Plans are now underway for next year’s Out There International Festival of Street Arts and Circus, which will be happening in Great Yarmouth on the 8 and 9 September 2012 – a week earlier than usual. 

This is because the Out There Festival and specifically a new performance by Generik Vapeur (from the blue men and Bivouac fame!) will be part of the official 2012 Olympic events calendar. Joe Mackintosh, Chief Executive from SeaChange Arts says “Being part of the 2012 Olympic events is a great honor for the Out There Festival and will really help raise the profile of this local event and put Great Yarmouth firmly on the map as a cultural destination”.

Generik Vapeur’s new show – “Waterlitz” is commissioned through the ZEPA partnership, which partners organizers SeaChange Arts with eight major street arts festivals and producers in France and the UK. ZEPA is supported by the European cross border cooperation programme Interreg IVA France (Channel) England. This exciting new show will combine the highest quality street theatre with explosive pyrotechnics and breath-taking aerial stunts, Waterlitz is a mobile performance designed to astound the audience with spectacle whilst also challenging them to consider some of the biggest issues affecting the world today.

 Seachange Arts are currently identifying acts, performers and companies for the 2012 festival and also busily fund raising and seeking sponsorship for the 2012 festival from local businesses and partners.

SeaChange Arts wanted to express our sincere thanks to the public for all the donations made to the festival this year through donation buckets, barrels and the sale of specially designed Out There T-shirts. We raised in total £2,991.55 which will help contribute to programming of acts and performers next year.

2012 Out There should prove to be the biggest festival yet including the use of new indoor spaces for programming such as the newly renovated St George’s Theatre. Please look out on the Seachange Arts website www.seachangearts.org.uk for further upcoming details.

SeaChange Arts are the Arts Development Agency for Great Yarmouth Borough Council

The Out There Festival is produced by SeaChange Arts in collaboration with ZEPA (Zone Européenne de Projets Artistiques) For more information go to www.zepa9.eu