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Welcome to the 69th issue of Wharf Life. Excellence and performing arts have emerged as the theme for this issue with cutting-edge personal training and energy-saving solutions featured alongside Nashville Meets London and GDIF, spreading entertainment throughout the Docklands

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STAGE | Summer Rose Garden The Cairo Rose belly dance studio gears up to show off its students' talents amid the foliage and flowers of Crossrail Place Roof Garden.

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Nashville Meets London is back with a fresh, exciting line-up of emerging country talent. Artists Shy Carter, Manny Blu and Priscilla Block are all set to play the festival at Trinity Buoy Wharf

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As the principal founder of black British big band the Jazz Warriors, he found recognition and fame playing with the likes of Dennis Rollins, Steve Williamson, Cleveland Watkiss and Orphy Robinson, he went on to lead his own bands, releasing a steady stream of albums that increasingly fuse jazz with other forms of British music.

Primarily a saxophonist, he also plays the bass clarinet, flute, clarinet and keyboards and has collaborated with a wide variety of artists including Boisdale regular Mica Paris, Herbie Hancock and Harry Beckett.

Deeply steeped in the traditions of the Caribbean – he was born in the UK to Jamaican parents – audiences at his forthcoming Boisdale shows can expect a mix of merengue, ska, mento and calypso.

Having spent the last three years touring sell-out shows in the UK, US and Canada, this is an opportunity to see an artist at the height of his powers in an intimate setting about Cabot Square.

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focus and commitment how Ultimate Performance in Wood Wharf works hard to help its clients hit their goals

by Jon Massey

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ltimate Performance (UP) might look a bit like a traditional gym. Descend into the brand’s Wood Wharf facility underneath the 10 George Street residential tower and you’ll find ranks of high-end Atlantis fitness machines in serious red, white and black livery, shiny lines of silver dumbbells awaiting the firm grip of sweating clients and a scarlet trackway ready for a pounding from those pushing sleds.

But this business is a very

different animal. This is “where the excuses stop and the results begin” – according both to the writing on the wall of the facility and more subliminally from the TV screen beside the street-level entrance, which broadcasts an unrelenting carousel of before and after pictures of the bodily changes achieved by its clients.

Founded in 2009 by personal trainer Nick Mitchell, UP has grown from a one-man band in east London, to operating 21 gyms in four continents.

It only offers in-gym or online personal training, meaning its clients only work out at its facilities on a one-to-one basis

for hour-long sessions with their trainer present.

“Our motto is: ‘Producing results not promises’,” said Wood Wharf UP gym manager Mike Turnbull. “We always aim to give clients a significant return on their investment. Nick’s founding idea was to change the personal training industry for the better and to make sure the clients were getting the best out of it.

“People who train with us get serious value for money. They sign up for results – whether they want to achieve a certain bodyweight or look – and we’re going to say that with the programmes that we have, designed over more

than 10 years, we know we can deliver.”

The internet is awash with surveys suggesting people often fail to achieve the fitness goals they set themselves – one by Bodybuilding.com found only 27% had done so within a year with only 40% getting halfway there when left to their own devices.

UP’s approach is squarely aimed at addressing that challenge, although with a price tag of £5,650 for a 12-week, 36-session package, access requires a significant financial outlay. The justification for that bill comes in continued on Page 8

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by Chris Ezekiel

Weekly personal training session capacity of Ultimate Performance’s recently opened Wood Wharf gym

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A Dior canvas tote bag. Expect to pay about £2,450 for a new one. Comes with free delivery

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ntil recently, I hadn’t thought much about the luxury fashion bag industry, which has seen substantial growth in recent decades.

To appeal to men, these brands piled into the manbag category. I’ve never been a fan of these, but I do possess an extensive rucksack collection.

Rucksacks allow me to travel around the world with everything I need to run the company, while keeping my hands free for a coffee and my smartphone. Just like bags, different rucksacks fit different occasions, some with a fashion element.

To illustrate my ignorance of the luxury bag market, it was only recently that I discovered the Christian Dior canvas tote bags – that I thought were free when you bought an expensive bag – were themselves the product. Being somebody who thinks a lot about form, function and innovation, the story of the Hermès Birkin bag caught my attention. In 1984, on a flight from Paris to London, British To me the Dior canvas actress Jane Birkin was tote bags still remind sitting next to JeanLouis Dumas, the then me of something I executive chairman of Hermès. would use to carry my She was complaining potatoes home from she couldn’t find a bag suitable for her needs the supermarket in as a young mother.

Chris Ezekiel, Creative Virtual Jean-Louis immediately sketched a rectangular holdall with a burnished flap and saddle stitching – with a dedicated space for baby bottles and so a timeless design classic was born.

This inspired me to research designer rucksacks.

Some are amazing pieces of art, while being practical and great travel companions.

Subjectivity, of course, also plays a big part. To me the Dior canvas tote bags still remind me of something I would use to carry my potatoes home from the supermarket. But maybe there’s a similar story to the Hermès Birkin, and the CEO of Dior was standing in a supermarket queue seeing somebody struggling to pack their spuds.

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the sheer intensity of approach from UP. “Our programmes are very much backed up by science, so we know we can deliver,” said Mike.

“First of all at a consultation, we break down the layers to find the true reason a client has come to us. That’s different for every person – it might be to get a six-pack, to be able to perform 10 pull-ups or just to feel healthy again.

“We want to understand their vision so we can project-manage to help them achieve their end goal. We’ll take a full set of measurements, photos and conduct an intense assessment on the gym floor so we get a real profile of their starting point. Then we’ll know what to do to build their training programme.

“It will also allow us to set nutritional guidelines – how many calories a person is going to need – breaking that down to fats, protein and carbohydrates, so we can find the calorie deficit necessary to help achieve their goal.

“From a scientific point of view, that’s the guarantee – the harder part is coming in with the right mindset and being able to follow the plan.

“That’s where our trainers come in to try to find the right solutions to any problem, to guide people and help them stay accountable.

We have a messaging system where clients can contact our trainers at any time as a support network to keep them going.”

This holistic approach offers clients a clear plan to achieve their goals, although UP is clear that the effort has to come from them.

The brand’s regional manager for London and Amsterdam, Matt Milles, said: “We’re serious about what we do to achieve results. For us, it’s about going the extra mile with everything we do.

“That includes how we approach nutrition – we offer packages to help time-poor people – how we train clients in the gym itself, the level of support and service we give outside the gym and the amount of time and money we invest into making sure

The best bit of the job is seeing the person in front of you changing and working towards their goals – it’s super-rewarding Mike Turnbull, Ultimate Performance

Mike says his role as manager means he’s responsible for coaching UP’s team of personal trainers in Canary Wharf Image by Matt Grayson – find more of his work at graysonphotos.co.uk or @mattgrayson_photo on Insta

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Scan this code to find out more about Ultimate Performance that every aspect of our operation works, whether that’s the personal training product itself or the technology behind it. Even if we’re doing something well, we don’t want to rest on our laurels, but ask ourselves how we could do it better.

“However that doesn’t mean our clients have to be athletes – we train clients from every single background you can imagine. We have complete beginners, people who want to get in shape ahead of a holiday or a wedding, or sports people who want to build muscle.

