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‘The Floating Cinema On Tour’ presents a brand new summer
programme of open air and on-board film screenings, performances, talks and events created for the waterways of the
South East and West of England.
The Floating Cinema will begin its epic journey from Brentford Lock,
travelling along the Kennet & Avon Canal, across West Berkshire and
Wiltshire, before taking up residency in Bristol. The ‘On Tour’ theme
celebrates the diversity of urban and rural living, a slower pace
of life and encourages a playful discovery of local landscapes and
heritage through archive film and music. The programme explores
the histories, myths and legends along the route including Reading’s
rock hall-of-fame, Wiltshire’s world-famous crop circles, and
alternative trade in historic market town, Newbury.
The return journey will feature new work by artist-in-residence
Yann Seznec who will create a floating library of forgotten sounds
during the outward journey, to be performed on the return.
Filmmakers Somewhere will also premiere their new film Repeat to
Flourish – a visual odyssey of the Kennet and Avon Canal’s industrial
past, subsequent decline and present day renaissance.
‘The Floating Cinema On Tour’ is curated by UP Projects with artist
duo Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie (Somewhere) and supported by
the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery, Arts Council
England and Canal & River Trust.
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BRENTFORD
Moored for three days at Brentford Lock, TW8 8LD
Public transport: Boston Manor (tube) & route E8 (bus)
THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2 – 7PM
WORKSHOP
Sounds of the Suburbs
The Floating Cinema’s artist-in-residence Yann Seznec challenges
you to record the sounds of your suburb. Visit Yann’s recording
station on-board the boat to take part in finding and recording
the sounds of Brentford. Collected sounds will form part of a new
sound commission to be performed when we return to Brentford
in August. Suitable for all ages. No experience necessary.
FREE, drop-in.
FRIDAY 5 JUNE 8PM
OPEN AIR FILM
Fanfare: The Floating Cinema
On Tour Launch!
We say bon voyage and officially launch The Floating Cinema On
Tour programme with live music, refreshments and open air film.
FREE, booking essential.
SATURDAY 6 JUNE 12 – 7PM Before the M4
ON-BOARD SCREENING
An afternoon of on-board screenings exploring the
changing landscape of Brentford through archive film.
FREE, booking essential.
READING
Moored for two days at Chestnut Walk, Reading, RG1 3BA
as part of Reading Water Fest 2015
Public transport: Reading (rail)
SATURDAY 13 JUNE 11 – 5PM & 8:30 – 11PM
No Sleep till Reading
ON-BOARD &
OPEN AIR SCREENING
A rolling programme of on-board archive films exploring Reading’s
Rock Hall of Fame, followed by a late night open air screening.
FREE, check website for booking.
SATURDAY 13 JUNE 12 – 4PM
WORKSHOP
The Sound Collectors
Field recording workshop. Join Yann Seznec on an audio voyage
around Reading to gather the sounds of the city into a collection
to form part of Yann’s new sound-art commission Neither Here
nor There. Suitable for all ages. No experience necessary.
FREE, booking essential.
SUNDAY 14 JUNE 12 – 4PM
WORKSHOP
Silence & Noise – Sound for Film Workshop
Participants will learn how to record and reorder alternative
sounds to create a new sound score for an existing archive film.
Suitable for ages 12+. No experience necessary. Equipment
provided. FREE, booking essential.
NEWBURY
FRIDAY 19 JUNE 12 – 4PM
Matinee Tours
WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 6PM
SCREENING & TALK
Yellowcake: How We Used to Work
Artist Gair Dunlop discusses new projects in his long term goal to
shed light on the legacy of Atomic Weapons and Energy Centres,
including his new film in development Yellowcake filmed at Harwell
Atomic Energy Research Establishment and his wider practice
exploring modernist landscapes, archive material and the memory
of progress. FREE, booking essential.
ON-BOARD SCREENING
FRIDAY 19 JUNE 6PM
Feral Trade Talk
ARTIST TALK
SATURDAY 27 JUNE 6PM
Crop Circles & Other Mysteries
SATURDAY 27 JUNE 8PM
CROFTON
DEVIZES
Moored at Crofton Beam Engine, Crofton Pumping Station
Crofton, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 3DW
[email protected]
Public transport: Great Bedwyn (rail)
ON-BOARD SCREENING
Come aboard The Floating Cinema and watch watery films from
The Floating Cinema archive including Barging Through London
(Again) by Somewhere. FREE (car park charge), drop-in.
WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 8 – 10PM
All Smoke & Mirrors
PERFORMANCE &
OPEN AIR FILM
Magnificent Crofton Beam Engines like you’ve never seen them
before! See the engines and grounds animated with an evening
of immersive archive film, music and digital projection.
