MOBILE arts venue The Floating Cinema will be stopping off in Crofton, Honeystreet, Devizes, Caen Hill Locks and Bradford on Avon bringing a programme of open air and on-board film screenings, performances, talks and events.

The Floating Cinema will be in Wiltshire between Wednesday, June 24 and Thursday, July, 2.

Highlights include a Lock-a-Thon at Caen Hill Flights – a horse drawn barge procession exploring the Kennet & Avon canal through archive film, local archivists and canal champions– an evening of immersive film, music and experimental projection at the magnificent Crofton Pumping Station and a two-day animation workshop Moonrakers and Movies for young people in Devizes.

The ‘On Tour’ theme celebrates and explores the rich diversity of urban and rural living, a slower pace of life and encourages a playful discovery of local landscapes and heritage through archive film and sound.

The Floating Cinema On Tour is curated by UP Projects with artist duo Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie.

Over a period of eight weeks the cinema will make its way from Brentford to Bristol and back again, stopping at eleven locations along the route.

The events, both on-board and on land, will explore the histories, myths and legends along the route including Wiltshire’s crop circles, and alternative trade in historic market town Newbury.

On the return journey the cinema will stop again in Bradford-on-Avon, Devizes and Honeystreet between July 16 to 18 to feature a new work by Floating Cinema artist-in-residence Yann Seznec.

He will create a floating library of forgotten sounds with communities along the route of the outward journey.

It will also premiere Somewhere’s new film ‘Repeat to Flourish’ – a visual odyssey of the Kennet and Avon Canal’s industrial past, subsequent decline and present day renaissance.

The boat will also visit local festivals along the route including the Bradford-on-Avon Fringe Festival.

Laura Harford Floating Cinema curator said:“We are delighted to be taking The Floating Cinema on its first national tour and to be working with a new network of supportive funders and partners.

“Our events programme promises to delight and surprise and we hope it will inspire visitors to champion their local waterway as a place for culture as well as recreation and leisure.”

All events are free but should be booked in advance. Bookings for events up to July 5 between Brentford Lock and Bath are now available from the Floating Cinema website - www.floatingcinema.info.

Bookings for the Bristol events and those along the return route to London will be open from the 8.