Galoshans Festival

Feral Takeover

In 2022 Galoshans Festival teamed up with Feral to create a programme of dynamic performances, installations and interactive encounters that will enable audiences to explore the extraordinary in the everyday.

Discover an array of artistic experiences that have a surrealist take on traditional folklore and myth from Ghost Caribou to Selkies, Sea Creatures and Strawboys. Bringing innovative artworks and spectacle to distinct locations across the region including Lunderston Bay, Clyde Muirshiel Country Park, Greenock Boating Club, Battery Park, Coronation Park, Cathcart Square and Greenock Waterfront.

Feral’s curated programme includes 8 performances from artists based in Scotland and around the UK. Highlights include the Scottish debut of Thingumajig Theatre’s Ghost Caribou illuminating Battery Park on Friday 21 October as part of the Galoshans Festival opening celebration. Part giant deer, part ancient spirit, these huge puppets tell stories of lost homes and impossible migrations accompanied by music and shadow puppetry.

Commissioned by Feral, artist Matthew Rimmer creates a brand-new work for Galoshans Festival, Biotopes. A series of ongoing sculptures in the form of vitrines that magically suspend water above the surface- aiming to elevate aquatic ecosystems- Biotopes will be in situ at Muirsheils Country Park, 22 - 30 October.

As part of RIG Arts Galoshans Street Partys over the final 3 nights of the festival, 28 - 30 October, Ashley Peevor brings the Scottish debut of The Lost Opera to the festival, an interactive sound performance that brings elaborate costumes and interactive technology together taking audiences through the streets, accompanied by an electronic soundscore. Happening for the first time outdoors, Edinburgh-based artist, Mamoru Iriguchi brings The Tallest to Galoshans Street Parties. The Tallest is a participatory project where a child is asked to sit on their parent/guardian’s shoulders, then they are wrapped with a specially designed cloak.

There is a strong focus on the ecological, drawing upon Inverclyde’s coast, waters and unique position at the mouth of the Clyde. Also joining the programme is Dudendance with outdoor performance and headphone installation Alien Species at Lunderston Bay; French & Mottershead’s Waterborne at Greenock Boat Club, an audio walk experienced over headphones; Hanna Tuulikki’s Seals’kin on Greenock’s waterfront, a workshop, performance and screening; and finally, Strawboys, an outdoor, pop-up performance from Rob Heaslip.

The Galoshans Festival runs from 21 - 30 October 2022 and the full festival programme includes activities for families and people of all ages across Inverclyde. The events are free and open to the public with some events ticketed. In its eighth year, this is the most ambitious Galoshans Festival yet.

For the full festival programme and how to get involved, please visit www.galoshansfestival.com

Funded by Creative Scotland and Event Scotland.

LISTINGS

Friday 21st October

Thingumajig Theatre ‘Ghost Caribou’ Performance 1: 5pm Performance 2: 7.15pm, Battery Park, Greenock

Saturday 22nd October

Matthew Rimmer ‘Biotopes’ - opening of Artworks and – Guided Artist Walk 2-4pm book here. Artworks will then be on display on site from Saturday 22nd – Sunday 30th October

Sunday 23rd October

Hanna Tuulikki ‘Seals'kin

’9.30am Workshop (approx 2.5 hours): Custom House, Greenock, Inverclyde, PA15 1EQ. Book here.

12pm - Improvised Performance at High Tide (approx 45 mins): Custom House Quay / Greenock Waterfront (NCR5 Cycle Route). Meeting Point: Car Park at Custom House Quay

1pm - Screening of Film (20 mins): The Waterfront Cinema, 10 Custom House Way, Greenock PA15 1EG

Rob Heaslip 'The Strawboys'

12.30pm: Performance 1: Coronation Park, Port Glasgow                                                      

2.30pm: Performance 2: Cowan’s Corner, Cathcart Square, Greenock

Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th October

Dudendance ‘Alien Species’

2 performances each day - 1st performance - 12pm, 2nd performance - 2pm, book here.

Lunderston Bay, Inverkip 

Friday 28th (Gourock), Saturday 29th (Port Glasgow)  and Sunday 30th October (Greenock)

As part of RIG Arts Street Parties 6-8pm 

Ashley Peevor ‘The Lost Opera’

Mamoru Iriguchi ‘The Tallest’