Gŵyl Undod Hijinx | Hijinx Unity Festival

Hijinx’s Unity Festival is one of Europe’s largest inclusive and disability arts festivals and its returning to the Ffwrnes, Llanelli this summer!

The festival will once again bring together a bumper day filled with some of the best inclusive and disability arts and theatre from around the world – see the full schedule below.

The Unity Festival is a free event – no need to purchase a ticket. Just turn up and enjoy!
FöhnFrisuren – tanzbar_bremen

A charming street theatre pop-up that brings the big screen to the streets of Llanelli. Using sounds from famous films, mixed with joyful beats, fabulous wigs and leaf blowers, tanzbar_bremen perform, improvise and create heart-touching screen scenes, adventurous flight numbers, smoking hot duels and all sorts of surprises!

Fresta Poética – Dança Sem Fronteiras

Playful and intriguing, Fresta Poetica is a journey that makes visible the small dances, gestures and motions of all bodies, and the body’s abilities in relation to the surroundings.

This project was supported by the BOLSA FUNARTE DE MOBILIDADE ARTÍSTICA 2023.

Enter the Robots – Hijinx and tanzbar_bremen

“Hello Humans. Welcome to your future. Relax. Slow down. You can stop what you are doing. You don’t have to work anymore. Stay at home. Put your feet up. We’ve got this. We are the Robots. We will take it from here.”

In the future, everyone is gifted a robot from their local authority. Life will surely be so much easier! What could possibly go wrong?

Enter the Robots is a playful, participatory street theatre show which asks, who is really in control of who in the age of AI?

“In the unlikely case of malfunction your local authority will assume no responsibility.”

This project is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany through the collaboration between Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Creative Scotland, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe-Institut London and Wales Arts International / Arts Council of Wales.

Schedule

11am: Hijinx Academy West

11:30am: Truth – Hijinx

12:15pm: Föhn Frisuren – Tanzbar Bremen

1pm: Fresta Poética – Danca Sem Frontieras

1:45pm: Enter the Robots – Hijinx

2:15pm: Truth – Hijinx

3pm: Föhn Frisuren – Tanzbar Bremen

3:30pm: Enter the Robots – Hijinx (BSL available)

4:15pm: Fresta Poética – Danca Sem Frontieras (50 minutes – BSL available)

All performances will take place outside, to the right of the Ffwrnes main entrance.
In the event of bad weather, the performances will be moved to the main auditorium in the Ffwrnes.
Each performance takes approximately 30 minutes, except for the final show which is 50 minutes.
BSL is available by Sami Dunn for the following shows: 3:30pm – 4pm – Enter the Robots. 4:15pm – 5:05pm – Fresta Poetica. View the BSL trailer here.
Audio Description is available upon request by Ellen Groves. Please head to the information point to request Audio Description.
Content warning for Y Gwir | Truth: it has some smoke and loud noise (from a confetti canon).

See the festival trailer HERE