“People usually come to us because they want to achieve a physical goal, but they find there are also lots of mental health benefits to exercise.

“Our clients talk to us about how much more confident they feel and the benefits to their relationships with their family and work colleagues. They’re more energised – they’ve got more energy to spend with their kids and such things are priceless.”

Mike and Matt have been with UP for about seven years, having both worked as personal trainers before joining.

“Working in commercial gyms is tough,” said Mike. “It’s finding your feet, building a client base – you’re out there on your own, wanting to be the best, but not sure how to get there.

“At UP, you have a mentor and a team and there’s a lot of support. You’ll be looking after your clients, but we’re always working to understand how we can improve our programmes – you have to be a certain level of trainer before you walk through the door.

“Then you get to concentrate on that job because you don’t have to do the marketing or the sales – you just focus on the training and helping your clients get the most out of it. That’s the best bit of the job – seeing the person in front of you changing and working towards their goals is super-rewarding.

“As a manager, my role is to look after and train the trainers and to oversee the programmes. We have multiple team meetings every week

UP’s Matt Milles says he believes the secret to the results its clients achieve is the ongoing, daily contact they can expect with their personal trainer, outside their regular sessions

to discuss where we can improve.

That’s all to make sure we’re delivering a very high quality of service to everyone.”

Having recently opened, UP’s Wood Wharf gym is currently seeing about 100 clients per week, but has capacity for at least 400 as it looks to grow its customer base locally.

“As a trainer myself, joining UP was like going from playing Sunday football to the Premier League,” said Matt.

“It was a massive difference in terms of the results we achieve but also the amount of effort we put in.

“Our clients are generally very successful at what they do, but that can mean their health and fitness has taken a back seat.

“That might be because they have a career and a family and that’s understandable.

“We’re here for when they realise they need to make a change and, instead of going into a commercial gym and spinning their wheels with no progress, this is a place they can come where

Our clients are generally very successful at what they do but that can mean their health and fitness has taken a back seat Matt Milles, Ultimate Performance.

they know they will get results.

As long as they are prepared to do what they need to do, they can be confident we’ll cross all the Ts and dot all the Is to make that happen.

“You might see your trainer for three hours a week, but we’re in touch with our clients every day outside those sessions – that really makes the difference.

“I really think that’s the big secret and the reason we achieve the results that we do – because we go the extra mile. That comes from experience.”

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by Jon Massey

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ou cannot manage what you can’t measure,” said Paul Sheedy, the CEO and founder of Unif.id. “The one thing we focus on is giving clients the right measurement tools so that they can manage their buildings better.”

In the mouth of a lesser individual, technology designed to track building occupancy in real time and adjust systems such as lighting, heating and air conditioning accordingly might seem a little dry. But Paul positively vibrates with passion when it comes to his specialist subject.

On the one hand there’s the engaging Irish lilt of a Dubliner and a glint in the eye. On the other there’s a burning frustration and exasperation that more isn’t being done to tackle climate change and humanity’s continued overuse of resources.

He’s disarming, funny and deadly serious.

“We talk a lot about smart buildings,” he said, waving a hand to indicate the London skyline stretching out to the City and beyond as we gaze out of the 39th floor of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf.

“But 96% of buildings around the world are not smart. What we’re trying to do is deliver the things companies need to actually make them smarter. In most buildings, energy wastage is about 30% – just think of that in the wider context of cutting emissions and gas and electricity prices rising so quickly.

“My focus is all about using less energy and so lowering organisations’ carbon footprint very, very rapidly.”

Based at Canary Wharf’s tech community Level39, Unif.id has developed technology embedded in entry and exit swipe cards that allow its detectors to log employees as they pass key points in a building.

Paul is quick to stress this isn’t about tracking the exact movements of individuals as they go about their day, but rather knowing who is in what general area at any given time and then using that data in a number of different ways.

“The lingering effect of the lockdowns is a good example,” he said. “Almost all buildings are being run as they were pre-Covid.

Companies have all their cleaning staff, their restaurant staff and

Unif.id founder and CEO Paul Sheedy wants companies to fight climate change by

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wastage security staff in as though the occupancy was the same. But some buildings still have only around 2% of staff in on a Friday.

“That those buildings are being run in the same way is ridiculous.

Before Covid, the way buildings were occupied was consistent, but now there’s not a single one that we run that has any consistency.

Occupancy is so sporadic and it can be extreme on Mondays and Fridays.

“It’s criminal that all the lights are on, the air conditioning is cooling every floor, with only a fraction of the staff in.

“That’s why our technology can have an impact – the more we monitor, the better our predictive analysis gets. For example, we can see the effect of external factors.

“We see that about 7%-12% fewer people come to the office on a Thursday if it’s raining. In contrast, rain on a Tuesday hardly affects anything and we think there’s a psychological reason for that because if you’ve been working from home on Friday and Monday, by Tuesday you’ll be feeling a need to return to the office despite the weather.

“On a Thursday, you might just think it doesn’t matter so much, especially if you’re working at home or off on the Friday. Then you have other factors such as train strikes, which can affect occupancy over an entire week.

“Occupancy detection also allows building owners working with us to tell the buildings in advance so they can adapt – keeping floors closed and turning down the air con, for example.

“What we’re really trying to say to organisations is that they can adapt to this new way of working, but there will be consequences, so they may need to use hot-desking because certain areas won’t be open.”

The key for Unif.id is giving organisations this ability to track change so they can adapt what their buildings are doing in real

time, rather than simply guessing what’s happening.

“We think there will be a change,” said Paul. “People working from home, paying for all the lighting and heating, will recognise that it would be cheaper for them to go to work, so it will get busier later in the year.

“In many sectors where there is flexibility, we already know what’s happening. Staff are seeing that it’s the right time to go back to work, socialise and interact with other people again.”

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reater numbers back in buildings makes Unif.id’s technology even more relevant, given its obvious safety benefits.

Should a building catch fire, for example, knowing exactly how many people are in it and where they are is potentially life-saving information for the emergency services.

“This is something I’m particularly passionate about, because back in Dublin when I was a child, we had 48 of our neighbours die in a dance hall fire – they couldn’t get out of the building,” said Paul.

“What we want to do for the London Fire Brigade and for the tenants of buildings is to bring in a new policy where, in real time, if something does go wrong, the emergency services and building managers know the occupancy of the building.

“That means they can monitor the evacuation of the building and could save firefighters’ lives if they then don’t need to go in.

“Also we look at how many people in a building have mobility issues and where they are, so efforts can focus on getting them out

safely.

“People don’t always do sensible things when it comes to an evacuation.

“We have mechanisms in place where, if we can see people heading the wrong way, a completely automated communication is sent to their mobile to tell them where to go and what to do to get to the ground floor, even if that’s to avoid a certain evacuation route.”

Paul created Unif.id following the success of Symphony Retail AI, a company he co-founded that analyses loyalty card transaction data to better understand the behaviour of shoppers.

Originally conceived to create beacon technology – the idea of sending messages from companies to people’s phones based on their location and profile – his firm switched its focus to property when it eventually became clear in the advertising world that this was a non-starter.