Admission £4.50 (£4.00 conc.), drop-in.
TALK
Is crop circle-making art or deception? Circlemaker, artist and
author Dr. Rob Irving discusses the art, history and philosophy
behind the practice, examining some of the key sacred sites in
Wiltshire’s legend landscape, as centres of art or ritual activity.
Enjoy this talk with a pint of local Barge Inn ale ‘Croppie’ in hand!
FREE, booking essential.
Artist Kate Rich talks about her grocery business trading along
social networks; Feral Trade (Import-Export). Feral Trade uses the
excess baggage of existing journeys, in particular, the surplus hot
air of the art world as a freight resource. Current product lines
include coffee from Mexico, green tea from Fujian Province, Swiss
Alps cheese and Cube-Cola from Bristol. FREE, booking essential.
Matinee Tours
Moored at Aldermaston Wharf Tea Rooms, RG7 4JS
Public transport: Aldermaston (rail)
Moored at The Barge Inn, SN9 5PS
Public transport: Pewsey (rail)
Come aboard The Floating Cinema and watch watery films from
The Floating Cinema archive including Barging Through London
(Again) by Somewhere. FREE, booking essential.
WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2 – 6PM
ALDERMASTON
HONEYSTREET
Moored at Newbury Lock, RG14 1AA
Public transport: Newbury (rail)
ON-BOARD SCREENING
The Film That Buys the Cinema
Come aboard and watch this collection of 70 artists films
commissioned to raise funds for Bristol’s independent cinema,
Cube Microplex. FREE, booking essential
Moored at Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, SN10 1EB
Public transport: Route 10 or 11 (bus)
SATURDAY 27 & SUNDAY 28 JUNE 12 – 4PM FILMMAKING WORKSHOP
Moonrakers And Movies
Explore Wiltshire’s myths, legends and superstitions in this twoday animation workshop with filmmakers No.w.here. What are
the Wiltshire Moonrakers? Are aliens in the fields making crop
circles? How did Stonehenge get there? Learn new techniques and
create your own mythical mystery animated film. No experience
necessary. All equipment provided. Suitable for young people,
ages 12 – 16 years. Admission £5.00, booking essential.
SUNDAY 28 JUNE 8 – 10:15PM
OPEN AIR FILM
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
An al fresco wharf side screening of historic 40’s classic
Painted Boats: The Girl of the Canal (Charles Crichton, 1945).
Part documentary and part fictional canal romance, Painted Boats
paints a picture of the history of the canals alongside the lives and
work of the boaters who use them. FREE, booking essential.
CAEN HILL LOCKS
Moored at Caen Hill Café, The Locks, Devizes, SN10 1QR
Public transport: Melksham (rail) & route X72 (bus)
TUESDAY 30 JUNE 11 – 6PM
Lock-a-thon
PERFORMANCE / FILM
Join our horse drawn barge procession as we attempt to descend
all sixteen of the Caen Hill Locks in one day! This day out will
explore the Kennet & Avon Canal from disrepair and restoration
right up to the ecology and meaning in the present day. You will
see archive film and found footage, meet local canal champions
and historians and hear forgotten sounds of the canal.
FREE, drop-in.
Moored at the Café, The Wharf, Frome Road, BA15 1LE
Public transport: Bradford-on-Avon (rail)
Matinee Tours
the return journey...
Moored for five days in Bristol Floating Harbour, various locations.
7 JULY 1 – 4PM
WORKSHOP
Making Music from Noise
Working with Yann Seznec’s collected library of sounds gathered
throughout The Floating Cinema’s journey from London to Bristol,
you will learn how to create new sound scores from ambient and
everyday sounds. Suitable for students, graduates and those with
some experience in the use of music composition software such
as Ableton Live, Logic or Garage Band. FREE, booking essential.
7 JULY 6:30 – 8PM TALK / WORKSHOP
The Slogramme Approach – Conversations on Art in the
Public Realm
BRADFORD-ON-AVON
THURSDAY 2 JULY 4PM – 7PM
BRISTOL
ON-BOARD SCREENING
Come aboard The Floating Cinema and watch watery films from The
Floating Cinema archive including Barging Through London (Again)
by Somewhere, as well as films created in Bradford-on-Avon.
FREE, booking essential.
BATH
SATURDAY 4 JULY 2 – 4PM
What does it mean to have an archive and can anyone have one?
Join archivists and speakers as they discuss Bristol’s history on film
alongside screenings of films from Bristol Record Office.
FREE, booking essential.
Somewhere on the
Ballast Seed Garden
WALKING TOUR
Venom and Vittles guided walk
Artists Alice Vandeleur-Boorer, Heath Bunting, Rowan Wood and
Ash Leigh will lead a guided walk of both poisonous and edible
plants within the Avon Valley between Bradford-on-Avon and Bath
before joining the boat for refreshments. FREE, booking essential.
