting life!

If you love what we do and what we stand for please donate £10 to support SPILL Festival and our year round work

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS Individual tickets are available for most works throughout the festival – prices and details can be found on individual event pages.

Donate £10 right now by texting SFOP18 £10 to 70070

And get this — Arts Council England will double every donation we receive in the next few months. Meaning your £10 becomes £20, which is twice as helpful in making more brilliant stuff happen!

Thank you!

DOUBLE + TRIPLE BILLS At some events in the festival, we’re offering special ‘double’ and ‘triple’ bill tickets – these are clearly marked on event pages.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?  spillfestival.com/support‑us  makeadifference@pacitticompany.com  Kate or Andy on 01473 216 545 9

L A TO U R C YC L E C A F É

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Sun 28 Oct

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SPILL launch event

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I Am Not From Here Amerah Saleh

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In The Name Of The Voice United Bible Studies

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Pyre Parade The Rough Band

WAT E R F RO N T 14

Clarion Call Byron J. Scullin + Supple Fox

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Turned Red Earth Lucy Greeves

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Block Magic Pacitti Company + EDRM

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Offerings Bare Bones

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LUNCH // TIME // TALKING

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Eaten Mamoru Iriguchi

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I Am Not From Here Amerah Saleh

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Rituals in Romance Shared Saliva

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Kernschmelze II Eve Libertine + Charles Webber + Penny Rimbaud

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English Heretic English Heretic

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Tell Me Again Why We Don’t Need Feminism getonthesoapbox

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Foley Explosion Julie Rose Bower

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Political Child Pink Suits

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W V W V 100 Women’s Action Group

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The Wishing Machine Teleplasmiste

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Still Life Hamish MacPherson

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Gaika + SPILL PARTY

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SPILL Closing Party + Duduetsa

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Revue Jade Montserrat

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Recount Francesca Steele

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Figure Lanre Malaolu

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Breaking Up With JK Rowling Libby Norman

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City Square Wang Yue

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Internal Megan Clark

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Earth Work Giovanna Maria Casetta

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Shared Frameworks Pacitti Company

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The Circuit Moi Tran

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The Drumming Experience of OneSelf Sweets or Sour

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Defence Wounds Philip Bedwell

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Well, you tried it just for once Lady Helena Vortex

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URO Vivian Chinasa Ezugha

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Into The Cuckoo’s Nest Martin Green and Lepus Productions

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Still Solos Mike Challis

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Sun 28 Oct drop‑in session: 18:00 – 19:30

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Still Solos Mike Challis

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Icons Le Gateau Chocolat

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Gone To The Dogs Claudia Palazzo

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Diamond David Hoyle

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Imagined Touch Jodee Mundy Collaborations

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Guayabo Ania Varez

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Complete Works Forced Entertainment

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inter_versal Carter Tutti

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Microcosmos

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Alphaville

Ipswich Film Theatre

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Decasia

Ipswich Film Theatre

19:00 – 20:10

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Human Flow

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A 100‑Mile Conversation

Ipswich Film Theatre

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On Akka’s Shore Umama Hamido

Ipswich Film Theatre

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The Witch

Ipswich Film Theatre

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Meditation, Creativity, Peace

Ipswich Film Theatre

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The Mirror People Like Us

Ipswich Film Theatre

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Plantain

Ipswich Film Theatre

Empire Cinema Ipswich

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Processions Exhibition

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Kopf Kino On / Off

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Sold As Seen Hester Chillingworth

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By Mushrooms Yao Liao

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Drop in the Ocean Jess Allen

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Visiting Thahab Nabil

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Man is an Animal Saut Prayuda

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BYRO N J. SCU LLIN + SU PPLE FOX (AUSTR ALIA) WORLD PREMIERE Over the 11 days of SPILL Festival, this large-scale outdoor sonic artwork will ring out from Ipswich Waterfront into the town’s public spaces at dusk.

The voices of women and girls call to the setting sun in daily incantations, broadcast with audio technology employed for emergency and control, repurposed as a mechanism for public ritual.

Devised by Melbourne based artists Byron J. Scullin, Hannah Fox and Thomas Supple, and part of 14–18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, Clarion Call stands as an ephemeral monument to the aftermath of wars past, present and future. But instead of unifying us in grief, a composition of reimagined melodies provide a moment in time for a community to come together in hope and reflection.

Thu 25 – Sat 3 Sunset (see page 10) 11 minutes Ipswich Waterfront Free Co‑commissioned by 14–18 NOW and Pacitti Company for the SPILL Festival of Performance. Developed with the support of Dark Mofo Festival, Tasmania.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts.

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ARTI CH O K E (U K) PROCESSIONS was a mass participation artwork to celebrate 100 years of votes for women.

It was an open invitation to every woman and girl across the UK to get involved by being present on Sunday 10 June in one of the four UK capitals: Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh or London; inspired by the great processions of the suffragettes and suffragists in the years leading up to 1918, who marched to demand the vote.

In this special exhibition for SPILL, 100 banners created around the UK for PROCESSIONS will be shown as a trail at various locations across Ipswich. Find a route planner on the SPILL website.

Artichoke is a leading arts charity that works with artists to invade public spaces and put on extraordinary and ambitious events that live in the memory forever.

Thu 25 – Sun 4 University of Suffolk, Waterfront Building and various sites around Ipswich Photo by Sheila Burnett

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PROCESSIONS EXHIBITION

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TURNED RED EARTH LU CY GREEVES (U K) “The grass is about a foot long and thousands of poppies are swaying along the lips of the trench.”

Fleeting moments of beauty, seen through the eyes of soldiers from both sides, bring the wholesale destruction of WW1 into poignant focus. Turned Red Earth is a book and a series of sited texts that weave together words from war diaries alongside exquisite portraits of local wildflowers to create small, intimate points of connection that collapse the distance of a century.

At SPILL, large format prints of Turned Red Earth will appear in various locations on Ipswich Waterfront.

Lucy Greeves is a writer based in North Essex.

Her work has ranged in subject matter from the First World War to her childhood in Kenya; she has also written extensively on the practice and philosophy of yoga and meditation. Her first book, The Naked Jape, established her as an authority on the origins and meaning of comedy. She is currently writing a book reflecting on the lives and deaths of missionary wives and mothers in 19th Century Africa.

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VISUAL ART

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ON/OFF is made up of architects and designers based in Berlin. Since 2012 they have been exploring different fields, including media art, scenographic design, experimental housing, play and furniture design. As a network they draw on a range of different skills, working collaboratively to initiate new experiments with mobile structures, film and projection, public workshops and writing. They set out to challenge established modes of practice and to engage with people’s experience of the city through projects in public space.

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The device amplifies their gestures and expressions empowering people to play and test their everyday environments and routines.

The first prototype was constructed with limited resources, improvising with a used shopping trolley as the main body, borrowed car batteries, projector and laptop, fixed in place with cable ties, and recycled timber.

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Deployed in public space, the Kopf Kino captures and projects actions at street level onto surrounding façades and buildings in the area, turning unexpecting passers‑by into performers.

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PACIT TI COM PANY + ED R M (U K) Set on Ipswich Waterfront, Block Magic is a constantly shifting playground structure made from coloured crates.

Determined by local children, using dedicated software to tell us what they want, imaginative play spaces are designed then built daily as physical structures for kids to play in. The project is a collaboration between Pacitti Company and local architectal practice EDRM. Block Magic prioritises the wants of children, encouraging young people to work together on design and build, enabling teamwork and confidence. It foregrounds kids in charge, creative imagination and young folk building their own physical and social structures.

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JAD E MO NTSERR AT (U K) Revue is a choreographed, repeated routine performed naked, currently for 24 hours set to Cab Calloway’s popular Cotton Club track “Pickin’ up the Cabbage”.

Revue will be filtered digitally through institutions in cities throughout the world where Josephine Baker performed, and then back into the public domain. The performance is intent on reimagining the representation of black bodies, with an emphasis on protection, care, positioning and preservation.

Jade Montserrat works at the intersection of art and activism through drawing, painting, performance, film, installation, sculpture, print and text. The artist interrogates these mediums with the aim to expose gaps in our visual and linguistic habits.

