The Bristol Ecoshow Performance 2011 Details

Bristol Ecoshow Performance 2011 Celebrates stream-side walks in Bristol, with Malcolm X Elders, Hibernia Players, contemporary music and poem, didgeridoo, Pigeonhouse Stream Campaign, DMedia and Green heart films, Gurt Lush choir & Kilter Theatre. Inspired by indigenous people the world over, for a world future. Nature’s CUSTODIAN FRIDAY JUNE 17th 7.30pm £5/£4 conc. SAINT STEPHEN’s CHURCH St Stephen’s St off Corn Street BS1 1EQ Bookings 0117 9559444 bigbromo@yahoo.co.uk www.ecoshow.org.uk NOTE The church has capacity for about 210 people so booking is advisable, as this unique show is expected to be packed. Details: The celebratory message of the performance is, we can all be Custodians of Mother Nature. The show comes at the end of a few months of community-based work described here: In Hartcliffe, Keith has been campaigning hard to stop the development of part of a Bristol park called Valley Walk which will further destroy the beautiful Pigeon House stream valley. The show tells some of this story through film. Daithi has been developing his Australian Aborigine-influenced mud mapping and walk in Ashley Vale, uncovering the landscape and our emotional response to it, over the last year. Partly exploring his own Irish and Bristol roots he's taken members of the Malcolm X Elders group and of the Hibernia Centre on this walk route. He's also joining with Sustainable Redland members, with Gurt Lush Choir singing the land back to life en route, on a Redland Brook walk. Ecoshow steering group stalwart Peter Bruce takes us up Brislington Brook on Jule 12th - a walk open to the public. All this is being filmed and will be brought to life in the Ecoshow on June 17th by award-winning film makers (DMedia). Brought in from last year's show because of its supreme importance is a film clip of Lele,a Pygmy Elder, interviewed by phenomenol tropical forest film maker Steve Taylor of www.greenheartfilm.com. Lele sets the scene as an indigenous person, inviting all of humanity to realise its inter-dependence with Mother Nature. Contemporary classical and jazz composer Knud Stuwe reworked some music from last year for trumpet, violin, piano and french horn giving a beautiful soundscape to the show and prize-winning potery reciter Auriol Britton shares watery extracts from last year's poem 'The Bridging Place'. Kilter Theatre, highly experienced environmental theatricians who've worked with Daithi in the past bring to life the personages of Midsummer solstice. The Hibernia Centre are Bristol and Irish musicians playing traditional Irish music, celebrating our connection to land and lamenting our dissconnection through poverty and emigration. Gurt Lush, a gurt massive Bristle choir explore our indigenous roots through Somerset songs and more. There'll be refreshments in the cafe afterwards. Ooh yes, and the Green Man may put in an appearance