The bank holiday and carnival spirit continues as a spectacular nature inspired street parade created by Taylor Swift’s set designers and choreographed by STOMP co-founder, Carl Smith is set to take over the streets of east London this Saturday 30th August.
Audience members will be encouraged to join in and dance alongside the vibrant samba drums, sea inspired scallop shells, ink-marbled flora and fauna parade flooding the streets. A giant sculpture named ‘Taravanya’ or ‘Star of the Wild’ will be the focus of the vibrant all dancing, singing and drumming family-friendly street art parade looking to bring nature and joy to the streets of Ilford in east London this Saturday
30th August.
The scallop shell props which will feature in the parade have been designed in collaboration with silk specialists Kinetika who work with designers who produced similar items for the Taylor Swift Eras tour and promise to bring a truly theatrical experience to east London this weekend.
The parade, choreographed by none other than STOMP co-founder, Carl Smith, promises to bring a burst of joy, colour and vibrancy to this transitional change of season and time of year.
The parade will feature a host of local community members, some carrying fans and flags they have designed, and some forming a street percussion band of vibrant samba drums and rediscovered objects, led by local music charity Drum Works.
Big Small Wonders has been developed by a group of community members, inspired by land and sea. It reimagines our connection to nature, as the city landscape is overturned by abstract elements from the natural world, which are revealed at a large scale and unlike anything we’ve seen before. The parade aims to encourage audiences to consider our relationship with the natural world, and to ensure that we make space for nature in our day-to-day lives.
The ‘Big Small Wonders’ parade marks the start of the ‘Other Worlds’ programme, a free festival of community arts projects funded by Arts Council England. The parade will be followed in the coming weeks by sunset rooftop feasts inspired by Iftars, picnics and block parties curated by Punchdrunk-collaborator Mia Jerome and the world’s first touring electric ‘Truck art’; a truck covered in exquisite hand-painted panels created in collaboration with Pakistani and east London based artists exploring finding home in new worlds with the theme ‘Home away from Home’.
