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Blazing Saddles FREE outdoor performance - Newhaven
Heritage Open Day: A joyful, outdoor performance celebrating the impact of bicycles on women and fashion from the 1890s. A wry look at pink, evolving cultural taboos, women and bikes. Presented as part of Newhaven Festival and Sussex Blazing Saddles Blazing Saddles is a visually stunning & joyful outdoor dance performance, created with local women, girls & their bicycles & a professional cast of performers. It celebrates a little-known moment of history when women remade their clothes to be able to ride bicycles, driving the suffrage movement & transforming society.
The show is a visual narrative, using movement, character & humour, clowning, costume & cake, to tell the story of a group of women caught up in the excitement & possibility of travel, freedom & independence.
Sun 8 Sep:1430-1630; Free Entry.
Newhaven Skatepark & Pumptrack, Newhaven, East Sussex BN9 9DL
Sun 8 September
Website:
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event//blazing-saddles-free-outdoor-performance-newhaven.html