Image by shagazewhoahmanifestations

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REVUE

Thu 25 – Fri 26 17:30 – 17:30 24 hours

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Thu 25, Free; Fri 26, Part of £10 IAG Pass.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.  monsterratuk THU

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A M ER AH SALEH (U K/YE M EN) I Am Not From Here is an exploration of home, identity, womanhood and the intricate complications between second generation British citizens.

Born and bred in Birmingham, Amerah always identified as British, only ever visiting Yemen once before moving over there to live in 2002.

Language, culture and family all look different outside the West. Arriving back in the UK unexpectedly in 2004 Amerah found it hard to fit back into a fast‑moving city like Birmingham.

In this piece, Amerah explores relationships, the culture of identifying with anything other than ‘wife’ or ‘mother’, and being an Arab woman finding new ways to raise both her own voice and the voices of others..

Amerah Saleh is a spoken word artist born and bred in Birmingham. Her Muslim Yemeni roots give her space to get lost and found on multiple occasions between identity.

Thu 25 19:30 Fri 26, Sat 27 22:00

Photo by PaulStringer — @ThePaulStringer

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45 mins Thu 25 La Tour Cycle Café Free Fri 26 and Sat 27 SPILL Central £10 double bill with Shared Saliva.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.  amerahsaleh.co.uk   voiceofthepoets THU

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U N ITED BIBLE STU D IES (U K) A song‑cycle for Albion.

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With psychogeographic reference and folkloric tradition United Bible Studies will invoke the power of the voice.

Blissed‑out freak folk, twilit chamber pieces, frostbitten song and psychedelic noise.

SOUND+MUSIC

The performance’s specially Suffolk‑tinged subjects include; the earthen haunt of M.R. James, temperance song via Fred Whiting, John Wilbye’s madrigals, and the spectral visitations of the Icklingham highwayman. Through a performance of song, spoken word, chant and improvisation, the band transcends these mortal bonds.

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For more than 15 years United Bible Studies’ folk‑rooted sound has spanned spectral trad, krautrock‑influenced improv and cosmic drones in a restless quest from atmospheric innerspace deep‑dives to shamanic explorations of the outer wyrd. The current performing roster includes Alison O’Donnell from legendary 1970s Dublin psych‑folk group Mellow Candle, Dom Cooper ex Owl Service, and Irish underground mainstay David Colohan of Raising Holy Sparks.

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A post‑modern jumble. Just as ancient ideas met science fiction in the Dogon text of ‘The Pale Fox’ by M. Griaule and G. Dieterlen, Bare Bones take collective memory and filter it through their own lens.

Bare Bones are an experimental drone duo that embrace the physicality of sound. Using improvisatory techniques, ethnographic field recordings, and the sonic spaces of Dub, they create ritualistic, nuanced soundscapes. Effectively pulling the listener into a netherworld of stretched time.

Through the use of repetition and loops they explore hypnagogic states. Primitive percussion, bowed instruments and the human voice lay against analogue tape machines and electronics.

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A hybrid take on folklore; Ghédalia Tazartès ‘impromuz’, the medieval practice of ‘Souling’, the Hindu idea of ‘moskha’. They will create a hierophany of the moment. Emphasising Kahlil Gibran’s ‘zeal is a volcano’.

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Through long‑form composition and improvisation, Bare Bones will explore the concept of ritual.

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OFFERINGS

SPILL Central £5 Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.  rifmountain.com THU

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ZOMBIE. THE OFFICIAL BEER OF SPILL FESTIVAL 2018

S O U N D + M U S I C

Zombie is our festival beer, specially created by SPILL in partnership with the good folks at Briarbank Brewery & Bar here in Ipswich. You’ll find it on sale at Briarbank, Issacs and SPILL Central across the festival period.

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Part of a larger art project called the Art + Science of Living + Dying, Zombie explores transformation, decay and fermentation. Flavoured with local herbs that the Ancients would have used for embalming and granting eternal life, Zombie is a playful way to generate some serious thinking and talking about death and dying. Strangely reviving, it’s also delicious. So be sure to try a Zombie this SPILL – it really is a no brainer.

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Excessive alcohol can have an adverse effect on physical and mental health. Please drink mindfully to enjoy SPILL Festival to the max. pacitticompany.com/zombie With big thanks to brewer Robert Pyke, and all at Briarbank and Isaacs.

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SPILL THINK TANK SPILL Think Tank events spark public conversations and invite audience responses to the work on show.

They also explore the festival’s theme of Time.

Think Tank events are free and open to all.

ON TIME: THE SPILL READER The SPILL Reader is a collection of critical, poetic and reflective texts about the 2018 edition of SPILL. It acts as a critical companion to the festival, for both visitors and remote readers.

Commissioned essays, dialogues, interventions and whispers from artists, writers, activists and cultural workers explore the terrains of meaning brought about by the works within the festival, in this particular political, social and ecological moment. Edited by Diana Damian‑Martin, the SPILL Reader thinks in and through time, and is intended for artists, students, cultural activists and the curious general reader. Essential reading.

Launch event – Thu 25 19:00 La Tour Cycle Café Launch event – free Reader: £10, £5 for All‑seeing pass holders.

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LUNCH ⁄⁄ TIME ⁄⁄ TALKING Join us to speak with artists in SPILL at relaxed lunchtime exchanges.

Hear what motivates them and share your own thoughts.

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WEEK ONE Fri 26 Oct Forced Entertainment on Complete Works Sat 27 Oct

Using words and actions, with Amerah Saleh and Lanre Malaolu

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Sun 28 Oct The SPILL OPEN process, with free Bloody Marys on us

WEEK TWO Tues 30 Oct Jodee Mundy on Imagined Touch and the politics of Deaf Blind art Wed 31 Oct Working and walking in public space, with Nabil Vega and Jess Allen

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Thu 1 Nov Byron Scullin and Supple Fox on their giant sound work Clarion Call Fri 2 Nov Kid’s project Block Magic, with Robert Pacitti and architects from EDRM

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All 13:00 daily SPILL Central

THINK TANK

Durations flexible: 60 – 90 minutes, depending on how each conversation goes.

Hot soup and bread on sale each day.

All welcome. Free.

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PAUSE

Rest and reconnect with free, drop‑in meditation sessions every morning of the festival.

Here’s a chance to press pause for a short while … before you dive back in to the festival with renewed energy. Sample a range of different contemplative practices under the guidance of experienced teachers. Suitable for all, no experience necessary.

Fri 26 – Sat 3 10:00 SPILL Central

SPILL T V + PHOTOGRAPHY Daily across the festival SPILL TV + Photography document events across the festival for the world to see. SPILL TV shares short films on the festival’s website, made by Ana de Matos and Chameleoneye Films. SPILL Photography comes from official festival photographers Guido Mencari and Christa Holka. Follow all the action at spillfestival.com

SPILL CENTRAL + CAFÉ BAR Daily across the festival Need to get going each morning? Want to keep going all night? Find great coffee, food and drink deals at SPILL Central, a special festival takeover of the former Wharf, next to Ipswich Town Hall. This is also our festival info point, box office and late‑night dive bar to catch the very best cabaret, gigs and parties SPILL has to offer.

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THE PEOPLE’S PAPARA ZZI Daily across the festival, online and in person

S O U N D + M U S I C

The People’s Paparazzi presents unofficial photography of SPILL. Headed up by old punk David Milner, together with a gaggle of pic hunters made up of allies, reprobates and keen members of the public, the People’s Paparazzi will live up to their reputation of photographing the occasion of the festival. With the aim of producing a visually stunning feast, expect pictures of skies, full ash trays and – if we’re lucky – Britney with their head shaved.

Find it all over social media and (hashtag) share the crap out of it babes.

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W V W V 100 Women’s action group Think Tank event

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Join women from diverse groups across Ipswich to hear about their experience of creating and delivering the Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes – 100 years on Festival. The Women’s Action Group invites you to become part of the legacy of the festival and consider how collectively we can take our work, promoting women’s equality, forward.

Fri 2 15:00 – 17:00 SPILL Central

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FR AN CESCA STEELE (U K) Between 2008 – 2012 Francesca engaged in a deeply manipulative and transformative process of bodybuilding as her daily performance practice.

During this her body became a document of work; she became the material.

Recount marks a re‑authoring, a point of separation, part of a process of undoing.

