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THURSDAY 23 JUNE

●● A CARTOON HISTORY OF HERE with IAN McMILLAN & TONY HUSBAND Spoken word, comedy 7.30pm-8.30pm King Edward Street Chapel Ticket: £12.50 Supported by Peaks & Plains Housing Trust Comedy, cartoonery, poetry and improv! Created by the audience with poet, broadcaster and comedian Ian McMillan and Cartoonist of the Year Tony Husband. A fast-flowing, interactive, rapid-rafting adventure which reflects upon local stories and legends. (Suitable for all ages) “World-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers” Dame Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet Laureate

FRIDAY 24 JUNE

●● SECRET HOUSE CONCERT SERIES No.2: Black Road Blues 8pm-9pm Meet: 7.45pm, The Navigation Pub, Black Road Tickets: £6 (online only), booking essential Jazz enthusiasts, Claire and Phil’s open up their garden and play host to some saxophone classics and smooth jazz. Lounge alongside the canal for an intimate performance and some easy listening tunes. ●● ACOUSTIC SANCTUARY Music 8pm-11.30pm King Edward Street Chapel Ticket: £10 Acoustic Sanctuary returns to Barnaby with an evening of the best unplugged music in this 17th century chapel. Londonbased singer songwriter Gideon Conn headlines a line-up of some of Macc’s finest talent, including Tom Linton, Kezia, Dave Hudson and Tim Woodhouse. Curated by Andy Hughes.

SATURDAY 25 JUNE

●● MACC-POW! Mini (but Mighty) Comic-Art Convention 10am-4pm Charles Roe House FREE In association with Creative Hero. Macclesfield’s first ever comic-art convention celebrating comics and artists from around the world and embracing amazing local talent in a collision of comic-book coolness! Join local cartoonists Marc Jackson and others cosying up to great creators and international names. In association with Makers Place and Incubation Arts. ●● SPACESHIP CHALLENGE Science 1pm-3pm Market Place, FREE In association with Macclesfield College. Celebrating Macclesfield’s long association with astronomy and aerospace engineering, this competition invites teams to create a solution to a real SPACE problem. Come and witness the results with Dr Lucy Rogers, science writer and space engineer. ●● SECRET HOUSE CONCERT SERIES No. 3: West Bond Street Stage 6pm-8pm Meet 5.45pm: Scout Hut Car Park, West Bond Street Tickets: £6/ £3 (under 18) Russell and family host a garden party with a difference... ... It’s Glastonbury weekend and Macc hosts its own modest stage... DJ3 perform live at Barnaby! Cracking tunes, a warm and friendly welcome and don’t forget to check out the Man Shed!

