Brouhaha International Street Festival 2009 Calendar

Brouhaha International Street Festival 2009 Calendar
19 July – 2 August 2009 
Various venues
 

Brouhaha 2009 Programme
Events are FREE unless otherwise stated.

SUN 19th July, 12 – 5pm
Southport International Festival @ Hesketh Park
A new site for the event, while the Southport Arts Centre gets a makeover. Once again Brouhaha International returns to this popular northern seaside town with local, national and international artist. Bring your family, a picnic and let Brouhaha entertain you.
International Companies: Ballet Entredanzas – Spain, Got Skills UDS -Holland, Creative Lives -UK, Belmont Freetown Cultural Arts -Trinidad & Tobago, Country Boys -Trinidad & Tobago, MD Company – Martinique and Eclodir Azul – Portugal

MON 20th – SUN 26th July
Detmold, Germany
Boarderlines@ Mythos Festival
Artists will deliver a multi arts project to community participants. It will involve young artists and performers from across Europe who will celebrate a common cultural heritage based on a modern European multicultural identity.
Companies: Majestic- Poland, Got Skills UDS -Holland, Belmont Freetown Cultural Arts -Trinidad & Tobago, Country Boys -Trinidad & Tobago, MD Company – Martinique, Eclodir Azul – Portugal, La Paranza del Geco – Italy, Shademakers – Germany and Ballet Entredanzas – Spain

SUN 26th July, 12 – 5 pm
Southport International Festival @ Derby Park
Derby Park, Earle Road, Bootle
Another Sunday in the park as only Brouhaha know how to celebrate. Expect performances from local and international artists. Come join us for an afternoon of delightful theatre, music and dance, Sunday’s won’t be the same this summer.

Companies: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Zico House, Al Harah Theatre, Got Skills UDS, Kcuik&The Fingers, Live Gravy, R&R Free Mind, R&R Dance crew, Big Band Brothers and Creative Lives

MON 27th July, 7 – 10.30pm
Brouhaha International Festival Opening Ceremony
Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, 41 – 51 Greenland Street, L1 0BS
The festival opens with its customary colourful display of carnival and percussion outside the Novas Scarman Contemporary Urban Centre. We give you a visual brochure of our 19th annual festival with performances from festival favourites and new companies. Come join us for an evening of cultural dance and music.
Companies: All Companies will be performing.
This is a free event but ticketed. For tickets to the event please email your request to tickets@brouhaha.uk.com

TUE 28th – FRI 31st July, Shows Start at 7pm
One World One Stage
Unity Theatre
Tickets: £ 7.50 Concession £5.50
Family Tickets of £20(2 Adults & 2 Children up to 15 years of age)
Brouhaha is back at the Unity for 4 nights, with each night bringing a different flavour to its audience. Hip– Hop Nation kicks of the programme of with its urban hip hop theatre from Martinique, Holland and Germany. Global Beat introduces you to new music from Trinidad& Tobago via Portugal to Malta; EuroMed in Culture draws the event to a close on Thursday and Friday with music, dance and theatre from Spain, Italy Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt.

Companies: MD Company Got Skills UDS, R& R Dance Crew, Belmont Freetown, Country Boys, Big Band Brothers, Ballet Entredanzas, La Paranza del Geco, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Al – Harah and Zico House.

For Further information of the programme please visit our website www.brouhaha.uk.com to book tickets please contact the Unity www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk or call 0151 7094988

TUE 28th – FRI 31st July
Community tours
Mab Lane Community Centre Mab Lane 29th & 31st July  12 – 4pm
Cosmopolitan Olive Mount, 30th July 12 – 4pm
Brouhaha International continues to work alongside Northwest based Housing Associations brings International Artists to resident and community centres. The Artists will deliver workshops and performances that allow the residents to access quality international work and experience arts and culture within their local settings
Companies: Please contact karlene@brouhaha.uk.com  for further details

WED 29th – FRI 31st July
Global Beats @ Studio 2 Parr St
Studio 2 Parr St, Parr Street, Liverpool
Global Beats has for the past 6 years brought to music fans a mixture of contemporary Hip Hop to traditional Moroccan Andalus music. This year sees an extended programme for this event at Studio 2, Liverpool.  

Come take a breather from the mundane and the normal at Studio 2, sit back and, enjoy the comfy seats and enjoy the Global sounds. Brouhaha International brings you an evening of Music from Egypt, Poland, Italy, Holland and Malta. The music of the future, it will take you beyond current phenomenon of talent show musicians and bring you true artists. It’s an evening not just for the Music fans but for the family to enjoy.

Companies: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, La Paranza del Geco, Majestic, Kcuik & The Fingers, R&R Free Mind and Live Gravy

SAT 1st Aug, 12 – 2pm 
Brouhaha International Carnival  – The People Who Came
Mulberry Street – Catherine St – Princes Rd – Princes Ave – Devonshire Rd – Princes Park Urban Music Stage 
A reflection of an island and its people, the 9th largest Island in the world.
The Liverpool International Carnival, UK largest single piece of moving art, returns to take over the Streets Of Liverpool.

The project encourages us to research and learn more about the diversity of Liverpool and the UK, and help us to understand the complex ever-changing world we live in, a world of different cultures, people and their individual personalities making this world and our lives a colourful mosaic. Through the Liverpool International Carnival ‘Mas’ you will see Ray Allan Mahabir’s work reflect the colourful mosaic of Liverpool’s culture.  

SAT 1st Aug, 12- 7pm
World In Princes Park
Princes Park, L8
2009 will play host to two pieces of newly commissioned work. The collaborative pieces will be 18 & A Bullet  – A Hip Hop dance project based on the Gun and Knife crime amongst young people, The project aims bring together the experiences of the young people through the medium of dance.

Music Talks – a project that brings young musicians together giving them an opportunity to gain skills in collaborative music performance and recording music. The groups will create a song for the Brouhaha International Carnival that will be performed at the Music Stage.

Brouhaha International will be working in partnership with Love Music Hate Racism to deliver the programme on the Music Stage.

Music Stage – KOF, Barbie Shop, Live Gravy, Majestic, Kcuik & The Fingers, R&R Free Mind, Big Band Brothers, Simple Soul

Urban Arts Stage – Zini D, Future,Grime Fam,ART, Ras B, AJ Dance, Lanca, Cody Urban Dance, Xtine,Md Productions, Janiece Myers and J- Soul

Dance Stage – Awaiting confirmation of acts

SAT 1st Aug, 12 – 7pm
Liverpool International Mela
Princes Park, L8
One Stage One Nation –Once again the Mela returns to celebrate the South Asian Culture that has influenced many cultures across the world. To celebrate the overall theme of the festival ‘The People Who Came’, will showcase local artist from Sola Arts Refugee Arts Collective. Once again Brouhaha International will produce a collaborative dance performance choreographed by Denny Paul and House of Suarez Dancers.  Liverpool International Mela will be featuring Artist from the Play – Az Lab, Lightnin MC, Majid Khan and Onkar Singh.

Mela Stage – Belmont Freetown, Ballet Entredanzas, Country Boys, Sola Arts Refugee Arts Collective, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Play-Az Lab

For more information on Brouhaha International please visit the website:
http://www.brouhaha.uk.com