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FREE SATURDAY 6TH JULY 2019 TRACTION CREWE FEATURING Science, movement and art festival 10am - 3:30pm Crewe Town Centre and Heritage Centre www.tractioncrewe.co.uk CREWE TOWN COUNCIL Cheshire East www.sparepartsfestival.co.uk Est 2013 Council WELCOME TO TRACTION trAction Crewe, organised by Crewe Town Council, returns with its packed programme WITH SPECIAL of free family focused activity. This exciting THANKS TO: event brings arts, science, industry, motion and engineering together to capture the imaginations of children and the young at heart alike. From arts and street theatre, to workshops, ice cream vans, vintage vehicles and cars there is something for everyone to enjoy at trAction. trAction brings its own brand of edu-tainment with lots of STEM activities taking place in Lyceum Square bringing science, technology, engineering and maths to life (pages 4 and 5). Crewe Heritage Centre will be displaying classic cars, vintage lorries and buses plus a selection of Whitby Morrison’s ice cream vans and their fascinating locomotives. Music from The Cat 107.9FM (10am - 3.30pm) and live music from Green Bullet (11.30am and 1pm). Learn about life in a 15th century camp in Memorial Square (10.30am - 2pm). Look out for highlights including the SpareParts Arts Parade at 3pm, (see map for route), which will be packed with crazy contraptions and flying machines created by local community groups and local schoolchildren performing with The DMPC. It’s not too late to get involved – join in with our workshops (page 9) and make something for the parade. Head to Market Square, Lyceum Square and Memorial Square to watch bicycle powered theatre, aerial artists and even a trip to the sky with Cloudscapes. (Pages 10 onwards). Page 3 4WARDFUTURES Craft and Technology activities Lyceum Square 10am – 3pm trAction are working with 4wardFutures, a registered charity working Flight Workshop And Flight Zone to empower young people to explore and understand the impact of Build paper and foam aeroplanes, fit them to a digital technology on future career opportunities across all sectors. powered frame and fly them in the Flight Zone. Join in with the FREE activities running throughout the day. UFO Obstacle Course Swansway Motors Navigate UFOs through a lunar obstacle Race remote-controlled cars around a racetrack course using only hand gestures – how fast and – who will win? Parents or children? accurate can you be? Railway Adventure Balfour Beatty Construction Zone Engineers from Bombardier and Network Rail Have a go at building bridges and towers using need your help to get a group of friends to the large cardboard bricks. airport - a must for Lego lovers! David Jewkes is Exploring A Delivery Truck With AO also exhibiting his large model train. Don a high-visibility vest and get in the driver’s Cardboard Adventures seat of one of their iconic green trucks! Build and ‘fly’ cardboard planes around the Manchester Metropolitan University Square with Ben Wye. A chance to drive remote-controlled and Craft Workshop autonomous vehicles. Feeling crafty? Louise Jewkes and Crewe Cheshire College South & West Lyceum Theatre are running a craft workshop Your chance to get up close to an off-road buggy. with a transport/ flight theme. Total People GPS Treasure Hunt Model lathe demonstration. Get to grips with GPS and create a treasure Games map and solve clues – will you find the treasure? Giant chess and giant snakes and ladders. Air Balloon Crafts Make your very own balloon-shaped badges with Tebbits & Co. 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Page 6 Page 7 ICIPATION GET INVOLVED ON THE DAY WITH SpareParts Festivals also work Futuristic Rocket with schools and local people Crewe Library OUR ART WORKSHOPS: to provide opportunities to get WW2 Fighter Plane involved in artist-led workshops Beechmere Retirement Village Market Square Crewe Library & Creative Crewe and appear in its arts parades. 