SUNDAY 26 JUNE

●● TREACLE TAKEOVER 10am-3pm Market Place, FREE In association with Treacle Market. Barnaby’s pop-up green space gets the Treacle treatment! Macclesfield’s monthly arts, antiques, crafts, food and drink market, Treacle takes over the MacclesField with a curious array of treats in time and space. ●● BIG BRASS BONANZA Music 1pm-2.45pm St Michael’s Churchyard FREE In association with Macclesfield Youth Brass Band. A constellation of brass talent from across the North West play show songs and film music for your entertainment. Pick up a Treacle Market treat and picnic on the lawns! ●● SECRET HOUSE CONCERT SERIES No. 4: The House of Curiosities 3.30pm-4.30pm Meet: 3.15pm, The Navigation Pub, Black Road Tickets: £4 (online only), booking essential Maria hosts an intimate salon featuring all manner of books, paintings and curios, including an intriguing organ that sits proudly at the centre of the family living room. The walls speak and the bellows sound in this gentle afternoon journey through belongings and memories. ●● SECRET HOUSE CONCERT SERIES No.5 : The Glory Days Sessions 6pm-8pm Meet: 5.45pm, The Dolphin Pub, Windmill Road Ticket: £7 Claire and Mike host a garden party with a difference at their home, a former pub, which launched the musical careers of many of Macc’s best bands. Barnaby conjures up a cocktail of musical delights from acoustic to band sets in what is now a living room and canalside garden. Relax and enjoy great music at this the final festival event of 2016. ●● HILLS UP STREETS Walk, literature Friday 17 - Sunday 26 June Various venues, FREE Macclesfield is blessed with ‘hills up streets’, the Peak District views that emerge as a corner is turned. The spots where these vistas appear are marked with words by Barnaby Artist in Residence Ailsa Holland, inviting a moment of contemplation. Take the #HillsUpStreets and tweet the views! ●● BACK WALLGATE BOOKS Literature, Saturday 18 - Sunday 25 June, 10am-4pm Back Wallgate, FREE Tucked away in this cobbled alley, two brick alcoves are transformed into a tiny library and reading space by Barnaby Artist in Residence, Ailsa Holland. Browse the thrillers, childrens stories or poetry. Take a moment and settle down in the ‘book nook’, borrow something and return it another day or replace with another literary treat. ●● THE MACCLES-FIELD Sunday 19 June, 12pm6pm; Monday 20 - Friday 24 June, 12-2pm; Saturday 25 June, 12pm-6pm; Sunday 26 June, 10am-3pm Market Place FREE Please keep ON the grass! A new green space created on the cobbles to host a splendidly strange and eclectic mix, from picnics to performance, quizzes and karaoke. Nothing appears twice so drop by or check website for details. ●● POP-UP ARTISTS’ STUDIO In association with Macc Art Lounge and East Street Arts, FREE Venue tbc A temporary studio space in the town centre. Track it down, stumble upon it and glimpse the goings on. A chance to see local artists at work and talk about their practice. A different artist and art form every two days. ●● LA LUNE Barnaby Festival national commission from Wild Rumpus 18-25 June Christ Church www.lalune.org.uk The spellbinding story of La Lune unfolds over eight days... An astronomer has brought the stars and the moon down to earth. Macclesfield is full of starlight. But all is not well. Residents and visitors will have to work together to save the town! Take part in The Astronomer’s Story (ticketed) an immersive theatrical adventure in Christ Church and visit a most unusual Observatory (FREE) on the lawns (Saturday 18 and Sunday 19). Keep your eyes peeled each evening at dusk for a mysterious Roving Moon, decorate our town with stars, take part in the amazing constellation of stars at the Barnaby Carnival Parade (Saturday 18 June) and gather at the spectacular culmination for The Moon Rising (FREE, Saturday 25 June). ●● LA LUNE: THE ASTRONOMER’S STORY Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June Theatre Christ Church 10am, 11.30am, 2pm, 3.30pm, 5pm, 6.30pm Ticket: £8/ £6 (early bird SK10 & SK11 residents only) Step into this incredible story from award winning LAStheatre. Find out why the town is filled with stars, what has happened to put Macclesfield in such peril, and how you can help the astronomer with his quest. A 45 minute experience suitable for adults and children (aged 4+) which takes place in the atmospheric setting of Christ Church. Secrets are uncovered, friends made and lost, and we face the greatest challenge of our lives. Book your tickets to secure your place on the La Lune adventure. This world premiere is created by LAStheatre, produced by Macclesfield’s very own Wild Rumpus and commissioned by Barnaby Festival 2016. ●● LA LUNE: THE OBSERVATORY Music, film, workshops, science Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June Christ Church lawns 10am-9pm, FREE Tents are filled with music, film, experiments, street