December 2010
In partnership with
FEVERED SLEEP
Directed and Designed by
DAVID HARRADINE
Where does all the weather in Wales come from? This festive season, artist David Harradine invites you to step inside his Weather Factory. Discover the real drama of the elements. A year’s worth of weather all in one magical place.
The Weather Factory is designed for adults and children 9 and up, and will approach the timeless question of the weather with a lively and magical curiosity.
Director and designer David Harradine is Artistic Director of the company Fevered Sleep. Working across the UK and internationally, the company makes exquisite work for children and curious adults. Previous projects have included An Infinite Line - an installation in an underground industrial space in Brighton - and And The Rain Falls Down, part of a trilogy of installations for children based on the rituals and games of everyday life. Fevered Sleep is an Associate Company at the Young Vic Theatre.
BOOKING OPENS MONDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2010
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I’m in Wales for the week, hoping to pin down an idea. What am I looking for? Not sure. What’s m… by David Harradine
An associate company of the Young Vic, Fevered Sleep has built an international reputation for devising bold and experimental work that is both playful and profound. Recent projects include commissions from Brighton Festival, Sadlerís Wells, Siobhan Davies Dance and the Young Vic.
As well as work for adults, Fevered Sleep creates captivating and critically acclaimed shows for children, including The Forest, Brilliant and And the Rain Falls Down (touring in spring 2011).
‘Snow attracted me to the weather. When I was a child in the 1960s and 1970s, we were going through very cold winters and the snow must have seemed – thinking about it now – very, very deep, as if it was as high as me. But thinking back now, it would have been chest height. I remember in those days no such thing as the school run, and we had to walk to school for five miles in the snow and lift your legs into deep drifts. It was great fun. I just seemed to get more and more interested in the weather from there.’
Galeri Caernarfon Cyf is an independent and private company, which is limited by guarantee. The company was set up to meet the following objective:
“To pursue sustainable projects in a creative way in order to realise the
cultural, economic and environmental potential of the local community
and its environs”
The company is not a part of any local authority or any other organisation.
Since it began, the company has grown from strength to strength and is now responsible for establishing and implementing numerous projects and schemes within the local community. The Trust's busy work programme includes property development, implementing Adwy Cyf schemes (Agency role), setting up and managing SBARC!, Galeri's Arts Project and owners of Galeri, the brand new £7.5million Creative Enterprise Centre at the town's Victoria Dock in 2005.
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