Friday 17 June
THE GIMP TWISTER MUSIC LOUNGE
Music
6.30pm-11pm
St Michael’s Churchyard
Pay what you can
Ambient tunes, the best in breakthrough music, the hottest Macc talent, talks and DJs on stage at Barnaby’s dedicated music venue. Named after Macclesfield’s silk ribbon makers, The Gimp Twister is a bar and bolt hole for music lovers which runs all weekend. The Gimp Twister opens on Friday evening with DJ and easy tunes. On Saturday it hosts acts including Louis Barabbas and Hot Vestry, and on Sunday there’s New Order’s Stephen Morris and Hope & Social on the bill.
BEDWYR WILLIAMS PERFORMANCE
Theatre – comedy
7pm-7.30pm
Townley Street Chapel
FREE
A headmaster is increasingly troubled about a time capsule project he worked on with his students years ago, and is having nightmares about the capsule digging itself up and coming back to haunt him... Internationally renowned artist Bedwyr Williams presents a witty and surreal performance. Don’t miss Bedwyr Williams’ commissioned artwork ‘Flexure’.
SPACE FOR DEBATE with NICK ROBINSON
Talk
7.45pm-9pm
King Edward Street Chapel
Ticket: £11
The former BBC Political Editor explores the contemporary debate around free speech. Robinson argues that the concept of a ‘safe space’– or creating a protective cocoon to avoid causing offence –is itself a threat to open and intellectual debate. Followed by short Q&A.
FRANCESCA MARTINEZ’S WOBBLY MANIFESTO
Comedy
9.15pm-10.15pm
St Michael’s Church
Ticket: £14
Without diversity, there would be no evolution, no life, no human beings. So why are we still so damn scared of difference? Francesca explores this by proposing her own ‘Wobbly Manifesto’ which aims to show how embracing diversity as normal would revolutionise the world we live in. Francesca Martinez (Live at the Apollo,
Radio 4, Russell Howard’s Good News) brings her brand new comedy show to Macclesfield on a special 3 date only tour. Book signing after the performance. (Suitable for 16+)
SATURDAY 18 JUNE
STREET TREATS
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June
10am-5pm
Market Place
A host of street entertainment in and around the cobbled Market Place.
STREET TREATS: THE POETRY TAKEAWAY
Spoken Word
10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm
In association with Cheshire Rural Touring Arts and Macclesfield Library, FREE
The world’s first Mobile Poetry Emporium. Everything’s prepared fresh on the premises, by our team of talented Poet Chefs. We’ll write and perform a personalised poem for you, then wrap it up for you to takeaway! Sample their delights and ‘Pay What You Can’ to show your appreciation.
STREET TREATS: SMOKE by Plunge Boom
Theatre
10.45-11.30am and 3.30pm-4.15pm
Market Place, FREE
A man moves amongst the public. Gradually smoke begins to creep from out of his trouser leg. Next, it arises from his collar, then his sleeves. What starts as a tiny wisp, ends up as an all-consuming plume. Help him before he completely disappears! Interactive street theatre from Plunge Boom (CBeebies’ Mr Bloom).
STREET TREATS: STOP ME AND TRY ONE
Spoken word
11.30am-12.30pm and 2.30pm-4pm
Sparrow Park
In association with Macclesfield Creative Writers Group, FREE
Look out for the Quangle Wangle’s Hat! Find the hat and you’ll find a local poet who will be happy to read a poem for you on the subject of your choice: something funny, sad or for a rainy day. Don’t be shy – poets don’t bite!
STREET TREATS: L’HOTEL by Circo Rum Ba Ba
Theatre
11.45am -12.30pm and 2.30pm-3.15pm
Pay What you Can
L’ Hotel parks ceremoniously at its latest destination: Macclesfield. The only hotel to come to you! This charming, eccentric, tiny venue erupts into glittering cabaret, dances and wakes to clattering kitchen choreography. Acrobatics, globe walking, dead celebrities, French finesse, trumpeting and mime mayhem – an enchanting show for all ages.
