World Premiere

Freddie Wulf (Bristol/Berlin)

we are all made of stars

Friday 14 October 2022Saturday 15 October 2022

Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park
Birmingham, B12 9QH United Kingdom
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With a live sound score by Alicia Jane Turner.
World Premiere. Commissioned by Fierce and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA). Supported by FABRIC. Funded by Arts Council England and Help Musicians.
Included in our tiered discount offer

50 mins £13/11

- loud and affective sound
- Nudity including close up views of the body
- Mild sexual content
- UV lighting
- Near total darkness
- Moving/flickering video images
- 18+

Close up blurred image of a pink flower with a blue background
close up image of just a pair of lips. The person has a piercing on their cupids bow and the lips are submerged slightly in water.

A journey through the body as a living landscape, an ecosystem, constantly in flux

Using a borescope camera Freddie Wulf explores the close-up textures of body, water, and plant, creating a journey through a cosmic landscape.

passing by hairs erupting, droplets on the tiny leaves of moss, lips and throat like an underwater cave

Performed in a bathtub, and inspired by philosophies of vital materialism, the show addresses themes of wellbeing, embodiment, and self perception.

 

Pre-Show Access Orientation

For this show we are offering a pre-show access orientation session on Saturday 15 October. This session, is for any audience members who would benefit from having time to familiarise themselves with the theatre space, see the set pieces, and get a sample of some of the sounds in the show.

The space is open for self-guided orientation; members of the team will be available to answer any questions you have, or support you in the space.

The sessions last for 30 minutes from 8pm. There is no need to book separately, just show your ticket.

 

Freddie Wulf is a trans masculine artist making visceral & visual performance. He is white British, dyspraxic & Mad. His work is sex positive & draws from kink methodologies.

Lead Artist: Freddie Wulf
Producer: Michael Kitchin
Composition & Live Music: Alicia Jane Turner
Lighting Designer: Joshie Harriette
Production Manager: Anna Smith
Movement Direction: Ania Varez
Outside Eye/Dramaturgy: An*dre Neely, Emma Frankland, Tammy Reynolds, Piper Piper
Prop Design: Ginger Johnson
Prop Consultant: Tom Cassani
Intimacy Consultant: Bishop Black
Access Support Worker: Celia Morris


Supported using public funding by Arts Council England and Help Musicians.

                 


*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

New for this year we’re offering a tiered discount on bookings for multiple shows, giving you savings whether you’re planning to attend just a handful or all of them. The more tickets you buy, the more you save.

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows. Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

Fierce Says

Freddie has been developing this new show with Fierce for a few years through our Fierce Further commissioning programme. Come see what we've been cooking up. It's beautiful!!
This is a highly visual, and intriguing show performed in a bath tub. Microscopic cameras create illusions (or reveal truths?) that allow us to see the body as a landscape: not just in the universe, but part of it. Expect to cross mountains and oceans, from toes to nose.

Details

Friday 14 October 2022

8.45pm

Midlands Arts Centre, Foyle Studio

Saturday 15 October 2022

8.45pm

Midlands Arts Centre, Foyle Studio

UK Premiere

Francesca Grilli (Brussels)

Sparks

Friday 14 October 2022Saturday 15 October 2022

Balsall Heath
Birmingham, B12 9AN
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UK Premiere. Part of our Flanders Focus, supported by Flanders House.
Not-included in our tiered discount offer.
This is an 18+ event.

30 Mins £10/8

- low level lighting

“I am interested in the sense of responsibility, which I put in the hands of children: their firm belief in their visions and ideas of the future. I believe in a utopia-in-the-making as a social objective, even if it remains intangible and incomprehensible.” – Francesca Grilli

How often do you completely surrender to a child?

Sparks creates a space where the usual power relationships between the child and the adult are inverted. The children become oracles; bearers of mystical knowledge; wielders of magical powers.

As you enter the space, you encounter a community of oracles, including, for the Fierce festival edition, the artist’s daughter. Their faces are hidden behind masks but you can hear their voices. How does it feel to have a child tell you your destiny?

This event is presented as part of our Flanders Focus.

This is a limited capacity event and therefore is not part of the ticket discount scheme.

