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Welcome to the 15th Mayor’s Thames Festival The Thames Festival celebrates London and the iconic river at its heart – the Thames – by dancing in the streets, feasting on bridges, racing on the river and playing at the water’s edge. Next year the festival will be held on 8th and 9th September, the closing weekend of the London 2012 Games, and it will be the Mayor’s – and the city’s – final celebration of an amazing year for London in 2012. Come on down to the river and have a fantastic weekend! Adrian Evans, Festival Director
what’s on listing Saturday 10 September
Sunday 11 September
Westminster Bridge to Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge
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Festival Market New European Village Installations White Mink – Electro Swing Speakeasy Photo Masterclasses & Competition Magnificent Revolution’s Cycle-In Cinema The BFI’s Vintage Mobile Cinema Bus
Blackfriars Bridge to London Bridge 24 27 27 28 30
Barclaycard Stage Akari Lantern Project Firing on the Foreshore River Parade Feast on the Bridge
Watch This Space Festival Chapeau Magique White Rabbit Korea Calling Rivers of the World
London Bridge to Tower Bridge & beyond 33 34 37 40 41 41 42 44
Lady Daphne Al Fresco Tango Orlando Gough Reclaimed by the Thames Cadbury Spots v Stripes Disco Shed Blue Ribbon Village The Thames Revival & Hermitage Moorings
Westminster Bridge to Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge
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Festival Market New European Village Installations Lady Luck Jive Stage Photo Masterclasses & Competition Magnificent Revolution’s Cycle-In Cinema The BFI’s Vintage Mobile Cinema Bus
Watch This Space Festival Night Carnival Fireworks Finale Chapeau Magique Korea Calling Rivers of the World
Blackfriars Bridge to London Bridge
London Bridge to Tower Bridge & beyond
24 Barclaycard Stage 27 Akari Lantern Project 28 Barge-Driving Races
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A Cruise in the Company Of… Lady Daphne Kids’ Choir Sing for Water The Scoop at More London Reclaimed by the Thames Cadbury Spots v Stripes Disco Shed Blue Ribbon Village The Thames Revival & Hermitage Moorings
Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 10pm Whole Festival Site
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Festival Market
A number of well-known London markets and collectives are represented including the Eat Street Collective, The Crafty Fox, Greenwich Market, Leadenhall Market, The Make Lounge, Old Spitalfields Market, Piccadilly Market, Sannapanda and Friends, University of the Arts London Alumni, We Make London and Whitecross Street Market.
The Real Food Market is located on Southbank Centre Square. Over the past five years we have been working closing with Sustain (the alliance for better food and farming) to develop the sustainability of the food offer at the festival. Only vendors who aspire to reach the highest possible standards of sustainability in rearing, sourcing and production are selected to trade. Vendors must also share the Thames Festival’s commitment to ‘Sustainable Fish City’, by serving only sustainably sourced fish and seafood. Photo: Jack Hardy
Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 10pm by Festival Pier
New European Village Five Poland stands feature amber jewellery, clay sculpture workshops, regional food specialities, a virtual game, and the Football Freestyle World Champion demonstrating his skills to entice fans to visit Poland during Euro 2012. An exhibition from the
Blue-Dyeing Museum in the historic town of Pápa in Hungary is a rare chance to see traditional indigo-dyeing methods. And Bucharest’s award-winning Romanian Peasant Museum showcases handmade pottery, with workshops and original designs for sale.
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The Festival Market runs from Hungerford Bridge to Tower Bridge on the south bank, and within St Katharine Docks on the north bank, showcasing some of London’s best street food, arts and crafts.
Saturday & Sunday Various locations
Installations A number of artist installations play with and transform familiar south bank landscapes. Les Celestes, located by Jubilee Gardens, is a magical aerial installation of illuminated frocks by the French group Mastoc Production. We wanted to be the sky by Tim Etchells is sited on the pier at Bernie Spain Gardens. American songstress Cat Power’s evocative song lyric is picked out in coloured lightbulbs. An Encounter with the Supernatural is Imminent by Tai Shani, in her Orpheum Theatre outside BFI, is a live, holographic performance of a psychedelic story about an actress who cannot awake from a never-ending dream.
