Outdoor arts events to bring Cumbria alive in 2010
A series of spectacular outdoor arts events will take place across the Lake District and other parts of Cumbria in the spring and summer of 2010.
Lakes Alive will run from 29 April to 5 September and feature performances by leading international acts set against Cumbria’s beautiful and varied landscape and heritage.
These mainly free shows will include modern circus, dramatic outdoor theatre, contemporary dance and exciting, fiery processions.
Highlights include:
The events start on 29 April to 2 May, with evening performances of a new show created for Lakes Alive by the critically-acclaimed Akademi, a South Asian Dance Company, in the atmospheric ruins of Furness Abbey.
A series of events across the May half term holidays will start with a thrilling outdoor animation festival in Whitehaven showcasing the town’s historic harbour on 29 and 30 May, including a dramatic procession with fire, light and giant illuminated fish by Spanish artists Sarruga.
Zircus Plus a unique International Circus Festival, will put on an amazing show in Barrow from 4 to 6 June, with some of the best and most exciting modern circus acts from Britain and overseas.
On 23 and 24 July German group Theater Titanick, one of Europe’s leading outdoor performance companies, will stage a stunning, large-scale show involving illusion, fire, water, music and dance at Carlisle Castle.
Leading French artists Commandos Percu will stage a dazzling extravaganza of sound, fire, light and colour at Maryport on 30 August.
The season of events will culminate in Mintfest, one of the country’s largest street arts festivals, which takes place in the market town of Kendal at the gateway to the Lakes. Running from 2 to 5 September the festival will include a host of the very best street artists from across the world.
The Lakes Alive programme will also include a series of other performances in Lakeland forests and towns across the county.
Further details about all the shows will be available at lakesalive.org in the New Year.