Using footage filmed by documentary‑maker Mark Kidel, Recount draws a digital cutup retelling, and asks for an ‘active’ viewer to engage. Stress, silences and cigarettes create new conversations whilst commenting on the past.

Francesca Steele’s live art practice has recently become focused on writing; using autobiographical mining and experimental writing techniques she creates work that sits between fact and fiction, storytelling, knowing and unknowing.

Having exhibited in the UK and internationally, her work also features on internet sites like ‘girls with muscle’ and persists outside the traditional white box space.

Fri 26 – Sun 4 (not Mon 29) 11:00 – 17:00 Durational Ipswich Art Gallery Part of £10 IAG Pass.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.  francesca.steele

 FSteeleArtist

Initial project funding by Arts Council England THU

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RECOUNT

LIVE

FIGURE

SPILL OPEN

L AN RE M AL AO LU (U K)

ON SCREEN

Figure is an experimental dance film about boys growing up without fathers.

It explores how early detachment from a father figure affects emotional growth and engagement with the world.

Lanre is a choreographer, movement director and performance maker based in London, UK.

Lanre’s choreographic work merges hip‑hop & contemporary dance with physical theatre to create work which aims to enhance and challenge our social and political worldviews.

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Fri 26 – Sun 4 (not Mon 29) 11:00 – 17:00 5 mins, repeated on a loop

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Ipswich Art Gallery Part of £10 IAG Pass.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Kathryn Wheeler, Happiful Magazine

Director & Choreographer: Lanre Malaolu Starring: Nnabiko Ejimofor, Lanre Malaolu Producer: Lorna Nickson Brown + Lanre Malaolu Cinematography: Monika Jastrzebska Music: Mau Loseto THU

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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

Figure film still

“ Incredibly powerful and beautifully choreographed.”

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In 2016, he was the chosen choreographer for the inaugural Old Vic 12; a talent group supported by the Old Vic Theatre comprised of the most exciting emerging artists in the UK.

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Through a dynamic fusion of physical theatre and hip‑hop dance, the film follows two young men as they search for answers both outside and inside of themselves.

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LIBBY N O R M AN (U K) Breaking up with JK Rowling can be done in several ways.

Ways of breaking up include: extending her/ your traces; eating her/your words; salivating her/your nostalgia; moulding and throwing herself/yourself to the wind.

Libby Norman is a performance artist, writer and fangirl based between London and Exeter.

Libby has an MA in Poetic Practice, and creates work exploring the performance of fandom as a social, artistic and academic practice.

She is a founding member of collective ‘@ some point’, who have produced ‘Unlearning’ events in London and Berlin. This year she was a guest live‑writer for Critical Interruptions, a live art criticism collective, at Steakhouse Live.

Fri 26 – Sun 4 (not Mon 29) 11:00 – 17:00 Performances: Fri 26 15:00 Sat 27 13:00 + 16:00 Fri 2 16:00 Sat 3 13:00 + 16:00 Photo by Libby Norman

VISUAL ART

Join a fangirl as she reconstructs JK Rowling’s wizarding works to find fannish and participatory modes of denouncement, adaptation, and healing.

Would you like to talk about it?

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BREAKING UP WITH J.K. ROWLING

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Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

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CITY SQUARE

SPILL OPEN

WAN G YU E (CH INA) This film explores and chronicles the changing occupiers and modes of life in a city square of Guiyang, China across a span of 14 months.

ON SCREEN S O U N D + M U S I C HERITAGE + PLACE

Born in Guizhou, China, Wang Yue works in visual disciplines including film, photography and print. Her interest lies in places and acoustics, the nature of consciousness, and politics of the everyday.

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Fri 26 – Sun 4 (not Mon 29) 11:00 – 17:00

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50 mins Ipswich Art Gallery Part of £10 IAG Pass.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

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City Square film still

 wangyue.info Directing, DoP, Sound Recording, Editing: Wang Yue Sound Editing and Mixing: Michael Picknett THU

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M EGAN CL ARK E (U K) INTERNAL journeys into the microscopic world of the human body, a multi‑sensory experience through a landscape of textile sculptures.

Explore the human form from the inside out as you enter this intimate installation that aims to remind you of the beauty of the body, the regeneration and degeneration of our internal systems and our body and mind connections.

This live durational performance installation invites the audience to journey through the space and consider the constancy of their internal systems in everyday existence.

Megan graduated from Brighton University in 2015 with a BA (Hons) in Performance and Visual Art (Theatre).

Her practice arose from research into multidiscipline creative learning, discussing the work of movement practitioners and cognitive neuroscientists. She continues to examine an interdisciplinary collaboration that can enhance our education system.

Fri 26 – Sun 4 (not Mon 29) 11:00 – 17:00 Performances: Sat 27 12:00 – 15:00 Fri 2 11:00 – 14:00 Sat 3 14:00 – 17:00 Durational Photo by Megan Clarke

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INTERNAL

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Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.   __meganclark_ THU

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SOLD AS SEEN

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H ESTER CH ILLIN GWO RTH (U K)

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Various locations around Ipswich

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Free  hesterchillingworth.com   hesterchill 25

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Photo by Hester Chillingworth

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Hester Chillingworth makes work which often plays with language, simplicity and interpretation. Hester’s work has been commissioned by CUT Festival, Marlborough Theatre, Cambridge Junction, Firstsite Gallery (Colchester) and Rogues Galleries (Chester).

Hester is Creative Producer (Participation) for Forced Entertainment and Thinker‑in‑Residence on Live Art, Young People and Gender at the Live Art Development Agency. Hester is the Artistic Director of GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN performance company.

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Sold As Seen is a quiet intervention into public space – passers‑by may notice the word games, skewing the meaning and reach of the everyday high‑street codes, or they may be so used to these signs of manic desolation that the posters blend in and disappear. Sale on, buy.

O N S C R EEN

This poster series plays tricks with the language of blow‑out shop sales and the violent emotional implications of the word “reduced”.

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“Daringly inventive.”

M A MO RU IRIGU CHI (U K)

The Stage ★★★★

What if your food started talking back?

Meet Lionel the lion. He’s just eaten a human called Mamoru for lunch. But Lionel hasn’t chewed his food well. So Mamoru’s alive and well in his stomach, and now wants to say hello. A strange friendship between the eater and the eaten starts to grow. Meanwhile, Lionel’s breakfast wants to say hello … from his bottom! Eaten invites children to the fascinating world of food chains and digestion.

Mamoru is an award‑winning Edinburgh‑based performance maker and theatre designer with a background in zoology.

His performance work includes SEXXES (The Marlborough Theatre commission), Eaten (nominated for CATS awards), and 4D Cinema (Autopsy Award/Chelsea

Fri 26 12:00 + 15:00 BSL Interpreted Performance at 15:00 SPILL Central £5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.  Lionel_McLion  @Mamoru_Iriguchi #Eaten  iriguchi.co.uk

Photo by Manuel Vason

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EATEN

Supported by Creative Scotland, Imaginate, Dance Base, Lyra, The Place, Southbank Centre.

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A CON T E M POR A RY BOU T IQ U E HO T E L SE T ON T H E ST U N N I NG I P S W IC H WAT E R F RON T

Salthouse Harbour Hotel Neptune Quay, Ipswich IP4 1AX Tel: 01473 226789 www.salthouseharbour.co.uk PB

FO RCED ENTERTAIN M ENT (U K)

DAY 1 18:00

The Merchant of Venice

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Loves Labour’s Lost

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Antony and Cleopatra

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One by one, over nine days, Forced Entertainment perform every Shakespeare play ever written.

This series of 36 intimate and lovingly made miniatures are played out on a one metre table‑top using a collection of un‑extraordinary everyday objects.

In Complete Works the dynamic force of narrative is explored in a simple and idiosyncratic summary of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, histories and late plays, creating worlds as vivid as they are strange.

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Coriolanus

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King John

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As You Like It

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The Taming of the Shrew

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Richard II

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Much Ado About Nothing

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Forced Entertainment are a group of six artists who have been making performance since 1984 – questioning, pushing and breaking theatre to see what can be built from the wreckage. Based in Sheffield, UK, their work has been seen all over the world.

