From: Medway Council [email_dot_marketing_at_medway_dot_gov_dot_uk]
Sent: 04 June 2009 16:26
Subject: This weekend, high jinx and launch celebrations in Chatham
Medway Council and The Arts Council
Fuse Medway Festival
Fuse Medway Festival Line-Up
it's arts. it's yours. it's free
The Fuse is lit
The 2009 Fuse Medway Festival sparks into life this weekend across Chatham, Rainham and Strood. It promises to be a family extravaganza, with intimate and immediate performances that put you at the heart of the action. Don't forget, it's all free.

Saturday, 6 June from 12 noon, Chatham High Street
High jinx on Chatham High Street
Entertainers and performers roam the high streets of Chatham, intent on amusing and amazing. Stroll up and marvel at the Insect Circus Museum. Check your feathery skills at the Pillow Fight Cup, look out for the pesky Spiv Traders and enter a new world of communication with Rotozaza's Etiquette.

Visit www.fusefestival.org.uk for full listings and performance times.
Saturday, 6 June from 6pm, Chatham Riverside and High Street
Launch night celebrations
The Bollywood evening begins with family-fun arts and crafts workshops at Chatham Library. The carnival celebrations begin at 7pm on Chatham High Street, outside the New Art Centre, with Siddhartha's Journey - a Travelling Performance. There will be dance, stilt walkers and tuc tucs. Travel with the performers to the riverside, where there will be a river-based installation, dance and music and a headline performance from Panjabi by Nature, one of the UK's most successful bhangra musicians. The night closes with a spectacular firework and pyrotechnic display.

Visit www.fusefestival.org.uk for more details.


Bollywood Imagination - Carnival Time at Fuse Medway Festival
Fuse Medway Festival

Saturday, 4.30pm, Globe Lane Car Park
BBC Blast Showcase
Young people age 13 to 19 have spent two days working with BBC professionals, with activities ranging from hip hop to digital photography. The fruits of labour are on display at this scintillating showcase.

Visit www.fusefestival.org.uk for more details.

Saturday, 6 June 2pm and 6pm, Chatham Contact Point
Nutkhut presents Movieplex
Discover the world of pioneering Indian filmmaker Shanta Rao Dutt and his work with the Dickens family. An enchanting journey where the truth is never quite what it seems.
Visit www.fusefestival.org.uk for more details.

Performances are intimate and immediate, so you're at the heart of them. Hundreds of people from Medway are already involved, adding to the line-up of talented professional performers from across Europe.

it's all free


Let the adventures begin...visit www.fusefestival.org.uk
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For more information contact:
The Arts Team
The Brook Theatre
Old Town Hall
Chatham
Kent ME4 4SE

Tel: 01634 338319
email: fuse_at_medway_dot_gov_dot_uk

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