A WINTER FESTIVAL OF MUSIC & LIGHT
PRISM: An ambitious festival in Sale Town Centre, using music, projection, light and performance to create magical, thought-provoking experiences returns for a second year.
Prism is part-funded by the city-region’s allocation of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), which is being managed and distributed by Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA).
A WORD FROM OUR FESTIVAL CURATOR
Following the triumphant success of our inaugural Prism Festival in 2023, I am delighted to share our programme for 2024. The festival has always been a bold ambition, so huge thank you to our funders and supporters and the great team of people working hard to create this immersive festival.
We have curated a series of high-impact events that use digital arts and ground-breaking technology in innovative, creative ways.
If you enjoy your experience of the Light Trail, Nocturnal Monologues, Surge VR or many of the community-led activities taking place in the town centre, please do help us spread the word.
On behalf of the team, we hope you have a fantastic time at Prism 2024.
Darren Adams / Festival Curator
FREE / OUTDOOR
PRISM LIGHT TRAIL
FREE / OUTDOOR / IMMERSIVE
NOCTURNAL MONOLOGUES
IMMERSIVE DIGITAL ADVENTURE
SURGE VR
NEW MUSIC
DIRTY FREUD
NEW MUSIC
GOOD HABITS
FAMILIES / IMMERSIVE
LETS GLO SILENT DISCO
Thu 21 Nov - Tue 31 Dec 2024
PRISM LIGHT TRAIL
A community-led project, curated by Things That Go On Things in partnership with Leeway Creative Production based on an original concept by Trafford-based public artist Venessa Scott, award-winning artist Sarah Greaves and the communities of Trafford.
The project will see a series of light installations through Sale Town Centre designed by children and young people in the borough. Simple yet effective pools of light will animate the town centre.
The installations will run throughout the festival and continue Until 31 Dec 2024.
FREE Throughout Sale Town Centre
An original commission by Waterside Arts
NOCTURNAL MONOLOGUES
Thu 21 Nov - Sat 23 Nov 2024 nightly at 20:00
Extra show at 18:00 on Sat 23 Nov
In a mysterious, retro-futuristic world, we follow a man in a long trench coat as he wanders misty, moonlit streets, bottle in hand. At night, he is truly alive - bold, uninhibited, and free to pursue his desires.
They lead him into neon-drenched nightclubs, where he greets fellow creatures of the night with glowing eyes. Far removed from the monotony of his day-life, he becomes ever more entrenched in a euphoric, yet dangerous world of illusions.
Part Blade Runner, part 1984, and featuring the occasional Thriller-esque dance sequence,
Nocturnal Monologues is an open-air, multiscreen, cinematic experience set to a live synthwave soundtrack of ethereal, 80s-inspired songs by Minute Taker.
FREE
Waterside Plaza
A film by Brett De Vos and Minute Taker
Commissioned by Waterside Arts
Directed by Brett De Vos
Starring Minute Taker and Robert Henry
Cinematography by Daniel Llobera
Choreography by Ben Wright
Nocturnal Monologues Post-Show Discussion
Fri 22 Nov, 20:45
With Minute Taker and guests
FREE
Robert Bolt Theatre
Tom Dale Company Present
Thu 21 Nov - Sat 23 Nov 2024 Times vary
SURGE VR
Get up-close and inside a boundless world, defy your senses and immerse yourself in a futuristic landscape.
Tom Dale Company have developed this VR version of their live dance performance SURGE which enables the audience to explore and interact with a digital version of SURGE in a host of different virtual spaces.
Featuring exclusive new music from Ital Tek, this immersive experience for one, lasts up to 15 minutes, with audiences free to move around the space both physically and digitally to explore their spatial environment.
SURGE VR brings together a team of on-trend electronic music and dance artists, designers and technologists to prototype new concepts around performance in Virtual Reality.
Tom Dale Company combine movement, electronic music and the digital arts working at the cutting edge of performance.
