Festival of Flying

Sunday 16 October 7pm
Originally created for and premiered at the Festival of Flying, the digital sharing of Taking Flight will give audiences a chance to re-live the live event online and open up to a wider audience.

Taking Flight Film Screening

Created through a collaboration between Active Arts, Highly Sprung Performance Company and the communities of Castle Vale, Taking Flight features a professional and community cast along with a live band, fire dance and a mesmerising aerial performance.

Produced by the critically acclaimed Highly Sprung, in partnership with Active Arts Castle Vale, generously funded by Birmingham City Council, hosted at Greenwood Academy and presented as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival.

About Taking Flight

We have been telling stories for as long as history can see, and we will likely continue to do so for the rest of our lives. Once in a lifetime a new story is found, told, and shared… Now it is Castle Vale’s time. In a time between times, encounter the Destroyers. A wild bunch of greedy wrongdoers who set out to finish what they started and claim the land and all its treasures for themselves. But destruction never truly wins where hope lies.

Let Taking Flight steal an hour of your day and take you on a journey, to a performance of raw emotion, creativity, and circus.