ON-BOARD SCREENING
Make Yourself at Home:
Bristol’s Archives Revealed
9 JULY 3 – 5PM, 6 – 8PM
Meet at Dundas Aqueduct, Brassknocker Basin,
Monkton Combe, Bath, BA2 7JD
Public transport: Bath Spa (rail)
10 JULY 11 – 2PM
Cube-Cola Lab
WORKSHOP
TOURS
Join Somewhere for an afternoon of special tours to Arnolfini’s
Floating Ballast Seed Garden. Following a chance to explore the
Garden, Somewhere will discuss their own practice in creating
gardens and will screen related short films on-board the cinema.
You are invited to share your experiences of community growing
projects. Admission £7.00 (£5.00 conc.), to book call
0117 917 2300 or visit arnolfini.org.uk.
BRADFORD-ON-AVON
INSTALLATION & WORKSHOP
Create your very own cola from an open source recipe on-board
The Floating Cinema. The Cube Microplex (Bristol) is possibly the
only volunteer-run cinema in the UK to manufacture its own cola
in-house. The Cube’s Kayle Brandon and Kate Rich present a realtime, DIY workshop/lab on how to make Cube-Cola from scratch,
using techniques siphoned from the worlds of laboratory science
and cake-making. Suitable for all ages. FREE, booking essential.
Moored at the Café, The Wharf, Frome Road, BA15 1LE
Public transport: Bradford-on-Avon (rail)
As The Floating Cinema embarks on its return journey, experience
Yann Seznec’s brand new floating sound installation Neither Here
nor There, created with people who live and work along the tour
route. Yann will also lead a workshop using the ‘library of forgotten
floating sounds’ collected along the journey. FREE, drop-in.
10 JULY 3:30 – 5PM
18 JULY 8 – 10:30PM
TALK
What Does It Take to Really Make an
Independent Cinema?
Workshop and discussion on slower approaches to commissioning art in the public realm and the role of the curator
as an independent voice in creating ambitious works that truly
reflect the narratives of the city. FREE, booking essential.
8 JULY 11 – 5PM 16 JULY 12 – 4PM
Speakers from Somewhere, UP Projects and the Cube Microplex
discuss what it actually takes to both build or secure an
independent cinema space and then create a programme that
is also independent and unique. FREE, booking essential.
10 JULY 5:30 7:00 OR 8:30PM 70 Films in 70 Minutes:
Tour Screenings of The Film That
Buys the Cinema
Swansong at Sunset
Moored at Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, SN10 1EB
Public transport: Route 10 or 11 (bus)
Experience Yann Seznec’s floating sound installation created with
people who live and work along the tour route, followed by an open
air screening of Somewhere’s Repeat to Flourish. FREE, drop-in.
TOURS
Take an evening journey through Bristol and see familiar sites in a
new way – either from the deck of The Floating Cinema or watching
one of the 70 artists’ works that all contribute to this unique film
made to raise funds for the one and only Cube cinema – a much
loved, unique Bristol resource. All tours are free but donations
to the Cube Microplex fund are encouraged.
FREE, booking essential.
11 JULY 8 – 11PM DEVIZES
INSTALLATION & OPEN AIR FILM
OPEN AIR FILM
Celebrate our last night in Bristol with the premiere of sound
installation Neither Here nor There by artist-in-residence Yann
Seznec. The work is a cumulative composition of collected sounds
gathered and donated along our journey from London. An al fresco
screening of Somewhere’s new short film Repeat to Flourish will
follow before Penny Woolcock’s archive feature epic From the Sea
to the Land Beyond (2012) which explores a century of life
on Britain’s coastline with a soundtrack by British Sea Power.
FREE, booking essential.
20 JULY 12 – 4PM HONEYSTREET
INSTALLATION
Moored at The Barge Inn, Honeystreet, SN9 5PS
Public transport: Pewsey (rail)
Experience Yann Seznec’s floating sound installation Neither Here
nor There, created with people who live and work along the tour
route. FREE, drop-in.
25 & 26 JULY 10 – 5PM NEWBURY WATERWAYS FESTIVAL
ON-BOARD
SCREENING
Visitor Info
The full film and events programme can
be found online. Most events are free of charge
but booking is essential due to limited capacity
on-board. To book please visit:
www.floatingcinema.info/events
Visitors enter at their own risk.
Young people under the age of 14 must be
accompanied by an adult, unless otherwise
stated in the programme.
We are continuously exploring ways of
making The Floating Cinema more accessible.