THE GIMP TWISTER MUSIC LOUNGE
Music
10.30am-11pm
See above
DEEP SPACE AND SOLAR LAB
Science workshop
10am-4pm
Town Hall
In association with Macclesfield Astronomical Society
FREE
Discover objects from deep space, explore lunar samples, retrieve images from over a dozen remote telescopes across the globe in real time. Plus talks about the sun’s effect on earth and the search for life. It’s all at the lab!
DEEP SPACE AND SOLAR LAB: TALK
Science
4pm-5pm
Town Hall, FREE
View the Northern Lights – in Macclesfield! The Planeterrella is a popular scientific experiment which creates Northern Lights in a vacuum chamber. Dr Gabrielle Provan of the University of Leicester reveals the history and science of these mysterious lights.
IN CONVERSATION WITH NICK ROBINSON
Talk
11am-12.30pm
St Michael’s Church
Ticket: £12.50
Hosting BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme is the latest stage of a remarkable career. Having risen to the top political job on both BBC and ITN, Prestbury-born Robinson now follows in the footsteps of mentor Brian Redhead – renowned for his regular championing of Macclesfield! He returns to Macc to discuss influences,
impartiality and political life. Followed by a Q&A.
A LOVE LETTER TO MACC
Spoken word
11am-5pm
Sparrow Park, FREE
Dear Macc... Write a love letter to the heart of your town. Drop into Arc’s writing dome, for a hands-on workshop to share what you love about where you live. Tell your stories of love, heartbreak, significant places or special moments. Or check out the blog and add your love letter online: www.lovelettertomacc.wordpress.com . Produced by ARC (Arts for Recovery in the Community) an award-winning Stockport based charity which uses the arts and creativity to help people become resilient, healthy and active citizens.
BARNABY CARNIVAL PARADE
1pm-2pm
Market Place, FREE
Get ready for lift-off and push your imagination to the outer limits for the ‘Space’ themed Barnaby Carnival Parade. Costumed Maxonians take to the streets and ten thousand stars shine bright as the vibrant carnival winds through the town centre. Colourful characters promenade their handmade creations of giant puppets
and elaborate push-floats. Music fills the air, the samba band sways, jugglers and jesters entertain the crowds.
IN CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSORS BRIAN COX AND TIM O’BRIEN
Science
2.30pm-4pm
St Michael’s Church
Tickets: £12.50 / £6 (under 18)
Physicist Professor Brian Cox OBE, from the University of Manchester, joins Professor Tim O’Brien, associate director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, to discuss our current knowledge of the universe. What we now and what we still don’t understand – the Big Bang, the dark universe, black holes and more.
JOHN BRAMWELL (I AM KLOOT) & RECREATIONS (SAM DUCKWORTH)
Music
8.30pm-11pm
St Michael’s Church
Tickets: £16
Barnaby brings together two distinctive musical talents in an exclusive double bill: John Bramwell (I am Kloot) and Recreations’ Sam Duckworth (formerly of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.). Two sets, back to back, in the evocative setting of St Michael’s Church. With a bag of classic songs and great stories, John Bramwell performs as a trio with piano and cello in this eclectic and magical evening. “Arguably the UK’s finest export” – THE NEW YORKER “Utterly compelling, quite beautiful and frequently hilarious” – THE GUARDIAN
Sam Duckworth has settled on a sound. Recreations is the product of two years of investigation. Fans of GC.WC.F. will recognise his distinct lyrical nous, but Recreations is “more heart on sleeve, bolder, more direct, and a little bit more emo”.
SUNDAY 19 JUNE
DEEP SPACE AND SOLAR LAB: TALK
Science
3pm-4pm
Town Hall, FREE
Dr Ian Morison, Emeritus Professor at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, lecture on the search for life in the universe. Prof Morison played a key role in the development of MERLIN, an array of radio telescopes with a resolution in the radio spectrum comparable to that of the Hubble Space Telescope.
