Liverpool Brouhaha international street festival starts today
A feast of music, street theatre, circus, and dance is promised as the annual Brouhaha International Street Festival gets under way.
The Liverpool-based arts organisation will be occupying venues across the city for the festival, which starts today.
Festival organisers said the 10-day event, showcasing local artists and rising stars from the international arts scene, would live up to its billing as one of the largest multi-cultural events in the UK.
Highlights will include the street carnival – the traditional grand finale to the festival – on July 23.
Last year, around 50,000 people lined the streets to witness the colourful parade.
The festival’s executive director, Giles Agis, said: “Each year, street theatre performers, dancers, acrobats, musicians, stilt-walkers and carnival artists from across the UK and around the world deliver performance projects and community workshops that have a major impact on the local community, economy, quality and success of our work.
“This year, the festival features collaborative pieces of work fresh to the festival including Circus of Hip Hop, Carnival Europe, Urbanity, The Big Bang and Sari Nights.”
But he stressed there was more to the festival than “large-scale celebratory events”.
“It is also about developing artists’ creative talent by providing the opportunity to collaborate and work with internationally acclaimed musical directors, choreographers and theatre practitioners,” he said.
Work takes place throughout the year to put together the artistic programme for the event.
Mr Agis added: “Brouhaha International has produced festivals and staged artistic collaborations across the world since the 1990s and once again we will be occupying venues across the city as part of the European year of creativity and innovation.
“This year, the popular festival has received support from the Inspire Mark 2012 that sees the Liverpool International Carnival featured as part of the Cultural Olympic Open Weekend on July 23.
The festival has also secured EU funding.
This will fund a large-scale youth collaborative performance, Circus of Hip Hop, which will see local artists Yusra, Nicky Blaze and Patrick Dineen, plus international artists Jason Jeandor, Simone Campa and Przemyslaw Grzadziela.
For more information visit www.brouhaha.uk.com
[Image from the 2010 Brouhaha festival]
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