“I hate to admit failure, but I will,” said Paul, who has been based at Level39 since it launched as a tech accelerator hub in 2013.

“The world was convinced that beacon technology was going to be the next big thing in advertising, but it never happened.

“No retailer anywhere in the world ever made it work to detect the right customer at the right time to send them the right offer.

In reality it didn’t work because it

The company’s technology includes long-range RFID cards that are logged by detectors fitted in a building in real time. It also offers a facial recognition system

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The world isn’t taking climate change seriously enough. We have to contain energy with every single device we use Paul Sheedy, Unif.id

didn’t think about the individual and what they would have to do.

“So now we focus on making technology that isn’t dependent on people doing certain things to make it work – the more you do that, the better your product is going to be.

“It’s more difficult for the company, but hey, I wouldn’t get out of bed if I didn’t know it was going to be a challenging day ahead of me.

“I enjoy squeezing the grey matter and the brains of brilliant people I work with to find what piece of physics we can break, bend or enhance.

“So we transformed into a proptech company, delivering simple essential data to those managing buildings so they can make them more efficient and better for the environment.

“Over the past two years, it’s not been a great time to be working in occupancy technology, so a lot of what we did in 2020 was to go back to our clients and say: ‘This will end, tell us what we could do to be even better after Covid’.

“With their responses, my tech team sat down and we just worked relentlessly on building new solutions, working out what the next steps would be.

“We saw that the market was moving from card-based access control to apps. But we know this doesn’t make sense because people don’t tap in and out so much using an app, whereas the RFID technology in our cards means we automatically detect people walking into or out of a building or past our detection points.

“We realised that the way to get around this was to develop a facial recognition system.

“We only hold the vectors of a face in the camera, and only when an employee of the company walks in or out of the building – this would be detected and put in the database of who is in the building.

“Then we’d mesh that with 3D counting cameras – with these, we don’t know who you are, but we do know how many people pass them, so in reality we have absolute accuracy on the usage of each floor of a building.

“This means that if we do have an evacuation, for example, we know the numbers of people on each floor and we can detect them as they enter each stairway, so we can see the flow and quickly identify where there might be blockages or problems and allow the fire brigade to get to them.

“We really believe that this will become a global system, which will go into major cities around the world, like Dubai and New York.

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aul is clear that Unif.id’s technology cannot be used to monitor the exact position of employees – this isn’t about tracking who’s at which desk and how many trips they take to the toilet in a day. He said this would not only be an invasion of privacy on an ethical level, but also that such data would not be very useful.

“We have been careful with every client that we will never be a Big Brother solution – we’re only detecting people as employees or visitors who are allowed access to a particular floor of a building,” he said. “Secondly, we will never put our technology into places like toilets or cigarette-smoking areas. If an employer wants to do that, they will be doing it without our technology. That’s not what this is about.

“One of my key points is that it should be actionable data, which would deliver the best solution, not just collecting data for the sake of it.

“The world isn’t taking climate change seriously enough. We’re failing on every single metric and we have to realise this isn’t about governments – its about organisations and individuals making the right choices on every single thing they do. We have to contain energy with every single device we use.

“What the UK does have is an amazing ecosystem of accelerators for technology companies and a lot of them are now focused on proptech.

“We’re now working in collaboration with a lot of those companies and, because we’re working with them, this country is now at the forefront of this sector going forward.

“We work with people on LED lighting and automated building management systems and by using our data, businesses can rapidly cut energy wastage now.”

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heating O turning off the

getting greener

by Sophie Goddard

Heatwaves could be the norm for the UK unless action is taken on climate change now

Photography Competition 2022 Win up to £1,500 in Canary Wharf Gift Cards Photographers of all ages and abilities are invited to enter the Canary Wharf Photography Competition, with the chance to win up to £1,500 in Canary Wharf Gift Cards. There are four adult categories this year – Art & Architecture, Transport & Travel, Up Close and Personal with Nature & Wildlife and Water. There are also two Junior contests for ages 5–11 and 12–17 with gift card prizes of £250 plus a camera.

The deadline for submissions is 16th September at 5pm.

Go to canarywharf.com/photography to enter

n July 18 and 19, the UK was stunned by a heatwave that saw the mercury rise to above 40°C. It’s a temperature many thought would never be reached in this country. As global temperatures continue to rise as a result of climate change, we are going to see more and more extreme weather events both here and around the world.

So, what is climate change? You will almost certainly be familiar with the concept, but I want to dig a little deeper into what it means. The name refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.

Throughout history, many of these changes have been the result of natural causes such as variations in the solar cycle.

However, since the 1800s human activities such as burning fossil fuels have accelerated global warming.

Some of the emissions released when we burn fossil fuels are known as greenhouse gases – they trap solar radiation in the Earth’s atmosphere and prevent heat from escaping into space. The more we produce, the warmer the Earth gets over time. In simple terms, this causes extreme heat as well as other dangerous weather events including hurricanes and floods.

A key action in tackling climate change is reducing emissions in an effort to reach net zero carbon. This term refers to the point where a balance between the carbon emitted into the atmosphere and the carbon removed from it is reached.

At Canary Wharf, we design and construct buildings to be as efficient as possible. Within operations, we have been purchasing renewable electricity since 2012 and encourage tenants to reduce their energy and purchase from renewable sources too.

Achieving net zero is something that cannot be achieved alone. We recognise collaboration between businesses, the community and individuals is needed.

If we don’t act now, the temperatures we saw in July will become the norm.

Action on climate change must not be a choice – it needs to become a habit for all of us at work and in our personal lives as well.

Sophie Goddard is director of sustainability at Canary Wharf Group and can be contacted via sustainability@canarywharf.com Go to canarywharf.com or breakingtheplastichabit.co.uk Scan this code for more information on sustainability in Canary Wharf

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Wapping - Limehouse - Shadwell

£13

Price of moules mariniere au pastis at La Tête De Turc in Wapping

what’s on

things to do, places to go, people to see Where?

Wilton’s Music Hall Wapping

STAGE | Gilbert And Sullivan’s Patience Charles Court Opera present one of the masters of operetta’s less well known works – a sharp and delicious satire on hero-worship and fads.

Aug 24-26, 7.30pm, from £12.50, wiltons.org.uk Where?

Troxy Limehouse

GIG | Ty Segall Having recorded recent album Hello, Hi mostly by himself, the musician hits the road to share the sounds he’s created with live audiences.

Aug 23, 7pm, from £27.05, troxy.co.uk Where?

Wilton’s Music Hall Wapping

Flavours, textures and scenes at La Tête De Turc on the corner of Green Bank and Tench Street

a delicious

how La Tête De Turc offers Gallic dishes behind a pub

by Jon Massey

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s I approach La Tête De Turc, at first the place seems closed.

There’s a wine cooler and a stool blocking the entrance and I nearly turn around and head somewhere else for lunch.

But something pulls me in. I investigate further and find a sizeable terrace, protected from the elements by a scaffolding roof and decorated with red fire buckets. Amid the tables sits a converted horsebox selling pastries and coffee, while staff bustle about serving guests both in the garden and at tables that spill

out into the park. A couple of captive parakeets and abundant plant life complete the picture – a venue that could easily be transported to a rural village without much airbrushing.