STREET TREATS: THE WHALE by Talking Birds
Theatre
11.30am-5pm
Market Place
Pay what you can
Ahoy there shipmates! Beneath the gleaming, silvery surface of the whale, there be surprises for intrepid sailors that climb into its belly! Fun for all ages and fully accessible. Prepare to dive!
STREET TREATS: LIVE HANGMAN by Mufti Games
Theatre
11.30am-12.15pm, 12.45-1.30pm, 2pm-2.45pm
Market Place
Pay what you can
A life-sized version of the classic game! A malevolent gameshow host with a dodgy suit and 8-foot high gallows invites you to solve a mystery phrase. The fate of the condemned is in the audience’s hands.
STREET TREATS: STOP ME AND TRY ONE
12.30-1.30pm and 2.30pm-4.30pm
Costa Coffee
Market Place
See above
STREET TREATS: TWO OLD MEN by 2Faced Dance Company
Dance
3pm-3.20pm and 4pm-4.20pm
Market Place
Pay what you can
A tale of two eccentric friends created and danced by internationally acclaimed 2Faced Dance Company. Gasp, laugh and cry as companions take you on a life-long journey…all the way to the pub. A fusion of break, street and contemporary dance, 20 minutes of adrenalin-fuelled, heart-in-mouth acrobatics.
THE GIMP TWISTER MUSIC LOUNGE
11.45am-11pm
St Michael’s Churchyard
See above
GRAFFITI CLASSICS
Music, comedy
7pm-8pm
St Michael’s Church
Tickets: £12 / £8 (under 18)
A comedy cabaret string quartet of 16 strings, 8 dancing feet and 4 voices with one aim: to make classical music wickedly funny. It’s a concert, a gypsy-folk romp, an opera, a stand-up comedy set and a dance show all rolled into one! From Beethoven to Bluegrass, Bach to Brahms, Strauss to Saturday Night Fever, this is no traditional string quartet!
BARNABY COMEDY CLUB: TOM WARD & PIERRE NOVELLIE
Comedy
8.30pm-10.15pm
King Edward Street Chapel
Tickets: £12.50
A double bill of two very distinct styles on a pre-Edinburgh tour. Award nominated Tom Ward deftly interweaves his love for voices, sound effects and unsung heroes (kettles, friendly perverts, Tupperware) with the here and now whilst Groovy! Woah! Pierre Novellie is not cool but he is trying. Featured on 4OD’s comedy series Taxi Gags and Best Club Comic 2016 Chortle Awards) and first comedian to perform at the Large Hadron Collider, Pierre examines whether is it cool to have read an 800 year old poem about magical, vaginal ventriloquism.
TUESDAY 21 JUNE
SECRET HOUSE CONCERT SERIES
Tuesday 21, Friday 24, Sunday 26
Barnaby’s first secret concerts! Five families open up their homes to host specially tailored events for their gardens or houses. Meet at a pre-arranged location to be taken to an undisclosed destination and let the entertainment begin!
No.1: REEL TO REAL WITH JOHN LINDLEY
Spoken word, film
7.30pm-8.30pm
Meet: 7.15pm, Tytherington High School car park
Tickets: £5 (online only), booking essential
Film buffs Ruth and Paul, play host to Cheshire Poet Laureate, John Lindley. Poetry and movies collide on page and screen for an entertaining journey through the golden age of cinema. Readings of Lindley’s original poetry and expertly chosen archive clips of the Hollywood greats capture the imagination.
WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE
KEMS TWILIGHT GHOST WALK
9pm-10.15pm
Meet: St Michael’s Church
Ticket: £6
In association with King Edward Musical Society of Macclesfield. Learn about Macclesfield’s ghostly past on a short walk with Scott Thomson, dropping in on live performances of Ghosts by Stephen McNeff from the KEMS Concert Band at various haunted locations. Startsin the graveyard at St Michael’s and finishes with a ‘spirit’ at the Bate Hall pub.
