is a response to the problem of waste that is hard to avoid at festivals.

Rubbish is traditionally kept out of sight by litter pickers and green police, but this only masks the problem. SCRAP DRAGON encourages people to consider the amount of waste they generate by proudly putting it back on display, making them interact with it creatively and even buy it back at a price.

Through SCRAP DRAGON, people are drawn into a world of creative engagement with rubbish where everything is precious and nothing is wasted.

SCRAP DRAGON now has two fabulous new junk-obsessed partners – the Lotos Collective Theatre Company and the Junk Orchestra.

Scrap Dragon 2011 will comprise of.....

THE SCRAP CITY

The Scrap Dragon tribe will arrive on site three days before the before the gates open and begin collecting scrap left over from the festival build; wood off cuts, broken and damaged décor, excess materials - anything discarded that is no longer of value to anyone else.

Our builders and décor team will use this to create a fully functioning Scrap Site, complete with recycling depots, wash areas and workshop tables as well as the eye-catching Scrap Theatre and Scrap Boutique where much of the fun is due to take place.

We have absolutely no idea what the site will look like. One thing is for sure though, it will be colourful, inventive and completely rubbish.

THE SCRAP WORKSHOPS

When the festival commences, we will start to enlist Scrap Dragon recruits to aid our Scrap Revolution, making products to sell in our Scrap Boutique.

The workshops will be led by stellar team of skilled Scrap artists. These will include:

INSTRUMENT MAKING with Jack Yglesias

COSTUMES AND MASKS with Gabriela Marzepa

TRIBAL HEADDRESSES with Kitty Schuchard

JEWELRY MAKING with Lloyd Hessleberg

TOYS AND GAMES with Charlotte McTavish

Scrap Dragon will provide all the tools and expertise necessary to teach people to all ages to make irresistable items for the Scrap Boutique. Through the eyes of Scrap Dragon, beer cans, plastic bags and coke bottles are seen as precious materials ready to be turned into hard cash. -

THE SCRAP BOUTIQUE

'100% brought to you by your own rubbish'

As soon as the Scrap Recruits have made their junk items, our Scrap Sales Reps will be on hand to start putting their savy sales techniques to the test in the Scrap Boutique.

Every passer by is considered a potential customer and they will be hard pushed to pass by the opportunity to buy their rubbish back from our quick talking team.

Of course, children will also be recruited as we find them to be excellent sales people, forever pulling at the heart strings.

Before long we have hundreds of people dressed head to toe in our scrap headdresses, jewellery, costumes and playing our scrap boardgames and percussion instruments as well as the more bizarre items whilst our scrap recruits make hard cash out of their waste.

THEATRE AND MUSIC

Daily entertainment will be provided by the LOTOS THEATRE COLLECTIVE who will be improvising around the site on the theme of rubbish as well as holding a full performance of their fabulous theatre piece The Trial Of The Mariner, premièring in London this April.

The Lotos Collective Theatre Company are loved for their large-scale international projects in a variety of non-purpose built spaces, engaging diverse practitioners and audiences, with a focus on the deconstruction and re-synthesis of myth. www.lotoscollective.org

In addition, the JUNK ORCHESTRA will be holding daily jam sessions using the scrap instruments made during the workshops to create an awesome sound machine.

From sliding plastic pipe trombones and scaffold xylophones to the haunting sounds of the trampoline reverb tubes and the gas tank tongue drums, every every composition unique. www.thejunkorchestra.co.uk

LOGISTICS

TEAMProject manager X 1Production manager X 2Site builders / décor / site management X 8Workshop leaders X 12Junk orchestra X 5Lotos Theatre Collective X 8

TOTAL: 35 crew

COSTSOur costs would be

Transport: £500 Tools: £500Materials: £400

Crew food: £300Other xxpenses: £300

TOTAL: £2000

INFRUSTRUCTURE:In addition we would need from the festival:

Tent: We would require some cover to allow workshops to continue in bad weather..Lighting: we will need illumination for thesite.Materials: We need access to scrap wood, scaff poles and waste materials Amenities: We need access to water and electricity

For more information, please contact Eleanor Wilson on 07903 443 849 / eleanor@passingclouds.org

SITING

Scrap Dragon is often powered to a large extent by children, motived by the chance to make money from junk.

However, Scrap Dragon is not a children's project. Scrap Dragon is conceived to make all people think about where the vast amounts of rubbish they produce disappear to. Thus Scrap Dragon is best sited where there is most rubbish and on a thoroughfare where there is good supply of passing trade for the scrap shop.

In addition, the theatrical dimension of the project will be heightened by the Scrap Crew living on site in a number of tents which together make up a giant Scrap Dragon. The area is fenced off, but still creates a bold visual backdrop to the site.

The idea is that the crew form a Scrap Tribe, dressed in tribal costumes at all time. For them, junk is a way of life, not just theatrics; there is no behind-the-scenes.