Billed as a French-Anglais bistro, the menu turns out to be very much on the Gallic side, which is not a problem in the least.

Moules mariniere au pastis is quick to arrive and at £13 for a really decent-size portion, is excellent value.

It’s a dish that’s richly flavoured and nourishing, the mussels swimming in a deep bath of creamy liquor, with chips on the side and garliclaced bread for soaking up the liquid after.

Equally generous is a

mound of steak tartare (£19.50) and a potent mojito made with mint from the venue’s garden.

The place itself looks like a vintage boozer from the front but this is a most welcome renaissance for a pub that used to serve condemned pirates their last pint.

It serves the French cuisine I suspect every tourist secretly dreams of when popping over the channel – simple, uncomplicated and bursting with flavour.

Go to theturkshead.co.uk Scan this code for more about La Tête De Turc or to book

STAGE | Attenborough And His Animals While this show doesn’t feature Sir David himself, it does deliver some of the magic of his programmes as a cast of two recreate moments from TV. Aug 30-Sept 3, times vary, from £11, wiltons.org.uk

tasty treat

Our top pick this issue for a place to hang out in the open air is Azimut Cafe And Bar in St Katherine Docks. A little off the beaten track, it’s a tranquil space to sip on a Margarita as the boats slip by beside you azimutcafe.com Scan this code for more about Azimut Cafe And Bar in Wapping’s St Katherine Docks want more? @wharflifelive

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Years Nashville Meets London was on hiatus thanks to the Covid pandemic – it now returns at a new venue, Trinity Buoy Wharf

how Nashville Meets London aims to keep breaking fresh talent as it enters a new era

by Jon Massey

Peter Conway runs Nashville Meets London in partnership with AristoMedia in the USA

how serendipity created the festival

by Jon Massey

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ut a slice through Docklands culture over the last 40-plus years and you’ll find Peter Conway woven through the rings of the tree. His CV includes stints at the Half Moon Theatre, a decade as principal arts officer at Tower Hamlets Council before going on to arrange music events at Cabot Hall – a former venue in Canary Wharf in a space now occupied by Boisdale.

After that was closed for redevelopment, he went on to run Blackheath Halls on the other side of the Thames before returning to Canary Wharf in 2000 to programme outdoor music events on the estate, creating the Canary Wharf Jazz Festival and more recently Nashville Meets London in 2016 – relocated to Trinity Buoy Wharf for 2022.

“It was a moment of serendipity in Nashville in 2015,” said Peter. “I bumped into Jeff Walker of AristoMedia and from that meeting came the idea for the festival – an event to promote the best of emerging country music talent in both Nashville and the UK.” Sadly, Jeff died suddenly later that year but his daughter Christy Walker Watkins and son-in-law Matt Watkins, who worked with him, joined forces with Peter to make their vision for the festival a reality. After four years in Canary Wharf’s Canada Square and a two year break due to Covid, NML is back at a new venue in east London.

“This is a kind of new beginning for the festival – we’ve got a great person supporting us in terms of Eric Reynolds at Trinity Buoy Wharf,” said Peter.

“We’re using the Chainstore as the main venue and the building it’s attached to as a VIP area and artists’ dressing rooms.

“Then you have the wonderful terrace outside that looks over the Thames and the Lea where we’ll be having food and bars.

“Each day there will be shows running from 5pm to 11pm with non-stop music – we want people to come down and experience the joy of country music, get converted and help us on our journey to build and develop this festival into a much bigger event over the coming years. I’m very keen to foster a sense of country community and to make this a real East End event.”

Go to peterconwaymanagement.com

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ashville Meets London (NML) is back in the East End with a fresh line-up of country talent from the UK and the USA in a new location. Taking place at Trinity Buoy Wharf on August 24 and 25 (plus a river cruise on August 19), the festival promises cutting-edge sounds and a good ol’ country welcome.

“One of the key things we’ve proved is that NML seems to be a taste-maker for identifying artists, particularly from the US, who are about to break in the UK, Europe and beyond,” said Peter Conway who co-founded the festival.

“Russell Dickerson, for example, has gone on to become a major artist and Laura Elena is now massive in America and her profile is very wide in urope too.

“For this year, we’ve got headliners in Shy Carter and the young Priscilla Block, both of whom have a huge fan base already.

“We always want to break a new artist too and we have Manny Blu playing exclusively for us both at the opening night party and in a major slot on the Wednesday.

“He’s really starting to make waves in America and all his socials are growing exponentially.

“On the UK side, we’re delighted to be offering The Wandering Hearts who are based in Hackney and are one of the top three country bands over here.

They’re a stunning act and we are predicting great things for them. hy the main act on the first night of the festival on August 24 – is full of excitement when we connect on zoom between London

and Tennessee. He’s primarily worked as a songwriter, having been discovered by Nelly and his manager Courtney Benson, before going on to create a string of hits with other artists.

Now the 37-year-old is making a name in his own right on the country scene and can’t wait to take the stage in London.

He said: “I put so much time into being in studios, it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to get in front of an audience and see all these different people who come out and really appreciate the music.

“I really engage with the people when I do my shows – I walk into the crowd, get a handshake and make up a song with that person’s name.

“I do a lot of freestyle, it’s real free and a lot of fun, and anything can happen. I sing some hits, some new songs, and it’s really heartfelt.

“Something about being on stage just makes me feel good – if there are people out there, it makes me feel even better.

“If they’re moving to something you’ve created, it’s one of the greatest experiences and one of the best feelings I’ve had in this life. It’s party time and it also helps me as a songwriter.”

Shy has worked with a plethora of artists, including co-writing Someday, a No. 1 hit for Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, and songs for the likes of Keith Urban, Jamie Fox, Jason Derulo, Billy Currington and Charlie Puth.

Born and raised in Tennessee he was “always around music” at home and in church, learning his first chords as a child and developing a love for r’n’b before recording his first song aged at a home set-up in a friend’s apartment.

He said: “I was addicted to the process – hearing my voice on a CD. From then on I continued making music all the time and tried to find a way to make music my career. Now it’s a real blessing to put my own soul and my own avours into the music. It’s good to write for others, but this lets me be a little bit more myself.

“I don’t think it really matters, but I’d say my music is country because the songs are no different

I really engage with the people when I do my shows – I walk into the crowd, get a handshake and make up a song with that person’s name Shy Carter, Nashville Meets London

to the ones I’ve written for artists in that genre. As a person of colour, my songs might sound a little blacker – but that’s what I’m trying to do, to bring country music to people who don’t normally listen to it. At its heart, it’s storytelling.

“Being on stage makes me a better writer because it helps me to see what songs people connect with most.” l A selection of VIP packages are also available for Nashville Meets London. The Festival VIP Ticket costs £150 and includes entry for the festival on both days at Trinity Buoy Wharf, access to the VIP backstage area and the VIP bar from 2pm and access to the meet and greet area.

