Festive Road have just celebrated their busiest and most successful July since records began!
As part of the MK Festival Fringe, Festive Road invited people to step into their extraordinary, weird & wonderful world.
Their Exhibition, at Westbury Arts Centre, gave visitors the chance to see who/what Festive Road is and does; getting the rare opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the amazing Festive Road creations – both old and new – showing the fusion of art and engineering that make Festive Road so distinctive.
Also as part of the Fringe, one of Festive Road’s resident artists, Clive Doherty, exhibited his unique interactive mechanical sculptures at the CentreMK.
These kinetic sculptures, inspired by the automatons of the eighteen and nineteenth century, were a major attraction during the Fringe.
Nationally, Festive Road has been making strides too. The team was invited by the Southbank Centre in London to take part in activities linked to its ‘Power of Power Festival’.
Programmed around Richard Wagner’s iconic Ring Cycle, Festive Road took inspiration from the dragon Fafner and showcased its own giant dragon, Gwynhaf. Additionally, they ran drop-in workshops, with more than 75 children creating dragon heads.
A number of the children, plus their fabulous creations, then took part in a grand parade with Gwynhaf.
Not to be outdone, other creatures also had outings during the month – Harminder, the elephant, packed her trunk to join ‘Readipop’, in collaboration with Annual Daydream Harvest; and the Festive Road dinosaur family, including their naughty new baby Rex, took part in Telford’s ‘Carnival of Giants’, which was attended by an estimated 12 thousand people.
Festive Road was also delighted to be chosen by ISAN, The Independent Street Arts Network, to host one of its ‘On the Road’ events which are being held around the UK over the summer.
They also ran carnival workshops and helped to organise some spectacular out of town parades.