10.00am -2.30pm 12.30pm - 2.30pm Flight of Planes Junk Yard Creations Workshops – Family Arts Workshop – In Crewe this year over 150 Crewe YMCA Join local junk artist, Sue Guildford, Make suns, moons, stars and local people will take part in the Hot Air Balloons for an exciting workshop to make planets for the parade. SpareParts Arts Parade as it makes Cheshire Arts for Health your own eagle mask out of plastic its way through the town centre in a Crewe Lifestyle Centre Dragon bags and cardboard. Then join cavalcade of colour and creativity. Adelaide School 2pm the parade wearing your mask to Sandbach Ship Hip Hop Dance workshop - From rockets to hot air balloons, accompany Eddie the Eagle, Sue’s Sandbach Art Room Join the Love Train Dance Crew dragons to 10ft puppets – Crewe has own creation. Love Train Dance Crew and the DOPE Male Performance them all and more. Local Primary School Children 10.00am - 2.30pm Company and learn a short routine and the DMPC See if you can spot these Bling Your Ride with Russell Kirk - and dance alongside professional Crewe specialities along Bring your trikes, bikes, dancers in the SpareParts parade. with all our SpareParts artists… And much more… wheelbarrows, prams, wheelchairs, mobility scooters to transform and decorate to show off in the parade. Page 8 Page 9 POST OFFICE A532 LYCEUM SQ 4WARDFUTURES ACTIVITIES FINISH START A532 VICTORIA ST FESTIVAL MAP & KEY CREWE LIFESTYLE CENTRE A532 MARKET SQUARE 15TH CENTURY CAMP LYCEUM SQUARE MEMORIAL SQ MARKET SQ MEMORIAL SQUARE LIBRARY DELAMERE ST A5019 4WARDFUTURES ACTIVITIES PRINCE ALBERT ST CREWE HERITAGE CENTRE 15TH CENTURY CAMP CW1 2DB (5 MINS WALK) CHESTER ST CHESTER ST PARADE ROUTE CREWE ST ROUTES STARTING POINTS CREWE LIBRARY TOILETS A5019 FIRST AID & LOST CHILDREN CHESTER BRIDGE PRINCE ALBERT ST CREWE LIFESTYLE MOSS SQUARE Page 10 CENTRE Page 11 BICYCLE BOY By Helen Eastman Productions Sam remembers his granddad teaching him to ride and pretending to be his favourite superhero, Bicycle Boy. Join us for a musical adventure and be prepared to help pedal power the performance. The SpareParts Festival is returning Lyceum Square to trAction with performances and Times: 10.15am, 12.10pm, 2.15pm experiences to delight visitors both big and small alike. Starting at 10am and running right through the day, explore what CLOUDSCAPES happens when transport and arts collide. By Gobbledegook Theatre Watch out for our walkabout artists Get comfy on giant beanbags and contemplate the clouds whilst listening to popping up around the town centre – you a daughter’s journey with her father across Route 66. never know where they could be. For more Memorial Square information about all our artists please visit Times: 10.30am -2.30pm sparepartsfestival.co.uk SPAREPARTS PARADE CLOUDSCAPES Don’t miss the SpareParts Parade starting at 3pm where our international artists, along with over 150 people from the local community, will come together in a celebration of a great day. Join in with the cavalcade of curiosities, contraptions and musical vehicles designed by artists and local people as it makes its way from Victoria Street through the town centre to Lyceum Square. Start at Victoria Street Time: 3pm Page 12 Page 13 BAND AT THE END ROUTES OF THE WORLD By Theatre Témoin By Ramshacklicious An adventure exploring destinations, journeys Arriving in a cloud of raucous brass-heavy and who we meet along the way told using music, on their homemade, flaming and clowning, comedy and large-scale puppetry. smoking battle-church, the band are Join Routes at one of the following locations convinced that the inevitable end of the and walk with them as the story unfolds to a world is upon us. culmination in Market Square • Prince Albert Street on Memorial Square Memorial Square • Corner of Market Street and Heath Street Time: 12.30pm • Where Victoria Street meets Queensway Times: 11.00am & 1pm SHIPWRECKS By Citrus Arts KANTABEN ROLLER BIRD A highly physical show combining circus By Global Grooves with dance and drama, inspired by stories of Kantaben Roller Bird is beautiful and playful, wreckers, rescues, and undrownable sailors. flapping her silk wings, soaring and swooping Lyceum Square high over your heads accompanied by her Times: 11.35am & 1.45 pm festival band. Pop-up performances, Town Centre MOON By 2 Faced Dance Company THE HURLY BURLY Follow Jack as he meets Mr Moon and By Rag and Bone together, they embark on an amazing A mobile sound sculpture packed with an array adventure; what secrets, characters and of bells, sirens, alarms, whistles and percussion. surprises will they discover on their quest? The Hurly Burly creates a world of rusty waltzes, MOON is audio described and contains foghorn funk and wasteland folk dance. British Sign Language. Lyceum Square Market Square Times: 11.00am & 12.50pm Times: 12.15pm & 2.15pm Page 14 Page 15 GRANNY TOURISMO DRIVE BY COMEDY By Larkin’ About By Pemberton & Hague Listen for the screech of burning rubber. No A push powered miniature gangster car with pavement is safe. Meet the first and only juggling, fast hustling comedy card games shopping trolley dance display team. and a perfect photo opportunity.