The Premium Nash Pass costs £200 and includes all of the above, plus a ticket on the NML River Cruise and entry to the invitation-only Opening Night Party at Pizza Express Holborn on August 22, which will feature performances by Juna N Joey, Kaitlyn Baker, Robbie Cavanagh and special guests. l Ticket holders for Nashville Meets London can travel directly to the festival via Uber Boat By Thames Clippers as a special request stop at Trinity Buoy Wharf has been arranged. Journeys on the river bus service must be booked in advance to take advantage of this offer.

Go to nashvillemeetslondon.com

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steeped in stories and soul

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Isle Of Dogs - Poplar - Blackwall

the line-up

Nashville Meets London

what’s on

things to do, places to go, people to see Where?

Poplar Union Poplar

NML Country Music River Cruise Aug 19, doors 6.45pm, £45-£560 Billed as a “voyage down England’s longest river” this trip along the Thames sets off from Bankside Pier for an evening of music hosted by Absolute Radio Country presenter Matt Spracklen.

Expect performances by Kyle Daniel, Vicki Manser and a set by DJ Hish (pictured).

DANCE | Mishti Dance Mishti Dance returns to Poplar Union for an evening of music and movement as Indian records collide with UK Jungle and Indo Jazz.

Aug 19, 7pm-10.30pm, free, poplarunion.com Where?

The Space Westferry Road

STAGE | Muses What happens when three muses decide to free themselves and start their own journey as artists?

What is Inspirations Inc? Find out by going along.

Aug 23-27, 7.30pm, £12, space.org.uk Where?

The Space Westferry Road

Nashville Meets London Day One Aug 24, doors 4pm, from £34 The first day of the festival at Trinity Buoy Wharf will see performances from Sarah Darling, Manny Blu (pictured), Ruthie Collins, Arbor North and Matt Hodges. Shy Carter will headline the first night, with music selected by DJ Hish between sets.

STAGE | The Brontes: A Musical Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell experience love, loss and the pressures of careerism in this heartfelt take on one of the world’s most impactful families.

Aug 16-20, times vary, £15, space.org.uk

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Nashville Meets London Day Two Aug 25, doors 4pm, from £34 Shy Carter says he wants to bring country music to a wider audience – he’s set to headline Nashville Meets London on August 24

The second day of the festival, now enjoying a renaissance following a two-year break, will be headlined by Priscilla Block (pictured) with artists Kyle Daniel, Candi Carpenter, The Wandering Hearts, Tebey and Essex County also taking to the stage in east London.

Inspired by the food of their childhood, Theo and Elvira created dessert restaurant Gelato A Casa at Republic in Blackwall. The shop serves a wide range of sweet (and some savoury) treats every day until 9pm gelatoacasa.co.uk Scan this code to read our Wharf Life’s interview with Theo and Elvira and discover their gelato for yourselves want more? @wharflifelive

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by Laura Enfield

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hat do a Nobel Prize-winning Kenyan environmentalist and a Scottish-born sculptor based in Deptford have in common? Both felt overwhelmed by the raging environmental issues facing the world and decided to take action, no matter how small.

In the 1970s Wangari Maathai spoke of a hummingbird trying to put out a forest fire with tiny drops of water while larger animals disparaged it for being too small to help. It replied: “I’m doing the best I can”.

“That for me is what we all should do,” Wangari said. “Be like the hummingbird. I may be insignificant, but I certainly don’t want to be like the animals watching as the planet goes down the drain.”

She went on to help reforest swathes of Africa and founded the Green Belt movement.

Half a century later, Deptford creative Dot Young is celebrating Wangari’s story with a series of delicate relief sculptures and is seeking to make her own practice as sustainable as possible.

“I work in an industry that is quite environmentally impactful,” said the 58-year-old, who has been based at Art Hub Studios in Creekside for the last decade.

“It’s on the consciousness of makers, about how what we’re doing impacts the planet. I don’t use resin anymore and I’ve been experimenting with more environmentally friendly materials.

“As a sculptor, you can get caught up in lots of non-biodegradable plastics that aren’t really appropriate anymore.

“I also run a degree course in prop-making at the Royal Central School Of Speech And Drama and I’ve been turning the focus to not ordering as much timber and using thick cardboards.”

Her work on Wangari is part of her Natural Formations series, which celebrates habitats, the environment and activists. She has based much of it on 19th Century illustrative prints from environmentalists and botanists.

It’s got to have something that’s either powerful in its symbolism or be beautifully mathematical and geometric Dot Young, Art Hub Studios

She has crafted the reliefs from hard plaster or jesmonite, a more sustainable alternative to resin, and has been experimenting by casting with different papers. ot said to find eco friendly methods we only needed to look back.

“I worked in Venice for a short period with the mask makers,” she said. “The traditional Venetian mask is actually made from a woollen paper called carta lana, soaked into a plaster mould and coated in sermel gesso, another environmentally friendly, ancient material. This method eventually got usurped by Chinese vacuum-formed plastics.

“It’s really interesting when you turn the clock back and look at what things were made of, pre-industrial revolution. ou find ways of making that can be reinvented in a contemporary style.

“I’m interested in experimenting in mixing dust with gum arabic. The possibilities are endless for looking at how you might develop a new material.” ot first became more conscious of eco issues through her project Chair, which tracked the history of an oak chair from the forest where the tree had grown, to the sawmill and then the furniture manufacturer.

“The only chair I could find that was fully made in Britain was from High Wycombe,” she said.

“It made me realise we don’t have a furniture industry in the UK anymore, which is very sad.

“Then I moved on to tracking other things, like hair extensions I bought in Dulwich, which I traced back to Chennai in India.

“I was getting very aware of the globalisation of materials and doing the work to give people an idea that there was a responsibility around the objects we buy, of knowing where they come from, how they’re manufactured, if people have been exploited and their carbon footprint.

“It actually got quite intense and depressing. The reality was very overwhelming.

“I could have become a political activist but I decided to go back to the studio, because I wanted to find a way to celebrate nature.”

Dot began looking at the work of people who had archived natural phenomena, such as Ernst Haeckel.

To capture them in 3D she started using a method she calls slow sculpting, allowing whatever time is required to complete each piece. She believes that having this intense and intimate relationship with the work is communicated in the outcomes.

“I’d been doing a lot of sculptural installation work until then,” said Dot. “It had been very conceptual and I was craving the technical challenge of traditional sculpture. I did some completely

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years of sculpting has taken Dot from Scotland, to Sheffield, Africa and London

Learn how to relief sculpt a botanical tile with Dot at a workshop at Art Hub on Sept 3-4, £180, all materials included

Scan this code to find out more about Dot’s workshop

Images by Matt Grayson – find more of his work at graysonphotos.co.uk or @mattgrayson_photo on Insta

out-there pieces, inspired by 19th century cakes but really wanted to get more intricate, and I’ve always felt relief sculpture was something a little bit tangential to the rest of the sculpture area.

“It’s all around London if you just look up and, historically, it’s a way of telling narratives used by the Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. I really enjoy the technical challenge and creating stories within the work.”

It is a stark contrast to her commercial work, which has included making heads of political leaders such as Barack Obama for Oxfam.

