Imaginary Journeys: The Travel Agencies

The Passion

NATIONAL THEATRE WALES AND WILDWORKS with MICHAEL SHEEN "Love, Betrayal, Sacrifice, Passion." In a spectacular finale to its triumphant launch year, NATIONAL THEATRE WALES joined forces with WILDWORKS, which bought Michael Sheen home to star in a one-off ground-breaking theatre event which placed the Port Talbot community at its very heart.

The Enchanted Palace

Independent charity Historic Royal Palaces undertook a £12 million major project called 'Welcome to Kensington – a palace for everyone' to transform and re-present Kensington Palace by 2012.

The Memory Projector

In September 2009 a team of 10 WildWorkers together with 8 local artists and performers took up residence in Glasgow to create an interactive performance and installation that would be the centre piece of the Merchant City Festival.

The Beautiful Journey

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAS HAPPENED… The Beautiful Journey is set in the not so distant future. Something has happend. We are all on the move, an exodus into the unknown.

Imaginary Journeys: The Travel Agencies

WILDWORKS is proud to be one of the first companies commissioned through an exciting new arts programme called FEAST to lead an ambitious Arts in the Community project in seven market towns across Cornwall:

Souterrain

A WILDWORKS Production travelling through Britain and France, 2006-2007 Orpheus is returning home from war. The village is being decorated with bunting, and the "welcome home" banner has been raised. The band is playing, the choir singing and the vicar is handing out cake.

Clay Project

A WILDWORKS Project in St Dennis, Clay Country, Cornwall - January-April 2008 We had been driving past St Dennis for years, not paying it attention, just another village in Clay Country. But this is a place on the brink of dramatic change, the clay industries have all but disappeared and regeneration plans are being rolled out.

Morwenstow

A WILDWORKS Project in North Cornwall, November-December 2006We travelled the lanes, visited the churches and chapels, the institutes and community hall, the school, farms, pub, post office, fields and cliffs.

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / 3 island project

You are minding your own business. Suddenly a man with enormous wings crashes to earth beside you. Good luck or bad? Angel or demon? All you know is your life, and the life of everybody you know, will never be the same…ever again!

Journey to the Halo

A WILDWORKS Project in Haslingden, Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, September 2007High on the moors above the Rossendale Valley, dominating a landscape studded with the shapes of the old cotton mills, stands the Halo, a Panopticon landmark sculpture designed to celebrate the regeneration of the moorland landscape.

An archive of Cornish performance

An archive of Cornish performance held by University College Falmouth (UCF) following generous donations from WILDWORKS, Kneehigh and the family of Nick Darke will ensure invaluable performance materials are preserved and kept in Cornwall.

Imaginary Journeys: The Travel Agencies

travel-agency-top WILDWORKS is proud to be one of the first companies commissioned through an exciting new arts programme called FEAST to lead an ambitious Arts in the Community project in seven market towns across Cornwall:

FEAST is inspired by Cornish celebrations and aims to increase people's involvement in the arts as audiences and participants.

WILDWORKS is recognised internationally as leading the kind of work in which artists and community work closely together to create an event, performance or installation unique to that place.

Our latest project is called: IMAGINARY JOURNEYS: WILDWORKS Travel Agencies and has been designed to provide everyone the opportunity to ‘travel' into the past, the future and their imagination...

For this project we have recruited new artists who will gain a deeper understanding of the companies methodologies and develop their own professional skills working alongside their experienced team.

All artists are currently starting to prepare for the opening of their own branch of ‘The Travel Agencies, and would like to talk to the local community to learn more about travels and life in the town past, present and future.

This information will then inform and inspire the creation of their towns own ‘travel agency' which will then evolve during its public opening hours.

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There will free community events including tea parties, the first being held by the Liskeard branch on Saturday 24th January between 2pm and 5pm at The Liskerrett Centre, Varley lane. Anyone who lives in the Liskeard area of any age is welcome. They would also love to see any photographs, objects or memorabilia of life in Liskeard, please bring them along.

The shops are only going to be open for a limited time and will have various opening hours so please do keep a look out for upcoming events near you and your local Travel Agency opening times and pop in for some very special travel talk!

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