This event is for audiences 18+ only.

credits
Creation: Francesca Grilli
Words: Azzurra D’Agostino
Sound: Roberto Rettura
Movements: Benno Steinegger
Hat designer and realization: Paola Villani
Advice: Chiara Guidi
Palm reading advices: Guido Rossetti
Producer: Chiara Massari
Communication: Elena Regazzoni / Studio Francesca Grilli
Administration: Chiara Fava/ Corpoceleste

 

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

 

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

Details

Friday 14 October 2022

5.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Friday 14 October 2022

6.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

3.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

4.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

5.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

World Premiere

Oozing Gloop (Berlin/Norwich)

Tentacular Spectacular

Thursday 13 October 2022Friday 14 October 2022

77A Upper Trinity Street, Digbeth
Birmingham, B9 4EG United Kingdom
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Commissioned by Fierce Festival, Battersea Arts Centre & Kampnagel with support from Take Me Somewhere. Produced by Artsadmin. Funded by Arts Council England and British Council International Collaboration Grants.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

World Premiere!

90 mins £15/13

• There is a short section using strobe lighting
• There is use of dry ice, haze and smoke grenades
• There is use of loud music
• There are no moments of complete darkness
• Contains partial nudity
• There is a section of around 10 minutes that depicts femme body mutilation and birth trauma

Glitchy flyer image with Gloop made into an android with pasted body parts from different images.

Oozing Gloop and Esben Holk

Slide into a multi-sensory, psychosexual swamp inhabited by transgressive drag frog Oozing Gloop and some of her many fae-like friends.

Is it just me, or has the world totally lost its mind? As our climate collapses into a pre-humanity, primordial sludge, come bolthole into the butt holes of the sharpest savants around and see what these gender-non-conforming, neurodivergent drag artists have to offer.

Be amazed, appalled and enthralled as together we wander through this installation of performances and cursed objects from a new anthropomorphic age… it’s frog-memes, it’s goblins, it’s fashion baby! And all underground critters are welcome.

Featuring Olympia Bukkakis, Shrek666, Bonnie Bakeneko with set design by Jenkin Van Zyl. Wow!

 

Access and content information to help you decide if Tentacular Spectacular is for you.

***Please note that this show will be a dry (alcohol-free) space***

 

 

Credits

Created by Oozing Gloop

 

Core Artist: Bonnie Bakeneko

Core Artist: Olympia Bukkakis

Core Artist: Shrek666

Guest Artist for Fierce: China

 

Production Manager: Joe French

Technical Stage Manager: Meg Hodgson

 

Set Designer: Jenkin Van Zyl

Sound Designer: Nicol Parkinson

Lighting Designer: Ali Armstrong

 

Lead Artist Assistant: Becky Plotnek

Lead Artist Access Assistant (Germany): Sarah Binz

Artist Liaison: Lacey McFadyen

 

Meme Artist: Esben Holk

Filmmakers: Alex and Liane

 

Produced by Artsadmin

 

Co-commissioned by Fierce, Battersea Arts Centre, Kampnagel and Take Me Somewhere

Supported with public funding from an Arts Council England’s Project Grant and part of the British Council’s International Collaboration Programme

 

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

New for this year we’re offering a tiered discount on bookings for multiple shows, giving you savings whether you’re planning to attend just a handful or all of them. The more tickets you buy, the more you save.

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

Fierce Says

We love Oozing Gloop, and after there were queues out of the door to catch The Gloop Show at Fierce 2019, it seems you lot do too. Tentacular Spectacular is a late night performance installation featuring contributions from some of the boggiest trans drag artists around, with incredible inflatables by Jenkyn Van Zyl. The fact Fierce has been able to commission this work, at this scale, shows that not everything in the world is going wrong :)

Details

Thursday 13 October 2022, 10.30pmFriday 14 October 2022, 12.00am

7SVN, 77A Upper Trinity Street

Friday 14 October 2022, 10.30pmSaturday 15 October 2022, 12.00am

7SVN, 77A Upper Trinity Street

SaVAge K’lub (Auckland)

Kolonial Karma: Late at the Museum

Friday 14 October 2022, 7.30pm10.30pm

Chamberlain Square
Birmingham, B3 3DH
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Supported by Creative New Zealand

3 hours

Free

A very special evening with Aotearoa’s SaVAge K’lub. Fierce has been working with the SaVAge K’lub collective for the past twelve months, presenting their exhibition VA TAMATEA which is currently on show in Birmingham Museum. Because of pandemic constraints, the exhibition has been created by the SaVAge K’lub remotely.

