A celebration of Spaghetti Junction and the communities that surround it.
A festival of live dance and music will take place on 27th-28th July in celebration of Spaghetti Junction. Presented by ME Dance, this free two day event will also include exhibitions, workshops, food and stalls.
Taking place underneath Spaghetti Junction itself, The Junction is a great way to take a new look at the familiar interchange, whilst enjoying an afternoon of free, locally-grown entertainment.
Visitors can enjoy performance of a brand new dance work, called The Junction, that has been created by ME Dance especially for this event. The company have researched stories into the people who lived in Erdington, Gravelly Hill and Aston before Spaghetti Junction was built in the 1960s. The area became a centre for migration as people from across the Commonwealth made Birmingham their home, including members of the Windrush Generation.
Skilled dancers from ME Dance and ME Youth Graduate Company, plus Leicester-based break-dance company Company Apidae will all perform.
Marcia Edwards, Artistic Director of ME Dance, explains, “Spaghetti Junction is a national icon, and we want to remember the people who made it and celebrate the communities that live amongst it now. In the last seventy years of so, this area of Birmingham has become home to people from across the Commonwealth, including of course the Windrush Generation. It’s also a centre for travel, with the motorway, canals, cycle paths and railway lines all crossing through the area – but people rarely venture into the space around and under the junction itself. This event and our new dance work will let us look at this special part of the city in a new way. It should be a really special event for local people.”
