You Are Here | Penzance

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IMPORTANT INFO 

You Are Here in Penzance is now FULLY BOOKED! 

You are welcome to see if additional capacity have been added (just scroll down to the bottom) 

You can also join the waiting list (CLICK HERE) to get notified of returns, as they come back to us.

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People.

Just going about the place, doing their thing.

But where have they come from?

Where are they going?

Sometimes it's amazing just to watch them.

But what if you could take a journey into their heads?

Shine a spotlight on their hearts?

Eavesdrop on their dreams?

As the sun fades across the harbour, come gather at the edge of the land and sea for a peek behind the curtain. Draw closer to a landscape stage and witness a few moments with a cast of characters from Penzance and beyond.

Brought to you by SproutSpoken, You Are Here is an immersive outdoor experience, weaving people and place with words and space.

Featuring writers and performers from Penzance and surrounding area, together with a wider creative team from further afield in Cornwall, this one-off live event overlooking Mount's Bay is not to be missed.

Following on from the first You Are Here which took place in Newquay in 2022, this event in Penzance is part of a rescheduled duchy-wide project for 2024 - with events also taking place in Par, Bude and Looe. 

Our work is kindly supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and with the additional generous support of FEAST.

USEFUL INFO

PLEASE NOTE:

You Are Here occurs several times during the course of the evening.

Please select from 6.15pm / 7.45pm / 9.15pm when booking.`

**if you live in Penzance and are able, we would encourage you to select the 9.15pm slot, in order to enable others travelling from further afield to select earlier slots and avoid a late journey!**

The event takes place outdoors in a space exposed to the elements with standing water, so please plan to dress accordingly. Wellies are essential. There is no seating available and you will be required to stand as well as walk around. Please note that there are also no toilets immediately accessible - though public toilets are a short walk away. Unfortunately, the experience is not practicable for users of wheelchairs. The precise location will be made clear on the night, so please arrive at the meet-point (when it is shared with you) fifteen minutes before your selected time-slot.

Meet-Point: 

You will be sent a precise meeting point nearer the time.

For those arriving by car, please use Penzance Harbour Long-Stay Car Park. 

Age Guide: 14+

Free 'tickets' with additional option to Help Make the Magic Happen!

PLEASE DO READ IF YOU HAVE A FEW MOMENTS:

Buying 'tickets' and our approach to a broad definition of 'access'...

We've developed this event with the public realm in mind. As we see it, both those attending and taking part will, for a short while, simply inhabit a space that day-to-day is freely available to the public. And on the night of You Are Here, this will be no different. The place chosen has informed the creative process from the outset and will undoubtedly play a ‘main role’ in conjuring magic on the night. We hope it might invite you to consider it differently as a result.

With this in mind, it did not feel right to have any barriers or gated entry or to 'sell tickets' for the event. As a piece of work about the local area, made with members of the local community and taking place in outdoor space freely available, we didn't want there to be a transactional exchange in order to access the experience.

This approach also means that You Are Here is potentially extra-accessible for those in the locality who (1) might be passing/turn up on the night; (2) who might not be able to afford to come or want to risk limited resources on something like this; (3) who might not make up a typical audience for an event of this kind.

However, we are still asking you to 'book tickets’. We're doing this so that we can keep you updated about the event and to help us learn more about who the You Are Here audience is. A ticket won't be a condition of entry but we would love the chance to 'check you in' at the event - just so we can keep track of our audience numbers and who came etc.

There is of course a cost to making work like this. When you 'checkout' you will notice that we have included an option for you to make a contribution towards making the magic happen. If you have neither the means nor the inclination - please disregard this. We certainly won't be judging... or indeed checking! However, if you wish to we would welcome your generosity - particularly if you consider yourself someone who supports the arts in Cornwall, or (someone who might still be reading at this point!) and can hear the heart behind our thinking. Whilst it might sound odd for us to be pedantic about the semantics around ticketing/access - we have felt it important to separate things out... a stake in the ground establishing our ethos and mission.

Free outdoor arts in the public realm are often funded civically and sometimes in conjunction with commercial sponsors. Whilst we have received public third sector funding from Arts Council England and FEAST - we would usually be expected to ticket our events, sales of which would make up a percentage of the project’s budget. However, in line with what we've tried to express above ie. an emerging commitment to a long-term vision of other similar projects that animate the public realm - if you’re happy to run with our rationale of 'free access to You Are Here at Penzance' but also want to show your support by donating towards production costs incurred (thereby helping us balance the budget) please do!

Please find free 'tickets' below - with additional option to Help Make the Magic Happen!

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IMPORTANT INFO 

You Are Here in Penzance is now FULLY BOOKED! 

You are welcome to see if additional capacity have been added (just scroll down to the bottom) 

You can also join the waiting list (CLICK HERE) to get notified of returns, as they come back to us.

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