Untitled (Box Light) by Dan Coopey outside Tate Modern is an interactive light box comprising hundreds of coloured discs which can be customised into patterns and shapes. Postapocadylic Circuits by Jim Woodall & Brian Random outside Tate Modern is constructed from stretched vinyl billboards, cut down from their hoardings and collaged into a triple sunrise. These latter four ground-breaking pieces have been commissioned by up projects in partnership with Shangri-la Glastonbury Festival with support from Arts Council England. Photo: Les Celestes, Mastoc Production
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4 — Installations
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Saturday, 12 noon – 10pm Southbank Centre Hungerford Coach Park
White Mink – Electro Swing Speakeasy 12 noon / Nick Hollywood & Swing Patrol one of the liveliest swing dance teams
2pm / Nick Hollywood & Swing Patrol mass big swing lesson to the electro swing remix 2.45pm / Eclectic Electric kings of street dance take us back to the 1920s 3pm / London Swingfonia & Guests mash-up featuring 32-piece Swingphonia, Nico Bentley on loops, Bass 6 on beatbox, DJ Scratch with twisted beats and the amazing crooning of Harry Martin 4.20pm / Fat 45 brassy swing soul, jump jive big band 5.30pm / Nick Hollywood and Bass 6 Trad versus Remixed on the dance floor with UK Beatbox Champ 5.40pm / Eclectic Electric Produced by East London Dance 6pm / AlgoRythmik Old school breaks, head-nodding samples and a healthy dose of electro swing fresh from Lyon, France
Lady Luck Jive Stage
7.40pm / Swing Zazou the UK’s number one Electro Swing band produces amazing burning beats
12 noon / London Swing Dance Society swing, jive and lindy hop for all – come and learn the steps!
9pm / Fat 45 soul swing freak-out from the 10-piece big boppers
2pm / Blue Harlem big band stompin’ jive to keep you moving on the dance floor
Programmed by Continental Drifts and Freshly Squeezed
3pm DJ Lady Kamikaze dance sounds from the 20s to 60s from the founder of the Black Cotton Club
Don’t forget to check out the world’s first pedal-powered punch machine. Created by art collective Circus Kinetica, the machine will be mixing up Courvoisier Punch and asking festival-goers to leap aboard and provide the pedal power.
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4pm / Jive Romeros classic rock ’n’ roll 50s jive outfit – fun to watch & dance to 5pm / DJ Scott Charles jiving rhythm, rock, blues and soul from the Lucky 7 Club DJ
Photo: White Mink
6pm / King Salami and the Cumberland 3 crazy wild rhythm and blues with a show you don’t want to miss 7pm / DJ Tim Jumpin’ Jive 40s and 50s jive for your dancing pleasure 8pm / Carlos and the Bandidos rockin’ dance band that mix south of the border to rock’n’roll 9pm / DJ El Nino legendary vintage DJ from the Lady Luck Club Programmed by El Nino
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6 — White Mink – Electro Swing Speakeasy
1pm / Hot Club of Belleville swing 10-piece with lush brass and guitar recalling the Belle Époque
Sunday, 12 noon – 10pm Southbank Centre Hungerford Coach Park
Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 5pm Marquee underneath Hungerford Bridge
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To help you get amazing shots of the festival, there are free Photo Masterclasses in association with Amateur Photographer, What Digital Camera and Nikon. There are free magazines for the first 1,000 people that visit the marquee, as well as a chance to win a Nikon S9100.
Photo Competition Don’t forget to enter your festival pictures into our Photo Competition for the chance to win an amazing Nikon D7000, worth around £1,300, as well as a host of runner-up prizes. You can get inspiration from a PhotoBox exhibition of last year’s Thames Festival winning shots in the Masterclass Marquee. Photo: Gerald Lee – Photo Competition Winner 2010
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8 — Photo Masterclasses & Photo Competition
Photo Masterclasses
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Saturday & Sunday, 8pm East side of Royal Festival Hall
Magnificent Revolution’s Cycle-In Cinema A drive-in cinema but without the cars! People ride to the screening on their two-wheeled beasts, then hook their bicycles to the generator to power the performance. The movie soundtrack is broadcast using a wireless transmitter, allowing audience members to tune in to the performance using their mobile phones or radios.
Cycle-In Cinema screens the world premiere of Deva Palmier’s Southbank Unseen, a series of four short documentary dramas that give us an alternative view of the South Bank through the eyes and ears of four extraordinarily gifted individuals.
Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 7pm Between the National Theatre and BFI Southbank
The BFI’s Vintage Mobile Cinema Bus Roll up, roll up! The BFI’s Vintage Mobile Cinema bus is in town. Your children can dress like the greats of the silent screen, pose for the camera and stroll down the red carpet, bowler hat on head and cane at the ready, before experiencing an exclusive film screening. The Vintage Mobile Cinema bus screens a specially curated short film consisting of some capering slapstick mixed with archive footage from over 100 years ago, depicting the South Bank as it once
existed. Sit back, relax and let us transport you to a bygone era. You can continue the fun at BFI IMAX, which will be putting on two free screenings: Under The Sea (3D) on Saturday at 10.30am and Born To Be Wild (3D) on Sunday at 10.30am. Photo: Angell
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10 — Cycle-In Cinema & BFI Cinema Bus
Deva Palmier Southbank Unseen
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Saturday & Sunday, 12.30 – 10pm National Theatre Square
Watch This Space Festival
The National Theatre’s annual celebration of outdoor arts culminates in a packed weekend that includes Compagnie Luc Amaros’ Page Blanche, an exhilarating mix of visual art, live music and theatre. On a large scaffolding structure, nine
canvases are stretched out to form a giant blank page. Six painter/musicians use almost 300kg of paint to create, destroy and recreate extraordinary and surprising works of art which tell a powerful, political story.
