Colour Box returns on Saturday for the second of our family matinee screenings with a new English language version of popular Norwegian classic Pinchliffe Grand Prix.
Released in 1975 and based on characters by writer Kjell Aukrust, this beautifully realised stop motion animation adaptation by Ivo Caprino features inventor Theodore Rimspoke and his two friends Sonny (a magpie) and Lambert (a hedgehog). The trio live at the top of a hill where they make ingenious and outlandish devices, until one day they find out that an international motor race will be happening in their village.
To find out more check out the 7inch website, and you can book tickets via mac.
Coming up in the Colour Box programme we also have a fun afternoon of workshop sessions with Steven Roberts, the BAFTA-winning creator of CBeebies animation series Dipdap. It’s sure to be a highlight of the Flatpack Festival so come along on Saturday 17 March to see how how it’s done and for a chance to get creative too.
Flatpack tends to involve a jumble of artforms, so this year’s collaboration with storytelling wizards YARN makes total sense. With your help we’re aiming to recreate the entire plot of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, through the medium of song, performance, film, illustration and literature (and probably a few others). Each participant will be allocated a slice of the Charles Foster Kane saga (around 6.5% of it), and will then have to work out an interesting way of telling it. This is how it works…
- The doors are now open to your expressions of interest – just fill in the short form on Yarn’s site and let us know why you’d like to be involved;
- On 6 March submissions will close, and we’ll select fifteen teams (three for each artform) to tell the story;
- Shortly before the festival each team will receive their story-chunk, with a week or so to prepare for…
- The grand finale. On 18 March – the last day of the festival – the entire film will be recreated at the Custard Factory from start to finish in a dazzling, multi-media, cast-of-thousands performance known as Five Stories High.
That’s about the size of it. If you’re interested in taking part, keep these dates in mind and think about what sort of team you’d want to put together – solo submissions are also very welcome. There will be very little in the way of budget for participants, but technical and emotional support in abundance and some free Flatpack tickets.
**Update** We’ve just extended the deadline to 6 March. Some great entries have been coming in, but we could do with a few more – particularly performers and musicians. If you’d like to know more drop us a line.
Flatpack Festival are now looking for enthusiastic and committed volunteers to join the Festival Team in 2012.
As usual, we’ll be infiltrating a swathe of weird and wonderful venues across Birmingham in March. We’ve conjured up a magical mix of film screenings and live events, and thrown in a sprinkling of experimental art and music for good measure. We’ll need our volunteers to help us with things like setting up venues, stewarding, box office and bars.
The festival runs from the 14th to 18th March, and volunteers need to be available for the whole period.
If you’d like to be part of the Flatpack experience please download an application form from the website (links below) and email the completed form to volunteers@7inch.org.uk.
The closing date for applications is Friday 17th February.
http://www.7inch.org.uk/files/flatpack_volunteer_form.doc
http://www.7inch.org.uk/files/flatpack_volunteer_form.pdf
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