THE 4th annual Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival gets under way tonight with a “cultural crawl” starting at 6pm and calling in at the three main venues for the four-week festival.
Visual arts, photography, film, installation and contemporary dance will all feature in the festival, during which a selection of regional, national and international artists will be showcasing their work.
The three key venues are the Pyramid, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery and the Gallery at Bank Quay House but there will also be events at some other, unexpected town centre locations.
Theme of the festival this year is “about time” .
Now in its fourth year, the festival takes its theme this year as “time”, so whether work is concerned with sequence, memory, notions of heritage, the past, the present or the future, it’s all connected back to time.
The packed programme includes a number of highlights:
*An interactive table tennis game with artist Will Nash at the Pyramid.
*Artist Georgina Tee illustrating how we spend our time on town centre shop windows.
*Manchester Salon, a group of artists: Lindsey Bull, Maurice Carlin, Daniel Fogarty, Laura Mansfield, Jen Wu, exploring critical discourse and contemporary arts practice.
*Critically acclaimed performance company, Quarantine present Between Us, We Know Everything.
*Sound installation Warrington Listening from artist Esther Ainsworth using sampled field recordings toexplore the spirit of ‘place’ and capturing the way the town moves and lives.
*WCAF14 Open, an exhibition featuring contemporary visual arts and photography from the region’s artists through an open submission process will feature at Pyramid, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery and The Gallery At Bank Quay House.
*Long Shot, a micro festival of short films.
The winners of the visual arts prize and the photography prize will be
announced at the Museum tonight at the end of the cultural crawl.
