A chance for schools to get involved! Hull City Centre and Kardomah94  (The Other Space) Alfred Gelder Street, October 4-5, 2014.

Hull theatre company Ensemble 52 is creating a Fun Palace on the weekend of October 4 and 5, 2014.  Fun Palaces are being created across the country and are all about local people and communities sharing arts, culture and sciences in a national and international simultaneous campaign for participation and culture.

Working with a number of artists and facilitators leading workshops and practical sessions with participants of all ages, E52 intends to create and build a huge quantity of giant robots, made from a range of recycled materials. The giant robots will then head around the city centre on a parade. Other animated robots will also be created, culminating in a very exciting, thrilling and action-packed robot war on Queen's Gardens. The project will involve lots of ‘making’ and ‘creating’ in and around Kardomah @ 94, where E52 are resident theatre company, before art interventions and street theatre across the city centre.

Several teams of artists, theatre makers, storytellers, performers, roboteers and, most importantly, anyone that would like to get involved will be asked to propose and design several giant puppet robots and create stories for them. Want to get involved? Email  info@e52.co.uk

In 1961 Joan Littlewood and architect Cedric Price conceived the Fun Palace as a ‘laboratory of fun’, ‘a university of the streets’. It was to be a temporary and moveable home to the arts and sciences that would welcome children and adults alike, based on Joan Littlewood’s motto of “Everyone an artist, everyone a scientist.” 2014 is a year that this vision will be celebrated across the country.

More information: http://e52.co.uk/site/?p=688