A TOUCH of Covent Garden will be arriving at Poole Quay as the best in performance arts is celebrated at the annual May Bank Holiday Street Arts Festival.
Innovative acts will take to the waterfront in a festival of fun designed to surprise, challenge and entertain from 11am to 5pm on Monday May 6.
Local artist Hazel Evans will perform a light-hearted interpretation of Comedia del Arte’s Pierrot, the Green Finger Folk will entertain from the comfort of their flower pots and a group of performers called Faceless, pictured left, will be performing their “mesmerising, morphing, living sculpture Triathon”.
Bruce Grant-Braham, chairman of Poole Tourism Partnership said: “Poole’s Street Arts Festival has become a firm favourite in the town’s events calendar and it’s a fantastic opportunity to see challenging, creative avant-garde and traditional performances in a fabulous location. It’s a wonderful way to enjoy what Poole has to offer.”
The day will include traditional Morris and maypole dancing, live music, local writers reading their poems and stories in Writers Corner and an arts market with work by local artists and craftsmen on sale.
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