JULY 13 2019 www.thetrawler.net FREE 13.07.19 Get your tickets South Essex College is proud villagegreenfestival.comfrom For more information about HELLO... arts organisation Metal to support Village Green 2019 go to metalculture.com CONTRIBUTORS e’re back! Metal celebrates 10 Colette Bailey editions of Village Green this year. Hannah Brailsford Started in 2008 as part of London 2012 Ed Clarke WCultural Olympiad, our not-for-profit, family-centred Jules Easlea community arts and music festival once again brings you a diverse Camilla Fox mix of performance, activities, workshops, marketplaces, green Liam Jefferies spaces and food. Jon Kipps Simon La Roche You’ll know some of our headliners this year but don’t miss the Reshma Madhi future headliners! Remember Rag N Bone Man in 2016? Village Sean McLoughlin Green was his first festival headline slot. We’ve watched Nothing But Emma Mills Thieves develop and grow over the years, as we have too with Ruti, Tillie Peel 2018 winner of the Voice, (on our mainstage this year!). Did you see Dan Turpin Passenger in the Sundown Arts tent with just 200 other lucky people? Lu Williams Sharon Williams Look around the whole festival, spot tomorrow’s stars on the smaller stages and take part in activities that you’ve never tried before: you may discover a new skill or hobby. Join in something different, come PHOTOGRAPHY out of your comfort zone! By coming to Village Green, you’re helping Si Brandon to support the brilliant local creative community. The festival offers sibrandon.co.uk them the chance to hone their skills, find new audiences and meet other artists and performers. Kana Waiwaiku Instagram: @kanawaiwaiku Metal is very proud of our free schools’ day: Village Green: Next Generation which for five years has gathered more than 4,000 local school children each year to celebrate their creativity, offering them DESIGN BY the opportunity to engage in cultural activities in an unprecedented Rich With festival of music and the arts! justgrow.co A dedicated volunteer team makes Village Green so successful. Local Working together to inspire businesses, the local councils, freelancers and the town’s transport infrastructure are all vital components too. We want to thank them all and thank you for supporting Village Green over its 9 previous and create opportunities editions. 14 stages and 14 plus areas to explore, more than ever before. So grab your water bottle, hop on a bus, take the train, put on your trainers and head to the park to join in the fun. With BUSTED and Fun Lovin’ There is still time to apply for September 2019 Criminals headlining, popular artists returning and new curators bringing fresh acts and ideas, Village Green 10 is all set to be our best Once you’ve finished with Trawler festival yet. If you missed us in 2018, don’t miss us in 2019! Paper dispose of it in a responsible Visit www.southessex.ac.uk manner. You know like lining a cat litter box or rabbit hutch, using as Sean McLoughlin insulation or fancy wallpaper. Festival Director SPECIAL THANKS TO TRAWLER: VILLAGE GREEN 2019 3 10 Years of Village Green 4 TRAWLER: VILLAGE GREEN 2019 TRAWLER: VILLAGE GREEN 2019 5 Photo: Simon Fowler Photo: Jasmine McKenzie Photo: Jasmine KeeblePhoto: Bradley Photo: Allen Matthew Photo: Webber jon VG: Next Generation WORDS: CAMILLA FOX ince 2013, Metal has extended running through the day, there is a huge array Village Green to include a free festival of creative activities to discover. day exclusively for the young people Mini Green Sof Southend. Village Green: Next This year we’re thrilled to be hosting our Generation takes place the day before Village very own Clay Olympics, workshops with WORDS: CAMILLA FOX Green, creating an immersive opportunity for the Amy Winehouse Foundation, visual young creatives to experience music, art and comedy from The Care Home Tour, a pop-up or puppetry shows, sing-alongs, upcycled objects which have been turned culture within a safe festival setting. This year Print Wagon, creative sessions with Create98, sensory play and more, head to Mini into instruments and experiments. You’ll be is our biggest event yet, with more than 4,000 Bollywood dancing, iPad Songwriting, Green this year, located in our brand amazed what you can recycle! young people joining us from over 30 different interactive performances with N-Act Theatre, Fnew performance space! schools, community groups and organisations! an exploration of culture with Priya Mistry, For our youngest festival goers, this much musical expression with TIME, explosive Within a shaded area, you can meet The Lost loved area also offers a free opportunity to gain As always, our amazing main stage line-up is shows from the Science Boffins, building Leigh Goose with Wild Story Theatre and go your very first Arts Award with Discover in a filled with the next generation of musicians sessions with Bricks4Kidz, masterclasses led on a musical adventure with Mrs H and the Day, led by artist Claire Harrup. Drop in and and artists. We invite groups and schools by theatre and music professionals plus loads Singalong Band. In this