Enter The Hullabaloo’s Wild Summer Ball

This year, Port Eliot’s Family Area the Hullabaloo opens a door on a landscape of wild imaginings. Rogue Theatre’s highly acclaimed Wild Woodland Summer Ball invites you to lose yourself in a world of Dragons, Wide Eyed Explorers, Wolf Boys, Spider Legged Headmistresses, Vengeful Mermaids and Fierce Pirate Girls. The central show will end each day with music from legendary DJ Max (who at 8 years old will be making his 4th appearance at Port Eliot Festival) so make sure to dress up and bring your dancing shoes! Over the weekend, the Hullabaloo plays hosts a wide and exciting range of activities throughout the day including live music, workshops, performance and dance so take part, enjoy and be wildly entertained!

Performance

• Wild Port Eliot Summer Ball - fresh from Muncaster Castle in Cumbria and the shadows of Tehidy Woods, a unique blend of performance, storytelling, live music and dancing just for Port Eliot Festival)
• DJ Max - 8 year old DJ back by popular demand
• Journee Imaginaire - Miss Elvy’s Cabinet of Curiosities Presents: Journee Imaginaire. A travelling, performing, interactive, installation of story telling and curious journeys!
• A brand new puppet show by Trebiggan Productions directed by Dean Nolan.
• Commedia Walkabout
• A brilliant comic performance by the legendary Dr Palfi
• Story Republic - a travelling world of words that celebrates the place of story in Cornwall’s culture
• Inspirasian Dance Performance - ‘Classical Bollywood’
• Scary Little Girls
• Herd Circus - circus performance and workshops by an exciting new Cornish Circus Company
• Wooden Horse Travelling Puppet Extravaganza - a tantalizing array of Cornish hearthside folk stories for children, using puppets, storytelling and music
• Hotch Potch’s Café Petite - The Long Tall Butler invites you into an extraordinary and intimate experience with tiny tea and cakes, charming table service and tales which will lead you into forgotten childhood dreams
• Causeley’s Funny Ones -a brilliant new piece by Access Theatre developed with Rogue Theatre for the Charles Causeley Festival. Causeley’s Funny Ones celebrates the anarchic wit and humour of one of Cornwall’s finest poets and writers.

Workshops and activities

• Instant Rock Band - Become a drummer! Pick up the bass! Form an instant band.
• Dusky Pumpkin - face painting poetry and storytelling
• Choir Workshops - a relaxed and playful singing experience to ignite the imagination for all ages led by Maria Christoforidou and Rebecca Jackson.
• Samba Workshops - make a drum and play along
• Inspirasian Dance Workshops - learn to dance with Bollywood style!
• Circus Workshops
• Bouncy Castle
• Pirate and Mermaids Poetry - create your own poems about magical mermaids and swashbuckling pirates and decorate to take away with you
• Shakespeare Tree - immersive interactive workshops on Shakespeare’s plays that put the child participant at the heart of the action
• Flamboyant Accessory Craft Workshops - create a wand or a sword or a crown, or perhaps some dragon’s wings to wear or dance with at the Summer Ball
• Camper Obscura - workshops and experiences from the exciting alchemical world of photography
• Humphrey The Camel - camel rides on Humphrey
• Tea with a Bear - look out for the Hullabaloo’s resident bear
• Dance workshops
• Felting Witchy Workshops
• Jo Tagney - Faerie Harp Music

Live Music

• Andrew Bate
• The Vagabonds
• Sophie Stokes
• Rogue Sisters
• Lily Hayes
• Emily Howard

The Hullabaloo has a refreshment tent that serves tea, coffee, soft drinks and ice-lollies.