InTRANSIT 2010 19 July - 1 August
The InTRANSIT festival is an exciting, fresh
and contemporary series of newly commissioned arts events, which
will transform the streets, parks and public places of Kensington
and Chelsea into a riotous feast of culture. A series of events,
linked by the theme of ‘movement’, will re-imagine and animate city
life for two weeks in July and August.
Programmed by the Royal
Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Arts Service in partnership with
the cream of London’s arts organisations - including the Gate
Theatre, Serpentine Gallery, and Victoria and Albert Museum -
InTRANSIT offers residents and visitors to the borough a chance to
experience first-class promenade theatre, artistic interventions,
opera, artist-led walks and dance performances - all in the open
air and beautiful surroundings of Kensington and Chelsea.
Join us as we explore, celebrate and discover
the secret spaces of Kensington and Chelsea. Let us take you on a
journey…..
View
the full programme of activities and details on how to
book.
Book tickets for A Model Village, Monkey and Bear, Madness in Gray,
Bicycle Thieves and The Musical Walk here.
Book tickets for Susurrus and The
Knowlege Emporium here.
Or alternatively, scroll down this
page for an overview of each of the exciting events and activities
that make up InTRANSIT 2010...
• Susurrus – The Gate Theatre/ David Leddy
Mon 19 July – Sun 1 August, 10am – 6pm / Tickets £8 / Holland Park
Gardens
Part radio play, part avant-garde sonic arts, and part stroll in
the park, David Leddy’s site-specific performance was the sell-out
hit of last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is re-designed for
Holland Park Gardens.
• A Pleasure Garden for Birds – London Fieldworks
Mon 19 July – Sun 1 August / Free / Cremorne Gardens
Pleasure Gardens for Birds, part of the Secret Garden Project
produced by UP Projects, is an ambitious art installation drawing
on the biodiversity, architecture and history of Cremorne Gardens.
Writer Sarah Butler will present a story walk as part of the
installation on Tuesday 27 July.
• Artist-led walks – Serpentine Gallery
Mon 19 July – Sun 1 August / Free / Serpentine Gallery
Explore Kensington Gardens with a unique audio walk from artists
and architects commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery to celebrate
their 40th anniversary year.
• The Musical Walk – Opera Holland Park
Mon 19 July, 3pm – 4.30pm / Tickets £2 / Opera Holland Park
Discover the secrets behind some of Kensington’s most eminent
former residents, including composers Benjamin Britten and Sir
Hubert Parry, accompanied by a quartet of Opera Holland Park’s
finest singers.
• Monkey and Bear – Gilt & Grime in collaboration with
Darkvast
Sat 24 July at 5pm & 7pm / Tickets £3 / Meeting point High
Street Kensington Tube
Life-size puppets will run and dance to live music played by a
16-piece brass band through the streets of Kensington in this
spectacular promenade performance by the borough’s own theatre
company, Gilt & Grime.
• A Model Village – Liane Lang
Sat 24 & Sun 25 July, 1pm – 4.30pm / Free / Linley Sambourne
House
Discover Linley Sambourne’s terraced house, Lord Leighton’s back
garden and the houses of the borough’s many other now almost
forgotten artists.
• Madness in Gray - Brooke Lynn McGowan
Sun 25 July & Sun 1 August, 11.45am – 2pm /Tickets £2 /
Entrance to Chelsea Physic Garden
Hubris, art, and madness: exploring the histories of Whistler,
Wilde, and Rossetti. This is a site specific theatre production,
with writer, curator, and performer Brooke Lynn McGowan, in
collaboration with director Jens Peters. It culminates in a
discussion of the heritage of art practice in Chelsea with the
acclaimed sculptor and descendent of Oscar Wilde, Julian Wild. The
walk is part of Once Upon a Time in the West, a Cultural Olympiad
2012 project.
• Move Me, The Living Junk Project – Directed by Jason
Pennycoat
Friday 30 July, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm/ Free / Portobello Road
Portobello Road will provide the stage for this innovative
promenade of drumming, theatre and music using junk on the street.
The audience is invited to join a comedy duet, including STOMP
dancer Louis Labovitch, looking at a couple’s relationship while
they journey through their day.
• The Knowledge Emporium - The Gate Theatre/Slunglow
Shop: Mon 19 July – Sun 1 August
Performances: Fri 30 July, Sat 31 July & Sun 1 August at 7pm /
Tickets £5 /
The Gate Theatre
We all know one thing that no-one else knows. Join the trail
through the streets of Notting Hill to discover The Knowledge
Emporium – a mysterious sweet shop collecting the community’s
knowledge to add to the ‘Big Book of Everything That We
Know’.
• Bicycle Thieves – Pip Productions
Sat 31 July & Sun 1 August at 2.30pm & 5pm/ Tickets £4 /
Meanwhile Gardens
Grab a bike and join in with a thrilling BMX chase around the
streets of North Kensington for a unique performance combining
theatre and bicycle choreography.
• Flood Light - Constantine Gras
Sat 31 July & Sun 1 August, 10am- 2pm / Free /
The Grand Union Canal, Great Western Road
Residents and visitors are invited to create a 3 minute film about
the journey between two of the borough’s most historic structures -
the Grand Union Canal and Westway flyover. Constantine Gras will
lead film making and editing sessions and the best films will be
shown at the Portobello Film Festival.
Get Involved! - Festival
Event Stewards required
InTRANSIT are looking for a range
of volunteers to steward various shows throughout
the festival.
We are looking for enthusiastic,
friendly and responsible volunteers preferably with an
interest in the arts and
festivals.
For more information and an application form,
contact intransit2010@gmail.com