Brace yourselves for a brand new event guaranteed to get your adrenalin flowing... Stockton Council are getting set to host the Stockton Duathlon Festival.
Currently shaping up to place itself amongst the top races in the country, this event will be held in the heart of town on fully closed roads around the University and Riverside area on Sunday, 21 April 2013.
Stockton Borough Council, in partnership with professional events company, Trihard, have high hopes for this duathlon and are keen to attract a wide range of 'athletes' from the elite right through to novice/first timers. A choice of three races will be on offer to suit every competitor; with a novice race over 2k run - 10k bike - 1k run, through to Sprint and Standard Distance races for the more accomplished or adventurous. See www.stockton.gov.uk/duathlon for details.
This year we set up a pop-up shop on Stockton High Street as the base for SIRF Central. It played host to an exhibition of SIRF highlights and allowed people to get involved in the festival.
The French company Ilotopie believes that every river is a reservoir of the imagination running through the urban landscape.
They solved countless technical difficulties to create Water Fools, a dream world where beds and lamp-posts find their way into the middle of the river, to be navigated by incredible machines that skip lightly across the surface of the water like insects.
It's a performance that mustn't be missed; a treat for the eyes and ears full of constant surprises, brilliant colours and pyrotechnic effects.
A man inhabits a rather strange world constructed from hundreds of drawers and boxes that looks like a pop-up junk shop -- it's a place where he performs incredible acrobatics with unnerving skill in some impossibly tight squeezes.
World class circus from the island of Majorca. Performed by Res de Res at Stockton High Street (Dodshon's Fountain).
Institut Ramon Llull
In a world where tower blocks are stone mountains and city walls are urban tapestries retelling epic fights, Michael keeps away from the warring tribes until a passer by helps him out of a tight situation.Instantly, he is pulled into the gang culture he has tried to escape.
The city spirals out of control as battle lines are drawn but will Michael succeed in ending the war?
In rhythmic, sizzling poetry, and with a live soundtrack from drummer Aki Fujimoto and flautist Mikey Kirkpatrick, Inua Ellams conjures the violence of a city not unlike London and imagines a more beautiful world beyond it.
Commissioned by the Albany. Funded by Arts Council England.
Developed with the support of the Almeida Theatre.
White Suit from Helen Chadwick Song Theatre, combines close harmony singing with larger than life physical performance, White Suit -- performed at Green Dragon Yard, tells the story of a landmine survivor.
It's a surreal piece of theatrical storytelling features singing armaments and dancing arms dealers!
Commissioned by Without Walls.
SIRF 25's opening event is set to be spectacular, specially created for the year of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
You will feel the earth move and the sky explode in this epic re-interpretation of a famous myth.The 8-metre tall figure of Prometheus rises from the ground and creates fire and humanity in defiance of the God Zeus.
This production is a unique collaboration between Graeae Theatre (UK) and LaFuradelsBaus (Spain) that will inspire with extraordinary stagecraft, large-scale projection, giant puppets and mass aerial choreography involving an integrated cast of over 60 disabled and non-disabled volunteers drawn from Stockton and all over the North-East.
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Stockton-on-Tees 2012 River Rat Race
Stockton Cycling Festival 2012
Stockton Town Centre Regeneration
James at Stockton Weekender 2012
SIRF Highlights - Stockton Community Carnival
SIRF Highlights - SIRF Central
SIRF Highlights - Pontes - Res De Res
Prometheus Awakes - Dress Rehearsal
