AIB Street Performance World Championships 2009 ( DUBLIN)

18 June 2009 - 21 June 2009

The AIB Street Performance World Championship is back and it is universally agreed that it is time for some serious free fun! this June the best contortionists, piano jugglers, magicians, breakdancers, comedians and a whole assortment of world-class professional jesters will descend on Ireland to battle it out for the most coveted title in street performance, the AIB Street Performance World Champion. For the fourth year running, the Championship will explode onto Dublin’s Merrion Square, bringing with it unthinkable feats, unimaginable tricks and unbelievable hilarity. As always, competing in the Championship will be some of the most bizzarly talented and fantastically imaginative entertainers on the planet. Get ready for: 

-Betty Brawn, the strongest women alive who can (and will) tear any Irish man to pieces -The USA Breakdancers, one of the best breakdancing troupes in the world, who are as comfortable spinning on their head as they are at making you laugh out loud -Titan, the undisputed heavyweight of robots, who, at 8 ft 2in will makes Arnies T1000 look like a pussycat. -and a man who knows more about flying cabbages than anyone else on the planet And here’s some more of the gravity-defying, head-spinning highlights this year:-Alakazam, (Australia) the man who has made an incredible career out of his ability to squeeze his entire body through the mouth of a squash racket -The extraordinarily random, completely daft, hilariously funny Mike Wood (Canada), who catapults cabbages onto a spikey helmet on his head -Mr Toons (Denmark) – the perfect example of a grown man with too much time on his hands, resulting in a wonderfully bizarre act that leaves you asking, less how did he come up with that, but rather why on earth did he come up with that! -The crazily agile, beautifully charming and absurdly funny contortionist Bendy Em (UK), who will have audiences on the edge of their seats as she contorts herself in to mind-boggling positions -Rob Williams (USA) and the world’s first foot-sandwich restaurant (yes, those are sandwiches made with his feet) Plus: -The wonderful sign interpreters from the Centre of Deaf Studies will be in Dublin all day Saturday and Sunday, interpreting every show on both days -For those who want to get some more hands-on entertainment, there will be a whole host of other activites, including free clay modelling workshops, face painting, balloon modelling, juggling workshops, and a show that takes place in the belly of a 30-foot long sleeping sow!

Timetable:

http://www.spwc.ie/timetables/SPWC09_DublinTimetable.pdf