Little Giant Girl coming to Liverpool

[5co77ie]

It's not a festival but this looks pretty amazing:

Leading street theatre company RDL are creating an event in Liverpool which will be the BIGGEST of its kind in the UK in 2012.

A Little Girl Giant will take to the city streets in a street spectacular produced specifically for Liverpool by renowned marionette experts Royal De Luxe (RDL). Some of the youtube clips include even bigger adult puppets too!

Since 2009, the company has attracted audiences of around 9.6million people to events in Nantes, Berlin, Santiago, Antwerp and Guadalajara.

Liverpool City Council is currently working with RDL, pulling together plans for an extravaganza to welcome the giant, who has only been seen once before in the UK when she wowed 1.5million people in London at the Sultan's Elephant event in 2006.

Talks have been taking place since 2006, when Artistic Director and founder of RDL, Jean-Luc Courcoult, visited Liverpool and was inspired by an emotional letter he saw in the Merseyside Maritime Museum written by a young girl whose father was a passenger on the tragic maiden voyage of the Titanic. As a result, Liverpool's 'Sea Odyssey' was born.

From Friday 20 to Sunday 22 April 2012 a visually stunning, free event involving the Little Girl Giant will take over the city, telling a story inspired by the Titanic. Key city spaces will become focal points in a story of love, family and communication.

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Looks cool, but what exactly does Giant Little Girl got to do with The Titanic?

[5co77ie]

Sea Odyssey is the final event which will use European legacy funding from the city's capital of culture year in 2008.

Jean-Luc Courcoult has specifically created the story for the city. He said: "Liverpool, for me, stands out as an island in its own right, within a larger island. Passions for football, the revolutionary music and poetry of the Beatles, and the legendary story of the Titanic, give the city a strong, emblematic identity, and the people a compelling warmth which pulls me to them."

This collaboration is the latest involving Liverpool city council and exceptional artists. In 2008 La Machine took over the city by bringing La Princesse (a 50 foot spider) to the streets, and in July this year, 3D experts The Macula from the Czech Republic transformed the Liver Building by projecting incredible images on to it, marking its centenary - well worth also seeing on YouTube.

Director of Culture Liverpool, Claire McColgan, said: "One of the major successes of our European Capital of Culture year was filling the programme with moments of sheer magic, bringing together thousands of visitors and residents, sparking the imagination and getting people talking about art and culture.

"As a city, we put on exceptional free events and no matter what walk of life you're from, you can experience something which transports you to another world - this is what great art achieves. There is still a massive appetite for these boundary-pushing events, and as events don't come much bigger than the Sea Odyssey we know it will once again thrust Liverpool into the cultural spotlight. This is a human story of love told in giant form and it won't just engage the city, but will capture the imagination of the nation. And I'm sure, just as with The Sultan's Elephant, people will talk about it for years to come."

Liverpool is one of five Titanic cities holding events in 2012. The other cities are Belfast, Southampton, Cherbourg and Cobh (Co. Cork).

RDL was founded by Jean Luc Courcoult in 1979 with the ethos that theatre should be accessible to all ages and should be free. The

company who are based in Nantes has performed all over the world including Korea, Vietnam, Chile and Africa. They have been hailed as

providers of "the best street theatre in the world" by acclaimed director and writer Bernard Faivre D'Arcier.

[5co77ie]

Looks cool, but what exactly does Giant Little Girl got to do with The Titanic?

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[The Nal]

Looks great. Could do with a night out in Liverpool. Great spot.

[5co77ie]

or this:

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[5co77ie]

I can't seem to put the other two videos as youtube films

[5co77ie]

here's The Macula spectacular which clashed with a festival:

[loosechange]

I saw the Sultan's Elephant in London a few years ago, it was an amazing weekend. The attention to detail was spectacular.