The Imagine Bamboo Summit has been developed with a host of valued partners from the UK and internationally:
Wye Valley River Festival
Appetite Stoke & Newcastle Under Lyme, supported by Keele University
Liverpool City Region and artists
Festival of Thrift, Redcar
Rebecca Reubens, Rhizome, India
Orin Hardy and Cecile Durand, Bamboo U, Bali
Bernice Dapaah and Anowa Augustina, Ghana Bamboo Bikes
Ling Tan, digital artist
Winterbourne House & Garden, University of Birmingham
The Great Bamboo Circus Experiment
Produced by Imagineer in collaboration with No Fit State Circus with design input from Dan Potra (Australia)
Orit Azaz, Artistic Director
Michele Weaver, Circus Director
Tom Rack, Artistic Director, NoFit State Circus
Peter Reynolds, Composer and MD
Tarn Aitken, Circus Engineer, Rigger and performer
Circus Performers:
Tiago Fonseca
Elena Casotto
Roo Jenkyn-Jones
Samuel Lebon
Phoebe Knight
Grace Neville-Evans
Ciaran Innes
Bamboo Making Space
Curated by Lou Jones
Bamboo Builds
ARUP
Zain Willmott , Becky Taylor-Masi, Jordan Reading, Transformations Arts Collective, Coventry
Bamboo Bikes delivered by Ghana Bamboo Bikes in collaboration with Bamboo Bicycle Club
Bamboo Talks
Hans Friederich, Bamboologic
Stella Hall, Festival of Thrift
Rebecca Reubens, Rhizome
Jed Long, Cave Urban, Australia
Ling Tan, UK
Taking Root Ceremony is facilitated by artist Ling Tan
Imagine Bamboo Summit
Orit Azaz, Independent Artistic Director
Claire Maddocks, Producer for Imagineer
Lou Lomas, Associate Producer
Amanda Roberts, Associate Producer
Katie Holtom, Assistant Producer
Katy Stone, Production Manager
Film: RB Films with additional content from John Street
Photography: Andy Moore
Communications: Helen Stallard, Helen Annetts, Tara Rutledge
Catering by CHANGE Kitchen
Thank you to:
University of Birmingham
Jonathan Webster, Landscape Practice Group, Birmingham City Council
David Trujillo, Coventry University
Michael Brisbane
Wayne Langford, West Midlands Combined Universities,
Louisa Davies, Danielle Marshall & Raidene Carter, Birmingham 2022 Festival