Sunderland Dragon set to take flight
Do you want to help the launch of The Fire Station be a flaming success?
The hunt is on to find people who want to be part of a Sunderland Dragon performance piece, a new take on the Lambton Worm, which will launch the city’s new cultural venue on November 23.
The large-scale, live performance will officially open The Fire Station after the £3.5million transformation of the Edwardian fire station on High Street West.
With the help of 200 local people, the event will be performed by Periplum, an internationally-acclaimed outdoor theatre company.
The performance will be the culmination of a £120,000 six-month project, which has been partly commissioned by The Mac Trust, which owns The Fire Station, and The Cultural Spring arts project.
Community participaThe tion projects, which will feed into the performance, start in September.
Emma Horsman, project director for the Cultural Spring, explained: “There will be two stages to the community sessions. The first few will be taster sessions in drama, dance and music, with our three delivery partners, Dance City, Live Theatre and Sunderland Music Education Hub, working together.”
The sessions will be hosted in venues in Pennywell, Pallion, Hendon and at Sunderland College.
opening performance, which will be a mixture of movement, music, pyrotechnics and drama, is expected to attract an audience of between 1,500 and 2,000 people and will be presented outside of and around The Fire Station on the same night as the city’s Christmas Lights switch on.
Toregisteryourinterestin attending the twice-weekly two-hour community sessions, email the Cultural Spring’s Georgia Shippen at georgia.shippen@theculturalspring.org.uk