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(Sun 28 Oct)

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Macbeth

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Henry IV Part 1

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Measure for Measure

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All’s Well That Ends Well

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Timon of Athens

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Hamlet

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Henry IV Part 2

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

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King Lear

Council Chamber, Town Hall

DAY 5

£5. Triple Bill £10.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

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Pericles

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Henry V

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Twelfth Night

 forcedentertainment.com  @ForcedEnts  @forcedentertainment

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Henry VI Part 1

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Titus Andronicus

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COMPLETE WORKS: TABLE TOP SHAKESPEARE

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THE STAGE

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“A reminder that one person – armed with a story and some bric‑a‑brac – can create colossal worlds.”

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DAY 9

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The Comedy of Errors

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Julius Caesar

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Henry VI Part 2

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Richard III

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Cymbeline

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Othello

Romeo and Juliet

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Troilus and Cressida

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Henry VI Part 3

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The Tempest

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The Winter’s Tale

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DAVID H OYLE (U K) Diamond is a bitter sweet journey into LGBT liberation from 1957 to current day events through the thrilling biography of David Hoyle. Weaving together intimate personal experience and public events, Diamond charts David’s rise from gay adolescent in Blackpool to famous Channel 4 Anti‑drag queer cult phenomenon.

Reclaiming historical moments and reflecting on the lives of prominent gay figures such as Alan Turing, and more recent LGBT political activists, Diamond revisits this challenging history and on‑going struggle for equality.

David Hoyle took live and television audiences into strange and unsettling new regions of fun as ‘anti‑drag queen’ the Divine David in the 1990s. After a postmillennium hiatus, he returned to the stage under his own name, typically delivering electrifying multimedia shows that blend acerbic wit, queer politics, avant‑garde style and old‑school stagecraft.

As well as regular runs at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Hoyle has performed at Soho Theatre, The Southbank Centre, Sydney Opera House, Battersea Arts Centre, Tate Modern, Chelsea Theatre and the National Portrait Gallery.

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“Gloriously bad taste, extremely funny and properly unique.”

Fri 26 19:30

Guardian ★★★★

75 mins

Photo by Holly Revell

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An unforgiving piece of avant‑garde theatre, Diamond navigates the transformation of gay counter‑cultures, queer gender and sexuality, and British social attitudes, and will appeal to all with liberation in their heart.

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DIA MOND

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M ARTIN G REEN AN D LEPUS PRO D U CTI O NS (FR AN CE, U K, USA) Before Martin Green knew what sex was, and before he knew that cuckoos don’t build nests, he knew the song the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Whilst looking at various bits of folk song recently, a version of this song appeared in his YouTube sidebar. He stuck it on out of nostalgia and one of the comments below was “we shouldn’t be singing these songs any more”. And thus started a trail of thought about folk song, sex and the rather disturbing nature of the cuckoo.

Martin is a musician and composer, best known as accordionist in the award winning folk trio Lau (Best Group, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, four times). He won a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in 2014. His music commissions have included ‘Albatross’ at Glastonbury Festival’s Theatre Field 2004, Crows’ Bones for Opera North 2012/13 and Seiche for the Kronos Quartet 2016. His own project, Flit, was commissioned by the Barbican and Edinburgh International Festival and was seen by 7,800 people across the UK and in Australia in 2016.

Combining folk music, dance, song and film animation the initial experiments on the Cuckoo project have been thrilling, daring and sometimes hair‑raising. Now, as the next stage in the journey, Into The Cuckoo’s Nest will further develop across SPILL 2018.

Fri 26 is a live gig featuring very special guest performers, and Sun 28 – Tue 30 will comprise of a series of drop-in sessions. As a piece that relies on audience interaction, though debate, and communal ritual, this is a prime opportunity to help develop a show with the artists.

Fri 26 21:00 (live gig) Sun 28 18:00 (drop‑in session) Mon 29 21:00 (drop‑in session) Tue 30 21:00 (drop‑in session) 90 mins Photo by Martin Green

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INTO THE CUCKOO’S NEST

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Christchurch Park (Soane Street entrance)

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SHARED SALIVA (U K) They make work together, about each other, their relationship and navigating queerness.

A love letter, a discovering, a working out.

Are we on the same page? Can I touch you?

How? Where? OMG what is going on! Are you okay? Ow that hurts! Part contact improvisation dance performance, part shag, part confession, part spectacle. Expect matching outfits, tears, tantrums, trans face and tender loving care.

SHARED SALIVA is a performance collective made up of performers and real life couple Tallulah and Elijah, femme daddy and trans sissy. Together they skulk around the place, negotiating the strange situations and emotional landscapes of queer sex and relationships.

SHARED SALIVA have performed at a wide range of events, including Bar Woteva, Shuffle Festival, Baroness Magazine Launch and Primordia — Queer Performance Lab.

Fri 26 + Sat 27 23:00 90 mins SPILL Central

Photo by Shared Saliva

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RITUALS IN ROM ANCE

£10 double bill with Amerah Saleh.

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STILL SOLOS

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M IK E CHALLIS (U K)

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Mike Challis is a freelance sound artist, maker and educator. His work often engages with the sounds of nature. His SoundHide for SPILL 2016 created a den in a straw lined hut where the audience could relax and listen to the sounds of nature from Ipswich’s green spaces.

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Attendees will be silently guided to a spot in the park and invited to stay still in that spot for 30 minutes. Dressing up warm essential.

Cardboard sitting mats will be provided; feel free to bring more comfortable seating if you wish.

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Going out into the parks silently and sensing nature is not something that most people do.

We tend to go out for a walk with friends and talk as we walk. On this experience you will be encouraged to collectively sit still in nature and not even move. If you stay still then hopefully the animals and birds around you will ignore you and start to go about their business.

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Early morning Still Solos encourage people to sit quietly in the green areas of Ipswich parks and experience nature all around.

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Sat 27 06:30 Holywells Park (Cliff Lane entrance) Sat 3 06:00 Christchurch Park (Bolton Lane entrance)

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Photo by Mike Challis

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G IOVAN NA M ARIA CASE T TA (U K) Earth Work is an exploration of the private rituals that the artist has devised to see her through the dark times, connecting the disconnect, attempting to stay grounded in a world which appears timeless, distant, surreal, fleeting and overwhelming.

The ritual involves working with earth, three actions that portray an urgency to be connected and reconnected in order to keep the psyche and caporal whole. The ritual is repeated over and over again until the point of exhaustion.Then and only then can a feeling of peace and calm can be restored.

Earth Work was originally conceived and performed for camera working as a guest artist with Pacitti Company on the film installation Moving Mountains 2015.

Giovanna Maria Casetta is an Ipswich based artist and educator whose practice spans twenty years working in performance, 8mm film and installation. A constant theme running through her practice is the tension between the surface and what lies beneath. The fragility of the physical and psychological self and how our identity is compromised through societies unrealistic expectations of what we should be.

Sat 27 11:00 – 19:00

Photo by Pacitti Company

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EARTH WORK

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Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

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SHARED FRA MEWORKS

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PACIT TI COM PANY (U K)

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Talking about dying can be difficult, especially if the subject of that conversation is our own mortality or that of our loved ones.

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Shared Frameworks is a life‑sized photograph of a human skeleton, turned in to a large scale public jigsaw puzzle.

It has been designed to offer space for contemplation and relaxed exchanges around our end‑of‑life choices and care.

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Shared Frameworks is the first public work coming from The Art + Science of Living + Dying, a Pacitti Company rolling research strand exploring living, dying, language, place and memory. It is made by visual artist and curator Robert Pacitti and landscape historian and Think Tank Associate Lucy Walker, with skeleton photography by Susan Elaine Jones.

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Sat 27, Tue 30, Wed 31, Thu 1, Sat 3 11:00 – 17:00

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Ipswich Art Gallery

 pacitticompany.com Part of The Art + Science of Living + Dying, a Pacitti Company Think Tank strand investigating death and dying.

Supported by St. Elizabeth Hospice.

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Photo by Susan Elaine Jones

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CL AU D IA PAL A Z ZO (U K) gone to the dogs (that ain’t gold) is a performance event that places itself within discourses of feminism, terror and displacement. Using dance, bass lines and film this 50 minute performance embodies the tensions between desire, violence and freedom in an urban environment.

