IGNITING AMBITION FESTIVAL April–October 2011Northamptonshire The programme has been made Welcome possible through funding from Legacy Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 – Trust UK and the European Regional is a unique Development Fund, with support from festival for the county that showcases key partners Arts Council England a diverse range of projects being and Northamptonshire County delivered across the county as part Council, and many others. of the Cultural Olympiad programme Legacy Trust UK is an independent in the . charity set up to create a cultural The programme has been designed and sporting legacy from the London to engage young people and local 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games communities through exceptional across the UK. cultural projects, events and festivals For further information and for that celebrate the county’s rich latest programme updates go to: cultural heritage, outstanding natural www.northamptonshire2012.com environment and hidden gems. We very much hope that you enjoy The festival therefore introduces a the festival. number of new ambitious projects and partnerships such as FLOW, Formula Fashion and SHINE and presents a fantastic opportunity to showcase and promote the very best of the county’s cultural assets to local, regional, national and international audiences in advance of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

2 Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 Northamptonshire 3 CLIX SHINE Jan–Oct 2011 Apr–Oct 2011 Further information – Location Brixworth, Earls Barton, www.clix-northamptonshire.com , Rothwell, Oundle [email protected] Further information – Image opposite that of national www.shine-northamptonshire.com kick-boxing champion Chantelle Image overpage of All Saints Church, Cameron from Northampton and one Brixworth at night supplied by of the Eleanor Crosses at Geddington. Hingy Lee. Credit: Chris Denner.

CLIX is an innovative and exciting SHINE will celebrate digital photography project that Northamptonshire’s medieval encourages participants to explore heritage through several of its ancient the values and themes of the and historic Grade I listed churches. Cultural Olympiad and London Informed through local research 2012 and promote the county’s and participation, SHINE will provide key cultural and sporting assets. an online repository of heritage The project workshops will be information to include trails, photos, primarily delivered through videos, music and stories connected Northamptonshire’s Study Centres with the church and its associated which include Northampton Saints town or village. Rugby Club, Northampton Town SHINE will culminate in the Football Club, Northamptonshire autumn of 2011 with a series of Cricket Club, Rushden and outdoor multi-site illuminated Diamonds Football Club, Silverstone exhibition events. Race Circuit and Adrenaline Alley Urban Sports Park, Corby. The general public are also encouraged to submit their own photos that marry the county’s key cultural and sporting assets and the themes and values of the Olympics.

4 Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 Northamptonshire 5 Mad About The Seasons is a digital Mad About The Seasons arts project expressing a sense of May–Oct 2011 place and identity for communities Performances and exhibitions at in the 21st century, around issues various locations. such as sustainability, climate change, and our rural and cultural 21 May, ICON, Daventry heritage. 21 October, The Core, Corby Inspired by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Additional October performance at and by the Northamptonshire poet St Andrews, Northampton tbc. John Clare, Fiori Musicali juxtapose the traditional with the new, engaging Further information – audiences with music and poetry www.mad-about-the-seasons.com through the digital arts. www.fiori-musicali.com Fiori Musicali work with Monica Image: Monica Fernandez. Fernandez (Film & Photography), Patrick Bond (Poetry), Julian Parfitt (Environmentalist & Photography), and Sean Clark (Interactive Arts) in an array of participative events and celebratory occasions.

6 Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 Northamptonshire 7 Circuits, Northamptonshire County ‘Clearly a bag’, Jo Cope Formula Fashion Council, University of Northampton, Key Silverstone exhibition dates: Design Factory, South 10–12 June (2011 Air Asia MotoGP) Northamptonshire Council and Northamptonshire Enterprise Limited. 8–10 July (2011 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix) The Formula Fashion exhibition at Silverstone will be open to the public 22–24 July (Silverstone Classic) during event opening times each day (approximately 8am–6pm). Formula Fashion is an exciting new project that will explore the technology For the Silverstone exhibitions, and materials used in the motor access will be free to all motorsport sport industry. event ticket holders. Tickets for these events are available from Utilising Silverstone Circuit’s www.silverstone.co.uk international reputation for excellence, and using leather as one of their Following exhibition at Silverstone primary materials, five talented during the MotoGP, Formula 1 and artisans from across the UK, have Classic, the new pieces will be been commissioned to produce a exhibited at the University of range of new works inspired by the Northampton Gallery, Northampton county’s traditional leather and Museum and Art Gallery and The motorsport industries. Hub, the National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford. Formula Fashion represents a new unique cultural partnership for the Opening times for touring exhibition county which includes Silverstone to be confirmed by individual venues.