Saturday
5pm / The Cabbage Catch Kid the ultimate DIY stunt: cabbage, head, catch
12.30pm / Ding Dong, Yvonne Calling! a juggling beautician offers make-up tips and beauty secrets
1.30 – 6pm / Festival TV roving festival reporters search for breaking news and exclusive interviews
6.30pm / Just Another Boyband? see above 7.15pm / Festival TV the smooth, professional newscasters present their report on the day’s proceedings 10pm / Page Blanche see above
2pm / The Gentleman Juggler suave charm – and an extraordinary trick with a tablecloth 2.30pm / The Strong Lady an Aussie stunner born with the strength of her father and the elegance of her mother 3pm / Une Femme Exposée the glamorous, acrobatic Katinka comes out of retirement and is looking for love 4pm / Tallulah Tallulah is very sorry, but she does come from Canada 4.30pm / Madame Galina Russian prima ballerina still coming to terms with the modern world
Sunday See Saturday listings for details 12.30pm / Ding Dong, Yvonne Calling! 1pm / Just Another Boyband? 1.30 – 6pm / Festival TV 2pm / Miss Behave 2.30pm / The Cabbage Catch Kid 3pm / Tallulah 4pm / Madame Galina 4.30pm / The Strong Lady 5pm / The Gentleman Juggler 5.30pm / Une Femme Exposée 6.30pm / Just Another Boyband? 7.15pm / Festival TV 8.30pm / Page Blanche Photo: Compagnie Luc Amaros’ Page Blanche
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1pm / Just Another Boyband? energetic and cheeky juggling tribute to all the boybands we’ve known and loved
5.30pm / Miss Behave the rubber-clad, sword-swallowing mistress of the bizarre
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Sunday, starts at 6.45pm Blackfriars Bridge and Victoria Embankment
Tinkus Challpas Bolivia in the UK / traditional Bolivian folk-dance Feltham Arts Association / lotus flower lanterns, dhol drums and dancers
Caballos de Menorca, Tutatis’ giant horse constructions from Menorca, and Joji Hirota’s Taiko Drums from Japan lead the Night Carnival’s 2,000 dancers, drummers, lantern-carriers and costumed masqueraders.
Inspiration Arts / the intrigue of the senses: sound, sight, smell, touch and taste
This year the Carnival route is reversed to give a much better viewing space on Victoria Embankment. The Carnival lines up on Upper Ground, heads north over Blackfriars Bridge and then turns left on to Victoria Embankment.
HAFAD / illuminated multicoloured robot bug
Photo: Jack Hardy
Los Caporales San Simon / traditional Andean dance Tutatis’ Caballos de Menorca / giant horses from Menorca
London School of Samba / Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin, Ali Baba, et al
Emergency Exit Arts / giant turtle ridden by an otherworldly DJ, protected by its guardians Paddington Arts Elimu / shades of red celebrated through soca, street dance and costumes Brunel Engine House Museum / Wild Girls dance with wheels of fire around the giant Brunel Kinetika Bloco / exuberant mix of young brass, woodwind players, drummers and dynamic dancers Cardboard Citizens / ‘rough pearl’ glows within an illuminated oyster shell to tribal samba-reggae rhythms ArtStart / a futuristic urban utopia
Flamingo Carnival Arts / autumn-themed costumes
Latin American Multicultural Group / featuring Bolivia and Ecuador’s La Diablada and Grottos do Sabor
Akari / lanterns led by Joji Hirota’s Taiko Drums with an enormous Odaiko drum
SE1 United / vibrant, high energy youth-led street dance and lanterns
Creative Kidz / Hammersmith and Fulham’s silver-masked, baton-twirling roller-skaters
APPLE / creepy Victorian Spring Heeled Jack and the houses he haunts
Morenada Bloque Kantuta / Andean dance from C17 in costumes made from stones and beans
Shademakers’ Equida / horse, family, history, war, power, knacker’s yard
Festive Road / the great British obsession with tea Sunshine International Arts / melting pot marriage of mas culture and pollination Tierra Mestiza Asociación Cultural / traditional costumes and dance from Ecuador and Bolivia
Genesis Carnival Band / myths and treasures beneath the sea Same Sky / spectacular illuminated lanterns and puppets Blocofogo / Brazilian, Cuban and African rhythms Fox Carnival Band / A throng of pole carriers in purple Paraiso School of Samba / an authentic explosion of real Rio samba
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Night Carnival
Mandinga Arts / the mythical chimera comes to life, weaving together human and animal, fantasy and reality
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Fireworks Finale This stunning river-borne fireworks display at the heart of the capital is the finale to the Night Carnival and the closing event of The Mayor’s Thames Festival. London’s best mid-river display uses four synchronised firing positions to pack a massive pyro punch and
create a half-a-kilometre-long canopy of aerial effects. The display has been designed by Mike Jones of Pains Fireworks, one of the UK’s most highly lauded pyrotechnic companies. Photo: Alexander Semkin
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16 — Fireworks Finale
Sunday, 9.45pm River Thames between Waterloo & Blackfriars Bridges
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Saturday & Sunday, 1 – 6pm Bandstand, Gabriel’s Wharf
Paul-Henri Jeannel’s Chapeau Magique Children and adults too are invited to roll and fold and squeeze and scrunch their very own paper hat. Photo: Henri Krul
Saturday, 7.30 – 10pm Bandstand, Gabriel’s Wharf
White Rabbit Are you sitting comfortably? In the beautiful riverside bandstand of Gabriel’s Wharf, White Rabbit perform a selection of original short stories written by Londoners and inspired by ‘the river’: featuring pirates, smugglers, mudlarks and party boats, lovers and brigands, dreamers and fishermen.
