Welcome to City of Secrets MG FREE
Saturday 10th May
This year's family day is an artistic treasure hunt where you are the hunter. Use the map to help you discover up to 50 secret performances 'hidden' throughout the city centre. You can download the map here!
The fun starts at 11.00am and all City of Secrets events are free!
Here are just a few of them...
Time: 1.30pm
A witty and inventive string trio who compete, ridicule, argue and seduce their way through Bach to the Beatles. Madcap comedy and superb musicianship in one!
Time: 11.00am, 11.30am, 12.00 noon,1.30pm,2.00pm, 2.30pm, 4.00pm, 4.30pm & 5.00pm
The Séance
For 20 people at a time (suitable for children aged 10+)
Performance lasts 15 minutes 'Psychic medium' Madame Narcosis is waiting for you to step across her threshold into her 'séance' When you are sitting comfortably, she will lift the veil between this world and the next and talk to the spirits (pets a speciality!). If she’s up to it, you may even witness a rare spiritual manifestation. Be on guard, a ghostly finger may be pointing to you!
(Please note this is a performance and not a real séance!)
Time: 11.00am – 6.30pm
Thy Kingdom Come
Performance lasts 30 minutes (there may be a wait before you can enter). An experimental spectacle in which you, the spectator, play the main character. Thy Kingdom Come is a private meeting in a mobile cabin lasting 30 minutes that erases the frontiers between the real world and spectacle. Presented in association with Huis en Festival a/d Werf
Time: 1.00pm
A performance by Herbie Treehead and his band in the pretty Courtyard of Cinema City with their trademark blend of silliness, juggling and dancing.
Time: 3.30pm
Critically acclaimed vocal ensemble present a short performance of a Bach motet in the Courtyard of Cinema City.
Time: 12 noon, 1.30pm, 3.00pm & 4.30pm
The Wheel House
World Premiere
Performance lasts 30 minutes Groundbreaking acrobatic and visual art company Acrojou defy gravity with this kaleidoscopic piece of rolling theatre! Blending acrobatics, surreal comedy and stunning visuals, two acrobatic characters show us their clanking and comically beautiful universe from their giant, rolling homes.
Time: 12.30pm & 4.00pm
A witty and inventive string trio who compete, ridicule, argue and seduce their way through Bach to the Beatles. Madcap comedy and superb musicianship in one!
Time: 3.30pm & 5.00pm
Enjoy Herbie Treehead and Pete Dubbin’s hilarious one man street performances, with their trademark blend of silliness, juggling and dancing.
Time: 11.30am, 1.00pm, 3.00pm & 4.00pm
Chaser
Performance lasts 15 minutes
Chaser is 15 nail-biting minutes of dynamic dance encounters, high-speed socialising, friendly rivalry, flying and falling. Acrobatic, dramatic and engaging, Chaser draws you right in with its catchy music, attention grabbing style and startling twist to the tale!
10.30am – 1.30pm & 2.30pm – 3.30pm (open workshop)
Performance: 4.00pm
The talented players of Chamber Orchestra Anglia’s young musicians scheme (coCOA) and the UEA Symphony Orchestra work again with Sir Colin Davis, one of the world’s greatest conductors, and Chamber Orchestra Anglia to rehearse and complete the work begun last year on Elgar’s first symphony.
Time: 12.00–3.00pm
The Mis-information Tent Visit Dot Comedy’s tent – full of leaflets, maps and noticeboards that are completely unhelpful and totally useless!
Time: 12.30, 3.00pm & 5.30pm
Fervorosa
World Premiere
Performance lasts 35 minutes
Witness the amazing aerial skills of Argentinean choreographer Brenda Angiel and renowned aerialist Wendy Hesketh, as they perform a bungeeassisted dance with the ‘wow’ factor of circus – the bungees attached to their waists allow them to fly, dive, swoop and slide through the air! This is a world première of a new commission for the Without Walls consortium.
Time: 11.00am - 6.00pm
Etiquette
Performance lasts 30 minutes Etiquette is a half-hour experience for two people in a public space but there is no one watching and other people in the café or bar are not aware of it happening! Put on your headphones and listen – they will tell you what to say to each other, or how to use one of the objects positioned near you. There is a kind of magic involved – this is best done with someone you know.
Time: 2 pm, 4 pm
‘This Must be the Place’
Each performance lasts 45/50 minutes. For 30 people at a time (suitable for children aged 8+)
Metaphor, simile and skip your way across the Norwich cobbles to Frank’s Bar to find storytelling brain refreshment along with a lovely cup of tea at ‘This Must be the Place’. A poetry cabaret showcasing the work of exciting regional and professional stand up and page poets. Line up includes the amazing literary talent of: Paddy Lapin, John Osbourne, Nathan Hamilton, Meghan Purvis, Molly Naylor, Luke Wright, Joel Stickley & Robert Jackman. All compered with impeccable grace and skill by domestic goddess Ian McKenzie (Yanny Mac)
Frank’s Bar. 19, Bedford St, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 1AR Tel: 01603 618902
Tea, coffee and refreshments will be available to purchase from the bar. Food available to buy until 3 pm
City Of Secrets is the launch of Without Walls 2008. City of Secrets MG FREE is co-sponsored by May gurney and The Mall, Norwich. Also the 'presented in association' credit with Without Walls.