SPILL

Festival Launch

Join us for speeches, music and performances as we raise a glass to celebrate the start of SPILL Festival 2023. This is a chance to get together as the festival begins, to meet the artists and hear more about what’s to come.

Cabaret entertainment will be provided by Sergina, the drag persona of Felixstowe favourite Elly Clarke. You will also be witness to artist Tom Woolner’s strange public dentistry. Ipswich DJs the Ill Na Nas will provide tunes for moving and grooving as SPILL Festival begins.

SPILL VIRAL ISABELLA GRIECO, ALIREZA JAFARI, AYSAN JAFARI, LEO VANMEGAN + THOMAS WATSON

SPILL Viral is a project by local young artists and filmmakers, aged 18-25. Working as a collective over summer and autumn, they show us how our online content can be art.

Participants have created videos, images, sound and other kinds of digital art to reflect their concerns with the world. Keep an eye out in venues and on our social media feeds for some very special SPILL Viral content!

Thanks to our SPILL Viral workshop leaders: Elly Clarke, Robin Deacon, Richard DeDomenici, Kate Flurrie, Louise Orwin and Manuel Vason.

Fri 13 - Sun 22 Oct spillfestival.com/viral

Fri 13 Oct 18:00

FREE (booking essential) spillfestival.com

SPILL Hub @ St Stephen’s Church

MEGA BUNNY + FRIENDS BRUCE ASBESTOS

Leaping from the imagination of artist Bruce Asbestos, Mega Bunny and friends Egg Cat and Octopus will be taking over Ipswich this October. Colourful and playful, these giant inflatable sculptures will either win your heart or steal your crisps… we’re not sure which!

Bruce’s work draws from a rich history of painting, sculpture, popular culture, folklore and fairy tales. He frequently mixes everyday objects with high art, fashion, social media, video games and global pop culture.

Visit Mega Bunny + Friends on the Cornhill throughout SPILL 2023, or get to know them on a guided tour led by the artist. You can also visit miniature monsters designed by Ipswich schoolchildren at our SPILL Hub.

DJ NIKNAK + GIRLS WHERE YOU AT?

Described as a ‘musical polymath’ by Clash Magazine, NikNak is a DJ, multi-disciplinary artist and music creative.

NikNak has shared the stage with the likes of Mr Scruff, Lefto Early Bird, Jamz Supanova, Grandmaster Flash and many other notable artists. Recognised as one of DJMag’s ‘Ones to Watch’ in 2022, each NikNak set is expansive, unique, ambitious, genre-defying, and serves as a testament to her sponge-like musical knowledge.

She will join us for a special set alongside young DJs from Girls Where You At, a Future Female Society programme for 11-19 year old girls that builds confidence and aspiration through radio, music, video production, performance and more.

Sat 14 Oct 21:00 (doors 20:30) SPILL Hub @ St Stephen’s Church

£6 niknakdjmusic.uk

WOMAN2WOMAN RADIO: LIVE!

Future Female Society

Woman2Woman Radio is run by Future Female Society with migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women. They have the opportunity to share their voices and stories, while the radio format nurtures a sense of freedom, both of expression and within the women themselves. It’s not just a project, it’s a family.

As part of the SPILL Community Takeover, Woman2Woman Radio will be transplanted into the SPILL Hub bringing a celebratory afternoon of live conversation, poetry and readings that share stories of migration, identity and building community. SPILL

Sat 14 Oct 12:00 - 17:00 FREE futurefemalesociety.org

Hub @ St Stephen’s Church

Running throughout the afternoon

2 hours