ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES
9 - 10 April / Blackburn town centre
Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture
This Spring, Blackburn town centre is proud to be hosting part of the acclaimed AND Festival which is taking place across Lancashire and Cumbria. We invite you to Abandon your Normal Devices and join us as we question normality and champion a different approach through a bizarre but fun range of arts performances, installations, music and events across the town centre.
What is AND Festival?
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival welcomes audiences to experience the best in new cinema and media art in a celebration that spills from screens and galleries into the streets and imaginations of the North West. AND exists to create a space where artists and filmmakers can offer striking new perspectives, and visitors can enjoy, discuss and interact with ideas, in a festival that questions the normal and champions a different approach.The festival takes place in Liverpool and Manchester on alternate years, with an extended programme in Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire. Expect an eclectic array of screenings, installations, online projects, public realm interventions, workshops and live events, with a distinctive emphasis on ideas and discussion.Abandon Normal Devices is driven by a new collaborative partnership between three of the UK’s leading institutions dealing with art and digital culture. FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool, Cornerhouse in Manchester and folly in Lancaster have joined forces to collaborate on the exciting task of imagining a new festival from scratch.AND is part of WE PLAY, the Northwest cultural legacy project for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. WE PLAY is a Legacy Trust UK funded project led by the Arts Council, Northwest on behalf of new regional partnerships. WE PLAY is presented in the Northwest as part of beinspired.
For more information about AND Festival events across the North West visit www.andfestival.org.uk
Blackburn Events
Friday 9 & Saturday 10 April, 7.30pm to 12am
Strange Attractors – The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp
King William Street
Friday 9 & Saturday 10 April, 12 noon - 5pm
Cloud Project
Church Street
Saturday 10 April, from 2pm - 3pm
MP3 Experiment
King William Street
Saturday 10 April 12 noon till five
Interface Amnesty
Waterloo Pavilions, 12 noon – 5pm
Saturday 10 April 8pm till late
Festival closing party with Plaid, 8pm – ‘til late
41 King Street
For more information visit www.andfestival.org.uk or www.twitter.com/ANDfestival
