Cloudscapes at Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet

Brilliant Bamboo, and the Brownfield Parklet are delighted to host Cloudscapes by Gobbledegook Theatre

CLOUDSCAPES is a show where the SKY is the main performer. Audiences lie back and watch the clouds in an outdoor auditorium made of comfy bean bags and blankets— a cloud-gazing area. During the experience people listen through headphones as artist Lorna Rees tells stories of her relationship with the troposphere whilst participants look up and contemplate the mutability of clouds, as well as the mutability of humanity.

Over fifty thousand people have collaboratively cloud-gazed with Lorna over the past nine years as Cloudscapes has toured all over the UK and beyond.

The company have Cloud-gazed everywhere from the busy Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham to a concrete car park in Crewe to the sand of Cleethorpes Beach...and now in the Brownfield Parklet and the ruins of the Crescent Pottery.

Even the most seemingly featureless skies provide plentiful material.

Cloudscapes is a very personal, human-scale work about clouds, the science of their formation and names with a focus on the role of clouds in climate change. It premiered at the Inside Out Dorset Festival in September 2016 on the dramatic coastal site of Hengistbury Head.

Themes
The formation and science of clouds
The Earth’s Changing Climate
Driving The Route 66 – Dads and Daughters

WHO ARE GOBBLEDEGOOK THEATRE?
Gobbledegook make innovative, cross-art-form work, which has theatre at its core. We make work almost exclusively for the outdoors and see their identity as being part of the vibrant UK Outdoor Arts sector. Lorna Rees is Artistic Director of Gobbledegook. www.gobbledegooktheatre.com  

Gobbledegook create work about Earth Sciences.
They are Associate Artists for Inside Out Dorset, Lighthouse Poole and CHANGE Festival. Lorna is also Co-Chair of Outdoor Arts UK.

COMMISSIONING CREDIT
Cloudscapes was commissioned by Inside Out Dorset, and was made with support from Activate Performing Arts, The Point Eastleigh and 101 Creation Space. Cloudscapes was made with support by Arts Council England.

Cloudscapes was made in collaboration with artist Heidi Steller http://www.heidisteller.co.uk, with dramaturgical support from author John Grindrod (writer of Concretopia, Outskirts and Iconicon. (http://dirtymodernscoundrel.blogspot.co.uk), Zoe Svendsen (http://metisarts.co.uk) along with several meteorologists and scientists involved in the study of climate change.