Reclaiming story-telling from the children, in a set which is part 1930s tearoom, part Mad Hatter’s Party, with beautiful music and free sweets and treats, you are invited to sit back, get comfortable and drift away.
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18 — Paul-Henri Jeannel & White Rabbit
Huge sheets of brown wrapping paper are used for the large-scale production of origami wizard hats, in a magical playground environment underneath an ever-unfurling 7km roll of paper.
Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 10pm Bernie Spain Gardens
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Korea Calling presented by the Korean Cultural Centre UK
Perfordian Factory Babbling Comedy Saturday & Sunday 2.30pm Fresh from performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Perfordian Factory from South Korea reveals an amazing show that embraces clowning, mime, magic, juggling and beat-box. Taekwondo – Kukkiwon Demonstration Team Saturday & Sunday 12 noon & 5.30pm The Korean martial art of Taekwondo is arguably the country’s best known cultural export, and Kukkiwon is one of Korea’s premiere demonstration teams. Moby Duck Bongsoon (A Windy Tale) Saturday & Sunday 4pm In a unique collaboration, UK-based Moby Duck theatre group have teamed up with Korea’s best known children’s theatre group, Sadari Theatre, to produce this combination of storytelling, live music, puppetry and wild, exuberant Korean humour.
Silent Film Crossroads of Youth Saturday 8pm Crossroads of Youth (1934), by director Ahn Jong-hwa, is the oldest Korean film in existence, and one of only two surviving Korean silent films. It brings to life a bygone era of early Korean cinema by means of a byunsa who provides live narration alongside live musical accompaniment. K-pop Night Saturday 6.30pm An awesome opportunity for fans to strut their stuff on stage to hits spun by our DJ. Workshop Programme Saturday & Sunday 1pm / Taekwondo open workshop 2.30pm / Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra open workshop with traditional instruments 3.30pm / Juggling Workshop 5pm / Story-telling and Puppetry open workshops 6.30pm / Taekwondo open workshop 7.30pm (Sun only) / Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra open workshop with traditional instruments Photo: Jack Hardy
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Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra Saturday 1.30pm Sunday 1.30pm & 6.30pm The first of its kind for blending traditional Korean instrumentation with cross-cultural twists – expect Korean and world folk songs, with classical and contemporary European re-workings.
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Saturday & Sunday, 11am – 9pm gallery@oxo
Rivers of the World
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Working with local artists, young people from London, Bangkok, Washington DC, Istanbul, Seoul, Buenos Aires and Derry, Londonderry & Donegal have all been inspired by a study of their waterfront to create magnificent artworks. And, throughout the creative process, they have shared ideas and findings at www.riversoftheworld.org.
Rivers of the World is the Festival’s flagship art and education project. Delivered in partnership with the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms and with support from HSBC Global Education Trust, the project links schools and over 2,000 young people around the world. Illustration: Wanstead High School
The artworks are on display in the gallery@oxo and along the banks of the River Thames, and will also be enjoyed by millions of people in the coming months as the exhibition travels to riverside locations in each of the participating cities.
gallery@oxo is owned and managed by Coin Street Community Builders, www.coinstreet.org
Rivers of the World is a Thames Festival project delivered in partnership with the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms and with support from HSBC Global Education Trust.