“That work can be really fun and I like working for organisations that are making a difference,” said Dot. “But it is fast and furious and I have to produce it to a high standard.

“What I really love about the relief work is that I don’t put a time limit on it. It will take as long as it takes to get it right.

“When you spend that time laboriously doing it again and again, it’s very meditative but it also speaks of slowing down and spending quality time doing something that’s hopefully, valuable.”

Each piece starts with lots of drawing and collaging to come up with a design, which is then transferred to a wooden board.

From there, Dot hand sculpts the design using polymer clay, which doesn’t dry out quickly – meaning she can spend several days or weeks on each piece. nce the sculpting is finished, she makes a mould of the piece and casts it. She then sculpts out any imperfections and moulds

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Rotherhithe - Deptford - Bermondsey

what’s on

things to do, places to go, people to see

Where?

The Albany Deptford

detail celebrating nature’s

Dot’s hummingbird and croton seed sculptures honour activist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

and casts again. That makes it a very exible process with lots more opportunities to add, take away and change it along the way and have a wider variety of outcomes,” said ot. “ ometimes it can be really frustrating. If it’s a really complex one, I do some times feel a bit overwhelmed if I can’t get it to work. “ ut I know from experience that I ust have to walk away, leave it and then come back to it.

“It’s definitely not a simple, linear process. ometimes I do a drawing I think will work in relief, but then it doesn’t.”

“The work can’t ust be deco rative I’m not really interested in that,” added ot, who runs sculptural workshops and classes with ction or efugees in ewisham and has created experiential sculptural work for dementia suffering residents in care homes.

“It’s got to have something that’s either powerful in its symbolism or be beautifully mathematical and geometric.

“I love Islamic art because it relates to the universe and secret geometry. That’s been a big in uence.” orn in dinburgh, ot was introduced to the oy of ob ects and making by her father, a mechanical engineer, who was at the forefront of developing lasers. fter studying sculpture in he eld, she moved to ondon and was swept up in the s era of shared housing, cooperatives and artist s uats.

he then spent time in frica, sculpting across amibia, otswana, Mo ambi ue, outh frica and in the Tenganenge culpture village in imbabwe, which is another reason for her interest in angari Maathai. ot has already sculpted a panel inspired by the environ mentalist featuring a croton seed, associated with the enyan reforestation programme and the frican fabric associated with Wangari. he is now working on a larger panel for the raft In ocus event at ever astle in ent ept , which will feature, hummingbirds, naturally.

“It will make a larger statement about her narrative about how you can make a difference, no matter how small the effort you make,” said ot. “ eople that genuinely have an awareness of the environment are drawn to this work. There’s uite a limited audience when you’re doing really specialist installation pieces, whereas the work I do now is more commercial so I feel the audience is wider. “ ommunicating with more people means I have a bigger voice, which I’m really en oying. “ hen people ask what it’s about then I really get to talk about the state of the planet and how my work is motivated by the concerns we have but not in a negative way, kind of a celebra tory way.”

For more details go to dotyoung.com or arthub.org.uk

THEATRE | Summer’s Park Adventure Explore the garden and learn how to keep it bustling with Summer, the park ranger, and her nature loving friends. A fun, family show.

Aug 17-24, pay-what-you-decide, thealbany.org.uk Where?

Creekside Discovery Centre Deptford

NATURE | STEM Summer Activity Day A day for 11-16 year olds to learn how problems in Deptford link to global issues. Includes a low tide walk and chance to complete a CREST Award.

Aug 17, 10.30am-4pm, £15, creeksidecentre.org.uk Where?

The Richard MacVicar Adventure Playground Deptford EVENT | Climate Home: Carnival Refresher A day celebrating the magic of Caribbean culture and carnival arts with reggae, dancehall, soca and calypso artists, steelpan players, dancers and more.

Aug 19, 2pm, pay-what-you-decide, thealbany.org.uk

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How do you make better theatre? Based in Deptford, The Shipwright believes fostering a community where creatives live, eat and perform together has had a beneficial effect on the quality of its work theshipwright.co.uk Scan this code to read Wharf Life’s interview with founder of The Shipwright, Joseph Winters want more? @wharflifelive

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take a breath

by David Lefebvre Sell

how Greenwich And Docklands International Festival fills east and south-east London with arts Breathe in, breathe out, but make sure you’re using your diaphragm and doing it through your nose

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n my job as a Yoga teacher, I spend a lot of time trying to convince people to breathe better.

Now, esteemed reader, I’m going to attempt to convince you to do the same. At least if you ignore me, I’ll be spared the sight of you rolling your eyes and checking your text messages.

If you need a reason to take me seriously, research has shown that breathing is the main way we regulate our nervous systems. Bad breathing tends to keep us in our fight or flight response and good breathing helps us to relax more effectively after a stressful experience. So, how do you breathe better?

The first thing you need to do is to check that you’re able to breathe with your diaphragm. Think about it this way – if you found out that your heart wasn’t working properly, you’d be a little concerned, right? Your diaphragm is arguably the second most important muscle in your body. If it’s not Bad breathing tends functioning, then the to keep us in our lungs don’t fill properly.

It’s easy to check. fight or flight response Take a deep breath in, does your upper chest and good breathing expand first and your helps us to relax belly suck in? If so, your diaphragm is largely more effectively switched off.

David Lefebvre Sell That means you need to practice breathing.

Try it on your back with your hands on your belly and find that abdominal breath. Apart from anything else, breathing predominantly with your upper chest has been shown to be a contributing factor in anxiety disorders. Avoid it if possible.

Here’s some other advice regarding good breathing. Breathe through your nose. Almost all animals do, and for good reason. Besides, mouth breathing is not a good look.

Slow down your breath, it sends the message to your brain that all is well, even if that’s not entirely true. Also, the best way to achieve relaxation is to slow down your exhalation. Breathe in for a four count and try to exhale for a six or eight count. Do this for five-10 minutes a day. What have you got to lose? It’s free.

David Lefebvre Sell is a Greenwich-based psychotherapist and Yoga instructor who teaches at Third Space in Canary Wharf Follow @davetheyogi on Twitter and Instagram and @DavidLefebvreSellYogaAndPsychotherapy on FB Scan this code for information about David’s work as a transpersonal counsellor and psychotherapist

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Days of performances for GDIF 2022, as the festival returns for its 27th iteration

spectacular and extraordinary

by Jon Massey

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e’re opening this year with a truly amazing event – Spark – the creation of a Dutch artist called Daan Roosegaarde, it’s a complete reimagining of what an environmentally sustainable public celebration might look like,” said Bradley Hemmings, artistic director and founder of the Greenwich And Docklands International Festival (GDIF).

“He’s taken inspiration from fire ies to create this wondrous moment, that audiences will see lying on their backs on the grass in front of the Queen’s House. They will be surrounded by myriad moving sparks in the sky – something very beautiful and very much echoing the magic of the natural world. at in estival.org’s o ces at the Old Royal Naval College, Bradley’s obvious enthusiasm for GDIF is undimmed as he looks ahead to overseeing its 27th iteration.

Taking place across an everevolving spread of locations in east and south-east London from August 26 to September 11, it promises 18 days of free arts performances selected to astonish, amaze, delight, amuse and challenge those attending.