Claudia Palazzo is an artist and dancer working across and at the intersections of dance, performance art, alternative cabaret and film using her body as a responsive site to her environment. Her work exists somewhere between the nightclub, gallery and street and focuses on the live experience as a place for highly charged connections.

Claudia is often pre‑occupied with, how to move through, deal with and oppose systems of violence.

Sat 27, Sun 28 15:00 50 mins High Street Exhibition Gallery £5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.  claudiapalazzo.tumblr.com  claudpalazzo  claudiapalazzo Supported by Chisenhale Dance Space, Marlborough Theatre, Performance Space and Arts Council England.

Thanks to: CUNTemporary, Merlyn Silva, Woman SRSLY, Monastero Santa Chiara Clarisse Mola di Bari.

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BY MUSHROOMS This is a performance with no performers, whilst everyone is performing.

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Sat 27, Sun 28, Sat 3, Sun 4 15:00 40 mins Various Sites around Ipswich.

Meet at SPILL Central.

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Photo by Yao Liao

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Born in Taipei, 1983, Yao Liao first studied technical theatre and started off as a designer in the industry. At 28, he moved to London and was inspired by cultural diversity and various artistic expressions. His recent research looks into the prevailing trend in theatre and performance art, questioning the truth behind fabricated meaning that deprives art of authenticity. Based in Berlin, he is now working on different projects, trying his best, to enjoy the art of life.

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By Mushrooms tests the boundaries between the viewer and the viewed. It portrays a surreal image by inviting the public to wear a mushroom mask and listen to a soundscape.

There’s neither a stage nor a rehearsal; this piece walks the audience back into everyday life and celebrates the performativity of being.

No one realises themselves as a performance – unless they are seen with a mushroom head.

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YAO LIAO (TAIWAN)

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ICONS LE GATE AU CH O CO L AT (U K) Opera and lycra‑loving cabaret sensation Le Gateau Chocolat reimagines his hit work ICONS with a live band especially for SPILL. Walking the tightrope between his public and private personas, Le Gateau Chocolat explores the people, the moments, the relationships, the art that have come to shape us and the ideals we aspire to.

Le Gateau Chocolat is an Opera singing British boy with a law degree and a big heart who also likes to dabble in the dark arts of pop, jazz and musical theatre. This internationally renowned cabaret star has performed in Olivier‑nominated and award‑winning shows such as Porgy and Bess and La Soiree, delighted the Queen as part of her Jubilee Flotilla and travelled the globe with his own acclaimed solo productions including Le Gateau Chocolat, I Heart Chocolat, In Drag, Black, and Duckie.

Re‑imagined especially for SPILL Festival, and accompanied by a seven‑piece band for the first time, Gateau unashamedly weaves through an eclectic mix of music; pop, opera, rock; Kate Bush, Whitney, Meatloaf, Pavarotti … investigating his own objects of worship through the songs and music of his personal icons.

Most recently, he has appeared in Rufus Norris + Simon Stephen’s reimagining of Threepenny Opera at the National Theatre, and Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

“His performance will stay with you forever”

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Sat 27 20:00 75 mins

Photo by Eli Schmidt

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Australian Times

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Over the festival, we’ll be showing some of our favourite films in various locations across Ipswich.

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ALPHAVILLE

(1996)

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(1965)

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close‑ups, slow motion, and time‑lapse photography.

It includes bees collecting nectar, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.

A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.

Dir. Claude Nuridsany + Marie Pérennou

99 mins

Dir: Jean‑Luc Godard Sun 28 14:00 £5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Ipswich Film Theatre

Sat 27 18:30 £5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Ipswich Film Theatre 80 mins

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HUM AN FLOW

(20 02)

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

Sun 28 19:00 £5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Ipswich Film Theatre 70 mins

(2017)

Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration.

H ER I TAG E + P L AC E

Dir: Bill Morrison

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DECASIA

Dir: Ai Wei Wei

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Mon 29 19:00 £6.45. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Empire Cinema Ipswich 140 mins

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Most tickets available through New Wolsey Theatre (see page 8).

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Tickets for Ai Wei Wei’s Human Flow available at empirecinemas.co.uk

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A 100 ‑ MILE CONVERSATION

THE WITCH (2015)

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In spring 2013 Nathan Burr and Louis Buckley walked the length of the South Downs Way, starting in Winchester and ending at Beachy Head. Along the way they walked and talked with everyone from farmers and psychologists to therapists and writers to explore the connections between suicide, mental health, myth and landscape. This film documents the chain of conversations that took place over their nine‑day journey.

A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.

Dir: Robert Eggers Wed 31 23:59 £5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Ipswich Film Theatre

Dir: Nathan Burr

92 mins

Wed 31 17:00 £5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Ipswich Film Theatre 60 mins

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(2015)

Join us for this special midnight, Hallowe’en screening of The Witch.

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PL ANTAIN

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MEDITATION, CREATIVITY, PEACE (2012)

(2018)

UK PREMIERE

Dir: David Lynch

Dir: VestAndPage

Thu 1 + Fri 2 17:00

Sun 4 Talk 15:00 Screening 15:30

£5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

£5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Ipswich Film Theatre

Ipswich Film Theatre

71 mins

90 mins

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This premiere will be preceded by a special ‘In Conversation’ with artists VestAndPage.

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‘Meditation, Creativity, Peace; Documentary of a 16 country tour’ is an exhilarating, inspiring round‑up of questions and answers from David Lynch’s European and Middle East tours of 2007 – 2009. During this tour, he met film students, received national awards, launched university projects, and described the extraordinary benefits for creativity and peace to be gained by transcending thought with Transcendental Meditation, introduced to the world by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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Plantain is a performance‑based feature film produced and filmed on location during the month‑long performance walk by artist duo VestAndPage from Northern Germany through Poland to the Russian region of Kaliningrad, in May/June 2015. Taking a private family story and the historical event of post‑WWII displacements as starting points, the film focuses on the issue of the replaced‑displaced‑in‑place body.

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LIVE

THE CIRCUIT

SPILL OPEN

MO I TR AN (VIE TNA M/U K)

HERITAGE + PLACE

Moi Tran is a multimedia artist exploring Performance as Philosophy, working in live performance, text, object‑making, installation and video. Born in North Vietnam, presently living and working in London. A refugee of the Vietnam War, her work investigates the ‘eternal detour of identity’ and the effects of dis/placement and memory in a negotiation of transient, non‑still identity.

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Sun 28 12:00 – 17:00 Durational Ipswich Art Gallery

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Photo by Moi Train

Part of £10 IAG Pass.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.  moitran.com

 __thecircuit

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The track represents continuum whilst walking speaks of commonplace rituals, exploring a process of ‘soft activism’ the women venture forth to contemplate origin, gender, intimacy, visibility and common‑ism. Open and intimate, The Circuit manifests a viewing experience of physical and psychological intensity, encouraging introspection and union of artists and the viewers.

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The Circuit — A Movement Scenario is an improvisational durational movement piece based on the act of walking as performance and thinking, presented by an East Asian female ensemble.

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KERNSCHMEL ZE II EVE LIBERTIN E + CHARLES WEBBER + PEN NY RI M BAU D (U K) This concert, developed by two members of Crass, is the live manifestation of an ongoing series of performances and recordings.

Initiated by Rimbaud, the series pits performers against a visceral composition created and recorded by himself employing only his voice as a sound source. This has led to two collaborations with Webber. The second of these, Kernschmelze II, released to critical acclaim on Cold Spring Records, sees Libertine immersed in a maelstrom of processing, electronics and percussion.

This performance represents a structured improvisation based on this recording.

Eve Libertine, former vocalist with Crass, subsequently works across improvisation and contemporary vocal practice.

“The voice comes straight from the core, that’s why I love it as my instrument.”

Charles Webber, an electronic artist, works across the disciplines of electronic music and experimental film.

Penny Rimbaud is a poet, philosopher, painter, musician and bread maker. He makes particularly good sour‑dough loaves.

Sun 28 20:30

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“… powerful and poetic …

This is an excellent work.”

SPILL Central £10. £15 double bill with English Heretic.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

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ENGLISH HERETIC

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EN GLISH H ERE TI C (U K) English Heretic will present the first live performance of their highly influential album “Temple Of Remembrance”.

