SIRF at Home 2020
Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF) would usually be four days of live outdoor performance in the heart of Stockton-on-Tees. As 2020 is an exceptional year, SIRF wanted to create an exceptional solution, SIRF at Home...
The intro page and first activity sheet we designed for the SIRF at Home Creative Pack.
We have so many fond memories of SIRF, (which is outstanding every year) so we were delighted to have this opportunity to produce the SIRF at Home Creative Pack for 2020. This year, audiences would be able to engage with SIRF in several ways from the comfort of their own homes, allowing people to be involved and get creative, following the activities and sharing with friends, family and neighbours.
For the look and feel of the pack, we wanted to put a fresh new spin on the exciting SIRF brand, implementing the colours in a new way. The front cover illustration depicts the iconic Stockton Town Flyer, a whimsical mechanical sculpture that rumbles to life at 1pm every day, rising from a plinth in Stockon High Street!
Activities we designed for the pack ranged from a fun salt dough modelling activity from 'Daemon or Doppelgänger', who have given millions of hours of fun and enjoyment to thousands of people of ages and abilities with their sculpting activities and performances- to Ear Trumpet, an activity by Gobbeldegook Theatre, helping people to discover the hidden music all around them such as planes, traffic and birds, to the hum of their refrigerator...all those sounds we usually take for granted!
We even got the opportunity to devise some activities for the pack ourselves, such as a crafting activity, wherein you get to build your own little Stockton Flyer standee! Perhaps one of our favourite elements of the pack was "Share a Thought", giving people to opportunity to reflect on their experience of 2020 so far, by writing and doodling their musings. These responses are to be compiled and anonymously displayed as part of a large piece at SIRF 2021.
A Postcard featuring the Stockton Town Flyer sculpture encourages people to dream of a place, real or imagined, and write the postcard out as if you are there right now! It was an absolute joy to have been able to support SIRF during this exceptional year, to celebrate and be an active participant in a festival that has created some of our very fondest memories with friends and family to date. We're really looking forward to SIRF at Home 2020, are you? See you next SIRF!
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