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Category: UK 2017

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  • Thursday 3 Aug – Berlin to Edinburgh

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    Easyjet flight: 6978 from SXF to EDI
    EZY6978 flight
    Departs: 13:25
    Arrives: 14:45

    Airlink 100 to Haymarket Station (runs every 10 mins)
    9 minute walk to

    16B ROTHESAY MEWS, Edinburgh, Scotland EH3 7SG (TripAdvisor link)

    The ad

  • Friday 4 August – Edinburgh Festival

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    A heart at sea 👍👍👍👍

    A Heart at Sea uses haunting live music to tell the story of a young Boy who bottles up his heart and throws it into the sea. Original song-writing is set to breath-taking visuals centred around a beautifully carved wooden chest that holds the secrets to the story.

    Intricate puppets are swept through a transforming wooden world created by the spectacular chest. Be astounded as backdrops flip up, pirouette and change, sending the Boy tumbling through danger and discovery. Puppets roam on this unique contraption to recount the story of whales, tiny boats, sea captains and beards.

    The original songs, composed by Avi Simmons, knit together the atmospheric tale through live vocals, instruments and a loop station. The music sweeps through echoing soundscapes to create a visceral, heart-warming experience. Join our hero as he embarks on a wild, nautical journey to recover his missing heart.

    When we Ran 👍👍

    When two sisters flee the commune they’ve grown up in, they discover a harsh and beautiful world they never knew. Playful, visual storytelling with original songs from the creators of We Live By the Sea – ‘Top Theatre of 2016’ (New York Times). Patch of Blue are a multi award-winning company creating fresh, exciting and touching devised theatre with live music. They are the recipient of the prestigious Grahame F. Smith Peace Foundation Award for promoting human rights through theatre, as well as the Best Theatre and Critics Choice awards at the Adelaide Festival.

    Wereldband 👍👍👍👍👍



    Losing it 👍

    Performed by a clown duo enrolled in Cirque du Soleil, accompanied by one-man orchestra Bird Radio and comedy directed by critically acclaimed Cal McCrystal, this show is a daring fusion of laughter and tears. An odd and elderly immigrant couple is waiting for their children… A life defined by vegetables, routine and memories is illustrated through grotesque body-mask, mime, object manipulation and live music played on classical instruments and kitchen utensils.

    Son et lumière + fireworks on way home

  • Saturday 5 August – Edinburgh Festival

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    Edinburgh weather

    Mimi’s Bakehouse

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    Bryony Knox


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    Free bowler hats today


    Circa: Humans 👍👍👍👍👍

    The new, thrilling and heart-stopping performance from the internationally acclaimed Circa (Closer, Beyond, Wunderkammer). Humans is an ecstatic love letter to our endangered species. Created by Yaron Lifschitz and fresh from a storming season at Sydney Festival, ten acrobats go faster, harder and higher than ever before, taking us on a stirring journey of what it means to be human and of how our bodies, our connections and our aspirations all form part of who we are.

    The venerable bird’s eye view 👍👍👍👍

    Artocrite Theater (Hong Kong)

    Three actors are transformed into birds and trapped within a cage – the human world. In this new life they must express their emotions and needs, and explore gender to forge a new, human identity. Artocrite theatre create a multimedia experience bringing intense physical experession together with contemporary music. Directed by Dr Peter Jordan in partnership Hong Kong artists Birdy Wong and Pong Leung, The Venerable Bird’s Eye View is a stunning cross-cultural performance without spoken language.


    https://youtu.be/4WGAXwT4fr4

    Kim had a little dance on stage with the bearded man in the dress with a shining heart.

  • Sunday 6 August – Edinburgh Festival

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    Jupiter Artway

    Dovecot

     

     

     

     

    Driftwood 👍👍👍

    Last Clown on Earth 👎

    Staging Wittgenstein 👍👍👍

  • Monday 7 August – Edinburgh Festival

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    Dance-Forms 74th International Choreographers’ Showcase 👍


    Perhaps, perhaps, quizás 👍👍👍👍👍

    In the street


    The Improv Musical 👍👍👍

  • Tuesday 8 August – Edinburgh to Hull

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    Train

     

     

    To Waverley Station it’s a 2 mile drive, 15 min. Edinburgh Central Taxis +441312292468 (book online)

    10:00 Edinburgh (Virgin Trains East Coast) F13, F14 (GBP 46 each)
    12:28 York
    
    12:47 York (Northern Rail)
    13:48 Hull

    10 minute walk (1/2 mile) to
    Kingston Theatre Hotel

    Philip Larkin poems

    Ten things you might not know about Hull (BBC)

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    What’s on in Hull?

  • Wednesday 9 August – Hull

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    Hull City of Culture 2017

    humber street gallery


    Visible Girls

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    Guardian article on Visible Girls
    https://1stwomenuk.co.uk
    http://visiblegirls.com/hull/

    Visible girls team
    Anita Corbin and Deborah Willimott
     



     
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    It’s never dull in Hull
    If you’re a hungry gull
    You can eat a curious dish
    An English-speaking fish


     

     

     
    Pussy hats

     
    Bionic crows

     

     
    The Deep aquarium

     
    Old dry dock

  • Saturday 12 August – Hebden Bridge

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    Walk to Hebden Bridge. There and back is about 10 miles.

    1:30 Lunch in Hebden Bridge – Chapter 17
     
    Arts and crafts work

     
    Mud, mud, glorious mud …

     

    Traces of the Tour de France


     
    The canal is much easier – Hamden Bridge on LGBT day

     
    Blottworks

  • Sunday 13 August – Hebden Bridge

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    A super sunny Yorkshire Sunday

     

    Yorkshire Sculpture Park

    Tony Cragg


     

     

     

     
    Zak Ové

     

    Zak Ové at YSP from Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Vimeo.

     


     

     

    A Yorkshire joke overheard at YSP

    Q. What do you get if you sit under a cow?
    A. A pat on the head.
     

     

     

  • Monday 14 August – York

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    Time to leave for York


     

    The Brontë parsonage in Haworth


     

    Middletons York

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    York Minster


     

     
    Mary bottle-feeding Jesus to spare victorian blushes

     

     

  • Tuesday 15 August – York

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    A walk around the York wall


     

     

     

     
    Photovoltaic cow

     
    Coming out from coffee in the refectory

     
    Burghers of Olde Yorke

     

  • Wednesday 16 August – York

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    Aesthetica exhibition

     
    How difficult can it be to jump from France 🇫🇷 to the UK 🇬🇧

     

     

     

     
    What remains of York’s castle

  • Thursday 17 August – York to Berlin

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    Train York to Newcastle. Transpennine Express
    Collect ticket at station 385T968X

    10:08 York
    11:12 Newcastle Central
    11:27 Newcastle Central Metro
    11:54 Newcastle Airport

    There’s a metro from Newcastle Central station every 12 mins & it takes 25 mins to the airport.

    Easyjet flight from Newcastle U2 4628 from NCL to SXF 15:00 – 18:10