Festival Season Begins in 2014 with Bearded Theory!

Yes, it's festival season again! We can't believe it's come around quite so quickly. 

Even while Pirate Mike was busy getting married, we still managed to get the Parrot Pagodas to their first festival of the year, Bearded Theory at the beautiful new location of Catton Hall.

Congratulations Mike and Diana!

Life of The Topiary Scultpures

Here's a time-lapse of the life of the topiary sculptures so-far. This video starts with the build and also features the two moves they have had to-date. Thanks Piers for your time putting it together.

http://youtu.be/ClnCcol0SAA

Secret Garden Party 2013 Video

Here's a promo video from Secret Garden Party last year. Look out for our sculptures - the slightly sad looking fox and the menacing looking kraken!

Olympic Park Move

Finally the topiary installations that featured at the Southbank Centre as part of the Festival of Neighbourhood have made their way the short distance across London to the Olympic Park in Stratford (via Nottingham!), where they will set up residence for the year. Both installations, The Neighbours and The Sweepers, will be featured at The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park throughout 2014.

The sculpture move also provoked features in several of the local and national newspapers.

... and they were even part of a caption challenge on the BBC website!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-25965617

Pirate Technics in Guatemala!!!???

Whilst passing Lake Atitlan some of the Pirates took the time to build a sculpture at Cosmic Convergence Festival of an oroborus - a symbol of infinity with a snake eating its own tail. Happy new year all!

Pirate Technics / Shipshape Arts 2013 End of Year Party!

To say a big thank you to all the Pirate crew and celebrate our busiest year to date, we held a party in the local pub, Bar Deux in Nottingham on Saturday 19th October.

There was a great turnout, an award ceremony, snacks and even a little burn!

Here's a video of the burn, with thanks to Barney...

2013 T-Shirts Have Arrived!

The 2013 Pirate Crew T-Shirts have arrived, featuring all our projects of the year! Try and guess what each letter is...

Please collect at the Pirate Party this weekend.