THURSDAY 23 JUNE
A CARTOON HISTORY OF HERE with IAN McMILLAN & TONY HUSBAND
Spoken word, comedy
7.30pm-8.30pm
King Edward Street Chapel
Ticket: £12.50
Supported by Peaks & Plains Housing Trust
Comedy, cartoonery, poetry and improv! Created by the audience with poet, broadcaster and comedian Ian McMillan and Cartoonist of the Year Tony Husband. A fast-flowing, interactive, rapid-rafting adventure which reflects upon local stories and legends. (Suitable for all ages)
“World-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers” Dame Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet Laureate
FRIDAY 24 JUNE
SECRET HOUSE CONCERT SERIES
No.2: Black Road Blues
8pm-9pm
Meet: 7.45pm, The Navigation Pub, Black Road
Tickets: £6 (online only), booking essential
Jazz enthusiasts, Claire and Phil’s open up their garden and play host to some saxophone classics and smooth jazz. Lounge alongside the canal for an intimate performance and some easy listening tunes.
ACOUSTIC SANCTUARY
Music
8pm-11.30pm
King Edward Street Chapel
Ticket: £10
Acoustic Sanctuary returns to Barnaby with an evening of the best unplugged music in this 17th century chapel. London-based singer songwriter Gideon Conn headlines a line-up of some of Macc’s finest talent, including Tom Linton, Kezia, Dave Hudson and Tim Woodhouse. Curated by Andy Hughes.
SATURDAY 25 JUNE
MACC-POW! Mini (but Mighty) Comic-Art Convention
10am-4pm
Charles Roe House
FREE
In association with Creative Hero. Macclesfield’s first ever comic-art convention celebrating comics and artists from around the world and embracing amazing local talent in a collision of comic-book coolness! Join local cartoonists Marc Jackson and others cosying up to great creators and international names. In association with Makers Place and Incubation Arts.
SPACESHIP CHALLENGE
Science
1pm-3pm
Market Place, FREE
In association with Macclesfield College.Celebrating Macclesfield’s long association with astronomy and aerospace engineering, this competition invites teams to create a solution to a real SPACE problem. Come and witness the results with Dr Lucy Rogers, science writer and space engineer.
SECRET HOUSE CONCERT SERIES
No. 3: West Bond Street Stage
6pm-8pm
Meet 5.45pm: Scout Hut Car Park, West Bond Street
Tickets: £6/ £3 (under 18)
Russell and family host a garden party with a difference... ... It’s Glastonbury weekend and Macc hosts its own modest stage... DJ3 perform live at Barnaby! Cracking tunes, a warm and friendly welcome and don’t forget to check out the Man Shed!
SUNDAY 26 JUNE
TREACLE TAKEOVER
10am-3pm
Market Place, FREE
In association with Treacle Market. Barnaby’s pop-up green space gets the Treacle treatment! Macclesfield’s monthly arts, antiques, crafts, food and drink market, Treacle takes over the Maccles-Field with a curious array of treats in time and space.
BIG BRASS BONANZA
Music
1pm-2.45pm
St Michael’s Churchyard
FREE
In association with Macclesfield Youth Brass Band. A constellation of brass talent from across the North West play show songs and film music for your entertainment.
Pick up a Treacle Market treat and picnic on the lawns!
SECRET HOUSE CONCERT SERIES
No. 4: The House of Curiosities
3.30pm-4.30pm
Meet: 3.15pm, The Navigation Pub, Black Road
Tickets: £4 (online only), booking essential
Maria hosts an intimate salon featuring all manner of books, paintings and curios, including an intriguing organ that sits proudly at the centre of the family living room. The walls speak and the bellows sound in this gentle afternoon journey through belongings and memories.
SECRET HOUSE CONCERT SERIES
No.5 : The Glory Days Sessions
6pm-8pm
Meet: 5.45pm, The Dolphin Pub, Windmill Road
Ticket: £7
Claire and Mike host a garden party with a difference at their home, a former pub, which launched the musical careers of many of Macc’s best bands. Barnaby conjures up a cocktail of musical delights from acoustic to band sets in what is now a living room and canalside garden. Relax and enjoy great music at this the final festival event of 2016.