We’re delighted to finally welcome the SaVAge K’lub to Birmingham, in person, for the first time as part of Fierce Festival 2022. They’ll be throwing a very special event ‘Kolonial Karma’, after hours at Birmingham Museum. Expect performance art, music, spoken word and more as SaVAge K’lub activate their exhibition and the Edwardian Tea Room space. More details will be revealed nearer the time.

Featuring Head SaVAge Rosanna Raymond and more to be announced.

Sistar S’pacific, aka Rosanna Raymond, is an innovator of the contemporary Pasifika art scene as a long-standing member of the art collective the Pacific Sisters, and the founding member of the SaVĀge K’lub. Raymond has achieved international renown for her performances, installations, body adornment, and spoken word.

Details

Friday 14 October 2022

7.30pm

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

crazinisT artisT (Accra)

Kall for Healing

Friday 14 October 2022, 5.30pm7.30pm

Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park
Birmingham, B12 9QH United Kingdom
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Free

- Contains nudity

Healing is a process and a ritual of becoming through physical, spiritual, mental and emotional endurance, violence and alternative death. It intensifies its own pains by scratching our wounds. We die to live! Our endurance is only sustained through the joy, the hope and dreams of rebirth. Healing and its rituals are paradoxical, leaving us with new scars and fresh memories of our wounds that allow us to reimagine our own wholeness, survival, strength and experience a new perfection.

In the performance, the artist invites the audience to join the ritual of healing as an intimate encounter, communal solidarity and to reflect on their own wounds. It allows both the artist and the audience to reimagine their own journey to healings while contemplating on the wholeness and the wildness of that enduring process of becoming.

This project was developed while in residence at prohelvetia_residency hosted by the Progr_Bern Switzerland. Supported by @prohelvetia @prohelvetia_johannesburg

Details

Friday 14 October 2022

5.30pm

Midlands Arts Centre

Luca Manning Trio (London)

Free Jazz Friday, Presented by B:Music

Friday 14 October 2022, 5.00pm6.30pm

Broad Street
Birmingham, B1 2EA United Kingdom
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Presented with B:Music

90 mins

Free

This event is free, but ticketed. Tickets can be booked via the B:Music website on the link below.

‘Once in a very great while a performer comes along who is touched by greatness, who mixes a incredible, innate ability with insight,  great wit and a knowledge of the great artists who have preceded them. Luca Manning is such an artist.’

Luca Manning is an artist who questions rigidity.

Shaped initially by the buzzing Glasgow music and arts scene, Luca now finds their heart stolen by all that East London has to offer.

Luca is a resident artist at London’s iconic Roundhouse where they are continually expanding their practice allowing them to create transdisciplinary work that offers an immersive experience for the audience; a chance to escape the rigidity of every day life. Luca’s world is an invitation to strive for what lies beyond the mundane and to exist freely, proudly and fully.

Music is one of the most evocative ways to share our stories and Luca is continually exploring their voice as an artist, vocalist, musician, songwriter, poet, performer and storyteller on stages, at festivals, in concert halls, sticky floor venues and amongst beautifully dingy queer basements. Luca’s recent performance highlights include: Roundhouse, The Great Escape Fest, The Glory, Cadogan Hall, VFD, Wilderness Festival and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club.

Aside from music, Luca enjoys embracing their gobby side when co-hosting the ‘how not’ podcast alongside Kim Macari, working with Trade Unions to deliver webinars and workshops on songwriting/storytelling, making mediocre lattes for the public, dancing to disco, turning lewks and dreaming of the day they’ll own a baby sausage dog called Aretha.

Manning will be joined by musicians Xhosa Cole and Jamie Safir.