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Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 10pm Tate Modern Forecourt
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12 noon / Misty Miller a self-taught uke-player extraordinaire, who recently released her first album
12 noon / Marcus Bonfanti he’s at the front and centre of a natural, unforced blues revival
12.45pm / The Moulettes entrancing combination of strings and the celestial, wind and weirdness, rhythm and folk
12.45pm / Skip ‘Little Axe’ McDonald Skip was an integral part of the Sugar Hill house band and On-U Sound
1.30pm / Jesca Hoop acoustic songs that allow a ravishing vocal talent with rare emotional force to truly soar
1.30pm / Molotov Jukebox an infectious sound, blending gypsy to funk and dubstep to punk
2.30pm / Rory McLeod and the Familiar Strangers a modern travelling troubadour using tap shoes, acappella, harmonica, guitar and more
2.30pm / Lewis Floyd Henry equipped to win over anyone, anyplace, anytime
3.30pm / Mowgli emcee-poet-artistsocial critic, Mowgli is a unique and talented lyricist 4.45pm / Eska music that walks a fine tightrope, effortlessly serene 6pm / Wara a tight fusion of Cuban timba and salsa with soul, funk, Afro-Cuban grooves, Latin rhythms and dubstep 7.15pm / Afrikan Boy a protégé of global superstar MIA, he has opened for Prince and Björk 8.30pm / Soothsayers with Special Guest Dele Sosimi a mystical journey through reggae, Afro-beat, dub and funk
3.30pm / Rasites taking on the baton from Aswad and Steel Pulse, the youthful Rasites pioneer nu skool British reggae 4.45pm / Dionne Bromfield perfectly timeless soul melodies and lyrics, to the gentle thunder of a hip-hop beat 6pm / Ghostpoet nominated for the 2011 Mercury Music Prize with off-kilter, loopy electronic ditties 7.15pm / Yiddish Twist Orchestra all-star band of beatnik funkateers who drive a pounding Yiddish beat 8.30pm / A.J. Holmes & the Hackney Empire the ultimate Afro party disco machine Programmed by The Shrine’s Elliott Jack, Rita Ray & Max Reinhardt. Photo: Ghostpoet by Mischa Richter
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Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 6pm Tate Modern grass
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It is 6 months to the day since the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March. Come and join lantern-making workshops, badge-making workshops, origami crane sessions and other Japanese craft activities to raise awareness of local communities affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Lantern-makers are encouraged
to take part in the Thames Festival Night Carnival on the Sunday evening, with members of the Japanese community and friends, accompanied by Japanese drumming by the Joji Hirota Taiko Drummers. Photo: Alice Kieffer, Joe Rifaat & Gary Boxall
Saturday, 12 noon – 11pm By the Globe river stairs
Firing on the Foreshore Come and join the Bankside STEWards in firing pots made from Thames clay on the Thames foreshore. The wood used in constructing the fires is driftwood from the Thames and its tributaries; the fires will then be extinguished by the incoming tide. Firing pots in this way has a history going back 6,000 years, and examples
of such pots can be seen on the showand-tell table at the top of the Globe stairs until 5pm. Thames archaeologist, Dr Fiona Haughey, will be on hand to answer questions. She will lead an Archaeological Walk starting at 6pm. Meet at the top of the Globe stairs.
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Akari Lantern Project
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Saturday, 3 – 4pm Live commentary on Millennium Bridge
River Parade Orchestra, the London Dixieland Jazz Band, the Shree Muktajeevan Pipe Band and Beatroots Bateria. The Parade is due to proceed downriver through Westminster Bridge at 3pm reaching Tower Bridge by 3.30pm. There is live commentary on all the action on Millennium Bridge.
This year, there is music from the Trumpet Heralds of the Royal Marines, Soloists of the London Philharmonic
Sunday, 1 – 3pm Live commentary on Millennium Bridge
Barge-Driving Races These races re-enact the way Thames Watermen skilfully manoeuvred their barges on the Thames in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Modern-day Watermen and Lightermen compete in the main race, while the Newcomers’ Race is for friends, family and apprentices. Photo: Nathalie Crouch
1pm / Steve Faldo Memorial Barge-Driving Race (Tower Bridge to Westminster Bridge) 2.30pm / Newcomers’ Race (Waterloo Bridge to Tower Bridge)
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28 — River Parade & Barge-Driving Races
The festival’s River Parade is an annual event celebrating the Thames and all who float on her: from pleasure cruisers to sailing barges, luxury yachts to oyster smacks, the River Parade swells the Thames with big boats, small boats, old boats and new boats – with a healthy disregard for pomp and pageantry!
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Saturday, 12 noon – 10pm Southwark Bridge
Bandstand – Tales from the Thames, curated by Corrina Cordon
4.30pm / The cutting of the ‘fish cake’ 12.15pm / Death to all invasive species! with bon viveur, artist and photographer, ‘Crayfish’ Bob 12.45pm / A Feast of Archaeology with archaeologist and London enthusiast, Mike Webber 1.15pm / Changing your Tuna with Greenpeace campaigner, Simon Clydesdale 2pm / Under the Sea-Wind with environmentalist and climate scientist, Dr Victoria Johnson, on the life and work of Rachel Carson 2.30pm / So Long and Thanks for all the Fish with Rosie Boycott, Andrew Simms and Paul Joy
Feast on the Bridge Curated by Clare Patey Southwark Bridge is transformed into a giant banqueting space, designed by Cathy Wren, with visitors invited to share a meal, to eat, drink, dance and make merry. This year, the theme is sustainable fish and, in the evening, diners will be invited to the Forgotten Fish restaurant for a special meal prepared by chef Thomas Hunt, in collaboration with Taste of Freedom, using discard fish and waste vegetables. As the sun sets there will be a mass toast to the Thames and all who swim in her.
