Britain’s psychotic flying scumbags are being celebrated in the nation’s first festival of seagulls.
Gullfest in Plymouth, Devon, will feature a two-hour procession that will see gull fanatics dress as the winged menaces to perform a song in their honour.
Centred around the 37 Looe Street gallery, the festival will also see around 40 performers and artists holding music, spoken word, poetry, painting, and movies events to celebrate gulls as “majestic” human companions.
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Organiser Mo Bottomley said: “Gullfest is an arts festival celebrating our great Plymouth co-habitant, the majestic seagull.
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“Whether the svelte lesser black-backed, its larger cousin, the ubiquitous herring gull, the sweet little black-headed gulls, or any of the myriad, sometimes hybrid, species that live alongside us in Plymouth, Gullfest honours them all over a weekend of painting and sculpture, performance and moving image, music and poetry, workshops and ritual.”
Ralph Nel and Isaac Lenkiewicz will lead a “ritual songwriting workshop” during the three-day event.
It will see participants dressed in the “white, greys, blacks, and reds” of gull feathers.
Also at the event will be a ‘Gull Dance’ that will be created after an examination of gulls’ “muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, hearts and blood”.
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Audiovisual artist Lucy Dafwyn will be hosting a workshop teaching guests how to screech like gulls, which will then be performed as part of a ‘Gull Choir’.
And “local pigeon lord” Adam Coley will be taking a ‘Gullaerobics’ lunchtime “wellness break”.
It will see him putting guests through “gull positions, gestures and movements” so they can “get as sleekety-sleek as your local herring or black-backed gull”.
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