AURORA is an annual festival in Norwich, UK which focuses on the moving image in the most diffuse sense. A uniquely multidisciplinary, progressive event, it fuses artist retrospectives and thematic film programmes with discussion events, live performance and installations, alongside the very best new work from across the world for space and screen.

AURORA 2009: Common Ground

Common Ground

AURORA 2009 runs in two parts - first, the Festival Week (5 - 12 November), a series of workshops, gigs, screenings and talks throughout Norwich; and second, the Festival Weekend (13 - 15 November), where we create our own 'temporary community' to explore the theme Common Ground in more depth.

Featuring screenings of rarely-seen films alongside live music and performance, workshops on everything from 16mm filmmaking to video sniffin' (find out more here!); discussion sessions and talks with artists, curators and activists; and exhibitions, the festival sets out to prove that neither making nor encountering art need be inaccessible, costly or passive: it can act as a force for change. This is the last ever edition of AURORA, so now is the time to join us!

Festival Week

The Festival Week (5 - 12 November) fuses film screenings with live music and performance; exhibitions, talks and workshops. Many events are free, with others ranging from £2 - £15.

Films & music

Image of Adem

Live music from Adem and Mary Epworth
Performance from Sarah Evans & The McKenzie Break and Alex MacKenzie
Music films by Jem Cohen + live sets from Norwich's Balaclava Kid & Dad and Hoofus

Image of Forest of Bliss by Robert Gardner

AURORA Bonfire Night: Robert Gardner's Forest of Bliss + live sets by Transept (and a real bonfire!)

+ Workshops with Milena Gierke, Alex MacKenzie and others; and Exhibitions & talks with Ultra-red, Jem Cohen, John Jordan and others.

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Festival Weekend

Highlights of the uniquely intimate, focused Festival Weekend (13 - 15 November) include programmes of work by artists Jem Cohen (New York) and Milena Gierke (Berlin), attended by the artists themselves;

Image of Feature; production still; Shezad Dawood, 2007-8; courtesy of the artist and Paradise Row, London

thematic film programmes, including a guest programme by Andrew Kötting featuring work by, and introduced by, the celebrated Danish filmmaker Jon Bang Carlsen;

Image of Triangulum by Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn

an exclusive double performance from the great Alasdair Roberts and Luke Fowler, and discussion with, amongst others, Shezad Dawood, Beatrice Gibson, Mark Wilsher, Richard Wright and Jamie King.

Image of Alasdair Roberts

You only need one ticket for the whole Festival Weekend… and it includes all meals!

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