Visitors get lost in colour and space

Visitors in Bath were treated to a unique experience of the most intense colours during a 10-day arts festival at the Holburne Museum. With more than 25 brightly coloured chambers interlinked to form a labyrinth, visitors became lost in colour and space while enjoying a vast programme of music and performers on the museum’s front lawn. The Colourscape festival, which took place between Monday August 20 and Wednesday August 29, offered a programme of different performances each day. For the first four days visitors could enjoy family-friendly freeflowing workshops and performances. There was also Mongolian overtone singing, Tibetan singing bowls and instruments from round the world. On Friday 24, visitors experienced the symphony of the senses with music based on the sounds of the human body and dancers performing. Saturday’s performances included Sylvia Hallett playing a musical bicycle wheel with many unusual instruments of slate, shells and wood played by local musician Mike Adcock. The Consortium returned to the Holbourne Colourscape with a range of music from different size recorders on Sunday and Monday’s visitors were treated to sounds from the flutes of the world. On the final days of the festival, visitors were able to join in a final blast of music and colour. Colourscape was a very popular event and the museum had to create a new “virtual queuing” system to keep waiting time to a minimum. When visitors arrived they were given a number and a time to return to ensure their place in the ‘invisible’ queue was maintained. The £5 tickets could only be purchased on the day and with a 450 daily capacity the Holburne Museum website and Facebook page urged people to visit early as places sold out by 1pm.