“As always, this year’s GDIF is going to be characterised by a whole range of extraordinary and spectacular events, as well as performances taking place at a more local level,” said Bradley. “The last two years have been di cult for everyone – certainly in mapping out, understanding and planning how things might transpire.

“We were incredibly fortunate to be able to deliver two festivals with a strong sense of confidence, so we’re incredibly proud of that.

“This year we’re in different territory, with new challenges and new contexts. We’ve always been a free festival and that’s something people can make the most of as we’re in the middle of a cost of living crisis.

“It does put into sharp relief the power of a festival like GDIF – it is there for everyone, accessible, and we try to go the extra mile to make sure we attract people who might otherwise not attend the arts.

“For 2022, we’re going out to new sites, like Rathbone Market in Canning Town, Avery Hill Park in

Peter Hudson’s kinetic installation Charon takes its name from the boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the River Styx to Hades

Greenwich as well as Thamesmead near Abbey Wood and Deptford, to bring performances to different areas.

“That’s one of the challenges of going outdoors, because for each site we have to create the theatre as there’s nothing on the ground.

“Of course there are venues we work at every year – Greenwich town centre for Greenwich Fair on August 27, for example, but actually discovering new sites and venues, as well as returning to places after a period away, is what keeps GDIF fresh and audiences awake and excited by what we’re doing.

“For example, it’s great to be working with Tower Hamlets again – we have a wonderful audio piece at Island Gardens called Final Farewell, that takes people on a journey through the streets and parks of the Isle Of Dogs. Then we also have a new production from Air Giants called Unfurl over in Bethnal Green

Gardens, which features ingenious, soft robotic technology – people will walk in a garden of giant in atables that come in a whole range of different colours and react to the public passing by.”

The problem when writing a preview piece about GDIF is the sheer depth and number of the performances it offers.

With limited space, it’s hard to convey the often surprising blend of art, acrobatics, dance, circus, theatre and spectacle the festival offers soaking the locations it touches in the unexpected to create memories that still echo many years after.

In previous years I’ve watched an acrobat tussle with a huge robotic arm, seen a whole band swing on a giant chandelier suspended from a crane high above dancers in an imaginary ballroom and been charmed by two performers being silly with a stack of buckets.

Bradley Hemmings

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the iceberg’s tip EVENT | Greenwich And Docklands International Festival Various venues, Aug 26-Sept 11, times vary, free festival.org

what’s on

things to do, places to go, people to see Where?

The O2 Arena Peninsula

While there are far too many performances to list over the 18 days GDIF runs in east and south-east London, here are a few highlights that demand a place in the diary l Island Of Foam Version Eight Sept 3-4, 6pm, free Greenwich Peninsula Artist Stephanie Lüning will use mountains of rainbow-coloured foam to transform Greenwich Peninsula.

Bradley said: “This is a UK premiere, a very exciting, unpredictable event with a huge outpouring of foam as Stephanie controls the palette and how the colours behave.” l Charon Sept 1-10, 8pm, free Limmo Peninsula, Royal Docks Originally created for the Burning Man festival, Peter Hudson’s kinetic installation is a 32ft-high zoetrope powered by volunteers.

Bradley said: “Audiences arrive at the artwork having gone on an immersive sound journey. This is an extraordinary piece sited right beside the River Lea with the figures appearing to move.”

Bradley is, understandably, at pains to select highlights given the embarrassment of riches on offer a re ection perhaps of the fact that all the performances have the potential to be affecting in their different ways.

“We care deeply about all the events, although one of the things we’ve done is continue to work very closely with landers ouse in ondon and this year we’re focusing on lemish circus,” he said.

“There’s an ama ing performance as part of I called Follow Me, by a company called e lat, which will take people on a completely wondrous tour of a part of Thame smead using acrobatics, arkour and ingenious staging to draw the audience in.

“They are incredibly skilled performers who will leave ama ing images in people’s minds after it’s gone.”

The best thing to do, of course, is just see as many performances as possible and decide for yourself.

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l Peaceophobia Sept 7-10, times vary, £10 Here East, QEOP Multi-storey car park This unapologetic response to rising Islamophobia uses verbatim speech from members of modified car clubs.

Bradley said: “This play by Zia Ahmed casts real people using their own words as they tell their stories, all while stripping down a car and putting it back together again.”

EVENT | Professor Brian Cox The lilting drawl of the pop star and TV presenter is set to guide its audience through Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey. Universe-expanding.

Aug 31, 7.30pm, from £44, theo2.co.uk Where?

Now Gallery Peninsula

ART | Maiden Voyage Discover JeeYoung Lee’s installation inspired by memories, dreams, emotion and personal experiences. Free entry, but booking required.

Until Sept 25, daily from 10am, free, nowgallery.co.uk Where?

Indigo At The O2 Peninsula

GIG | Amakye Dede One of Ghana’s most successful “Highlife” artists is set to perform on the Peninsula, showcasing hits such as Handkerchief, Mabre and Broken Promises.

Aug 20, 7pm, from £26, theo2.co.uk

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l Discover Ukraine: Bits Destroyed Aug 26-29, times vary, free Old Royal Naval College This work sees mosaics destroyed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine projected onto the buildings of the Old Royal Naval College.

Bradley said: “This is a project that really speaks to the destruction of the country’s cultural heritage since the February invasion, and shares with us this remarkable tradition of mosaic-making.”

DATES + TIMES - Details of the performances mentioned in the main text are as follows: Spark, Aug 26-27, 9pm | Final Farewell, Sept 10-11, noon, 1.30pm, 3pm, 4.30pm | Follow Me, Aug 28-29, 3pm

There’s still time to catch Just Vibez as the hip hop and soca take over Greenwich Peninsula with beats, live music, street food and plenty of activities for the kids. Running August 13-14, this two-day event is free to attend greenwichpeninsula.co.uk Scan this code to read our interview with Just Vibez’ Mark Chan Poon on why hip hop pioneer TY will be celebrated want more? @wharflifelive

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Days of music at Dockyards, with artists from Above And Beyond’s record labels

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Where?

Excel Custom House

EVENT | Jurassic World: The Exhibition Pretend you’re in the films as you gaze up at a towering Brachiosaurus, come face-to-face with a Velociraptor and of course, stare down a T-Rex. Aug 23-Sept 23, adult from £20, excel.london Where?

Royal Victoria Dock Royal Docks

The Group Therapy Weekender London is set to take place on September 10 and 11

filling Royal Docks with

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Sea Cadets Royal Docks Boat Station Dockside Road

how the Group Therapy Weekender London is set to bring many acts to four stages over two days

by Jon Massey

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400,000sq ft space on the edge of Royal Victoria Dock is set to host a two-day music festival next month. Headlined by Grammy- nominated electronic music group Above And Beyond, the Group Therapy Weekender London will take place at Dockyards on September 11 and 12.

The event will feature an extensive line-up of acts from the group’s record labels – Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep – with performances spread across four stages.

These will be arranged on

the vast patch of land to the east of the Millennium Mills building, a space that has recently been launched as a venue for the arts called Dockyards.