SURGE VR has been developed in association with The Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham and Confetti Institute of Design and Technology in Nottingham.
Experience, Interact, Play, Hear and Feel the work from a different and unique perspective.
Come with us to explore the digital re-imagining of live choreography.
£5 - Robert Bolt Theatre
15 minutes
There are three bookable sessions available at each time slot.
Thu 21 Nov
18:00 - 21:00 (every 20 mins)
Fri 22 Nov
18:00 - 20:00 (every 20 mins)
Sat 23 Nov
16:20 - 21:00 (every 20 mins)
Thu 21 Nov Doors 20:30
£10
The Chambers
Standing gig
DIRTY FREUD
Dirty Freud is an electronic live and recording artist who has found success since moving to the North of England. Their music simply put is Live Electronica wrapped in Jazz melodies.
Over the years, Dirty Freud has played headline slots at UK festivals including Glastonbury, All Points East, Citadel, Boomtown, Beatherder, as well as at gigs across Europe. He has gained key support in his journey from Jon More of Coldcut and Ninja Tune, Rough Trade and Keep It Dirty Records.
The first in our series of live gigs introducing ground-breaking new artists.
Fri 22 Nov Doors 20:30
£10
The Chambers
Standing gig
GOOD HABITS
One of the most exciting new indie-folk bands to come out of the UK in recent years, Good Habits' award-winning, genre-fusing sound has received international critical acclaim in the short 4 years they have.
Composed of Bonnie Schwarz (cello + vocals) and Pete Shaw (accordion), the pair mix revved-up virtuosity and harmony with vivid storytelling, drawing on their diverse musical tastes and weaving them into an action-packed narrative of genre-bending folky goodness.
The first in our series of live gigs introducing ground-breaking new artists.
Presented by Our Kids Social
Saturday 23 Nov, 14:00
£5
Robert Bolt Theatre
Please note the headsets for this event are suitable for ages 4+
LET’S GLO UV FAMILY SILENT DISCO
Join Our Kids Social for a dayglo afternoon at their UV discotastic family party!
Taking over the fabulous theatre space they will be hosting their silent disco with an illuminated twist. OKS invite everyone to the dance floor - Dads who can dab, Mums who can mambo, gangnaming grans or kids who can quickstep.
Join them for a neon filled knees-up with your nippers!
With kids' pop v adults guilty pleasures - you get to choose which channel to listen to as you dance the afternoon away.
Remember to dress to impress in your favourite glowing outfit with glo sticks at the ready!
With Led hoopers and UV facepaint this party will be a jam packed hour filled with follow the leader dances, props, bubbles, snow and more.
PLUS the OKS giant spin the wheel of dance will keep you strutting your funky stuff throughout.
The disco is for adults and children - everyone coming to this event must buy a ticket. Babes in arms are free.
DON’T MISS PRISM 2024
21 - 23 NOV 2024
SALE TOWN CENTRE, TRAFFORD
Nocturnal Monologues
Creative Producer/Performer: Ben McGarvey
Film Director: Brett de Vos
Film Choreography: Ben Wright
Show Producers: Louise Bruin, Jemma Baines, Darren Adam’s
Technical Management: Gareth Starkey
Infrastructure: AtoV, DBN Audible, Raven Staging, TripleDotMakers, Greens Environmental, FGH Security,
With thanks to Equans and Trafford Council
Prism is proudly powered by Waterside Arts
Light Trail
Project Management: Jude Jagger & Jemma Saunders of Things That Go On Things
Technical Management: Leeway Creative Production
Lead Artists: Venessa Scott, Sarah Greaves
With thanks to John Fulton and team at One Trafford
Surge VR
Concept & Choreography: Tom Dale
Performer: Jemima Brown
Music: Ital Tek & Myma
Video Projection Design: Barret Hodgson
VR Technologists: Robin Shackford, Hannah Corrie, Romain Biros