The Floating Cinema: On Tour Events Programme Looping the Locks: Brentford to Bristol & Back Again 4 June – 2 August 2015 http://floatingcinema.info | #floatingcinema | Boat webcam: floatingcinema.info/boat/webcam | instagram: floating_cinema| upprojects.com | @upprojects

‘The Floating Cinema On Tour’ presents a brand new summer programme of open air and on-board film screenings, performances, talks and events created for the waterways of the South East and West of England.

The Floating Cinema will begin its epic journey from Brentford Lock, travelling along the Kennet & Avon Canal, across West Berkshire and Wiltshire, before taking up residency in Bristol. The ‘On Tour’ theme celebrates the diversity of urban and rural living, a slower pace of life encourages a playful discovery of local landscapes and heritage through archive film and music. The programme explores the histories, myths and legends along the route including Reading’s rock hall-of-fame, Wiltshire’s world-famous crop circles, and alternative trade in historic market town, Newbury. The return journey will feature new work by our artist-in-residence Yann Seznec who will create a floating library of forgotten sounds during the outward journey, to be performed on the return. Filmmakers Somewhere will also premiere their new film Repeat to Flourish – a visual odyssey of the Kennet and Avon Canal’s industrial past, subsequent decline and present day renaissance.

‘The Floating Cinema On Tour’ is curated by UP Projects with artist duo Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie (Somewhere) and supported by the BFI; awarding funds from The National Lottery, Arts Council England and Canal & River Trust.

ALDERMASTON Moored at Aldermaston Wharf Tea Rooms, RG7 4JS Public transport: Aldermaston (rail)

WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 6PM SCREENING & TALK Yellowcake: How We Used to Work Artist Gair Dunlop discusses new projects in his long term goal to shed light on the legacy of Atomic Weapons and Energy Centres, including his new film in development Yellowcake filmed at Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment and his wider practice exploring modernist landscapes, archive material and the memory of progress. FREE, booking essential

NEWBURY Moored at Newbury Lock, RG14 1AA Public transport: Newbury (rail)

FRIDAY 19 JUNE 12 – 4PM ON-BOARD SCREENING Matinee Tours Come aboard The Floating Cinema and watch watery films from The Floating Cinema archive including Barging Through London (Again) by Somewhere. FREE, booking essential.

FRIDAY 19 JUNE 6PM ARTIST TALK Feral Trade Talk Artist Kate Rich talks about her grocery business trading along social networks; Feral Trade (Import-Export). Feral Trade uses the excess baggage of existing journeys, in particular, the surplus hot air of the art world as a freight resource. Current product lines include coffee from Mexico, green tea from Fujian Province, Swiss Alps cheese and Cube-Cola from Bristol. FREE, booking essential.

CROFTON Moored at Crofton Beam Engine, Crofton Pumping Station, Crofton, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 3DW [email protected] Public transport: Great Bedwyn (rail)

WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2 – 6PM ON-BOARD SCREENING Matinee Tours Come aboard The Floating Cinema and watch watery films from The Floating Cinema archive including Barging Through London (Again) by Somewhere. FREE (car park charge), drop-in.

WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 8 – 10PM PERFORMANCE & OPEN AIR FILM All Smoke & Mirrors Magnificent Crofton Beam Engines like you’ve never seen them before! See the engines and grounds animated with an evening of immersive archive film, music and digital projection. Admission £4.50 (£4.00 conc.), drop-in

HONEYSTREET Moored at The Barge Inn, SN9 5PS Public transport: Pewsey (rail)

SATURDAY 27 JUNE 6PM TALK Crop Circles & Other Mysteries Is crop circle-making art or deception? Circlemaker, artist and author Dr. Rob Irving discusses the art, history and philosophy behind the practice, examining some of the key sacred sites in Wiltshire’s legend landscape, as centres of art or ritual activity. Enjoy this talk with a pint of local Barge Inn ale ‘Croppie’ in hand! FREE, booking essential.

