Cultural Celebration: InTRANSIT Festival 2016
One of the most exciting and challenging highlights in London’s arts calendar is back for its tenth year. InTRANSIT Festival is an elective and experimental programme of theatre, dance, art and music that takes over the streets and iconic buildings of Kensington and Chelsea this June.
The festival is curated and produced by O’Neill/Ross, championing work that is immediate and relevant. Some of the enticing and evocative highlights this year include names such as Pinhead, In Memory of Leaves and Street Grammar, with the stand-out projects in 2015 including Art/House, a pop-up art school built from 6,000 milk crates and placed in north Kensington Garden Square.
“The 2016 InTRANSIT programme explores a series of contrasts in life, which illuminate and enrich one another. A wide variety of events and productions, many with exciting participatory elements, await the curious. A temporary shelter in a Victorian Square; how a bureaucrat might approach Punk; a singing estate agent; and an artist who’ll put ‘ketchup on your cornflakes’ - InTRANSIT offers a plethora of opportunities to get together and explore something different,” curators O’Neill/Ross stated.
The festival is unique to London, exclusively commissioning new art of every genre in unexpected locations. An innovative platform of experimentation and new collaborations in art and performance, InTRANSIT celebrates space and challenges the role of audiences by responding to current issues and putting local residents at the heart of art commissioning.
InTRANSIT coincides with Refugee Week and World Refugee Day on 20th June, many of the projects in this year’s festival celebrate the contribution of refugees in the UK and encourage a better understanding between communities.
The highlights of the 2016 festival include, Portobello Pavilion a temporary structure in Powis Square, which houses free art workshops and Carnival Journeys an outdoor performance inspired by the traditions of Commedia dell’Arte.
InTRANSIT Festival, 17th-26th June