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60 mins SPILL Central

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English Heretic is a multimedia project, in operation since 2003. Musically diverse, drawing inspiration from psychedelic folk, ritual, ethnographic recordings, electronica, TV documentaries, field recordings and other mashup genres, English Heretic’s sound moves from the sinister to the absurd with the troubling ease.soap

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First released in 2005, this release paved the way for a resurgence of interest in Folk Horror. A paranoid parallax view of the tragic demise of Suffolk film director Michael Reeves, following his making of Witchfinder General, “Temple of Remembrance” uses field recordings from the imagined gibbets of Kersey to the crematorium at Ipswich in which Reeves' ashes were scattered. Part documentary, part seance the live presentation takes place at the exact location of a real life witch burning in the town square. A final exhumation of English Heretic’s first magickal excursion into dangerous archetypal realities.

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Demetri Martin

THE EARTH WITHOUT ART IS JUST EH Find out more uos.ac.uk

LIVE

TELL ME AGAIN WHY WE DON’T NEED FEMINISM

S P I L L O P EN

GE TO NTH ESOAPBOX (U K)

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SPILL Central

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Photo by Amy Wragg

120 mins

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Part‑time poet and full‑time poetry advocate, Amy SoapBox (aka Amy Wragg) is the founder of getonthesoapbox (est. 2006), an arts collective that runs poetry and music gigs across the East.

Specialising in festivals, Amy is best known for her work on the SoapBox stage at FolkEast and the decor she makes by hand from recycled materials. Passionate about championing the local creative community, and committed to gender parity in her line‑ups, Amy is a committed feminist and poetry producer.

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Featuring Allanah Jo‑Ann Peck, A.N.G, Hazel Thomas, Jess Kemp, and Amy SoapBox, with a special guest ‘token male poet’ on each night.

We will also be hosting a game of Feminist Bingo, with coveted prizes such as equality and tins of soup up for grabs. Join us as we explore in words and verses – once and for all – why we still need Feminism today.

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An evening of raucous spoken word with the region’s newest, angriest and funniest Feminist poetry collective.

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The River Stour Fes val celebrates the river, its culture, communi es and surrounding landscape throughout 2018

www.riverstourfes val.com Check the website for events near you and let it inspire you to explore the river and its valley

LIVE

DROP IN THE OCEAN

S P I L L O P EN

JESS ALLEN (U K)

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Drop in the Ocean is a four‑day walking performance in concentric circles; the ripples around a drop.

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Carrying water with a milkmaid’s yoke, Jess invites you to make a wish, moving a stone from the water in one bucket to the other.

In between, Jess asks you four questions about your memories and sense of water.

Irreverent, quixotic, contemplative, profound: Drop is a simple acknowledgement of water as a deep point of connection to people, place and planet.

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Durational Various locations around Ipswich

T H I N K TA N K

Director, New Leaf Sustainable Development

V I S UA L A RT

Kate Gathercole,

Thu 1 – Sat 3 11:00 – 17:00 Photo by Jess Allen

“Her work is such a great ambassador for value of environmentalism in performance … the opportunity that arises when people find themselves interacting with the unexpected and beautiful.”

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Jess Allen is an eco‑activist performance artist from Aberystwyth. Her work is characterised by conviviality, camaraderie, connection. Typically she combines long‑distance walking art with one‑to‑one performance. But she also uses movement, sound, film, installation, food and crafts.

She is also an aerial performer and teacher.

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JO D EE M U N DY CO LL ABO R ATI O NS (AUSTR ALIA) EUROPE AN PREMIERE Imagined Touch is a sensorium created in collaboration with Deafblind artists Heather Lawson and Michelle Stevens. Exploring their profound experience of living in a world without sight or sound, this is an immersive installation where you will experience tactile communication.

Greeted by tactile sign guides, you will be given headphones and goggles and guided into a large unseen space. With 360‑degree projection, expect to lose your depth of field, feel textures underfoot and meet faceless silhouettes. You will experience the visceral; receiving tactile sign, social haptic communication and touch choreography which is the language and culture of Deafblind people.

Following the premiere at SPILL, Imagined Touch will show at Barbican’s Pit Theatre, Wed 7 – Sun 11 November.

Wed 31 – Fri 2 14:00 – 16:00 + 18:00 – 20:00 Sat 3 12:00 – 16:00

Jodee Mundy Collaborations is an independent creative producing company formed in 2012, in response to the multiple collaborations and partnerships established and continuing to develop with artists, diverse communities, organisations and funders. The company is committed to producing high quality theatre works, public events, installations and artistic interventions, bringing together diverse cross sections of the community who may not regularly encounter one another. The company’s artistic aim is for audiences to witness works that challenge and inspire them to acknowledge the value of live performance and communities, and the ability of art to redefine and skew the notions of inclusiveness.

Timed entry every 30 mins, last entry 30 mins before finish.

30 mins Jerwood DanceHouse £5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.  jodeemundy.com  JodeeMundyCollaborations  JodeeMundy Production supported by the Australian Government through the Ministry of the Arts – Catalyst, Creative Victoria, Besen Foundation, Able Australia, Arts Access Victoria + Auspicious Arts.

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“It’s storytelling that should be compulsory viewing for any humans.”

“… a piece of theatre that moves beyond the comfort of norms into a tactile and powerful production.”

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STEPHANIE JOHNSON, AUSTRALIAN STAGE

LIVE O N S C R EEN

Guayabo is a grief party: a meeting point to recognise together the reality of migration and its hardship, the perseverance and richness of our common losses, as well as our presence in each other’s journeys to grieve and create within the reality we share.

Ania Varez is a Venezuelan artist based in Bristol, UK. She utilises movement and language as tools for social recognition and change. Her practice is blended with her own experience of migration, which she shares for people to access the notions of belonging and othering inside their own lives. She aims to facilitate spaces for people to exercise care, choice and attention, collectively creating new ways of being together and being here.

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Guayabo, which is the Venezuelan slang for “heartbreak”, invites people to gather with kindness and joy around their pain and the pain of others, challenging our ways of acting and caring for one another through geographical distance or cultural differences, as a medium of survival, transformation and belonging.

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U M A M A HA M ID O (LEBAN O N/U K) ‘Yesterday I dreamt I was flying over the streets of Beirut. I was my camera, my body and my eye and all of me was one with the lens … Do you think places get stuck in time when we leave them?’

On Akka’s Shore is a cinematic performance combining film, text, and sound. The piece is concerned with the chaos of memory in relation to personal and collective history and explores themes of dislocation and remembrance.

Living on the border between many places and nowhere, Umama Hamido is a Lebanese artist who is currently in the UK. Through montages of performance, film, sound, and text she addresses experiences of loss, yearning, and remembrance. Her work unearths the ever‑present human threads of resistance within seemingly insurmountable structures of power.

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Wed 31, Thu 1 19:30 45 mins Ipswich Film Theatre

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by Jerwood Charitable Foundation through a Jerwood Visual Arts Bursary.

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J U LIE ROSE BOWER (U K) The Foley Explosion is an immersive storytelling show about Russia; an alternative spy thriller featuring live Foley sound effects.

Looping technology layers sounds to conjure a movie in the mind in this solo show about a year spent in Russia. Features disinformation, fake news and cameos from the intelligence community past and present: Edward Snowden, Grigori Rasputin and Alexander Litvinenko.

Julie Rose Bower is a Lecoq‑trained theatre maker and live artist creating feminist, sound‑led performance and installations.

Recent work includes LGBTQ Heritage Open Days commission Joe Meek – 304 Holloway Road, a storytelling trail of audio installations and building projection onto the site of Joe Meek’s 1960s independent recording studio.

Wed 31, Thu 1 21:00 60 mins SPILL Central £10 double bill with Pink Suits.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Photo by Chloë Wicks

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PIN K SU ITS (U K) political child is pink suits’ first full‑length work exploring fantasy, sexuality and gender identity.

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Wed 31, Thu 1 22:30 60 mins SPILL Central

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pink suits current work is made with support from PanicLab Ltd, Camden Peoples Theatre, Chisenhale Dance Space, Margate Arts Club, Tom Thumb Theatre Margate, Cliffs Café Margate and is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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pink suits are a Poli‑Rock (aggressive/ genderfuck/political rock) duo creating experimental performance. As a band they create political rock music as well as dance, physical theatre and film. Their work explores fantasy, mental health, politics, and activism.

