August 2008:

The Bunker Project exhibition is now touring South Cambridgeshire.

For more information, please contact the Cambridge Libraries Service on 0845 045 5225, and ask to speak to Chris Jakes, Senior Librarian, Cambridgeshire Collection.

February 2008:

The Bunker Project website, detailing our research, is now live at www.thebunkerproject.info

The Bunker Project is currently running an exhibition in Cambridge local libraries, where you can pick up a FREE Bunker Project DVD.

The DVD contains all the interviews profiled on the site, plus footage of Bunker Project events and a photo album of images of war spaces in Cambridge.

Exhibition dates:

Milton Road Library: 13th Feb - 1st March 2008
Rock Road Library: 3rd March - 29th March 2008
Barnwell Road Library: 31st March - 19th April 2008
Cherry Hinton Library: 21st April - 10th May 2008
Arbury Court Library: 12th May - 31st May 2008

'Jam' session at the Junction, Cambridge, on 27 November 2007, 8pm...

METIS presents… an extract from

The Bunker Project has been a city-wide investigative project looking at the uses of hidden war spaces, such as bunkers and air raid shelters. Metis Arts, the new performing arts company behind the project, is developing the ideas generated by the project for a performance piece in 2008. A private emergency company, ‘Catastrophix’, is in Cambridge offering training for how to cope with disasters, from leaky pipes to nuclear war: but no one has reckoned with the protesters – or with these rehearsals becoming a reality…
 
For the ‘jam’ session at the Junction, ‘Catastrophix’ is here to give a presentation on their training programmes, background and company philosophy.

Download Junction programme with biographies of participants (pdf)

The Bunker Project - creative development

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Just a quick taster of what's on offer at the next JAM night. Please do join us if you can and let us know what you think...

When:
Tuesday 27th November 2007 at 8pm

What:
a JAM night is an opportunity for performance artists and companies to present a short extract or work in progress in its roughest state and is followed by drinks and informal feedback in the bar

For further information, click here to see the Junction website...

METIS PRESENTS...

Directed by Zoe Svendsen

With Simon Daw (designer), Lucy Caldwell (writer), Lizzie Hopley (writer/performer), Tom Hall (sound), Neil Brinkworth (lighting), Chris Rogers (digital), Jeremy Hardingham (performer), Catherine Dyson (performer) and Tommy Mullins (performer).

What would you do if there were an attack on Cambridge?

METIS tell the stories of people who have been involved with the hidden war spaces of Cambridge across the twentieth century...

A work-in-progress presentation following from a week-long workshop responding to research conducted through The Bunker Project, a city-wide investigative project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Followed by a panel discussion exploring the ideas and history behind the project. With Wayne Cocroft (English Heritage).

[This event was held on: Fri 28th September 2007 - 8pm - The Junction, Cambridge - Tel.: 01223 51151.]

To download a copy of the Bunker Project flyer - click here (PDF).

Bunker Project links:

• Feedback
• Photo Gallery
• Website