SATURDAY 27 JUNE 8PM ON-BOARD SCREENING The Film That Buys the Cinema Come aboard and watch this collection of 70 artists films commissioned to raise funds for Bristol’s independent cinema, Cube Microplex. FREE, booking essential

DEVIZES Moored at Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, SN10 1EB Public transport: Route 10 or 11 (bus)

SATURDAY 27 & SUNDAY 28 JUNE 12 – 4PM FILMMAKING WORKSHOP Moonrakers And Movies Explore Wiltshire’s myths, legends and superstitions in this twoday animation workshop with filmmakers No.w.here. What are the Wiltshire Moonrakers? Are aliens in the fields making crop circles? How did Stonehenge get there? Learn new techniques and create your own mythical mystery animated film. No experience necessary. All equipment provided. Suitable for young people, ages 12 – 16 years. Admission £5.00, booking essential.

SUNDAY 28 JUNE 8 – 10:15PM OPEN AIR FILM Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon An al fresco wharf side screening of historic 40’s classic Painted Boats: The Girl of the Canal (Charles Crichton, 1945). Part documentary and part fictional canal romance, Painted Boats paints a picture of the history of the canals alongside the lives and work of the boaters who use them. FREE, booking essential.

CAEN HILL LOCKS Moored at Caen Hill Café, The Locks, Devizes, SN10 1QR Public transport: Melksham (rail) & route X72 (bus)

TUESDAY 30 JUNE 11 – 6PM PERFORMANCE / FILM Lock-a-thon Join our horse drawn barge procession as we attempt to descend all sixteen of the Caen Hill Locks in one day! This day out will explore the Kennet & Avon Canal from disrepair and restoration right up to the ecology and meaning in the present day. You will see archive film and found footage, meet local canal champions and historians and hear forgotten sounds of the canal. FREE, drop-in.

BRADFORD-ON-AVON Moored at the Café, The Wharf, Frome Road, BA15 1LE Public transport: Bradford-on-Avon (rail)

THURSDAY 2 JULY 4PM – 7PM ON-BOARD SCREENING Matinee Tours Come aboard The Floating Cinema and watch watery films from The Floating Cinema archive including Barging Through London (Again) by Somewhere, as well as films created in Bradford-on-Avon. FREE, booking essential.

BATH Meet at Dundas Aqueduct, Brassknocker Basin, Monkton Combe, BATH, BA2 7JD Public transport: Bath Spa (rail)

SATURDAY 4 JULY 2 – 4PM WALKING TOUR Venom and Vittles guided walk Artists Alice Vandeleur-Boorer, Heath Bunting, Rowan Wood and Ash Leigh will lead a guided walk of both poisonous and edible plants within the Avon Valley between Bradford-on-Avon and Bath before joining the boat for refreshments. FREE, booking essential.

BRISTOL Moored for five days in Bristol Floating Harbour, various locations.

7 JULY 1 – 4PM WORKSHOP Making Music from Noise Working with Yann Seznec’s collected library of sounds gathered throughout The Floating Cinema’s journey from London to Bristol, you will learn how to create new sound scores from ambient and everyday sounds. Suitable for students, graduates and those with some experience in the use of music composition software such as Ableton Live, Logic or Garage Band. FREE, booking essential.

7 JULY 6:30 – 8PM TALK / WORKSHOP The Slogramme Approach – Conversations on Art in the Public Realm Workshop and discussion on slower approaches to commissioning art in the public realm and the role of the curator as an independent voice in creating ambitious works that truly reflect the narratives of the city. FREE, booking essential.

8 JULY 11 – 5PM ON-BOARD SCREENING Make Yourself at Home: Bristol’s Archives Revealed What does it mean to have an archive and can anyone have one? Join archivists and speakers as they discuss Bristol’s history on film alongside screenings of films from Bristol Record Office. FREE, booking essential.

9 JULY 3 – 5PM, 6 – 8PM TOURS Somewhere on the Ballast Seed Garden Join Somewhere for an afternoon of special tours to Arnolfini’s Floating Ballast Seed Garden. Following a chance to explore the Garden, Somewhere will discuss their own practice in creating gardens and will screen related short films on-board the cinema. You are invited to share your experiences of community growing projects. Admission £7.00 (£5.00 conc.), to book call 0117 917 2300 or visit arnolfini.org.uk

10 JULY 11 – 2PM WORKSHOP Cube-Cola Lab Create your very own cola from an open source recipe on-board The Floating Cinema. The Cube Microplex (Bristol) is possibly the only volunteer-run cinema in the UK to manufacture its own cola in-house. The Cube’s Kayle Brandon and Kate Rich present a real time, DIY workshop/lab on how to make Cube-Cola from scratch, using techniques siphoned from the worlds of laboratory science and cake-making. Suitable for all ages. FREE, booking essential.