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A late‑onset teen angst rebellion against binary gender expectations. The show contains music from pink suits debut album, to be recorded late 2018, in a performance experiment that blurs the line between live music gig and dance theatre. It is an exploration of the gendered body. A gender‑fuck scream of frustration. They share the space, share clothes and share stories of youthful fantasy.

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NABIL (BAN G L AD ESH/USA) Thahab explores the identity of a Muslim American femme in a post 9/11 diaspora.

Thahab has been utilised live for durational performances, performance for video and photography. She shrouds, moulds, apparates and dissolves into environments using her body, in gold. She considers the contemporary and domestic, affected by notions of bodies, migration, displacement, dissonance and the disorienting experience of being viewed within an orientalist lens. Tensions rise between her and her surroundings, raising the urgent question of what assimilation entails given the current political climate and the rise of Islamophobia.

Nabil is a Chicago‑based Bengali artist and creative organiser working with new media, photography, socially engaged art and performance. They create immersive works that examine elements of our lived experiences as they intersect with identity, politics, and queerness.

Fri 2, Sat 3 Dawn – Dusk Durational Photo by Nabil Vega

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SWEE TS O R SO U R (FR AN CE/U K)

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The Drumming Experience of OneSelf involves one moving body with other physical partners in order to explore the possible varieties of a relationship between the biological and the material.

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Tonny A. is a London‑based French performance artist who makes performances at the boundaries of dance, burlesque, live and video art. His work explores the notions of the body and identity in the context of choreography and instant composition, in relation to his own physicality, ethnicity, sexuality as well as their representation.

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120 minutes Durational Ipswich Art Gallery

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Photo by James Keates

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Shifting from fluid to more sedentary moments, this live performance aims to break the barriers between the power and vulnerability of the body, its flesh and its presence.

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SAUT PR AYU DA (IN D O N ESIA) This durational performance will see the artist interact with audiences and the public.

Saut will perform at various festival locations, where members of the public are invited to decorate his head with colourful roses and fallen twigs.

Each interaction ends with an Indonesian “Thank You” and a gift for the participants.

Saut Prayuda was born in June 20th 1992 in Bekasi. He now lives in Bandung, where he studies Indonesian Literature. He started his performance art experiences in 2012 and has performed at multiple festivals and exhibitions around the world.

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PEO PLE LIK E US (U K) The Mirror is a live audio‑visual performance which splices together movie snippets with unique sample‑based music exploring the masks that we wear represented through the lens, using parallel narratives across the screen to depict an ever‑changing stream, rather than a singular, fixed being, narrative or moment in time.

A feat of research and craft, this new work is a spellbinding inquiry into editing and juxtaposition; a collage one can unthread allowing the viewer to discover hidden stories through familiar images. The soundtrack is performed live, made up from hundreds of preexisting songs, as well as particular sounds from the original film clips.

Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been working across the field of audio‑visual collage, and is recognised as an influential and pioneering figure in the still growing area of sampling, appropriation and cutting up of found footage and archives.

Fri 2 19:00 + 20:00 35 mins Ipswich Film Theatre

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THE MIRROR

£10. £15 double bill with Carter Tutti.

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CARTER TUT TI (U K) A new Carter Tutti live audio visual performance presented ‘in the round’, utilising four audio channels accompanied by synchronised video projections.

This form of presentation facilitates and enhances the individual experience and perception of the temporal continuum of music and the moving image. The duration of the piece will be one hour measured in Sidereal time – 56 minutes 4 seconds.

Renowned solo artists Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti also perform together under various guises – most notably in seminal Industrial band Throbbing Gristle, as Chris + Cosey, and more recently as Carter Tutti and Carter Tutti Void. Acknowledged as some of the first musicians to successfully fuse experimental electronics and acoustic instrumentation.

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“ They have synthesised their way to a kind of private liquid heaven, chiselling music into impossible shapes that float in the air between you and your speakers.”

LUKE TURNER THE QUIETUS

“Operating at the highest possible level.

Outer Space, in fact.”

TELEPL ASM ISTE (U K) ‘The Wishing Machine’ by Teleplasmiste is a mesmerising electronic meditation exploring audio and sub‑audible frequencies that can induce potent emotional and physiological states.

THE WIRE

The performance incorporates powerful synthesisers, acoustic woodwind and percussion instruments and hypnotic video to transport those who experience it to strange new worlds.

Teleplasmiste are Mark O. Pilkington, whose work has extended from publishing counterculture literature as Strange Attractor Press to summoning electronic drone reveries with Raagnagrok and Urthona, and Michael J. York, who brought his wide knowledge of traditional wind instruments to bear in bands that include Coil, Cyclobe, Guapo and The Stargazer’s Assistant.

The duo blur vintage synthesis and contemporary electronics with acoustic pipes to create a transcendent reverie that exists on a wavelength beyond both retro fetishism and modern‑day machinations.

Fri 2 22:30 60 mins Photo by Teleplasmiste

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STILL LIFE blurry image of a person? vase of flowers on a table? person wearing a colourful blanket? do you see?

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Hamish MacPherson is a London‑based choreographer. He uses performances, workshops, larps, games and other things to create environments for people to think, learn and be together. These structures are often decentralised and self‑organising, combining physical activity and conversation. They deal with passive exchanges and weak, barely‑there activity that is on the verge of disappearing.

S O U N D + M U S I C

During this six hour durational performance, audiences are invited to enter the space every 30 minutes and stay for up to an hour.

Each group will see a unique moment of the performance, with no two parts the same.

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Is it a Is it a Is it a What

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HA M ISH M ACPH ERSO N (U K)

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Sat 3 12:00 – 18:00 Durational (entry every 30 mins)

£5. Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

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TH E RO U G H BAN D (U K) Burn your woes and clear space for winter.

On the opening night of SPILL Festival, a Pyre Parade effigy will be revealed at Ipswich Waterfront before being placed in La Tour Cycle Café. For 10 days you will be able to take a private moment and write down bad news, before posting it inside the effigy.

Bad debts, health worries, a sour relationship, or colouring in where you went over the edges – whatever the badness, feed the beast.

Then join us as we gather at 17:00 on Saturday 3 November, to march the effigy noisily from Ipswich Waterfront to Christchurch Park (Fonnereau Road entrance) , accompanied by mystical performers and a marching band, before we engulf the effigy in flames. Burning up the night sky and opening space for a better future.

Local lads Mark Offord and Robert Pacitti have started The Rough Band, but anyone can be a member. Simply turn up with something loud to bang, such as wooden spoons on saucepan lids, and be prepared to hush as we move respectfully through Silent Street.

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PH ILIP BEDWELL (U K) Using lace, body, blood, coal and ashes, this performance seeks to reveal the fragile nature of self. It questions how time changes us and how our perceptions of self change too.

In this performance Philip seeks to show how we all find our identity and how he finds his place in masculine spaces.

Philip is a London based live artist with a background in martial arts, physical fitness and performed as a professional wrestler for 22 years across Europe. Towards the end of his wrestling career he transitioned into live art as he found some of the performance similarities intriguing, such as displaying the body in poses to draw emotion from an audience.

Bedwell discovered that live art could lend an authenticity to his work which couldn’t surface through the theatricality of wrestling.

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Sat 3 21:00 (double bill) 20 mins Ipswich Art Gallery £10 double bill with Lady Helena Vortex.

Part of £10 IAG Pass.

Part of SPILL Passes, see page 8.

Photo by Philip Bedwell

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“I’m trying so hard to please myself I’m turning into someone else.”

A masked face symbolises being liberated from attachment to a limited body.

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Lady Helena Vortex is a street‑walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm. Psychopomp goddess and performer, her practice invests in ideas of risk, dynamics of living, thinking, feeling, dreaming, distinguishing and identifying. Her personal mythology boldly exposed as she subverts traditions of representation, power and sex.

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Frustrations are unleashed between her thighs, messy, chaotic and random.

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Sitting in a darkened hotel room, alone, a performer enters a rampant lust‑fuelled hormone‑induced altered state, looping back to lost teenage years. The phone rings constantly, will you answer it and be complicit in the performer’s desire?