3.30pm / Caught by the River presents Words on Water with John Andrews, Jon Berry, Luke Jennings and guest DJ Richard Norris Bandstand – Music Programme 5.45pm / Severed Limb contemporary London-based skiffle band 7pm / hKippers top talent bolstered by anarchic stage humour 8pm / City Shanty Band songs of nautical nostalgia and city calamity 9pm / hKippers beguiling, eccentric fusion of jazz, folk and world music
6pm / foreshore workshop making Victorian Grottas (lanterns made from oyster shells) 7pm / A Toast to the Thames and all who swim in her 8pm / Magnificent Revolution’s participatory cycle-powered cinema showing fish-themed films Activities and performances Fishy Tales with poet Shazea Quraishi. Edible Hats & Fishing for Compliments with Zoe Cameron and Damaris Booth. Mullet Haircuts from The Hair Cut Before the Party. Decorate the 3-metre ‘fish’ cake with Konditor & Cook. The One that Got Away photo booth by Sophie Herxheimer and Tim Mitchell. Mobile Toasting Trolley and Hat Making with Jenny Hayton. Bread Making with Brockwell Bake, E5 Bakehouse, Friends of Brixton Windmill and artisan baker Vincent Talleu. Corn Dolly Making workshops with Robert Longstaff. Pumpkin Carving with Touchwood Trees. Chocolate Making with Rococo. Your Food Stories illustrated by Sophie Herxheimer. Fishy Games with Okido. How to Make a Wormery with Robert Longstaff. Bling Wheelbarrows for food waste from the SEED Foundation. Appearances from Plunge Boom’s Vegetable Nannies. Re-enactments of insignificant historical moments with The SOIREE. Information and displays from LCRN, Sustainable Fish City, Marine Stewardship Council and Fish Fight. Photo: Allie Suwanrumpha
The Fishmongers’ Company
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Across the Bridge
Sunday, 12.15pm, 1.35pm, 2.55pm, 4.25pm, 5.45pm Boards at London Bridge City Pier (except 5.45pm which boards at Butler’s Wharf Pier)
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Take a cruise on the P.S. Elizabethan, a perfect replica of an 1890s Mississippi Stern-wheeled Paddle Steamer. Tickets are on sale at £5 each through our website, and a number will be held back and sold on the pier one hour before each cruise. All cruises last one hour. 12.15pm / Charlie Dark DJ, poet and writer Charlie Dark presents ‘The School of Dark’, an hour of musical delights from underground London featuring songs from Fiona Bevan, poems from James Massiah and other magical luminaries. 1.35pm & 2.55pm / Family Cruise with creators of Rastamouse, Genevieve Webster and Michael De Souza come an’ meet da creators of Rastamouse on a crucial cruise boat ‘pon da Thames. Genevieve and Michael will be readin’
from one ah dere books an’ bustin’ some wicked riddims from Da Easy Crew an’ more. Get ready to rocksteady an’ nice up da place! Irie man! 4.25pm / David Starkey one of Britain’s leading historians takes you on a journey along his favourite stretch of the River Thames. 5.45pm / Maxwell Hutchinson the River Thames is the cord that binds London together. The water that separates cultures of north and south only reveals its true glory looking out from a boat. Our grand river has it all, if only we loved it just a little bit more.
Saturday at 1 & 3.30pm & Sunday 12 noon and 2.30pm Boards at London Bridge City Pier
SB Lady Daphne The Sailing Barge Lady Daphne was one of thousands of red-sailed ships dominating London’s skyline in the days before road transport, and you can see the sights and learn about the history of Thames Sailing Barges from her informed and passionate crew – and
to top it all, Tower Bridge will be raised especially for you. The two-hour trip takes you from central London, through Tower Bridge to Greenwich, and back. Please note that this is a ticketed event. Photo: © Letterbox, Alamy
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A Cruise in the Company Of …
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Saturday, 12 noon – 10pm The Scoop at More London
Al Fresco Tango Star performances, cutting-edge workshops, live music and, of course, dancing into the night on London’s vibrant riverside to a mix of classic and electro tango led by Sean A McGee and El Farabute.
