Lollipops, Street Shows and Rave Performances to feature at Pop-Up Festival.

A festival that is touring the UK will pop-up in Corby town centre, on Saturday 19th February, for one day only. The Liberty UK Festival will offer a full day of free streets shows, powerful performances, art installations and interactive workshops for all the family. ArtReach, producers of the festival, have previously worked on Corby Mardi Gras and Grow Festival and are partnering with the team from Made With Many and The Core at Corby Cube to bring another excellent series of free events and performances to the town centre.

Liberty UK Festival, the pop-up festival that explores the themes of freedom and democracy, will feature local people in two of the key performances, one of which will be performed at The Core at Corby Cube and another will be performed at the Willow Place Shopping Centre during the evening of the festival.

SUPERMOMENTS, which you will be able to see at Willow Place is by Ling Tan and uses wearable technology as part of the performance. In these interactive shows the performers and selected audience members listen together and perform to stories told by people from Corby, while engaging with each other through interactive wearable technology. The festival uses performances, art installations and interactive workshops to explore themes of freedom and democracy which invites people to slow down think about our collective power to make change.

Creative arts workshops, some of which will occur in the run-up to the festival day, will feature seed planting, pot decoration, creative collages using materials found in nature followed by cape and mask making for your environmental superheroes.

A giant tortoise will be roaming the streets sharing her eternal wisdom with young audience members alongside Britain’s liveliest ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ campaigners, The Disco Litter Queens, who bring a new level of funk to tidying up your junk. Be sure to keep your eyes out for the Slow Down/Liberty Lollipops team who will be handing out lollipops and chatting with people about the things we pay attention to and how we can make a change in society.

The Write to Rave, is an immersive live performance reflecting about the political power of rave culture, by Debris Stevenson whose work has toured to over 30 countries across the world. Working with a group of young people. Debris has co-created a performance exploring the journeys of people trying their best to rave whilst the world tries its best to stop them. Ahead of this finale performance at the Core at Corby Cube on 19th February a team of local youngsters from the Core Creates performance company will perform their latest work where they share their hopes and dreams for the future.

From Mardi Gras to Corby Grow Festival, previous events delivered by this partnership have never failed to amaze and delight local audiences with fantastic free activities and special street shows, this year, the Liberty UK Festival looks set to be one of the best events yet. To explore the festival more, visit www.libertyukfestival.com or use Instagram and search @libertyfestivaluk

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ArtReach (www.artreach.biz)
ArtReach is a cultural development charity and Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, which in addition to consultancy and public art commissioning has a substantial and long track record in delivering successful Festivals and arts events. Its aim is to make great art possible and accessible, connecting art with grass roots and diverse communities to forge creative engagement.

Liberty UK Festival (www.libertyukfestival.com)
LIBERTY UK is a pop-up festival exploring the themes of Freedom and Democracy, produced by ArtReach.
Previously known as Night of Festivals, Liberty UK builds on a 10-year history of popping up in towns and cities across the UK celebrating the themes of freedom and democracy through culture and creativity from around the world.

Arts Council England (www.artscouncil.org.uk)
Arts Council England is the national development body for arts and culture across England, working to enrich people’s lives. We support a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries – from theatre to visual art, reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts to collections. Great art and culture inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. In short, it makes life better. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country.

Made With Many (www.madewithmany.org)
Made With Many are a community-led arts programme which produces events and activities designed to inspire more local people than ever before to take the lead in experiencing, creating and taking part in high quality arts and cultural activities. Through conversations with local people and community decision-making panels, we put local people at the heart of commissioning artists and producing new and exciting events.

Made With Many is part of a national Creative People & Places (www.creativepeopleplaces.org.uk) network, funded by Arts Council England to increase engagement in the arts in areas where people have fewer opportunities to get involved. CPP is about more people taking the lead in choosing, creating and taking part in art experiences in the places where they live. There are 30 independent projects, each located in an area where people have traditionally had fewer opportunities to get involved with the arts.

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