IBT15 Bristol International Festival

Enter the Storm

Feb 2015

'From fog-covered bridges to vogueing and Virginia Woolf, the winds of change were blowing around the city.' LYN GARDNER, THE GUARDIAN

IBT15 invited audiences to take a walk in the clouds, experience a storm in a club and follow us into the shadows for a concert in a gothic mansion.

Extraordinary theatre, music, dance, live art, exhibitions, talks, parties, public art works and night walks took over Bristol. Taking Storm as the theme, the festival celebrated art as a powerful force for change. The festival brought artists & audiences from 33 different countries with 132 showings of 32 different events, enabling 190,885 Audience Experiences in Bristol.

Children run across a bridge surrounded by fog.
A man is wearing clothing with bead detail around the shoulder, he is leaning forward.
A crowd of people are standing on a hill, their are torches shining up the hill towards the camera. In the background you can see the city lit up.
A man wearing a knitted outfit, sits playing the harp.
An audience stand in the Colton Hall, there are lights flashing and some are holding phones up.
A woman in a white morph suit stands with a microphone, talking to an audience.

BANNER IMAGE: (M)IMOSA/TWENTY LOOKS OR PARIS IS BURNING AT THE JUDSON CHURCH (M), TRAJAL HARRELL © OLIVER RUDKIN. IMAGE CREDITS FROM TOP LEFT TO BOTTOM RIGHT: FOG BRIDGE, FUJIKO NAKAYA © MAX MCCLURE. NIYIZI, ISHIMWA © PAUL BLAKEMORE. NIGHTWALKS WITH TEENAGERS, MAMMALIAN DIVING REFLEX © PAUL BLAKEMORE. NIGHT SONGS, PATRICK WOLF © PAUL BLAKEMORE. THE STORM © OLIVER RUDKIN. (M)IMOSA/TWENTY LOOKS OR PARIS IS BURNING AT THE JUDSON CHURCH (M), TRAJAL HARRELL © OLIVER RUDKIN.

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IBT15 EVENTS
Fog moving across Pero's Bridge and Bristol Harbourside.

Fog Bridge

Fujiko Nakaya

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To celebrate Bristol’s status as European Green Capital, we have invited a conjurer of unusual weather, artist Fujiko Nakaya to…

13-22 Feb 2015

Pero's Bridge

Bristol

Fog covers a bridge a metal bridge, there is a strong contrast of blues and greens.

Fog Bridge Exhibition

Fujiko Nakaya

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Fog cascades down a building, seeps through a summer field, and floats above a car park. Discover the incredible landscapes…

12-15 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

Patrick Wolf is on stage in Tyntesfield Chapel, he is standing in front of a keyboard. There are other instruments around him. The audience are sat watching Night Songs.

Night Songs

Patrick Wolf

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In a special commission musician Patrick Wolf creates a concert at the heart of the house. No stranger to collaboration,…

14-15 Feb 2015

Tyntesfield

Bristol

Jo Bannon stands wearing black, holds a hair dryer.

Alba

Jo Bannon

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Drawing on her experience as a person with albinism, Jo Bannon unpicks a tangle of stories: the stories we tell…

13 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (M)

Trajal Harrell

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Trajal Harrell imagines an extravagant meeting between the two. Minimalism and flamboyance collide to challenge the divisions of race, class…

13 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S) and (XS)

Trajal Harrell

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Uptown in Harlem, African-American and Latino LGBT communities gather to catwalk their desires in a ‘rich white world. Downtown, dancers…

14-15 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

A woman in a red dress stands on a wet floor, she is surrounded by empty buckets and collections of My Little Pony figures.

Britney Spears Custody battle VS Zeus in Swan Rape Shocker

Lucy Hutson

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Join Lucy Hutson as she wades through the ethical mire. Encounter personal battles with consumerism, correct dating etiquette and an…

13 Feb 2015

Wickham Theatre

Bristol

A crowd of people walk across a hill at night, in the background you can see the city lit up.