food and stars. Encounter hands-on science at the Space School and the glorious eduPOP science band Being 747. Hear from leading children’s authors Kiran Millwood-Hargreaves (Girl of Ink & Stars), Ben Newman (Astrocat) and Abi Elphinstone (Dreamsnatchers) and Rosie Wellesley (Moonlight Bear) and enjoy a pop-up planetarium, star-making, classical music, storytelling, and space and star themed family films as the sun begins to set. See www.lalune.org.uk for more details. ●● LA LUNE: FOLLOW THE ROVING MOON Saturday 18 June - Saturday 25 June Venue: Mystery locations All day, FREE A beautiful moon appears on rooftops. Each night, before dusk falls, it will mysteriously move to a new location. Follow the roving moon and use the hashtags #lalune #macclesfieldmoon and #barnabyfestival to tell us where you have spotted it. Sketches, photographs, videos, stories and poems documenting the Roving Moon will be gathered on www.lalune.org.uk ●● LA LUNE: THE MOON RISING Saturday 25 June Christ Church Lawns 8.45pm-9.30pm, FREE The spectacular culmination of La Lune. To save the town and make the moon rise, bring your friends, bring your families, bring your stars to Christ Church. Our astronomer may return, bringing amazing sights to behold – but only if the whole town gathers. Stay up past bedtime, just this once, because curious and beautiful things can happen as the summer sun sets... La Lune is produced by Macclesfield’s very own Wild Rumpus, creators of the award-winning ‘Just So Festival’and commissioned by Barnaby Festival 2016. La Lune is financially support by Arts Council England, Cheshire East Council, Peaks & Plains Housing Trust, The Granada Foundation, The Churches Conservation Trust and Macclesfield Town Council. ●● VISUAL ART – Barnaby Festival national visual art commissions Friday 17 June, 6.30pm Saturday 18 - Sunday 25 June, 10am-4pm Supported by Arts Council England ●● BEDWYR WILLIAMS: Flexure Townley Street Chapel FREE This short film observes Macclesfield, its inhabitants and a yoga teacher, whilst exploring ideas about space, travel and our local/universal lives. Having represented Wales at the 2013 Venice Biennale, Williams is shortlisted for the Artes Mundi Prize. Flexure forms part of his solo exhibition at the Barbican Curve Gallery, London in September. ●● LILIANE LIJN: Moonmeme, 1992ongoing Savage Tower, St Michael’s, FREE In real-time computer simulation Moonmeme, Liliane Lijn writes the word ‘SHE’ across the moon in letters large enough to be seen from earth,usingthe movements of moon, earth and sun during a lunar month to demonstrate the interlocking of opposites. Internationally acclaimed Lijn explores language, mythology and the relationship between light and matter. ●● HONDARTZA FRAGA: From Dark Matter to White Noise Costa Coffee (attic) FREE Inspired by Cheshire’s iconic Lovell Telescope and in association with Jodrell Bank, Fraga explores the telescope’s history, relationship with its surroundings, and the remote places it explores. From Dark Matter to White Noise is a new commission of drawing and video work from the Leeds-based artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally. ●● HANNAH IMLACH: Canopy Lens Sparrow Park, FREE A honeycomb of glass-like components is suspended in branches, magnifying and blurring the leaves above and views beyond. Canopy Lens plays with dappled light, casting hexagonal shadows onto the trunks and ground below. Scottish artist Hannah Imlach researches our relationship with the environment through sculpture, and is currently Artist-in-Residence at Heriot-Watt University. ●● SIMON WOOLHAM: The Macc Walks: Taking-Back-Space (Janet, Laura and Pete) Town Hall (outside) FREE Re-enacted filmed vignettes based on walks with Maxonians Janet, Laura and Pete. Starting from the house where they were born, grew up or now live, Woolham encourages streams of consciousness and creates layers of ‘memory tapes’. ●● HANNAH WOOLL: Engaging with Spaces through Objects Windowsills: 12 Church Street West 99 Bond Street 40 Jordangate 55 Prestbury Road 10 Riseley Street 14 Shaw Street FREE Fascinated by the value given to objects and what turns them into art, Wooll explores domestic space. Artworks in six windows create a trail to be viewed from the outside in. ●● TOM BASKEYFIELD & MARIO POPHAM: Shaped by Stone Jack Sevens Art Yard and Tegg’s Nose Visitors Centre, FREE Over millennia we have shaped stone: turned hillsides into quarries, strata into streets. Through drawing and photography, walks and dialogue, the artists explore this relationship. ●● VAL LEAR, RACHAEL KING, MARK HELLIWELL: No Space Like Home Charles Roe House (ground floor), FREE An exploration of the life of a hoarder: the nature of obsession, compulsion and a disordered life. Through photography, video and poignant interviews, No Space Like Home reveals the personality behind the chaos.