Leigh984, The creative portfolio of Leigh Spencer

  The Re/Action festival returned to Leicester in 2025 filling the city centre with bold ideas, playful adventures and fresh creativity celebrating nature, community and the environment. My film explores the festival stating in Jubilee Square where we meet the giant Antman, Wasp and several giant butterflies of Urban Oasis by Neighbourhood Watch Stilts International. Next up the premiere of Spill by Gayatri Munogee a storytelling og the 2020 Wakashio oil spill a real life environmental tragedy that ends in hope and rebuilding. A look next at the creative corner where all sorts of amazing things are being created with a t-shirt swap and design area and more. We move onto festival regulars Highly Sprung with their look at the energy crisis in Accelerate. We end the film with the spectacular sign spinners of Mercurial Dance directing visitors to the various "hubs" of the festival.    

Now in its 10th year the Journeys Festival International took over the streets of Leicester over the weekend of 12th-14th August. Bringing together performers from around the UK and further afield the festivals aim is to explore big ideas and create experiences that will excite and entertain. By coming together in Leicester the festival celebrates its diversity and the journeys we all make in our lives. As you view my film see if you can spot the Liberty Angels by Oak Leaf Street Show, watching from positions that give them an overview of the city and its people you may spot them in the background of some of the other performances. The film begins at the clock tower with Frock by Stopgap Dance Company, before a giant slug invades Jubilee Square ! in Seed By Piff-Paff Theater Company. The Liberty Angels come down from their high vantage points to walk among us on the high street before we end on an highly kinetic  environmental message from Highly Sprung`s Cast Away as the keeper o...