10 JULY 3:30 – 5PM TALK What Does It Take to Really Make an Independent Cinema? Speakers from Somewhere, UP Projects and the Cube Microplex discuss what it actually takes to both build or secure an independent cinema space and then create a programme that is also independent and unique. FREE, booking essential.

10 JULY 5:30 7:00 OR 8:30PM TOURS 70 Films in 70 Minutes: Tour Screenings of The Film That Buys the Cinema Take an evening journey through Bristol and see familiar sites in a new way – either from the deck of The Floating Cinema or watching one of the 70 artists’ works that all contribute to this unique film made to raise funds for the one and only Cube cinema – a much loved, unique Bristol resource. All tours are free but donations to the Cube Microplex fund are encouraged. FREE, booking essential.

11 JULY 8 – 11PM OPEN AIR FILM Swansong at Sunset Celebrate our last night in Bristol with the premiere of sound installation Neither Here nor There by artist-in-residence Yann Seznec. The work is a cumulative composition of collected sounds gathered and donated along our journey from London. An al fresco screening of Somewhere’s new short film Repeat to Flourish will follow before Penny Woolcock’s archive feature epic From the Sea to the Land Beyond (2012) which explores a century of life on Britain’s coastline with a soundtrack by British Sea Power. FREE, booking essential.

RETURN JOURNEY 16 JULY 12 – 4PM INSTALLATION & WORKSHOP BRADFORD-ON-AVON Moored at the Café, The Wharf, Frome Road, BA15 1LE Public transport: Bradford-on-Avon (rail) As The Floating Cinema embarks on its return journey, experience Yann Seznec’s brand new floating sound installation Neither Here nor There, created with people who live and work along the tour route. Yann will also lead a workshop using the ‘library of forgotten floating sounds’ collected along the journey. FREE, drop-in.

18 JULY 8 – 10:30PM INSTALLATION & OPEN AIR FILM DEVIZES Moored at Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, SN10 1EB Public transport: Route 10 or 11 (bus) Experience Yann Seznec’s floating sound installation created with people who live and work along the tour route, followed by an open air screening of Somewhere’s Repeat to Flourish. FREE, drop-in.

20 JULY 12 – 4PM INSTALLATION HONEYSTREET Moored at The Barge Inn, Honeystreet, SN9 5PS Public transport: Pewsey (rail) Experience Yann Seznec’s floating sound installation Neither Here nor There, created with people who live and work along the tour route. FREE, drop-in.

25 & 26 JULY 10 – 5PM ON-BOARD SCREENING NEWBURY WATERWAYS FESTIVAL Moored at Victoria Park, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 1EL Public transport: Newbury (rail)

Come aboard and watch watery films from the archive including Somewhere’s new film Repeat to Flourish – a visual odyssey of the Kennet and Avon Canal’s industrial past and present day renaissance created from found footage and archive film. FREE, drop-in.

2 AUGUST 8 – 10PM OPEN AIR FILM BRENTFORD Moored at Brentford Lock, TW8 8LD Public transport: Boston Manor (tube) & route E8 (bus) As the Tour concludes in the location where it began, marvel at the changing landscapes, people and history of the journey through an evening of film and sound installation. FREE, booking essential.

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Visitor Info The full film and events programme can be found online. Most events are free of charge but booking is essential due to limited capacity on-board. To book please visit: www.floatingcinema.info/events Visitors enter at their own risk. Young people under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult, unless otherwise stated in the programme. We are continuously exploring ways of making The Floating Cinema more accessible. Currently, the vessel is not wheelchair accessible, however if you would like more details about access, please email [email protected] Volunteer Tour Ambassadors We are recruiting Volunteer Tour Ambassadors to join us on the journey. The Ambassadors will play an important role in helping to set up and run events, marketing and getting local people involved. Training is provided for Tour Ambassadors as well as expenses. To find out more email [email protected]