STREET PARADE & PARTY
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Join us on Sunday 29th October 2023
All events between 5:30PM - 8:30PM free and unticketed
Timings
Meeting at Ginger the Horse | 5:15pm
Street Parade | 5.30pm - 6pm
The Street Party | 6.00pm - 8pm
Gig @ Mid-Kirk | 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Join us for the return of the Galoshans Street Parade! Follow the Galoshans Streetband from Ginger the Horse to the Mid-Kirk as they open the parade and party!
Party with the Galoshans Giants and street performers on Cathcart Square and take part in the free arts & crafts activities that are suitable for all ages. Chill in Art Bus quiet sensory zone and enjoy hot food, snacks and drinks on site. Art activities, screen printing tote bags, wandmaking, lanterns & Halloween crafts, art bus quiet sensory zone, DJ Kodak disco, Food & drink | Bay Ices & Wellpark Mid-Kirk.
And for the first time, join us in the Mid Kirk for fantastic live performances - courtesy of a selection of Inverclyde’s best professional musicians and bands.
Access to the fun is free, so get down early to avoid missing out!
Free earplugs will be available at the music venue.
STREET PARTY ACCESS: SB/R
INVERCLYDE YOUTH MUSIC INITIATIVE STREETBAND
Prepare to stomp, clap, and celebrate as children from St Michaels and Kilmacolm Primary take you to Brazil under the stars of Greenock. To get ready for this performance, children with little or no experience are taught to play specially arranged Halloween tunes on a brass or percussion instrument to a high standard by talented musicians from Where's the One in as little as 8 weeks.
This is all part of Inverclyde's Youth Music Initiative programme, which aims to increase music opportunities in primary schools throughout the local authority.
Access: SB/V
SIREN SONG
by CONNOR BRISTOW
In 1983 filming of the Greenock based horror film Siren Song was abandoned due to an unexplained incident. In an audio installation using personal headphones, hear selections from the forgotten soundtrack. We seem to have encountered some unsettling audio anomalies in the recordings. Hopefully it will all be fine…
Local composer Connor Bristow will guide you through this soundtrack in an event presented to a small group in Cathcart Square, surrounded by the voices and the buildings of the past. Like the film, the Siren Song soundtrack was sadly never completed but was unique in its use of synthesisers and sea shanties. Discover the connection between a local myth and this doomed film production.
Access: SB
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FLEURS
by TRANCND
Guerrilla Projections of wild things in unexpected dark places around Cathcart Square on the night of the Galoshans Street Party, including beautiful flowers, wildlife and some surprises along the way.
There is no set timetable, projections will appear for short periods and then re-appear in a new location over the length of the street party, keep your eyes peeled.
All events in our programme are marked with a clear Access Key which identifies any access provisions that are in place.
INVERCLYDE YOUTH MUSIC INITIATIVE STREETBAND
Prepare to stomp, clap, and celebrate as children from St Michaels and Kilmacolm Primary take you to Brazil under the stars of Greenock. To get ready for this performance, children with little or no experience are taught to play specially arranged Halloween tunes on a brass or percussion instrument to a high standard by talented musicians from Where's the One in as little as 8 weeks.
This is all part of Inverclyde's Youth Music Initiative programme, which aims to increase music opportunities in primary schools throughout the local authority.
Access: SB/V
SIREN SONG
by CONNOR BRISTOW
In 1983 filming of the Greenock based horror film Siren Song was abandoned due to an unexplained incident. In an audio installation using personal headphones, hear selections from the forgotten soundtrack. We seem to have encountered some unsettling audio anomalies in the recordings. Hopefully it will all be fine…
Local composer Connor Bristow will guide you through this soundtrack in an event presented to a small group in Cathcart Square, surrounded by the voices and the buildings of the past. Like the film, the Siren Song soundtrack was sadly never completed but was unique in its use of synthesisers and sea shanties. Discover the connection between a local myth and this doomed film production.
Access: SB
SIREN SONG
by CONNOR BRISTOW
In 1983 filming of the Greenock based horror film Siren Song was abandoned due to an unexplained incident. In an audio installation using personal headphones, hear selections from the forgotten soundtrack. We seem to have encountered some unsettling audio anomalies in the recordings. Hopefully it will all be fine…
Local composer Connor Bristow will guide you through this soundtrack in an event presented to a small group in Cathcart Square, surrounded by the voices and the buildings of the past. Like the film, the Siren Song soundtrack was sadly never completed but was unique in its use of synthesisers and sea shanties. Discover the connection between a local myth and this doomed film production.
Access: SB
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Galoshan Giants Supporters
Prepare to be amusingly ambushed by Scotland’s renowned interactive Street theatre company Mischief la-bas' 4 characters, with their own take on Greenock's Galoshan play
Mischief La-Bas will keep the street parade and party going as their characters of Marie Lamont, The Doctor, The First Mate and the Warmongering Warlock conjure support from the crowd for the Galoshans Giants adding interactive fun and context to the spectacle.
Access: SB/V
