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The Bees
With panache and imagination, The Bees will enchant any audience with their wonderful walkabout performance and installation. They present a multi-sensory experience in which audiences get up close and personal with their deluxe and sumptuous beehives.
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In a secular ritual, the hive is processed shoulder high by two devotees of the esteemed bee. Once set down and consecrated, step forward! Hear the bees! Feel the bees! Smell the bees! Taste the bees! And if you dare, put your eye up to the hive and stare the bees right in the eye! With a hilarious sting in the tail, this is a miniature installation with a huge visual impact.
You can also book an installation of six hives all hiding a unique interior world, part of Arts Council England’s commission of 6 Impossible Things. The hives are tended by our ethereal beekeepers and kept passive by clouds of smoke, colourfully lit at night. Each hive contains a surreally imagined aspect of the secret life of bees, such as the bee cinema – did you know bees were massive fans of Spaghetti Westerns?
Audiences wander amongst the colony, occasionally cloaked in smoke, finding a variety of ways of viewing and interacting with the contents. In each there is a surprising conceptual twist, which challenges, charms and confounds expectations. You may find yourself looking into the vastness of space, or teased by a telescopic hive soaring into the air.
The Bees is perfect for: Environmental events, education events, family fun days, community events, wildlife-themed events, nature-themed events, outdoor events, festivals, private functions
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