With the Big Fifteenth edition of Supersonic fast approaching, we are proud to announce the workshops taking place over the festival weekend. There’s something for everyone and LOTS to get involved with!
Our audiences are at the heart of what we do. That’s why we strive to give them experiences which get them closest to the things they love.
So if you fancy taking a breather between our stonking live acts – we have some exceptional workshops planned for you to get involved with!
Information for how you can register your interest and book a place can be found below…
FAT OUT’S LATE–NIGHT KARAOKE DUNGEON: BLACK SABBATH SPECIAL
A one-off Karaoke Dungeon especially for Supersonic, celebrating 50 years of Black Sabbath and Capsules extraordinary Home of Metal exhibition.
Tonight, Fat Out I’m gonna be ….
Every Sabbath singer will get a Fat Out makeover so you can really live your heavy metal fantasy. We will have all the wigs, lashes, sunglasses and waistcoats you will ever need to look like the Sabbath star you really are.
And in-between War Pig & Paranoid we will allow other tunes to be sung cos as much as we love us some heavy riffs, trashy pop will always be in our hearts.
Saturday 21.40 – 23.00
Drop in. No sign-up required.
FAT OUT’S ONE STOP TRANSFORMATION SHOP
Returning to Supersonic again laden with all the (biodegradable) glitter & googley eyes they can carry is Fat Out’s One Stop Transformation Shop and with them their hoards of rowdy glitter witches.
Over the weekend come give yourself to Fat Out and let them transform you into your most fabulous self, ready to tear up the Supersonic pit and pull all the shapes on the dance floor.
Come as you are. Leave as your most party-ready self.
Drop in. No sign-up required.
THE CRACKLER – A SYNTH BUILDING WORKSHOP
Farmer Glitch (a.k.a. Stephen Ives), a member of electronic mavericks Hacker Farm and REEL is renowned for customising the discarded – transforming rusted buckets and old cameras into potent noise-machines. In addition, he specialises in his own line of compact and affordable noise-makers to suit a range of tastes.
This year he will deliver workshops to build ‘The Crackler’, an interpretation of the experimental circuit originally developed at the Steim Institute in the 1960s – The Crackle Box.
Sunday 16.00 – 17.50
Advance sign-up. Limited to 10 people.
Book your place by emailing [email protected] with ‘the_crackler’ in the title.
Please include your name & contact number for the festival weekend.
DRONE ORCHESTRA
Before more complicated resonant-bodied instruments came the bladder fiddle, commonly known in England as a drone. The drone comprises an inflated animal bladder secured to a large stick by a taut gut string. Bowing the string produces a resonant drone amplified by the bladder.
Build your drone, rehearse, then perform at the festival in a 10-piece drone orchestra.
Part one (making) – Saturday 16.10 – 17.40
Part two (rehearsal) – Sunday 18.00 – 18.50
Part three (performance) – Sunday 19.00 – 19.30
Advance sign-up. Limited to 10 people.
Book your place by emailing [email protected] with ‘drone_orchestra’ in the title.
Please include your name & contact number for the festival weekend.
SAVE ME IN CLAY
Porcelain milagro necklace by CHW Ceramics
Save Me in Clay! will be a macabre ceramics workshop using stoneware clay, coloured slips and underglazes to make colourful body-part Milagros micro-sculptures as decorative hangings or to attach to jewellery.
Milagros are traditional symbolic charms (often body parts of animals) in Latin America culture that are historically worn or hung on walls and used to protect, cure or give thanks.
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Part one (making) – Saturday 18.40 – 20.10
Part two (painting) – Sunday 18.50 – 20.00
Advance sign-up. Limited to 15 people.
Book your place by emailing [email protected] with ‘save_me_in_clay’ in the title.
Please include your name & contact number for the festival weekend.
DYSFUNCTIONAL BINGO
Pit your drawing wits against another in a one-minute album cover draw off. DJ Hobbyhorse (1970’s fake mahogany veneered bingo machine and Clubland Royalty) randomly select albums from featured Supersonic artists to be drawn by willing festival audience members. Come render your one-minute homage.
Sunday 16.40 – 17.50
Drop in. No sign-up required.
