Last year Francis Barking brought you a maze in the walled garden – since then he has been breeding and so will be bringing new work especially for the kids there will also be free Circus Workshops early on the Saturday for the kids.
Spaniels Heart Club will be back again with new work and Belfast‘s Vent Collective will come to Willowstone for the first time to with some live and interactive mural painting.
The Vent collective will be undertaking a massive live painting session where a huge freeform unplanned mural will come to life during the day. Our inspirations will come from the music and the revellers so we would like you to help out and come forward with your ideas throughout the day.
When the day is nearly over and the sun is setting we are going to cut up the mural and hand it out to the festival goers, so don’t be shy come up and ask for that purple cow you want painted and then take a piece of it home at the end of the day.
Spaniels Heart Club
Willowstone takes place within a beautiful walled garden and every garden needs scarecrows to keep genetically modified crows at bay. This year we will be running a competition to see who can build the best SCARECROW to be featured within our garden of freaks area! Participants will be divided into teams with a facilitator per team. Maximum of 5 teams with 5 participants per team.
Entering a team: To enter yourself into a team please email your name along with number of participants to
Places are limited with only 25 spaces available. You can sign up for any remaining places on the day of the event. There will be 1 hour to build your freaky scarecrow with communal supplies and a mystery accessory box per team. This event will take place from 3-4 (*Due to unforeseen circumstances such as the weather this time may change on the day)
*Mystery Judge to be revealed : )
1st Prize-GLORY
2nd Prize comes first loser….sad times...
Allotment Olympics
Sign up on the day in the walled garden to the Allotment Olympics - there will be 4 teams:
- team spud
- team bean
- team marrow
- team tomato
competing in a number of new Olympic sports:
- row-a-vating
- salad spinning
- spud put
- tie-atholon
and
biscuit discus – (not traditionally made in allotments but consumed in great quantities avec a nice cup of tea).
Bellydance Basics: Shake up your festival spirit with the sacred art of bellydance! Start with a yoga warm-up, continue with some bellydance basics, and then then put them all together in fun and playful combinations! Everyone wlecome, no expereince necessary.
(no Max number for this!)
Morning Yoga: Shake off the evening's festivities, and start your day feeling awesome with a morning yoga practice! Start with a hangover-friendly warmup, work with stretch and balance, and finish with dynamic sun salutation sequences. Everyone welcome - no expereince necessary, yoga mats provided! Wear loose clothing and bring some water! (16 spaces max)
A large-scale kennel installation investigating the colour of heartbreak by encouraging onlookers to channel negative emotions into creative energy. The kennel will be a blank canvas that will become a mirage of colours as onlookers tap into heartbreak with the spaniels and decorate the kennel. It is hoped the experience will be a positive catalyst for those who take part as they visualize an emotion. Tap into ‘your heartbreak’ and use that energy to transfer colours onto the kennel. The explosion of energy of creating live art will be cathartic for those involved and the result will be a beautiful burst of colour.
If heartbreak was a colour what colour would it be? Lets find out at Willowstone…. bring your sorrow.
Further examples of imagery from Willowstone 2009 and our work with Trans Urban Arts can be viewed at www.flickr.com/spanielsheartclub.
Team Charolastra present 'Little Mongolia'
Our lil' slice of Mongolia, served up with a side of Love...
On 24th July 2010, Team Charolastra will be driving 10,000 miles from Ireland to Mongolia, in aid of the beautiful CNCF charity. Come pay a visit to the team, in 'Little Mongolia', and find out how you can assist this truly herculean endeavour.
'Live' art installation & Charolastra handcrafted merchandise...
...plus Team Charolastra DJ's ('Sinister Industry' [of 'Made to Play' records, Berlin] & 'Blood or Money' [of the legendary Peacefrog records UK]), spinning a few trax during the main event. Get involved, get your Gobi on!
Also, come see the Team Charolastra chariot - vehicle signings on the day: have your message of love delivered 10,000 miles across Central Asia, via Iran, ye Olde Silk Route and the Pamir highway!
Mongolian wrestling attire not mandatory, but warmly welcomed!
ponydance winners of the 2009 Ulster Bank Pick of the Pick 'n' Mix THE AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD – will be performing new work created just for Willowstone Arts & Music Festival.
Ponydance are on a mission to bring humorous, heart warming, honest, entertaining dance to lots of people everywhere. We are passionate about dance, the importance of the arts in people's lives and performing. We'd like to share that with you.
We are an Irish based company and have performed all over the Island, in France, Australia, Tasmania and most recently in Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival.
Yoga & Belly Dancing with Elizabeth Welty - Flow Studio Belfast
Bellydance Basics: Shake up your festival spirit with the sacred art of bellydance! Start with a yoga warm-up, continue with some bellydance basics, and then then put them all together in fun and playful combinations! Everyone wlecome, no expereince necessary.
(no Max number for this!)
Morning Yoga: Shake off the evening's festivities, and start your day feeling awesome with a morning yoga practice! Start with a hangover-friendly warmup, work with stretch and balance, and finish with dynamic sun salutation sequences. Everyone welcome - no expereince necessary, yoga mats provided! Wear loose clothing and bring some water! (16 spaces max)
To celebrate the 10 Year anniversary of the Strangford Stone the centre-piece of the festival will be a 5m scale live willow replica of the Stone. Clive Lyttle of Welig Crafts www.weligcrafts.co.uk who has created this sculpture will be holding a workshop in basket making. Places are very limited so please e-mail info@willowstonefestival.com for more info and to book a place.
Artist & inventor Paddy Bloomer will be here to install his take on the fair ground, bringing you the……
Fantastic Scary Go Round
The Soapy Boat Swing
and the Velociped Carousel
Francis Barking will also have a wide range of interactive games for your enjoyment. In-between the great live acts on offer you could be having a few rounds of
Crazy Golf
a few throws of Beat The Clock a time based Coconut Shy or play Change the channel - tin can alley with tv remotes
There will be plenty of other surprises awaiting you……Francis Barking will also be on hand to run a workshop on Game Design – again numbers are very limited so e-mail info@willowstonefstival.com to book your place.