Currently, the vessel is not wheelchair
accessible, however if you would like more
details about access, please email
[email protected]
We are recruiting Volunteer Tour Ambassadors
to join us on the journey. The Ambassadors
will play an important role in helping to set up
and run events, marketing and getting local
people involved. Training is provided for Tour
Ambassadors as well as expenses. To find out
more email [email protected]
@upprojects
2 AUGUST 8 – 10PM www.upprojects.com
BRENTFORD
Moored at Brentford Lock, TW8 8LD
Public transport: Boston Manor (tube) & route E8 (bus)
As the Tour concludes in the location where it began, marvel at
the changing landscapes, people and history of the journey through
an evening of film and sound installation. FREE, booking essential.
Funders
Volunteer Tour Ambassadors
Moored at Victoria Park, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 1EL
Public transport: Newbury (rail)
Come aboard and watch watery films from the archive including
Somewhere’s new film Repeat to Flourish – a visual odyssey of the
Kennet and Avon Canal’s industrial past and present day renaissance
created from found footage and archive film. FREE, drop-in.
OPEN AIR FILM
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Moored at the Barge Inn
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Crop Circles &
Other Mysteries
Saturday 27 June 6pm
Talk
The Film That Buys
the Cinema
CAEN HILL LOCKS
Saturday 27 June 8pm
On-board screening
Moored at Caen Hill café
SN10 1QR
Lock-a-thon
BATH
Saturday 4 July 2 – 4pm
Walking tour
Saturday 13 June 11 – 5pm
& 8.30 – 11pm
On-board & open air screening
NEWBURY
Moored at Newbury
Lock, RG14 1AA
The Sound Collectors
Saturday 13 June 12 – 4pm
Workshop
Matinee Tours
Friday 19 June 12 – 4pm
On-board screening
Feral Trade Talk
Silence And Noise – Sound for Film
Workshop
Friday 19 June 6pm
Artist talk
Sunday 14 June 12 – 4pm
Workshop
Tuesday 30 June 11 – 6pm
Performance / film
Meet at Claverton Pumping
Station Ferry Lane, Bath
BA2 7BH
Venom and Vittles
guided walk
No Sleep till Reading
BRADFORD-ON-AVON
Moored at the Café
The Wharf, Frome Road
BA15 1LE
Matinee tours
Thursday 2 July 4pm – 7pm
On-board screening
DEVIZES
Moored at Devizes Wharf
SN10 1EB
Moonrakers and
Movies
Sunday 28 June 12 – 4pm
Filmmaking workshop
Lazing on a Sunday
Afternoon
CROFTON
Moored at Crofton Beam
Engine, Crofton, SN8 3DW
Matinee Tours
Moored at Brentford Lock,
TW8 8LD
Sounds of the
Suburbs
Thursday 4 June 2 – 7pm
Workshop
Fanfare: The
Floating Cinema
On Tour Launch!
Friday 5 June 8pm
Open air film
ALDERMASTON
Before the M4
Moored at Aldermaston
Wharf Tea Rooms, RG7 4JS
Wednesday 24 June 2 – 6pm
On-board screening
Yellowcake: How
We Used to work
All Smoke & Mirrors
Wednesday 17 June, 6pm
Screening and talk
Wednesday 24 June 8 – 10pm
Performance & open air film
BRENTFORD
Saturday 6 June 12 – 7pm
On-board screening
Sunday 28 June 8 – 10:15pm
Open air film
BRISTOL
HONEYSTREET
Moored for five days in Bristol floating harbour, various locations.
Making Music from
Noise
7 July 1 – 4pm
Workshop
The Slogramme
Approach – Conversations on Art
in the Public Realm
7 July 6:30 – 8pm
Talk / workshop
Make Yourself at
Home: Bristol’s
Archives Revealed
8 July 11 – 5pm
On-board Screening
Somewhere on the
Ballast Seed Garden
Design by Modern Activity
9 July 3 – 5pm & 6 – 8pm
Tours
Cube-Cola Lab
10 July 11 – 2pm
Workshop
What Does It Take
to Really Make
an Independent
Cinema?
10 July 3:30 – 5pm
Talk
70 Films in 70
Minutes: Tour
Screenings of The
Film That Buys the
Cinema
10 July 5:30, 7:00, 8:30
Tours
Swansong at Sunset
11 July 8 – 11pm
Open air film
20 July 12 – 4pm
Installation
BRADFORD-ON-AVON
16 July 12 – 4pm
Installation & workshop
DEVIZES
18 July 8 – 10:30pm
Installation & open air film
BRENTFORD
NEWBURY
WATERWAYS FESTIVAL
2 August 8 – 10pm
Open air film
25 & 26 July 10 – 5pm
On-board screening
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