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WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones

WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones Join Full of Noises and artists Mark Williamson (PPYO) and John Powell Jones to create a… Continue reading WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones

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Date: October 30 @ 10:30 am – 2:30 pm


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WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones

Join Full of Noises and artists Mark Williamson (PPYO) and John Powell Jones to create a soundtrack and scary sculptures for Barrow Miniature Railway Club's annual ghost train event!

The three workshops are aimed at young people between the ages of 7 and 13 and will take place on Monday 28th, Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th of October between 10:30pm and 2.30pm each day at Full of Noises, Piel View House, Barrow in Furness, LA13 9BD. Children must sign up for all three sessions as there is a continuation in the series of workshops. Then join us on the evening of Friday 31st October for a trip on the ghost train and to see/hear your finished artworks and sounds!

The Workshops
Over three days workshop participants will create designs for monster sculptures and create an experimental sound track for this year's Ghost Train at the miniature railway in Barrow Park on Hallowe'en, 31st October. For more information about the ghost train event please visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/298851003572428
Day One
Exploring improvisation and spooky soundtracks
Day Two
Playing with sounds and instruments
Day Three
Performance and recording
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A bit about John Powell Jones
John Powell-Jones’ practice deals with themes of perception, power structures and personal reality, an ongoing exploration into how warped interpretations of 'progress and success' can act to inform our perception of morality.

These ideas are explored through the use of speculative fiction and presented across various mediums including, video, performance, animation and comic books. Taking inspiration from his love of RPGs, body and survival horror, European folklore and science fiction (specifically the sub-genre of cyberpunk).

Powell-Jones' aim is to form a dialogue between our present and an imagined dystopian future in which the horrors of capitalism and neo-liberal ideology are presented as cyborgs and demons.

A bit about Mark Williamson
Mark S. Williamson is a musician, sound artist, film maker and educator based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. His work is often made in response to his environment, working on location, combining field recordings with electronic and acoustic instrumentation, usually recorded outside, amid the landscape and weather.
Mark has recorded for wiaiwya, Apollolaan, the Dark Outside and his own Forged River Recordings. His work has been reviewed by The Wire, Electronic Sound, Shindig and The Quietus and he was one of the fourteen artists featured in Electronic Sound Magazine’s ‘field recording special’.
Mark has over ten years experience as a primary school teacher and music lead and has also lead improvisational music workshops for clients including  Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Fire and Water in Sowerby Bridge.
His film work includes the Traffic Report and Stone Report (created for The Stone Club) series, music videos and visual accompaniments to live performances.

If you have more than one child who would like to attend, please complete a form for each child and state their relationship to each other.

If you need support in completing this form, would like to give us this information in a different form or have any questions please email: Amy Stretch Parker amy@fonfestival.org or call/text on 07931853343

Tickets: Free


Date: October 30 @ 10:30 am – 2:30 pm


BOOK NOW

Directions and Information

Piel View House, Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness LA13 9DB

Access to the venue is by foot.

Parking: There is no parking at the venue as we are in the middle of a public park. You are best parking up outside the park on Park Drive.

There is one designated accessible parking space, to book please email glenn@fonfestival.org.

Enter from the park gate by Park Drive junction bus stop (by the Baptist Church)

Walk route is 2 mins signposted from here.

We have a no pets policy within the premises. Assistance dogs are welcome.

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