“Fancy an Artistic LIFT"

Get the low down on a creative highlight

Hooray! It’s now June, which means festival season is upon us. And what better way to kick it off than with one of Europe’s leading arts festivals – Lift!

This year Lift presents an interactive concoction of international and national performances and experiences being held across the summer at Stratford and The South Bank.

There’s also something rather special that’s taking place. At the heart of this year’s Lift festival, we’ll see the launch of The Lift, which is a spectacular mobile arts venue that will host performances and hold discussions working with local communities.

Of course as the slowly burgeoning epicentre of all things community – no prizes for guessing where some of the Lift crew have been preparing a distinctly recycled aspect of the festival – “Trashcatchers” – well yes of course the Number One Centre in East Ham.

Sound Radio reporter Emma Marvin went long to the headquarters of Lift and spoke to Nicky Petto, who is one of the festival’s producers and Erica Campayne, a participation producer. Emma first asked Nicky to tell us more about what Lift is.

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