Marloes Ten Bhomer

8 Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 Northamptonshire 9 Daventry Arts Festival is a “first” Northampton Carnival – Victorian Country Gathering Daventry Arts Festival for this rural market town in west “Footsteps to 2012… 16th and 17th July 2011 18–23 July 2011 Northamptonshire, and will take 11am–4pm, both days place in open spaces and community The Colourful Journey” Further information – venues across the town, including Canons Ashby, Daventry, www.daventry.co.uk Saturday 11th June 2011 the spectacular new iCon Northamptonshire NN11 3SD 12 noon to 7:30pm Sally Halson, Manager, Environmental Innovation Centre. Free entry. No booking required. Daventry Business Partnership at National and local artists will bring Delapre Park, London Road, [email protected] poetry, drama, comedy, dance, Northampton NN4 8AW Further information – tel. 01327 828 391 and carnival, visual art, and orchestral, www.watch-this-space.org.uk Carnival Parade leaves Park at 2pm Sue Stewart, Co-Director, folk and world music to the town. www.nationaltrust.org.uk through the Town Centre and back to Field Day Arts CIC at We will also feature an event Image provided by the Park. [email protected] celebrating Daventry’s heritage The National Trust. tel. 01327 300 952 Further information – as the place where the BBC World Service was born. The festival www.northamptoncarnival.com Watch This Space and The National is the first partnership project of [email protected] Trust are recreating the Victorian Field Day Arts CIC and Daventry Image: Jonathan Cobb sports day that the Dryden family Business Partnership. hosted in 1879. Inside the house you’ll be taken on a magical tour by Watch This Space, one of the region’s most exciting arts organisations. The grounds will be transformed into a country gathering with the original races and a variety of stalls and activities. So come and decorate the garden with bunting, try pinhole photography and take part in the sporting activities!

10 Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 Northamptonshire 11 Blaze! Dance Relay is an exciting Blaze! Dance Relay dance project involving community 23rd and 24th July 2011 – Olympic performances in five outdoor areas Open Weekend of Northamptonshire and culminating in a finale extravaganza 23rd July – Outside The Cube, of performances and participation Corby Daventry Leisure Centre opportunities for people of any age The Castle, Wellingborough and background. Kettering Market Square Towcester Centre for Leisure Go online to learn the dance moves then come along and join in the fun. 24th July – Althorp House followed This is an opportunity to be part of a by finale and mass participation in record breaking dance routine with Northampton Market Square hundreds of people dancing together All events are free of charge. and celebrating dance in Northamptonshire, choreographed Further information – by Louise Richards, Artistic Director www.youtube.com/user/blaze of Motionhouse Dance Theatre. dancerelay to learn the dance routine Northants Dance – 01604 233122 Confirmed artists and organisations FLOW within the programme include Jo May–Oct 2011 Fairfax, Charles Monkhouse, Steve Messam, Fermynwoods Contemporary , River Nene, Arts and The Fishmarket Gallery. Water Tower(s) and Reservoir FLOW is a Northamptonshire County Further information – Council led project delivered in More details about planned events partnership with Anglian Water and and activities can be found at British Waterways and is associated www.flow-northamptonshire.com with the regional Breath of Fresh Air programme that encourages local FLOW will deliver an exciting series communities to engage with the of new site specific artworks that environment. explore and respond to the journey of water through the county focusing on different aspects of the county’s waterways, from its major canals and rivers, to its iconic water towers and reservoirs.