1pm / Diego Doigneau resident DJ at Negracha Tango Club leads a milonga 3.30pm / Cesar Velasquez & Masha Gurina top tango dance performance 3.45pm / Diego Doigneau a social dancing set from a DJ who appears regularly at Carablanca and El Porteñito
6.15pm / DJ Sergius Sergio specialises in lounge, electro tango, tango nuevo, and Latin house 7pm / Sean A McGee currently the UK’s only active electro tango composer/ artiste. His album, Nebulosa, has become a hit across the international tango world 8pm / DJ Sergius Argentine and Latin American beats Photo: Leandro Palou & Romina Godoy, TangoSoul
5pm / El Farabute top London duo who have performed all over the UK, Germany and Argentina, including collaborations with top tango singers, Noelia Moncada and Gabriel Mores
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12 noon / Tango Workshop for beginners
6pm / Leandro Palou & Romina Godoy tango performance from the choreographers of Emociones del Alma, a world-class stage performance
Saturday, 12 noon, 4pm, 5pm, 7.45pm & 8.30pm (show is 5 minutes long) HMS Belfast
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High up on the upper decks of HMS Belfast, two percussionists perform a five-minute intense, virtuosic duet in military snare drum style – but instead of snare drums, they play on parts of the ship. It’s a short, sharp drumming conversation, with the audience on the riverside walkway.
This performance responds to the ship’s monumental and haunting past, and is the first part of a two-year project which will culminate at the Thames Festival 2012. Co-produced by home live art.
Sunday, 1 – 1.45pm The Scoop at More London
Kids’ Choir Kids’ Choir is a Year 5 singing project aimed at increasing singing in schools. Led by Music Director Richard Frostick, children from 45 primary schools learn a repertoire of songs selected from a wide range of cultures, combining traditional and contemporary folk songs. Since 2003, 5,678 children have taken part in Kids’ Choir.
With kind support from The Steel Charitable Trust
This year, the repertoire includes Believe, Pipes of Peace, Star Maker, I’m Dreaming of Home, Slavonska Poskocika, Cross the Water, Pastime with Good Company and The Water is Wide.
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36 — Orlando Gough & Kids’ Choir
Orlando Gough Transmission
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Sunday, 12 noon – 10pm The Scoop at More London
Sing for Water
Sing for Water was initiated by composer Helen Chadwick and the Mayor’s Thames Festival in 2002 to raise money for WaterAid. Sing for Water events have since proliferated across the country and have raised more than £560,000 for WaterAid projects in India, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi, bringing clean water, sanitation and hygiene education to thousands of people.
By the fountains above The Scoop at More London 12 noon / The Great Gustos 12.15pm / East European Choir at UCL 12.30pm / Cardiff Canton Singers 12.45pm / The Quangle Wangle Choir 1pm / Raised Voices On the riverside walkway by HMS Belfast 12 noon / SOAS World Choir 12.15pm / Bangor Community Choir 12.30pm / Sing for your Life! 12.45pm / Red Leicester Choir The Scoop at More London 2 – 3pm / Sing for Water concert
Just prior to the Sing for Water concert, some of the choirs will be singing extracts from their own repertoire.
The Scoop at More London 3.30pm / Joji Hirota and Taiko Drummers breath-taking taiko from this worldrenowned drumming ensemble 4.30pm / Sam Lee and the Gillie Boys performing not in the least bit traditionally, creating a radical yet melodic new passage for folk song for the contemporary audience
5.30pm / Romanian Brass the chamber orchestra Romanian Brass is composed of the best brass wind musicians within the Symphony Orchestra of the George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest 7.30pm / Film Screening (detail tbc) Photo: Jack Hardy
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850 singers representing 50 choirs journey to London to sing in a unique massed choir concert, raising money for WaterAid. This 10th anniversary edition is co-directed by Michael Harper and Roxane Smith. It features Stephen Taberner of The Spooky Men and a specially commissioned song by Helen Chadwick.
Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 10pm Potters Fields Park
Reclaimed by the Thames
Cadbury Spots v Stripes Minute To Win It
Rising majestically from the grass in front of City Hall, as if the earth has swallowed part of her hull, is a life-size skeletal wreck of a ship, built from reclaimed timber. Artists Becci Kenning and Zach Walker and designer-maker Ian Pilditch have integrated the work of 3,000 children from primary schools from every London borough who have been working on the project since March. In addition to visual artworks, there is an aural treat in store. The pupils have written poems which are played inside the sculpture, recreating whispers from the ship’s past.
Over the festival weekend, members of the public are encouraged to add to the project by creating large-scale panels, very similar to the panels each school has created. They will pick an image from the pack of squares and then paint their version within a marked square within the panel. They will use brushes, sponges and their fingers in the same way the children were encouraged to do within the school workshops. Illustration: Becci Kenning
In their quest to get more people playing games in the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, Cadbury Spots v Stripes has launched Minute to Win It, which features a series of fun and bonkers challenges that need to be completed in a minute. The games arena will provide festival-goers with an
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exclusive first look at brand new game show Cadbury Spots v Stripes Minute to Win It, currently airing on ITV2. www.spotsvstripes.com
Disco Shed Disco Shed plays Saturday & Sunday from 12 noon to 10pm. Since its conception at an Oxford house party in 2005, the Disco Shed has become festival-land’s must-have accessory. Renowned for its kitsch partypummelling sound system and as eclectic as, well, the contents of your average garden shed, Disco Shed DJs spin everything from soul to reggae, hip hop to house, and allotment-rockin’ beats. Visuals on the shed-top screen all weekend are by VGem.