Critically acclaimed saxophonist, flautist and composer, Xhosa Cole is an embodiment of the success of numerous community outreach arts programmes in Birmingham. Having started playing Tenor Saxophone at Andy Hamilton MBE’s Ladywood Community Music School, Xhosa has now established himself among the long legacy of Birmingham Saxophonists including Soweto Kinch and Shabaka Hutchings

Jamie Safir is a Decca-Recording artist (featured on ‘Alone Together’) and a stalwart of the London Jazz and Cabaret Scene. A talented pianist who has collaborating with Will Young regularly since 2015,  he’s toured with Mica Paris, Birdy, performed with The Brand New Heavies, Olly Murs, Claire Martin, Elaine Delmar, Le Gateau Chocolat, Clare Teal, Liane Carrol, Rebecca Ferguson, Steps & Tony Christie.

Details

Clara Furey (Montreal)

Dog Rising

Thursday 13 October 2022, 9.00pm10.00pm

20 Sheepcote Street
Birmingham, B16 8AE
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Supported by Québec Government Office. In partnership with Nottdance Festival.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

60 mins £13/11

Image: Mathieu Verreault

Image: Mathieu Verreault

Bodies launch into orbit, vibrating in a lustful and hypnotic ritual, Dog Rising mirrors the life cycle, the dynamic flow of matter.

From primitive impulses to gestures that are at times sexual, at times mechanical, Clara Furey’s new creation comes together like a polyphony of pulsating bodies, in turns dissonant and in unison. The choreographer pursues an exploration of physical phenomena: the way sound vibrations penetrate the bones, the way our skeletons absorb shocks, listening closely to the presence of the body as it fully manifests itself.

On stage, the trio erects an architecture of pleasure and is inhabited and nourished by empathy and acute attention to the energy of the body and to others. Through their tireless movement work, tensions are released in the endless repetition of cyclical gestures. Dog Rising invites us to embark on an extreme journey, a mesmerising, haunting, and penetrating spiral.

Dog Rising performer and artist Brian Mendez will also be running a Vogue Class at DanceXchange find out more about it here.

 

Credits 

CONCEPT AND ARTISTIC DIRECTION: CLARA FUREY

CHOREOGRAPHED BY: CLARA FUREY

IN COLLABORATION WITH: BE HEINTZMAN HOPE, BRIAN MENDEZ & WINNIE HO

PERFORMED BY: BACO LEPAGE-ACOSTA, BRIAN MENDEZ, JONTAE MCCRORY

REHEARSAL: LUCIE VIGNEAULT

MUSICAL COMPOSITION: TOMAS FUREY

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & LIGHTING DESIGN: KARINE GAUTHIER

WORDS BY: CORAL SHORT

OUTSIDE EYE: PETER JASKO, DANA MICHEL, CHRISTOPHER WILLES, CAROLINE MONNET DISTRIBUTION :A PROPIC | LINE ROUSSEAU & MARION GAUVENT

PRODUCTION: CLARA FUREY

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: PARBLEUX

PRODUCED BY: ATELIER DE PARIS – CDCN (FRANCE), CD SPECTACLES (GASPÉ,CANADA), CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL D’ORLÉANS – DIRECTION MAUD LE PLADEC(FRANCE), FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES (MONTRÉAL, CANADA), LA BRIQUETERIE – CENTRE DEDÉVELOPPEMENT CHORÉGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL DU VAL-DE-MARNE (VITRY-SUR-SEINE, FRANCE),LA ROTONDE (QUÉBEC, CANADA), NEW BALTIC DANCE FESTIVAL (VILNIUS, LITHUANIA)

PARTNERS AND SUPPORT FOR CREATION PARBLEUX(MONTRÉAL, CANADA), L’ÉCART – ART ACTUEL (ROUYN-NORANDA, CANADA), DANSE À LA CARTE(MONTRÉAL, CANADA)

 

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

New for this year we’re offering a tiered discount on bookings for multiple shows, giving you savings whether you’re planning to attend just a handful or all of them. The more tickets you buy, the more you save.

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

 

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

Fierce Says

ENERGY, sometimes its palpable. Prepare to be hypnotised by this piece by one of Canada's most exciting talents. We watched this piece on video during lockdown and even through the screen it was impressive - we can't wait to experience it live with you all. Colour, Music, Movement - a simple but winning combination!

