Undercurrent Weekend

Undercurrent Weekend
Friday 12th- Sunday 14th August 2011
10am - 4pm
Shoreham-By-Sea town centre, exact locations to be revealed
Free
www.theundercurrent.co.uk

A three day weekend of playful installations and interactive games across Shoreham’s town centre, for inquisitive adults and mischievous children.

Between Friday 12th and Sunday 14th August, Shoreham will host imaginative, creative but covert activities as part of a brand new arts programme. Undercurrent Weekend has commissioned four professional artists to create new or adapt exisiting work especially for the town. Each piece will take place in outside locations, be suitable for people of all ages and reward those that seek them out.

People can stumble across an adventure trail set by secret agents, become the captain of their own Sailaway boat, follow a flickbook across the footbridge and discover a hidden world behind the most ordinary looking door.

Artists include London based Coney with The Loveliness Principle, a challenge from Rabbit for you to discover, a hunt for something precious and remarkable. Keep your eyes peeled and your ears pricked for signs of Rabbit around Shoreham By Sea. The Loveliness Principle starts with a phonecall, perhaps only a moment after you read this – 01273 963588. Coney is a playfully secret agency making adventures. The Loveliness Principle has been remade for Shoreham by locally-based agents of Coney, undercover in Undercurrent.

Subject to_Change and their piece Sailaway ask where have come from and where are you going to? Look out for Sailaway kits scattered in cafes, shops, the library and other places all around Shoreham. The kits contain everything you will need to build your very own paper vessel plus an invitation to join all the other Sailway captains and launch your ship at the end of the weekend!

Brighton based artist Rachel Henson provides you with a flickbook that will guide you and animate the path ahead. Flickers uses a series of photographic images of the footbridge and our familiar surroundings, layering them with visual narratives that blur the line between the real and the imagined.

Me and The Machine's The Tourist is a man trapped within a postcard, bound to knock forevermore on the exit door of an inescapable paradise, behind which you behold.

Finally and to add another twist to the weekend, Shoreham based artist Mel Sheppard has designed a series of bespoke badges, available to collect by taking part in each piece. The most inquisitive will be able to collect them all, you'll just have to find them first.

The weekend in August is a pilot event that is intended to develop a longer term programme within Shoreham and the surrounding areas. Undercurrent is run by local resident and theatre producer Ruth Dudman and a team of other independent individuals working in the arts. Undercurrent is funded by Arts Council, Grants for the Arts.

For more information about the weekend, including details of the artists taking part please see www.theundercurrent.co.uk or follow them on twitter @ucweekend and #UCWknd.

For more information visit http://www.theundercurrent.co.uk/