‘Journey to the Ends of the Earth’ Treasure Hunt

Each year the Heritage Arts Company ensures the Standon Calling festival theme goes far beyond simple fancy dress, creating structures, stories and games that make the Standon experience about way more than just the music. To celebrate their fifth year constructing carefully controlled chaos at Standon Calling, the HAC are teaming up with artist-cum-director-cum designer Amy Lord to create a unique themed Treasure Hunt at the festival.

“It’ll be a real cryptic adventure for festival-goers this year,” explains the HAC’s Tim Wilson. “We’re not saying too much about the specifics of the story yet, but travellers to the four corners of the festival might just find a fifth corner.”

The NME describes the HAC as “brilliantly bizarre”, calling their contribution to 2010’s ‘Murder on the Standon Express’, “an artfully executed game of whodunit”, in a “Sherlock meets The League of Gentlemen special”.

Their new collaborator Amy Lord mixes installation, performance and craft. Amongst other things she is known for London’s most exciting and streetwise treasure-hunting game, ‘The Hunt’, and ‘Sing Your Heart Out’, an indescribable combination of clowns, karaoke and booze.

Currently, Amy and the HAC are triangulating coordinates, whipping cartographers and translating strange incantations in preparation for probably the most bizarre, interactive treasure hunt you’ve ever encountered.

“We want to pull you into a little world, just for a few moments, and make you feel like a kid again, with all the freedom and power that entails,” explains the HAC’s Mat Burt. “To take a few seconds not worrying about what anyone thinks and then to find yourself having simple, unexpected, fun.”

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For more information see www.heritagearts.co.uk, www.thevaultfestival.com and www.amy-lord.com