Details

Thursday 13 October 2022

9.00pm

Crescent Theatre, Main House

Cade & MacAskill (Glasgow)

The Making of Pinocchio

Wednesday 12 October 2022Thursday 13 October 2022

Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park
Birmingham, B12 9QH United Kingdom
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Commissioned by Fierce Festival, Kampnagel, Tramway & Vooruit with support from Attenborough Centre of the Arts, Battersea Arts Centre and LIFT. Produced by Artsadmin.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

90 mins £15/13

There is no strobes, flashing lights or haze
There is a short section with loud music
There are no moments of complete blackness
Contains nudity
The show briefly talks about transphobia, and sometimes explores the exploitation and misrepresentation of trans people’s lives and bodies. Fuller information is available further down the page.

Tiu Makkonen

Two performers dressed as puppets with long wooden noses touching.

A true tale of love and transition told through the story of Pinocchio. 

Set in a fictional film studio, you are invited to go behind the scenes of Cade & MacAskill’s creative process and their relationship, and question what it takes to tell your truth.

Artists and lovers Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill have been creating The Making of Pinocchio since 2018, alongside and in response to Ivor’s gender transition. In this ‘funny, clever and thoughtful two-hander, rich in playful imagery’ (The Guardian) their tender and complex autobiographical experience meets the magical story of the lying puppet who wants to be a ‘real boy’.

With an ingenious scenography designed by Tim Spooner, layered with sound by Yas Clarke, lights by Jo Palmer and cinematography from Kirstin McMahon and Jo Hellier, the show constantly shifts between fantasy and authenticity, humour and intimacy, on stage and on screen. This “ravishingly beautiful’ (The Arts Desk) show is for anyone seeking to explore the sheer joy and limitless potential of queer imagination. Audiences called it ‘unmissable’, ‘breath-taking’, ‘phenomenal’, ‘showstopping’ and ‘the queer love story of the year’.

Access and content information to help you decide if The Making of Pinocchio is for you.

 

Access Information

Both shows are captioned. On Wednesday 12, the show will be audio described with a touch-tour available.

To access the Audio Description please visit the Welcome Desk at MAC where you will be able to sign out the receiver and headphones and the staff will show you how to use them.

Download the introduction to the Audio Description here

To book in for a touch tour, please email contact@wearefiece.org

 

Credits

A Fierce Festival, Kampnagel, Tramway & Vooruit Co-Commission. With support from Attenborough Centre of the Arts, Battersea Arts Centre and LIFT.
Produced by Artsadmin.
Funded by Creative Scotland, Rufolf Augstein Stiftung and Arts Council England.
Supported by The Work Room/Dianne Torr Bursary, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, National Theatre of Scotland, Live Art Development Agency, Gessnerellee, Mousonturm, Forest Fringe, West Kowloon Cultural District, LGBT Health & Wellbeing Scotland, Glasgow Zine Library.

 

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

New for this year we’re offering a tiered discount on bookings for multiple shows, giving you savings whether you’re planning to attend just a handful or all of them. The more tickets you buy, the more you save.

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

Fierce Says

You may well remember Cade & MacAskill from their performance as Double Pussy Clit F*ck at Fierce Festival 2017, or for their hit show Moot Moot that we presented in 2018. This is their richest work to date, set behind the scenes of a movie: Pinocchio. Seriously, don't miss the latest hit Fierce commission. It's brilliant!

Details

Wednesday 12 October 2022

7.00pm

Midlands Arts Centre, Theatre

Thursday 13 October 2022

7.00pm

Midlands Arts Centre, Theatre

Cade & MacAskill (Glasgow)

The Making of Pinocchio

Wednesday 12 October 2022Thursday 13 October 2022

Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park
Birmingham, B12 9QH United Kingdom
+ Google Map

Commissioned by Fierce Festival, Kampnagel, Tramway & Vooruit with support from Attenborough Centre of the Arts, Battersea Arts Centre and LIFT. Produced by Artsadmin.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

90 mins £15/13

There is no strobes, flashing lights or haze
There is a short section with loud music
There are no moments of complete blackness
Contains nudity
The show briefly talks about transphobia, and sometimes explores the exploitation and misrepresentation of trans people’s lives and bodies. Fuller information is available further down the page.

Tiu Makkonen

Two performers dressed as puppets with long wooden noses touching.

A true tale of love and transition told through the story of Pinocchio. 

Set in a fictional film studio, you are invited to go behind the scenes of Cade & MacAskill’s creative process and their relationship, and question what it takes to tell your truth.