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WE’RE ALL ABO UT THE G O O D TI M ES We’ve burnt our bad news, seen some blood and now we want to party.

Now a SPILL tradition, at the SPILL Party you can expect DJs, dancing, surprises and this year, Gaika at the helm. Join us at SPILL Central for a hair‑down, hoe‑down, shake it out bonanza.

GAIKA isn’t the type to be boxed in. Since Machine, his debut mixtape appeared in 2015, critics have struggled to stick a tidy name onto his music and art. His darkly magnetic sound evolved through follow–up mixtape Security and EPs SPAGHET TO and The Spectacular Empire on Warp Records, building expectations for what is to come in 2018.

GAIKA shape‑shifts across not only musical markers but disciplines. He settles on the term ‘ghetto‑futurism’ to encompass what he does. It’s easier than waiting for the latest “ dancehall–meets–rave” label and allows him to build on afro‑futurism to make art steeped in blackness that “ harks back. It’s like the ghost in the machine. If you listen to grime, trap, dancehall, hip‑hop, reggae, there’s this glory in the face of death, a celebration of the impermanence of life.” That kernel of emotion, played out by artists using the latest technology to self–produce, underpins ghetto–futurism.

“Ghetto’ isn’t just to do with black people,” he says, “ but it’s all the people who live under the boot, the 99%, and how we end up reveling in what other people deem the shadow.”

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VIVIAN CHINASA EZU GHA (N I G ERIA/U K) Uro‑ (clay) Uro is about the weight of depression > (rebirth, awakening from sleep) In this durational performance, the artist interacts with clay and water on her body and canvas. The weight of the clay becomes a force that she works with and against over the six hours of the performance. Sitting on the body as a weighty, damp material, it becomes a solid foundation and morphs the body.

Vivian Chinasa Ezugha is a Nigerian interdisciplinary artist working and living in the UK. Vivian graduated from Aberystwyth University School of Art, in 2014, Ezugha’s work has been presented at venues across Europe, America and the UK; to include In Between Time Festival as part of the New Bloods Commission, funded by Arts Council England.

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After 11 days filled with incredible events, there’s only one thing left to do: party.

Join us at this final event of SPILL 2018 to say thank you to the incredible group of artists, crew and volunteers who have helped make this festival happen, whilst enjoying a pint of our SPILL Festival beer, Zombie.

There’ll be DJs and live music from Duduetsa, so get ready to dance.

Duduetsa is an African marimba group based in the United Kingdom, presenting upbeat folk music from Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana, as well as contemporary covers from the region. The group’s set up typically includes soprano and baritone marimba, with drums and vocals, and songs sung in several southern African languages including Chishona, Isindebele, Setswana and Isixhosa.

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Emilio Rojas (MFA 2017), Manual to be (to kill) or to forgive my own father, 2015–ongoing

MFA

PERFORMANCE

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SPILL TEAM

Participation Producer Alice Sandon

Development + Communications Assistant Kate Wilson

Executive Director Andy Brumwell

Senior Producer (Maternity Leave) Kate Bradshaw

SPILL Technical Director Bernd Fauler

Senior Producer (Maternity Cover) Lauren Church

SPILL International Intern Bron Belcher

On Screen Advisor Mafe Valen

Marketing Manager James Gorry

Music Advisor Mark Offord

Development Consultant Justin Hopper

Administration Assistant Martha Loader

PR Manager Jo Leverett

SPILL OPEN Project Manager Rhiannon Wilkins

General Manager Jodie Worton

Artistic Director & Curator Robert Pacitti

SPILL TV Ana Godinho de Matos Chameleoneye Films SPILL Photography Guido Mencari Christa Holka Design Come Hither Design Print The Five Castles Press

Pacitti Company Trustees Gill Graham Hugh Whittall Martel Ollerenshaw Robyn Durie Season Butler Shabnam Shabazi Yannick Marzin Think Tank Associates Lucy Walker Martin Jones Shabnam Shabazi

SPILL Festival is produced in‑house as an initiative of Pacitti Company 94

SPILL OPEN Panel Jon Opie (Jerwood Charitable Foundation) Lauren Church (Pacitti Company) Liana Psarologaki (University of Suffolk) Robert Pacitti (Pacitti Company) Season Butler (Artist) Shabnam Shabazi (Artist) Umama Hamido (Artist) Vivian Chinasa Ezugha (Artist)

GET TING TO IPSWICH

BY TRAIN Ipswich train station is located 5 minutes from the town centre.

Greater Anglia trains run from London Liverpool Street every 30 minutes during the day.

Journey time 64 minutes to 90 minutes.

Trains to and from Cambridge every hour.

Journey time 85 minutes.

NORWICH

There are also trains to and from Norwich every 30 minutes. Journey time 40 minutes.

BY ROAD From London via A12 northbound From Suffolk Coast via A12 southbound

CA M BRIDGE

From Felixstowe via A14 westbound

IPSWICH

From the Midlands via A14 / A1(M) From the North of England via A14 eastbound

CHEL MSFORD

From Norwich via A140

PARKING There are ample car parks within the Ipswich town centre and these are sign posted. Long and short stay available.

LONDON

See inside back cover 99 for the festival map.

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SPILL THANKS Pacitti Company sincerely thanks the following organisations and the teams that staff them for their generous support, without which SPILL Festival of Performance would not be possible: FUNDERS

CO‑COMMISSIONING PARTNER

SPONSOR

PARTNERS

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MEDIA PARTNER

Plus special thanks to these organisations for their support in the following projects: CLARION CALL

IMAGINED TOUCH

We also send sincere thanks to the following people and organisations for their valued contributions to SPILL Festival: 14 –18 NOW, Adam Keer, Aidan Coughlan, Alice Boff, Alexis Stevens, All About Ipswich, Amy Wragg, Andrew Stock, Angie Smith, Anna Matthews, Audrey Ludwig, the Barbican, Ben Lewry, Bill Seaman, Brendan Keaney, Bryony Rudkin, Caroline Smith, Cathy Frost, Copleston High School, Damian Etherington, Dance East, Dark Mofo, Dave Gregory, David Ellesmere, Dee Hopkins, Diana Damian Martin, EDRM, Ellie DeGory, Emily Sullivan, Emma Dunton, Fi Mason, Graham Hornsby, The Greyhound, Helen Dawson, Helen Marriage, Helen Pluck, Ipswich Borough Council, Ipswich Film Theatre Trust, Ipswich Museum, Ipswich Town & Waterfront, Jack Ingham, Jane Riley, Jane Watt, James Fairclough, James Steward, Jayne Knight, Jeni Draper, Jenny Waldman, Jeremy Smith, Jim Brown, John Burn, Jon Opie, Jude Gun, Kate Gould, Kate Harvey, Kirstie Thorpe, La Tour Cycle Café, Leanne Cosby, Lenny Newcombe, Liana Psarologaki, Lilli Geissendorfer, Linda Pipe, Lousie Hartwell, Lynette Domoney, Mafe Valen, Mark Hunter, Mark Offord, Martin Pike, Mark Whiting, Michelle Emmerson‑Grey, Michelle Patrick, MIND, Nathaniel Coughlan, Nigel Hinds, New Wolsey Theatre, Pak Ling Wan, Paul Ager, Penta Hotel Ipswich, Peter Ling, Photo East, Rebekah Jones, Ria Hartley, Rich Yates, Richard Lister, Richard MacRae, Robert Gough, Robert Lewis‑Pyke, Russell Williams, Sammi Wong, Sarah DeMelo, Sarah Holmes, Saskia Stent, Selina Ocean, Sophie Travers, SSAFA, Steven Allman, Susan Elaine Jones, Terry Hunt, Tim Greenacre, Titans Security, Toni Racklin, Tony Chibnall, Tony Street, University of Suffolk, and We Are Ipswich.

Thanks to every artist and company that took time to apply for the SPILL OPEN from around the world, and all contributors to the SPILL Reader. Thanks too to our anonymous donors.

SPILL would not be possible without all the amazing artists and community participants presenting work, the hard graft of the technical crew, our venue partners, all the folk that make it happen behind the scenes and remain unseen, and the very generous time given by many volunteers. We sincerely thank each of them.

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