The Arts Area
Strawberry Fair Arts Area is a veritable cornucopia of creativity. A green and dynamic space where everyone is encouraged to participate. Strawberry Fair is now not just booze, bands and bangles.
Strawberry Scare @ The Boathouse near Mitcham's Corner, Friday the 31st of October at 8pm
Come out to play with the Ghosts and Ghouls this Halloween at Strawberry Scare, a frightfully fun Halloween cabaret at The Boathouse near Mitcham's Corner on Friday the 31st of October at 8pm. Ordinary mortals gain access for £6 but those in spooky fancy dress get in for half price £3. Fabulous prizes for the best fancy dress.
On the bill in no particular order:
The Sonic Conjurers will take you to a analog hell with the devils own analog synthesiser. You knew it was wrong in the 80s and now you will know why.
The sensitive, beautiful and funny tunes of singer songwriter Tom Conway will only put of the inevitable.
Improvised Comedy Ents (ICE) will perform a "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" styley improv based on your spooky suggestions, loosing the monsters of your Id on the stage.
Rychard Carrington (AKA Mad Axe Magruder) will perform petrifying performance poetry.
Story teller Cathy Dunbar will put the fear into you.
Das Unheimlich Orchestra will be raising their own Frankenstein monster of experimental noise.
Staplerfahrer Klaus - Der erste Arbeitstag, a short German language health and safety film about Klaus the forklift truck driver. No sub-titles necessary when the screaming begins.
Damnation an in camera edited 3 minute film for Straight 8. This film was show at Cannes in 2006 were it shocked the audience into stunned silence.
Graveheart a three minute schlock horror romp shot for Straight 8. A jealous lover returns from the dead to take his revenge. nobody is safe as he embarks on an indiscriminate rampage laden with clever special effects.
Rabbit a dreamlike but dark story of lost innocence and the random justice of nature, told with curious images from a distant.
Bird Poems from JC the director of the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair.
Strawberry Scare is a Halloween themed benefit cabaret for the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair. All proceeds go to the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair.
Location: The Boathouse Mitcham's Corner CB4 3AX
Date: Halloween Friday the 31st of October 8pm
Door: £6(£3 in spooky fancy dress)
Phone: 07961 343 592
Email:
Last Years Arts Area Festival Attractions
Check out some of the festival attraction that graced last years Arts Area below:
The Strawberry Fair Film Festival. For the fifth year, we held an international local short film festival in a Big Top Tent, showcasing the talents of new local and not-so-local filmmakers. Doors opened at 6.30pm, screening began at 7pm and the Big Top Tent was filled to capacity.
The Saturday film tent, screened a program of short films, including the best of the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival 2007.
The Starving Artists' Art Gallery, showcased the talents of rising new Cambridge artists. Visit the website for more details http://www.starvingartist.org.uk.
Freetail Free For All, a maze-based interactive art installation by members of the Castle Project.
Kinetic Sonic Cycle Sculpture, which found new uses for traditional Cambridge transport.
Society of Xtras, for the second year running this offered the chance for everyone to be the star of the show. Get dressed up and vogue with a vengeance.
The Largest Canvas in Cambridge organized by Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University. This was mainly for our younger audience participating in the creation of Cambridge's largest picture.
209 Shorts, a sonic landscape of sounds, all 2 minutes and 9 seconds long, originally created for local community radio station 209 Radio.
And finally, the programme stall to end all programme stalls, a frenzy 1940s music, performance art, and, of course, programmes.
All events are always free and everyone is encouraged to participate whether they like it or not.
Contacting the Arts Area
The Arts Area needs artists and volunteers! If you’re an artist and want to realise your project in a dynamic and unpredictable open space, or you want to help out in any way, or if you just have a comment or a question, email
The Arts Area Operatives
JC, Area coordinator.
Caroline Mead, 2nd Area coordinator and Head Steward.
Simon Mullen, film festival.
