Pigs Might Fly - Festival of Arts & Mental Health 2009

Workshop Events: 3rd-9th October. Festival Event: Saturday 10th October. Making the impossible possible!

Festival Programme

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Live performance, music, art and dance.

12pm - 12am - Free Entry - The Blending Shed, Bates Mill, Huddersfield

Saturday 10th October
12.00pm - 3.00pm:
Ibou & the bar 1.22 Drummers – Rhythms from Senegal
Maria Slovakova – Artist & Poet
Hoot Guitar Porkestra + Another Planet – Big Strings and other Funky Sounds
Ian Greenaway – Singer/Songwriter
Mikwano – Joyous Community Songs, Dance and Drumming from Rawthorpe
Big Dance – Ceilidh Dancing with Moira Barker
The Ashes – Tomorrows Rock Stars, Today
3.30pm - 6.30pm
I aM Poets – Poetry Readings
Merrie City Singers – Wakefield Community Choir
Jess Baker & Cleo Lindor – Two Talented Female Songstresses
Tracey Britton & Maurizio Miele – Singer & Guitarist
Pathways Jam – Blues Extraordinaire
Brendan Stone – Presents his Short Film SCH!ZO
Beijo – Sultry Jazz/Blues Combo
7.00pm - 12.00am
The Big Weave – Multi-media performance using dance, music and video
String Fellows – Seven fellows, many strings, wild, raucous songs
David Carless – Singer/Songwriter
Aiden Jolly – Songs of passion and principle
Kizmet Belly Dancers – Egyptian goddesses of Marsden
Rusty Staples – The filthiest bingo caller in town
Ottersgear – Fat, juicy tunes with a folk edge
Pigs Might Dance – DJ Set to make you hop
papaJACA – Top band featuring massed percussion and brass playing the most powerful sounds of Brazil

Also featuring Sohail Khan and his one man drama 'Nanka@Play', live Big Painting from AIM, Video Interviews with Moira Barker (Nosey Parker), Mayoral blessings, mystery celebrities, Frontline Magazine and much, much more.