12 Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 Northamptonshire 13 Encounters invites visitors to Encounters: journeys through take part in a series of artist The Lyric Lounge Night Run Northampton language and landscape interventions, residencies and June–October 2011 Saturday 29th October 2011 installations along the 3-mile 6–10pm August to September 2011 bridleway connecting Fermyn Woods 3rd September: Corby CUBE Northampton Town Centre Please check for opening times. Country Park to Lyveden New Bield. 16/17th September: Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton Further information – Fermyn Woods Country Park and Artwork by national and international www.marketsquareevents.com Lyveden New Bield, Northamptonshire. artists will explore ideas around Further information – marketsquareevents@ landscape, place and belonging, www.lyriclounge.co.uk The exhibition is free to visitors in the northampton.gov.uk using different forms of language – [email protected] Country Park, tickets to Lyveden New visual, verbal and musical – Bield cost £4.50. All associated as we ask: The Lyric Lounge is a season of Night Run Northampton is the UK’s events are free. What makes a place significant and mini-festivals celebrating spoken first dedicated night running event Further information – not just empty space? word in transformed spaces. This with a twist. Participants will be www.fermynwoods.co.uk year the Lounge will tour encouraged to run or walk a 3km How do people living/working in Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and town centre circuit that takes in all [email protected] with any urban areas relate to rural places? enquires or for further details. Rutland, where lead artists will be of Northampton’s key cultural commissioned to write inspirational landmarks at night. pieces of work. Diverse participants, The proposed route will be animated including young people, will engage through a mix of lighting installations, with internationally renowned spoken live music and dance performances, word artists and writers, benefitting giant LED screens, indoor and from workshops, showcases, and outdoor art exhibitions and Market the opportunity to explore new Square illuminations. The event is venues. The festivals will bring aimed primarily at young people literature to new audiences, who will and families. experience a broad range of creative work in unusual settings.

Complaints Choir of St. Petersburg, 2006 Project initiated by artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen Photo: Yuriy Rumiantsev © iStock photo

14 Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 Northamptonshire 15 This year’s London 2012 Open Open Weekend 2011 Weekend will start the countdown Other major events 22–24 July 2011 to one year to go to the start of the May Olympic Games, as we welcome the Country wide locations world, showcasing the best of what International Waendel Walk, Oundle International Festival, 13–14 May, Wellingborough. 15–24 July, Oundle. Further information – the UK has to offer in art, dance, More detailed listings on music, film and sport. Further information – Further information – Northamptonshire based Open In 2010 Northamptonshire had a www.wellingborough.gov.uk/ www.oundlefestival.org.uk Weekend events and activities waendelwalk staggering 21 Open Weekend, the August will be made available at: joint highest in the East Midlands Crick Boat Show and Waterways Nene 250 River Festival, 7 August, www.northamptonshire2012.com region and more than several Festival, 28–30 May, Crick. Beckets Park, Northampton. neighbouring counties. This year and on the official London 2012 Further information – we want to go one better. Further information – website: www.crickboatshow.co.uk www.northampton.gov.uk www.london2012.com/get-involved/ Open Weekend events and activities June open-weekend are currently being planned across Northampton Balloon Festival, the county with a highlight this year Althorp Literary Festival, 19–21 August, . including a free Film Al Fresco event 10–11 June, Althorp Further information – at the Althorp Estate that includes Further information – www.northamptonballoon have-a-go sport activities, award- www.althorp.com/literaryfestival festival.net winning short films by the county’s young film makers, access for up to Stoke Bruerne Gala Weekend, Shambala Festival, 25–28 August, eighty people to the main house and 12–13 June, Stoke Bruerne. Northamptonshire. a mass participation dance event as Further information – Further information – part of Blaze! www.friendsofcanalmuseum.org.uk www.shambalafestival.org The public will also be encouraged to Northampton Music Festival, 12 June, October bring a picnic, enjoy the grounds and Northampton Market Square. view films on a large outdoor LED The Run 11, 2 October, cinema screen. Further information – Northampton. www.marketsquareevents.com Planners are also hoping for an Further information – appearance by one of the official July www.the-run.org Olympic mascots. Festival of History, 16–17 July, World Conker Championships, Kelmarsh Hall, Kelmarsh 9 October, Ashton. Further information – Further information – www.english-heritage.org.uk www.world conkerchampionships.com

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A43 Leicestershire Corby Oundle Lyveden A605 New Bield

Rothwell River Nene Cambridgeshire Kettering A14 A14

Brixworth A43 A45 M45 Wellingborough A5 Earls Barton Daventry A45 M1 Northampton Warwickshire Bedfordshire A45 River Nene A428 A5 Grand Union Canon Ashby Canal A43 Towcester Buckinghamshire Silverstone A5 A442 A43 Brackley Oxfordshire M40

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