For three weeks our streets, theatres, parks and public spaces will be awash with dancers, acrobats, musicians, and stilt-walkers from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Far East and Latin America.

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The Liverpool International Street Festival creates platforms for international performance projects, local community tours and cultural collaborations that bring people together in the celebration of our city's multicultural, multi-faith landscape. Below are listings for the events taking place.

Brouhaha International presents:
THE LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL STREET FESTIVAL 2004 - 10th July to 1st August.

Saturday 10th July

The Forest of Dreams & Identities at The Lord Mayor's Procession. Merseyside Caribbean Centre to Princes Park. Premiering new Carnival Arts design work from renowned Carnival artist Ray Allen Mahabir. Featuring over 1000 local participants, musicians and dancers from Uruguay, Brazil & Costa Rica and stilt walkers from Trinidad.

Friday 16th July

The Liverpool International Street Festival Opening Ceremony. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 7.30pm, FREE.
The entire festival crammed into one venue to give you a flavour of what's in store. Showcasing new work from around the world.

Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th July

City Centre Celebrations. City Centre Venues, 2pm to 5pm, FREE.
Music, Dance & Theatre from across the globe on the streets of Liverpool.

Tuesday 20th to Friday 23rd July

8 Countries, 3 Continents, 1 Stage.
Unity Theatre, Hope Place, Box Office 0151 709 4988. All performances begin at 7.30pm, £5 / £3 concs. Four nights of innovative top quality performance work. A double bill of dance, theatre or music every night.

20th July - Theatre
La Paranza del Geco (Italy) & Artscape (South Africa).
Commedia and traditional music from Italy and powerful drama, dance and music from South Africa.
21st July - Dance
Anfod (Turkey) & Metamorphosis Dance Company (Trinidad).
Traditional Turkish dance and music and Contemporary and African dance from Trinidad.
22nd July - Music
Candombe Destesur (Uruguay) & Meninos do Morumbi (Brazil).
Candombe rhythms from Uruguay and Samba from Brazil.
23rd July - Dance
Ballet Enteredanzas (Spain) & Noyam Contemporary African Dance Institute.
Contemporary Flamenco from Spain & Contemporary and African dance from Ghana.

Candombe Destesur - Uruguay.

Wednesday 21st July

Romeo & Juliet , Rogaland Theatre Company (Norway), Valley Community Theatre, Netherley. Box Office 0151 488 0364
7.30pm, £4 / £3 concs.
The fourth production from this promising young company gets its UK premier here on Merseyside.

Thursday 22nd July

Arabic Arts at The Palmhouse, Sefton Park,
Doors open 7.30pm, £9 / £7 concs.
Ennawrouz perform traditional Tunisian music.

Friday 23rd July

Arabic Arts at The Bluecoat Arts Centre,
8pm, £5 / £3 concs.
Al Tareeq Theatre Company from Jordan presents a cutting edge theatre performance using physical theatre, soundscape, music and dance.

Saturday 24th July

The Southport Festival Weekend
Outside Southport Arts Centre, 12pm to 5pm, FREE. Day one of a great weekend of music, dance, theatre and comedy from across the globe.
City Centre Celebrations, Church Street Podium, 2pm to 4pm, FREE.
Top quality street entertainment from Ireland, France, Tunisia, Portugal and Ghana.

Kilimanjaro - Trinidad.

Sunday 25th July

The Southport Festival Weekend
Outside Southport Arts Centre, 12pm to 5pm, FREE. Day two of a great weekend of music, dance, theatre and comedy from across the globe. Samba Jam, Clayton Square, 3pm to 4pm, FREE. Drummers from Brazil, Latin America and UK keep the rhythms pulsing.

Tuesday 27th July

Liverpool's Young Culture Festival 2004
St George's Hall, FREE.
A special day of workshops and performances programmed specifically by children for children. In partnership with Greenhouse Multicultural Play & Arts Project.

Thursday 29th July

Nzi Dada present Ritual Imaginaire.
The Piazza of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, 8pm, FREE.
Powerful outdoor performance piece involving musicians from the UK and Cameroon.

Saturday 31st July

The Forest of Dreams & Identities, International Street Carnival.
Merseyside Caribbean Centre to Princes Park, 12pm to 2pm, FREE.
Over 1000 costumes and 30 youth and community groups supported by numerous International Companies will parade through Selbourne Street, Kingsley Road and both sides of Princes Avenue before joining the World In Princes Park.

The World In Princes Park, 1pm to 7pm, FREE.
A musical extravaganza with four stages of local and international music and dance as well as children's workshops, DJ tent and Healing tent.

Sunday 1st August

The World In One City Performance
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 7.30pm, FREE. Combining the performance skills of 21 countries and over 180 performers we present a unique one-off performance. A powerful and evocative exploration of shared experience and cultural exchange.