Saturday 12 noon / Miss Splinters 1.30pm / Steamin’ John Dash 2.30pm / Grande 4pm / Jack Richens 5.30pm / Indecision 7pm / Del Gazeebo 8.30pm / Count Skylarkin Sunday 12 noon / The Countess vs Lolita Lollipop 1.30pm / Cheesy Al 3pm / Trol23 4pm / Van Mule 5.30pm / Jason ‘The Cat’ King 6.30pm / DJ Wrongtom 8pm / Peepshow Paddy
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Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 6pm Potters Fields Park
Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 7pm (Disco Shed to 10pm) Potters Fields Park
Blue Ribbon Village A family-friendly river and environment zone, decorated with beautiful flags made by artist Shona Watt. This is the place to explore the river’s wildlife, the industries it supports and its history. Kayaking demonstrations by members of the Westminster Boating Base, a display boat hosted by the Maritime Volunteer Service, pond-dipping, photography and painting workshops are just some of the activities provided by Thames-based groups this year. The Disco Shed spins everything from soul to reggae, hip hop to house, and allotment-rockin’ beats.
Wildlife Man Jules conducts pond-dipping demonstrations using freshwater fish from the Thames. The Waterways Craft Guild has painting and rope-making workshops. Artburst make wonderful glitter fish for children to take away with them. Surrey Docks Farm bring their mobile farm together with a horsebox and an array of animals to learn about. The Blue Ribbon Village is sponsored by Thames Water. Photo: Rita Porter
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Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 7pm St Katharine Docks
The Thames Revival Curated by Ian Welsh
12 noon – 5pm (Sat & Sun) / Rope Making Demonstrations by Chatham Historic Dockyard 12 noon – 5pm (Sat & Sun) / Go aboard VIC96 a steam coaster 12 noon – 5pm (Sat & Sun) / Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett see the boat which ‘Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea’ 12 noon (Sat) / The Oyster Run Cup Oyster Smacks race from the mouth of the Thames 12 noon (Sat & Sun) / Duck Punting see the ancient art of waterborne duck hunting 1pm (Sat & Sun) / How to Avoid Gaff Gaffes an expert explains why this traditional rig is still going strong 1pm (Sat & Sun) / Motor Manoeuvrability how to turn a boat on a sixpence 2pm (Sat & Sun) / retro style and glamour Fashion Shows 3pm (Sat) / Sculling Race with a single oar off the transom
3pm (Sun) / Seagull Races using the famous British outboard motors 4pm (Sat & Sun) / Paper Boat Race one for the children, who’ve made paper boats during the day Photo: Emily Harris
Dunkirk Little Ships Angele Aline (1921) / Endeavour (1926) / Hilfranor (1935) / Maid Marion (1925) / Nyula (1933) / Papillon (1930) / Riis 1 (1920) / Wairakei (1932) / Wanda (1935) Built by Kings of Pin Mill Callidus (1953) / Concord (1937) / Gladys (1904/2010) / Marcita (1957) / Priscilla (1932) / Tasia (1937) Motor Boats Angelika (1992) / Cailliach (1928) / Crest (1925) / Karinda (1959) / La Chemme (1965) / Lady Bea (1960) / Nenemoosha (1963) / New Venture (1963) / Sheemaun (1935) / Stellae Maris (1938) Working Boats Barking (1928) / Black Rose (1982) / Bona (1903) / Doris (1910) / Duck Punt (1981) / Fanny of Cowes (1872) / Good Intent (1860) / Katrine (1910) / Good Intent (1860) / May (1891) / Mouche (1958) / PB4 (1980) / Stork (1926) / Sulby (1951) / Sunbeam (1881) / VIC96 (1945) / Victoria (1897) Yachts Auk (1980) / Bola (1964) / Cantare (1962) / Caressa (1966) / Cirrus (1959) / Croix des Gardes (1947) / Cygnet (1906) / Great Days (1956) / Hampshire Maid (1957) / Nancy Blackett (1935) / One Bamboo (1958) / Pied Piper (1960) / Ragna R (1938) / Roskilde (1974) / Saladin (1961) / Spey Beam (1965) / St Christopher (1968) / Starkodder (1939) / Tasma (1897) / Veritia (1939) / White Moth (1903) / Yuletide (1958)
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People in period clothes, traditional boats dressed overall, sculling races in tenders, the sound of vintage British Seagull outboard engines cutting across the gentle rhythm of a jazz band, a beer tent for afternoon tea and a vintage fashion show, all taking place half a bow-shot from the Tower of London.
Hermitage Moorings 16 Wapping High Street, E1W 1NG A few minutes walk from St Katharine Docks, this vibrant community of historic boats and a floating education centre hosts a Thames-related exhibition from local history project A Sense of Place (11am – 4pm both days), plus drop-in workshops for adults and children. Also film-screening by local film-maker David Kew about the setting-up of the moorings at 6pm on both days.
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