Final preparations are underway for Great Yarmouth’s first international arts festival, Out There. Taking place between Thursday 30 October and Sunday 2 November, the festival promises to be a fantastic time for everyone. Organised by SeaChange Arts in association with Zap Art, nearly all the events over the four days are free and taking place outside.
As Great Yarmouth celebrates 800 years of the King John Charter, the Out There festival celebrates with a programme of events and creations as exciting, colourful and international as 800 years of Yarmouth history.
More than 100 professional performers and artists from Britain, France, Finland, Brazil, Spain, Uruguay, Cuba, Iceland, Portugal and Belgium will be entertaining you and many of them will be working with local people before the festival to produce work to perform. There’ll be a festival village in the Market Place, with a performance tent, a double decker art bus and even a working Finnish sauna built especially for Out There with Finnish artists and local young people.
There’s really something for everyone during Out There. Highlights include:
-·have-a-go creative workshops on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 October in the Market Place and Christchurch, King Street
-·a week-long exhibition of local artists’ work in the Great Yarmouth Galleries
-·a whole afternoon of crazy comedy and street arts in the Market Place on Saturday 1 November
-·a hilarious, family-friendly theatre performance from French theatre company Les Alama’s Givres outside St Georges Theatre on 4pm on Saturday 1 November
-·a live music day with a variety of local and international performers, including the finale of Norfolk Black History Month, on Sunday 2 November.
There’s extra evening excitement during the week with a performance by international artists and members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Hippodrome on Thursday 30 October, cabaret sessions in the Festival Village on Friday 31 October and Saturday 1 November and theatre shows both outside and in venues round the town. The highlight of the weekend’s entertainment will surely be the tightrope walk by world-famous French artist Didier Pasquette, 15m high across the Market Place from Palmers Department Store to Market Gates. His show-stopping performance on Saturday evening at 6.00pm will end with a fabulous fire show and will be heralded by a community lantern parade from King Street to the Market Place.
Come and have a wild time at Out There! See the website www.outtherefestival.com for full information.
Out There is grateful for the support of Great Yarmouth Borough Council, Norfolk County Council, European Union and Enterprise GY.
For more information contact Penny Wright, Marketing and Communications Officer, SeaChange Arts – telephone: 01493 846550, email: penny@seachangearts.org.uk.