Blackpool, Lancashire, UK 22nd February, 2014. Clowning Carlos Romero & Chris Patfield from The 'Bureau of Silly Ideas' at the 'Road Worker Show', an act with Cones and Plastic Traffic Bollards. It is a Lottery-funded arts company based in Brixton, set up to bring art, entertainment, humour and surprise into everyday places in the built environment. High spirits with performers at Blackpool's annual festival of circus, magic & new variety. The ten-day festival of magic that is Showzam sees Blackpool’s famous landmarks overrun with street artists. Credit: Cernan Elias/Alamy Live News
"Bureau Of Silly Ideas (BOSI) is an established public realm arts company based in Brixton, London. Founded in 2003, BOSi are renowned within the street arts industry for creating radio controlled wheelie bins, traffic cones and Christmas trees and making a song and dance out of road works. BOSi’s shows combine circus, radio controlled machinery and spectacle, and our current work has strong links to urban regeneration. Through all of our work we aim to engage people with their built environment and to inject art, entertainment, humour and surprise in everyday places. In 2012 we became one Arts Council England‘s National Portfolio Organisations."
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Location: Blackpool, Lancashire, UK
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