Harvest it!…a festival of autumn delights
Sunday 23 September,
2pm-5pm, Free Event for All.
Myatt’s Fields Park, Knatchbull Road,
Camberwell, London SE5

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Contemporary art meets ancient rural traditions to transform and revitalise an under-used park in South London. Multi-sensory performances and interventions by leading artists and hundreds of local people will celebrate the bounty of nature in the heart of the city.

Artistic Director: Ali Zaidi.
Commissioned Artists: Barby Asante, Fergus Drennan, Eleanor Margolies, Jan Hendrickse, Myriam Ojeda Patiño with ArtLAT, Shane Waltener.

Co-produced by home and motiroti, Harvest it! will transform Myatt’s Fields Park into a bountiful village of delights where multiple cultures are woven together to reveal new expressions. A major participatory programme, involving artists working with city farms, allotment organisations, schools, choirs and other local groups, will explore the theme of ‘harvest’, which is shared across cultures and generations.

Church Ale Performance Festival
The Old Church, Rishangles, Suffolk,
July 2008 & July 2010
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Following the success of the Church Ale Festival 2005, we are undergoing research towards the next two events, growing the festival in size and scope. The Church Ale Festival is set in the inspiring historical environment of a medieval church and grounds in rural Suffolk, and resurrects the ancient practice of the 'Ale'; a community celebration featuring the sale of ale brewed by the church wardens to raise money for the upkeep of the church or other good cause. The Church Ale Festival celebrates the feast day of St Margaret, (20th July), with a weekend of contemporary live art, dance, music, film & video, and from 2008 a dynamic Street Fair.

Church Ale 2008;
home is working with composer Orlando Gough and The Shout Choir, Director Roxana Silbert (Paines Plough) and Artistic Director Geraldine Pilgrim, on a large scale promenade performance piece and Street Fayre, The Miracle of St Margaret, which will feature a mass of singers from local choirs alongside brass bands, medieval instrumentalists and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra brass section. A medieval food tavern run by artist Miche Fabre Lewin and many other major new commissions are in development including from; Forced Entertainment, Wonderful Beast, Lone Twin, New Art Club, Caroline Wright, Howard Matthew.


Church Ale 2010; Circus
The festival will take a fresh look at circus and includes traveler communities, referencing gypsy music and theatre and medieval traveling shows. Commissions in development; Tom Morris & Carl Heap, Rose English, Forced Entertainment, Theatre Rites, Same Sky, New Art Club, and others tbc.