The day long schedule included music, Tudor themed activities, a colourful procession and a dramatic fire and theatre show at Castlefield, Southsea Common. The center piece of Ghost Ship: A pageant for Portsmouth was a beautiful sculptural bonfire inspired by the Mary Rose and took a week to build. To catch a glimpse behind the scenes of the making of the bonfire and to relive this dramatic show, click here.

Be sure to check out images of the day on our website.

The day included a colourful procession and a dramatic fire show at Southsea Common. The centrepiece of Ghost Ship: A pageant for Portsmouth was a beautiful sculptural bonfiredesigned by Pete Mountain and took a week to build. To catch a glimpse behind the scenes of the making of the bonfire and to relive this dramatic show, click here. Walk the Plank would like to thank the team, our partners and all involved.

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Music on the Waterfront
31 July – 2 August

Featuring; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & The Rightful Owners of the Song; a family-friendly evening and night time programme of World Music; and ’Lazy Sunday Afternoon’, a gentle afternoon of jazzy blues produced by some of Liverpool’s finest players on the stage, Music On the Waterfront promises an exciting mix of sights and sounds…

Art on the Waterfront
14-16 August

Inspired by Tate Liverpool’s summer exhibition Colour Chart, Art On The Waterfront will begin with daytime family activities including interactive animations, theatre performances, an outdoor Colour Tent and lantern making with Liverpool Lantern Company. These events will lead up to a special Sound and Light show featuring coloured lanterns, coloured fire, lighting effects and projections…

Film on the Waterfront
25 - 27 September

Located at the south end of the Pier Head site, with the window of the new Liverpool Museum acting as a gigantic cinema screen, this is a weekend of cinema and digital arts produced in partnership with FACT. Expect cinematic shenanigans, an evening of remixed and remastered innovative and contemporary screen work and a night of big screen cinema classics…

Ghost Ship: A Pageant for Portsmouth

Andy Stratford, Liz Pugh, Sammy Samkin, Hannelora Johansson, Ellie Turner, Pete Mountain, Peter Finegan, Helen Davenport, Simon Byford, Adrian Bristow, Kevin Carroll, Gareth Hance, Phillipa Smith, Paddy Wagon, Ashley Mochan, John Fowler, Max Marshall, Simon Buck, Heather Whitewood, Greta Hennessey, Coco P, Bill Sainsbury, Lee Hart, Lucy Carlin, Dan Stratford, Mark Graham, Prodigal Theatre & Urban Playground Team, Miranda Henderson, Sherrel Davenport, Claire Kay, Glynn Holgate, Kristina Woodthorpe, Iola Weir,  Sam Byford, Gina Shaw, Adrian Plaw, Claire Jefferson, Jeff Bruce-Hey, James Hart, David Chalfont, Jon Plaw, Gary Holgate, Benny Hoftart, Gaius Hoftart, Marie Hayter, Alistar O’Laughlin, the Parkour artists, Steve Parframent, Tim Greaves, all the participants and staff from Admiral Lord Nelson School, King Richard School and Portsmouth Grammer School, Portsmouth City Council, The Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, BVT Surface Fleet, The Southern Co-operative, Arts Council England, Pippa Cleary and all at Portsmouth Festivities and last but certainly not least, all the schools and participants.

Pyrotechnics for The Living Frontier Pageant

Sammy Samkin, Richard Babbington, all at Flux creative Consultancy and all at Living Frontier Festival.

Le Jardin Flambee in Holland

Kevin Carroll, Carrie English, Tony Cairns, Peter Finegan, Sonya Moorhead, Rob Hill, Lela Keighley, all at Kunsten Op Straat and all at Oldenzaal Op Straat

Heavens Above at FEAST Festival

Andy Stratford, Sammy Samkin, Teddy Geber, Ellie Turner, Kevin Carroll, Hannelora Johansson, Rob Hill, Richard Babbington, Lela Keighley, all at Dbn, all at Xtrax and all at Manchester International Arts.

In the Dhol Drums for ONE Bolton Festival

Ellie Turner, Pete Mountain, Rose Pandzioch, Robert Martin, Dhol Academy and Norma Rutherford and all at ONE Bolton Festival.

Denis Tricot’s Duo de Feu

Ellie Turner, Kevin Carroll, Denis Tricot, Tracey Benner, Vania Dombrovskzy, all at Arts Agenda  and all at Fuse Festival.

This FREE and spectacular season of outdoor events will feature Britain’s biggest outdoor cinema screen and offer something for everyone…

We’ll also be appearing in Manchester, Norfolk, Bolton and Edinburgh, you’ll find full details below.

Walk the Plank have been commissioned to create a free celebration which will engage local schools in a daytime procession and culminate in a twilight fire spectacle on Portsmouth’s Castle Field…

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Add a soundtrack, vocals and cello by Vania Dombrovszky and this show promises to be a beautiful work of art, produced by ArtsAgenda.

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For FIRE, SMOKE AND MIRRORS, commissioned by Brighton Festival

John Wassell, Pete Mountain, Hannalora Johanssen, Kevin Carroll, Jamie Hawker, Andy Stratford, Christon Marsh Hilfinker, Swervy World Artists, John Varah and all at Same Sky, all at Barleyland Glass Works and all at Brighton Festival.

For OPENING OF UK CENTRE FOR CARNIVAL ARTS

Liz Pugh, Ellie Turner, Sammy Samkin, Adam Povey, Jim Carey, Richard Babbington, Jeanefer Jean-Charles, Pip Thomas, Annie Taylor, Joe Fleming, Luke Mills, Dom Yates, Adam Morley, Aidan Lesser, John Higgins, Leo Woolcock, Liam Cleary, Ashley Mochan, Harriet Hay, all at Dark Spark, all at Impact Aerial Rigging, all at Circolombia, all at Event Sound and Light, all carnival artists and groups, as well as all at UKCCA.

For STOCKTON’S INFINITY BRIDGE OPENING

Billie Klinger, Andy Stratford, Teddy Geber, Ellie Turner, Sammy Samkin, Kevin Carol, Lucy Carlin, Richard Babbington, Nathan Jackson, Rachel Dean, Sandy Nuttgens, Enigma FX, all at Detail Events, all at Tube UK, all at Dbn, all at She’s Got It and all at Tees Valley Regeneration.

For BOWNESS WOW FIREWORK FINALE

Andy Stratford, Ray Dean, Teddy Geber and Carrie English.