CONTINUING EVENTS
HILLS UP STREETS
Walk, literature
Friday 17 - Sunday 26 June
Various venues, FREE
Macclesfield is blessed with ‘hills up streets’, the Peak District views that emerge as a corner is turned. The spots where these vistas appear are marked with words by Barnaby Artist in Residence Ailsa Holland, inviting a moment of contemplation. Take the #HillsUpStreets and tweet the views!
BACK WALLGATE BOOKS
Literature,
Saturday 18 - Sunday 25 June, 10am-4pm
Back Wallgate, FREE
Tucked away in this cobbled alley, two brick alcoves are transformed into a tiny library and reading space by Barnaby Artist in Residence, Ailsa Holland. Browse the thrillers, childrens stories or poetry. Take a moment and settle down in the ‘book nook’, borrow something and return it another day or replace with another literary treat.
THE MACCLES-FIELD
Sunday 19 June, 12pm-6pm; Monday 20 - Friday 24 June, 12-2pm; Saturday 25 June, 12pm-6pm; Sunday 26 June, 10am-3pm
Market Place
FREE
Please keep ON the grass! A new green space created on the cobbles to host a splendidly strange and eclectic mix, from picnics to performance, quizzes and karaoke. Nothing appears twice so drop by or check website for details.
POP-UP ARTISTS’ STUDIO
In association with Macc Art Lounge and East Street Arts, FREE
Venue tbc
A temporary studio space in the town centre. Track it down, stumble upon it and glimpse the goings on. A chance to see local artists at work and talk about their practice. A different artist and art form every two days.
LA LUNE
Barnaby Festival national commission from Wild Rumpus
18-25 June
Christ Church
The spellbinding story of La Lune unfolds over eight days... An astronomer has brought the stars and the moon down to earth. Macclesfield is full of starlight. But all is not well. Residents and visitors will have to work together to save the town! Take part in The Astronomer’s Story (ticketed) an immersive theatrical adventure in Christ Church and visit a most unusual Observatory (FREE) on the lawns (Saturday 18 and Sunday 19). Keep your eyes peeled each evening at dusk for a mysterious Roving Moon, decorate our town with stars, take part in the amazing constellation of stars at the Barnaby Carnival Parade (Saturday 18 June) and gather at the spectacular culmination for The
Moon Rising (FREE, Saturday 25 June).
LA LUNE: THE ASTRONOMER’S STORY
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June
Theatre
Christ Church
10am, 11.30am, 2pm, 3.30pm, 5pm, 6.30pm
Ticket: £8/ £6 (early bird SK10 & SK11 residents only)
Step into this incredible story from award winning LAStheatre. Find out why the town is filled with stars, what has happened to put Macclesfield in such peril, and how you can help the astronomer with his quest. A 45 minute experience suitable for adults and children (aged 4+) which takes place in the atmospheric setting of Christ Church. Secrets are uncovered, friends made and lost, and we face the greatest challenge of our lives. Book your tickets to secure your place on the La Lune adventure.
This world premiere is created by LAStheatre, produced by Macclesfield’s very own Wild Rumpus and
commissioned by Barnaby Festival 2016.
LA LUNE: THE OBSERVATORY
Music, film, workshops, science
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June
Christ Church lawns
10am-9pm, FREE
Tents are filled with music, film, experiments, street food and stars. Encounter hands-on science at the Space School and the glorious eduPOP science band Being 747. Hear from leading children’s authors Kiran Millwood-Hargreaves (Girl of Ink & Stars), Ben Newman (Astrocat) and Abi Elphinstone (Dreamsnatchers) and Rosie Wellesley (Moonlight Bear) and enjoy a pop-up planetarium, star-making, classical music, storytelling, and space and star themed family films as the sun begins to set. See www.lalune.org.uk for more details.