corner of Village Green, explore the arts! to bring their choirs, rock bands and dance more! you can also meet dinosaurs in the swamp groups to take the stage and perform for an with Buttercup Club, leap into a new story Find us next to the N-Act Theatre Stage, under audience of their peers. The result is a brilliant In order to make this event free and accessible from Usborne Books, go wild with Taleshakers the trees. showcase of local talent! for young people to attend, Village Green: Next and so much more. Generation relies entirely on funding from On your journey through Village Green, keep Village Green: Next Generation invites anyone Arts Council England, Southend Borough Come and visit Play the Rig and become an eye out for Oscar the Fox, brought to you by from Reception to College age to celebrate Council, South Essex College and the support a budding percussionist! A musical Festive Road. Oscar is a perambulating, pedal their creativity, perform on a professional from our Village Green attendees. Thank you playground for the whole family, created powered, larger than life fox. At 8 metres long, festival stage and sign up for a day of artist-led for being part of the Village Green community! with an installation of curiosities built from you can’t miss him! workshops. With over 50 different workshops 6 TRAWLER: VILLAGE GREEN 2019 TRAWLER: VILLAGE GREEN 2019 7 disabilities, it is also about celebrating difference and looking towards a more equal New song for and enlightened future.” Jason said ‘“I’m looking forward to learning about new ways to collaborate and finding the even more simple ways to connect and Next Generation communicate through music!” The first performance of ‘We are the Future’ WORDS: JULES EASLEA will take place on Friday 12th July as part of Village Green: Next Generation. It will feature learning disabled musicians from The Music Man Project UK, primary school ETAL has brought together two disability to perform at the most prestigious children and special guest performers. The artists from completely different and aspirational venues. song will continue to be sung by children in ends of the creative spectrum: the future and be used for similar festivals in MDavid Stanley and Jason Perry to Jason Perry is an acclaimed Grammy awarded years to come. It will be available for children create a brand new song entitled “We Are The record producer and singer/songwriter to learn at schools across the country through Future” for Village Green: Next Generation. who has worked with the likes of McFly, online teaching resources and a professional McBusted, Don Broco, Matt Willis, Molotov, recording will be produced as a lasting legacy David Stanley is the founder and director of and Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly. Jason is the of the creative process and of the meaning a unique, award-winning music education singer in the UK alt rock band "A", who won and purpose behind Village Green: Next Jason Perry service for people with learning disabilities a Kerrang Award for Best British Band. As a Generation. called The Music Man Project UK. He is also freelance music supervisor, Jason has been David Stanley a campaigner, teacher, composer, pianist, Head of Music for Microsoft / Lift London percussionist and theatre organist. He and the head of music for Mind Candy / studied at the Guildhall School of Music Moshi Monsters. and Drama, King's College London, the Royal Academy of Music and the Institute of METAL asked David Stanley to compose the Education. David launched the UK’s first full- new song and invited his Southend-based time music education service specifically for students to lead the performance in front children and adults with learning disabilities of the thousands of local primary school in 2012. The ground-breaking Music Man children who attend Village Green: Next Project UK provides education, enjoyment Generation. This follows The Music Man and access to inspirational performance Project’s programme of using musicians with opportunities for everyone. David campaigns a learning disability to educate, inspire and for the equal rights of people with a learning instruct children from mainstream schools, delivered in partnership with Southend Music Education Hub ‘Music on Sea’. “It is about empowering children and, through the leading role David said “The song is a celebration of the Next Generation concept. It is about of young adults with learning empowering children and, through the disabilities, it is also about leading role of young adults with learning celebrating difference and Fox Photograph: Paul looking towards a more equal This project has generously been funded by Arts Council England and enlightened future.’ David Stanley 8 TRAWLER: VILLAGE GREEN 2019 TRAWLER: VILLAGE GREEN 2019 9 Photo: Matt AllenPhoto: Matt Attitude is Photo: Massey Mark Everything WORDS: EMMA MILLS AllenPhoto: Matt Hammers Photo: Matt illage Green has been collaborating with The St Christopher School Academy Trust has produced the charity Attitude Is Everything, who some very special Village Green button badges.