AND festival

Bursting from screens and galleries into the streets and imaginations of the Northwest, Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new cross-regional festival that questions the normal and champions different approaches.

This spring join the AND festival on a digital journey across real and virtual worlds in Cumbria, Lancashire and online, as we abandon the city and head for the hills.

Expect strange playful and radical interventions across the Northwest’s stunning landscape as a host of artists, scientists and designers map the region and challenge us to question our relationship with nature and technology, food and health, work and play.

AND creates a space where artists can offer striking new perspectives and visitors can interact with ideas, discussions and experimentation.

Join us in abandoning your normal devices!

Full programme details at www.andfestival.org.uk

Abandon Normal Devices is a major festival of new cinema and digital culture for the Northwest and is presented by folly, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and Cornerhouse.

The first AND Festival took place in Liverpool in September 2009. AND will continue its journey across England’s Northwest in Manchester in autumn 2010.

AND has been funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic Games and forms part of WE PLAY, the Northwest cultural legacy project.

Abandon Normal Devices Ltd is a registered company no. 6054549

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Action Factory
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Burnley Borough Council
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
CN Media
Cumbria Tourism
Experimentality, Lancaster University
Grizedale Forest
ISIS Arts
Haworth Art Gallery
Lancashire Library Services
Mid Pennine Arts
NW Evening Mail
Signal Films
Sound Network
Peter Scott Gallery
Portable Pixel Playground
Preston City Council
The Dukes
Towneley Hall and Gardens
44 Promotions