When light and water meet, magic emerges.

The Spirit Of The North has been summoned.

A bringer of light and hope into the hearts and minds of our community.

As the rain falls
And we bring light
The spirits will come out to play

Will you bring your light to summon the Spirit Of The North?

ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

First produced as part of Northern Lights 2022 in Tameside and performed at Oldham Illuminate 2023, you can now book this touring production for your own event!

This production tells the story of 4 different elemental spirits, and themes of sharing light and hope in the community. Large puppets, illuminated dancers, live street bands, all in full costume parading through the streets.

We can work with you to bring The Spirit Of The North to your event, we can take elements away or add in even more puppets and elements. All depending on what budget you have.

WORKSHOPS

There’s also the option of creating your own silks to trail off the our lead figurehead, The Spirit Of The North, with stories from your community, or simply book with these beautiful existing silks.

We can also discuss other collaborative options.

When creating this show we worked with local community groups, telling their stories of light, hope and living in the North. We created the silks with the help of those groups in different workshops which we facilitate at our studios here in Mossley in Greater Manchester, or we can come to you with our mobile studio.

Read on to find out all about this beautiful production.

THE SPIRIT OF THE NORTH
Mother of the spirits. A bringer of hope. A beacon in the darkness.

THE LIGHT SPIRIT
Golden, sparkling, bringer of warmth and light.

THE WATER SPIRIT
Free flowing, transformational, bringer of life.

THE RAINBOW SPIRIT
Combiner of the elements and bringer of joy.

We worked with the following Tameside-based organisations to tell their stories on The Spirit Of The North lead figure:

– Age UK
– The Anthony Seddon Fund
– Khush Amdid
– The Townhouse (Stronger Together Tameside)

Our partners Mossley Writers worked with these organisations to tell their stories based on our theme of light and hope. We took their ideas and stories to inspire our designs, which were then turned into hand painted fabrics as part of our main figurehead reflecting ideas, feelings, and cultures of the local area.

Here are some images of the making process, we cannot create this or any large-scale work without the help of our volunteer community of Mas makers.