Port Whoopee
Port Whoopee is a considered social exploration of migration and resettlement using a rock festival campsite as social laboratory.
Part live performance with developing live online community it asks:
What really happens when people of different nationalities pitch tent, camper van, caravan, next to each other for a weekend?
It tried to answer through a combination of live street theatre informed performance, creative programing lecture series and online initiatives.
Initially conceived in response to a commission from The Festival of World Cultures, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, 2008. www.festivalofworldcultures.com
Port Whoopee
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2008 Ongoing.
The Dun Laoghaire version consisted of:
The World Wide Wagon Circle
The original campsite consisted of a trans-global caravan camp, all scented hustle and creative bustle, a market crossroads of the Twenty First century.
Electric Souk
Based on disaster response programmes passing festival goes were invited to roll up their sleeves, establish an emergency relief centre, and communicating with the world. While employing existing social media in an attempt to create an online equivalent.
Performance Area
Which featured Jake McManus’s Drum Circle, Bulgarian Pipe Band, Wendy Marlatt’s Bellydance Troupe, Fanfare Piston, Nivedita Issar Indian dance group, Sitar and Tabla featuring Dara O’Brien, Jorge Reyes, Jack And Mac Cabaret, Slovakian Choir of Andrel Zahorec, Children Of Soweto Choir,
The Diwan of Mint Tea and Poetry
All about language, translation and welcomes a relaxation from the festival hustle in a comforting yurt. Readings and tea drinking as poets read their favourite translations, featuring Dermot Bolger, Ross Hathaway, Eamonn Lynskey, Donal Moloney, Noel O’Briain, Yvonne Cullen, Fred Jonston, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Philip Casey and Eilis Ni Dhuibne.
Port Whoopee is available. Interested parties contact:
genec@eircom.net
portwhoopee@gmail.com
Bewildered Associates @ Port Whooopee Dun Laoighaire;
Jean Connolly, Haf Morgan (Natural Theatre Company), Dominic Campbell, Seamus Redmond, Georgina McKevitt, Emma Regan, Alice Toner, David Rudden, Eamon Fox, Mairtin Lane, Aiden Wallace, Liz Barker and CAMARA
Credits. All photography DCampbell