Artists and lovers Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill have been creating The Making of Pinocchio since 2018, alongside and in response to Ivor’s gender transition. In this ‘funny, clever and thoughtful two-hander, rich in playful imagery’ (The Guardian) their tender and complex autobiographical experience meets the magical story of the lying puppet who wants to be a ‘real boy’.

With an ingenious scenography designed by Tim Spooner, layered with sound by Yas Clarke, lights by Jo Palmer and cinematography from Kirstin McMahon and Jo Hellier, the show constantly shifts between fantasy and authenticity, humour and intimacy, on stage and on screen. This “ravishingly beautiful’ (The Arts Desk) show is for anyone seeking to explore the sheer joy and limitless potential of queer imagination. Audiences called it ‘unmissable’, ‘breath-taking’, ‘phenomenal’, ‘showstopping’ and ‘the queer love story of the year’.

Access and content information to help you decide if The Making of Pinocchio is for you.

 

Access Information

Both shows are captioned. On Wednesday 12, the show will be audio described with a touch-tour available.

To access the Audio Description please visit the Welcome Desk at MAC where you will be able to sign out the receiver and headphones and the staff will show you how to use them.

Download the introduction to the Audio Description here

To book in for a touch tour, please email contact@wearefiece.org

 

Credits

A Fierce Festival, Kampnagel, Tramway & Vooruit Co-Commission. With support from Attenborough Centre of the Arts, Battersea Arts Centre and LIFT.
Produced by Artsadmin.
Funded by Creative Scotland, Rufolf Augstein Stiftung and Arts Council England.
Supported by The Work Room/Dianne Torr Bursary, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, National Theatre of Scotland, Live Art Development Agency, Gessnerellee, Mousonturm, Forest Fringe, West Kowloon Cultural District, LGBT Health & Wellbeing Scotland, Glasgow Zine Library.

 

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

New for this year we’re offering a tiered discount on bookings for multiple shows, giving you savings whether you’re planning to attend just a handful or all of them. The more tickets you buy, the more you save.

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

Fierce Says

You may well remember Cade & MacAskill from their performance as Double Pussy Clit F*ck at Fierce Festival 2017, or for their hit show Moot Moot that we presented in 2018. This is their richest work to date, set behind the scenes of a movie: Pinocchio. Seriously, don't miss the latest hit Fierce commission. It's brilliant!

Details

Wednesday 12 October 2022

7.00pm

Midlands Arts Centre, Theatre

Thursday 13 October 2022

7.00pm

Midlands Arts Centre, Theatre

enormousface (NYC/Autonomous Cascadia)

Nothing Is Also Possible

Wednesday 12 October 2022Sunday 16 October 2022

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Free

An Exploration of Garbage and the Void

GARBAGE, like God, has no known origin, although it seems to be a genus of inanimate object that has suffered the alchemy of human intervention: transforming first from living to dead (e.g. dinosaurs to petrol) and then from valuable to unwanted (e.g. gasoline to carbon), moving from deep intimacy with the human and its life, to a state of extreme ghettoization. Other animals do not seem to produce similar Garbage, nor have a need for idols or religious artefacts in general. But our ramping up of consumption just as Marxist materialism is on the rise does suggest replacing one with the other. 

When our new god, money, is exhausted, becomes boring, trite or banal, what will replace it? 

enormousface aka artist Kalan Sherrard, will be in residence throughout the festival week making interventions, garbage sculptures and performance. Check back for exact details nearer the time.

enormousface puppet shows in the Festival Late Night Bar
Wednesday 12th/Thursday 13th/Friday 14th – 11.59pm.
Free

enormousface Garbage Monuments Workshop
Sunday 16th October 12noon – 3pm, Friction Arts
Free

enormousface is a slime mold who lives in a (w)hole in the sky with dozens of wild abjects. xE tours Not-Happenings and Puppets Shows around much of the un/known world, has recently been involved in the organization of Garbage Fest in the abominable Amerikas, and periodically lectures on Speculative Inverted Ontology, exploring the cognitive dissonance of eco-nihilist jouissance and phoenix-like dHope [sic] on an exponentially crumbling planet.

https://www.enormousface.com/

Details

Wednesday 12 October 2022Sunday 16 October 2022

Various venues