LA LUNE: FOLLOW THE ROVING MOON
Saturday 18 June - Saturday 25 June
Venue: Mystery locations
All day, FREE
A beautiful moon appears on rooftops. Each night, before dusk falls, it will mysteriously move to a new location. Follow the roving moon and use the hashtags #lalune #macclesfieldmoon and #barnabyfestival to tell us where you have spotted it. Sketches, photographs, videos, stories and poems documenting the Roving Moon will be gathered on www.lalune.org.uk
LA LUNE: THE MOON RISING
Saturday 25 June
Christ Church Lawns
8.45pm-9.30pm, FREE
The spectacular culmination of La Lune. To save the town and make the moon rise, bring your friends, bring your families, bring your stars to Christ Church. Our astronomer may return, bringing amazing sights to behold – but only if the whole town gathers. Stay up past bedtime, just this once, because curious and beautiful things can happen as the summer sun sets...
La Lune is produced by Macclesfield’s very own Wild Rumpus, creators of the award-winning ‘Just So Festival’and commissioned by Barnaby Festival 2016.
La Lune is financially support by Arts Council England, Cheshire East Council, Peaks & Plains Housing Trust, The Granada Foundation, The Churches Conservation Trust and Macclesfield Town Council.
VISUAL ART – Barnaby Festival national visual art commissions
Friday 17 June, 6.30pm
Saturday 18 - Sunday 25 June, 10am-4pm
Supported by Arts Council England
BEDWYR WILLIAMS: Flexure
Townley Street Chapel
FREE
This short film observes Macclesfield, its inhabitants and a yoga teacher, whilst exploring ideas about space, travel and our local/universal lives. Having represented Wales at the 2013 Venice Biennale, Williams is shortlisted for the Artes Mundi Prize. Flexure forms part of his solo exhibition at the Barbican Curve Gallery, London in September.
LILIANE LIJN: Moonmeme, 1992- ongoing
Savage Tower, St Michael’s, FREE
In real-time computer simulation Moonmeme, Liliane Lijn writes the word ‘SHE’ across the moon in letters large enough to be seen from earth,usingthe movements of moon, earth and sun during a lunar month to demonstrate the interlocking of opposites. Internationally acclaimed Lijn explores language, mythology and the
relationship between light and matter.
HONDARTZA FRAGA: From Dark Matter to White Noise
Costa Coffee (attic)
FREE
Inspired by Cheshire’s iconic Lovell Telescope and in association with Jodrell Bank, Fraga explores the telescope’s history, relationship with its surroundings, and the remote places it explores. From Dark Matter to White Noise is a new commission of drawing and video work from the Leeds-based artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally.
HANNAH IMLACH: Canopy Lens
Sparrow Park, FREE
A honeycomb of glass-like components is suspended in branches, magnifying and blurring the leaves above and views beyond. Canopy Lens plays with dappled light, casting hexagonal shadows onto the trunks and ground below. Scottish artist Hannah Imlach researches our relationship with the environment through sculpture, and is currently Artist-in-Residence at Heriot-Watt University.
SIMON WOOLHAM: The Macc Walks: Taking-Back-Space (Janet, Laura and Pete)
Town Hall (outside)
FREE
Re-enacted filmed vignettes based on walks with Maxonians Janet, Laura and Pete. Starting from the house where they were born, grew up or now live, Woolham encourages streams of consciousness and creates layers of ‘memory tapes’.
HANNAH WOOLL: Engaging with Spaces through Objects
Windowsills:
12 Church Street West
99 Bond Street
40 Jordangate
55 Prestbury Road
10 Riseley Street
14 Shaw Street
FREE
Fascinated by the value given to objects and what turns them into art, Wooll explores domestic space. Artworks in six windows create a trail to be viewed from the outside in.
TOM BASKEYFIELD & MARIO POPHAM: Shaped by Stone
Jack Sevens Art Yard and Tegg’s Nose Visitors Centre, FREE
Over millennia we have shaped stone: turned hillsides into quarries, strata into streets. Through drawing and photography, walks and dialogue, the artists explore this relationship.
VAL LEAR, RACHAEL KING, MARK HELLIWELL: No Space Like Home
Charles Roe House (ground floor), FREE
An exploration of the life of a hoarder: the nature of obsession, compulsion and a disordered life. Through photography, video and poignant interviews, No Space Like Home reveals the personality behind the chaos.