Nightwalks With Teenagers

Mammalian Diving Reflex

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Take the hand of a Bristol teenager as they guide you deep into their suburbs at night.

13-15 Feb 2013

Knowle West

Bristol

Harnessing A Storm

Leading artists, thinkers and activists set provocations and open up conversations between you and others around the breakfast table.

14 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

Two naked men are on stage, the floor is covered in white powder. One of the men is holding the other up right.

27

Peter McMaster

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As Peter McMaster reaches 27 he contemplates this age of change, using autobiography and ritual to explore this tipping point…

15 Feb 2015

Trinity Centre

Bristol

A naked women is hiding among some rocks on a beach.

Carrying Stones

Madeleine Botet De Lacaze

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Carrying Stones investigates the survival instinct. Explore the struggle between the impulse of life and the desire for death.

13-14 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

Double Exposures

Manuel Vason

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Double Exposures is a new collaborative venture between Manuel Vason and forty of the most visually arresting artists working with…

14 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

A commercial plane flies across a bright white sky.

Extraordinary Rendition

Action Hero

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Extraordinary Rendition uses video, sound and live performance to interrogate the colonisation that begins with the battle for hearts and…

12-15 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

A person in the distance is stood in the ocean amongst the waves

Flood Plans

Jo Hellier

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This is a flooded place. We flooded it together.

14 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

A woman dressed in grey, moves quickly the image in blurred by a slow shutter release.

Le Temps Scellé

Nacera Belaza

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ll is quiet, the sky is dark, the air is waiting. Two women appear – the dance begins.

12 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

IBT SPECIAL GUEST

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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IBT is delighted to welcome Guillermo Gómez-Peña as our special guest throughout the festival.

12 Feb 2017

Arnolfini

Bristol

Living with Uncertainty

Interested in the world around you? Leading artists, thinkers and activists set provocations and open up conversations between you and…

13 Feb 2017

Arnolfini

Bristol

A male figure dances.

Niyizi

Ishimwa

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With poignant humour, dancer Ishimwa examines the irrational religious ideas he adopted as a child to help him get over…

14 Feb 2015

Wickham Theatre

Bristol

Two girls crouch down wearing overalls and long wigs under beanie hats

O

Project O

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Kinda like when Yellowmen met Angela Carter for a cup of tea.

15 Feb 2015

Wickham Theatre

Bristol

Two figures dressed in grey dance, the image is blurred by the slow shutter release.

Opening Night

Audiences from far and wide gather throughout Arnolfini to celebrate the opening of the festival and experience tasters of the…

12 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

Written in chalk on the pavement, it reads 'Art Can Change The World' the photo has a red wash.

Producers as International Change Makers

Producers as International Change Makers aims to open up discussion about the value of art, unusual models of producing and…

13 Feb 2015

Watershed

Bristol

A man lying on the grass dressed in an American Football costume holding a ball, surrounded by a circle of audience members

TEAM OF THE DECADES

Will Dickie

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Play a different kind of game…

13-15 Feb 2015

Brandon Hill

Bristol

Two men both dressed in grey suits, with red jumpers sit on chairs facing the audience, they are looking directly at each other and they are both holding a brown book.

The Notebook

Forced Entertainment

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Based on the novel by Hungarian writer Ágota Kristóf. Set during World War II, The Notebook is an unsettling story…

14 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

A blue light is breaking through the audience, peoples fingers catch in the beams and break the image.

The Storm

Playmodes

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WILL YOU SURVIVE THE STORM? Enter a heart-stopping hurricane of strobe, sound and light.

14 Feb 2015

The Station

Bristol

A rocky surface in the middle of the desert, a fire blazes in the centre.

True West

Lone Twin

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The infamous Lone Twin duo return from an eight-year hiatus, with a raucous re- imagining of Sam Shepard’s True West.

15 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

Four people sat round a table talking.

Heroes in the Aftermath

An ideas packed morning of caffeinated debate.

15 Feb 2015

Arnolfini

Bristol

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Pero's bridge over the river avon is covered in fog Video

Panel: Getting Our House in Order: the Arts Responds to Climate Change

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