The bill for Saturday, in addition to the headliners, includes Alex Sonata And Therio, Alpha 9, Andrew Bayer, Bexxie, Fatum, Grum, Kasablanca and many more.

Sunday will see a full takeover by Anjunadeep artists including Boerd, Just Her, Penelope, Ryan Davis, William Orbit, Jessie Marcella, Michael Cassette, Luttrell, Marsh, Mia Aurora and Dosem.

The line-up will include several acts who have performed as part of the

FAMILY | Kids Summer Splash Enjoy a swim in the lido with a shallow end for children, building in the sandpits, relaxing on a deck chair or food and drinks from the snack shack.

Until Aug 21, free, royaldocks.london

label’s regular sell-out events at Printworks on the Rotherhithe Peninsula Tickets to the festival start at £39.99 for early entry on the Sunday.

The latest weekend tickets start at £119.99. All prices exclude booking fees. A series of VIP packages are also available.

Doors open at noon with last entry at 5pm and curfew at 10.30pm.

Go to a boveandbeyond.nu for more information Scan this code for more info and to book tickets

SPORT | On The Water Free sailing and paddlesport sessions for young people aged between 9-14 years old to try the sports for the first time.

Aug 22 and 24, 9am-12.30pm, free, eventbrite.co.uk

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Canning Town-based business, the Bamboo Bicycle Club offers customers kits and workshops to help them build their own bikes using natural materials that help soak up vibrations from the road bamboobicycleclub.org Scan this code to read our interview with Bamboo Bicycle Club founder James Marr want more? @wharflifelive

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how Women Of The Wick is creating places for women to be heard and supported

by Laura Enfield

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believe we all have a story to tell and the voice to tell it,” said Women Of The Wick founder Sara Kärpänen. “Sometimes we need other people to provide a safe space to share our stories.

Social media isn’t always the best platform to show our vulnerabilities or experiences.”

Women Of The Wick (WoW) provides that space for marginalised voices to be heard through podcasts, workshops and events.

This autumn, Sara will be bringing many of those stories together in a new magazine that will go out across the Wick. It will be the culmination of a storytelling programme funded by Foundation For Future London.

“It came about from the need to offer alternatives to the current media platforms or institutions that exist within the area and beyond,” said Sara. “I want to help give creative entrepreneurs storytelling tools so they can use their voices and more unconventional business methods.

“The parts of ourselves we hide are often like superpowers. Those are the stories that connect us with other people, and potentially help someone who’s struggling with the same thing.

“I have realised that many professional writers still either lack the confidence or find that they need more peer-to-peer support and a safe space to share their stories, or are just generally interested in gaining insight into their writing.”

Before she moved to London, Sara had her own successful career as a cultural journalist back

home in Finland. But it left her feeling “burned out and uninspired”. It was a visit to Hackney Wick that brought her back to life.

“I walked into this warehouse space in 2013 and shouted out ‘I’ve come home’,” said the 35-year-old. “I had such a strong feeling of belonging, from the first instant I looked around.

“There was this sense of freedom and access to different types of spaces and support from the community.”

She was only meant to be visiting London as part of an internship with The Finnish Institute. But after wrapping up her master’s in visual culture back home, she left Finland for good and moved to her own live-work space in Hackney Wick. t first, she worked as a freelance artist doing public works commissions with a local architects’ practice and then began writing again for an online publication, where she realised the need for more feminist spaces and media.

“I have always been someone who’s fought for equal rights and I feel very strongly about gender inequality,” she said. “I think it is my duty to tackle the inequalities that exist in the creative industry.

“It took me quite a while to gain the type of networks that I currently have and I wanted to offer some of the skills and networks I have gained along the way to other people whose first language isn’t English or who have moved to London. “ lso, I find elevating other women’s voices and visibility helps me overcome the feeling that other women take away from what I have got. It’s a counterwork to that societal pressure that we should be enemies instead of sisters supporting one another.”

WoW was born in 2019 from a residency at creative space Grow Hackney during which Sara started a podcast.

“I wanted to capture, document and share beautiful stories from the women that had somehow contributed to making the creative communities that Hackney Wick and Fish Island are known for,” she said. “I wanted to facilitate a space where individual stories

could be heard but also create a strong sense of community and belonging – the kind I once felt when I moved to the area.

“Quite quickly I was commissioned by the Foundation For Future London to capture more stories from women within east London. I realised this work was needed – not just a podcast.

“I wanted to create other ways to facilitate spaces for women to come together, be vulnerable and talk about everything from sex to social media and the highs and lows of being an artist, mother and woman today.”

In the first year, that mission led to a panel discussion on Art, Sex and Gender, raising money for LGBTQIA+ charity Galop UK, a queer poetry night and the two-day festival Heal Her, focused on storytelling and eco-feminism.

“I feel very strongly that feminist issues are also trans and gay rights – we’re all on the same front line against the patriarchy,” said Sara.

When lockdown hit, she began a series on Instagram Live with local artists from their studios explaining their work processes and collaborated with organisations like Grow Hackney to do a book club and talks.

Today, WoW facilitates monthly workshops for freelancers at Hackney Bridge and works with partners across London, including Foundation For Future London, Economy Of Hours, Stour Trust, BMW Foundation, and Creative Land Trust.

The podcast How To Occupy Space continues, and sees Sara interview artists, activists and architects such as Juliet Can, founder of Stour Trust and Arab artist Tamara Al-Mashouk.

Last year Sara launched a second podcast, Girl Get A Real Job, to talk about how we can reduce the current pay gap in the creative industries and normalise conversations about money and financial resilience.

Guests have included Selina Flavius, author of Black Girl Finance and Kaiya Shang, editor at Scribner. In the autumn she will be launching a new programme focused on the topics discussed.

space to be heard and

“Hosting a space where experiences can be shared and people can be authentically themselves is incredibly powerful,” said Sara, whose day job is programme coordinator at Echo, where members trade the skills they have for those they need.

“The reason I find podcasting so accessible is that it’s another way to share our stories and journeys with others, as well as writing and public speaking.

“All these things are really under the big umbrella of storytelling, which keeps coming up as a central theme for everything that we do.

“It is a key component in branding and more businesses are becoming aware that storytelling is at the core of their practice and they need to communicate that effectively to others. That’s led me to do workshops for businesses or entrepreneurs who want to expand their vision of what they can do with purpose-led storytelling strategies.

“Since MeToo and the so-called third wave of feminism, there has been more importance placed on personal storytelling and women’s experiences. But there’s still so much to do. It’s great there is interest there, but it needs to be more than just ticking a box.

“If a voice is given to people or representative groups, then we are on the right track.”

Sara said the key to good storytelling was realising there was no wrong way to do it.

“Write as you would speak to your best friend, is the best advice to anyone who wants to have their voice heard,” she said. “We all have a story within us and are powerful beyond belief. You need to trust in that voice. It doesn’t have to be polished.”

To give people the confidence to speak out, Sara has everyone who attends a WoW workshop or programme agree to a safe space commitment.

“Everyone agrees that there’s a non-judgmental space and we have zero tolerance of racism or misogyny,” she said. “We are here to cheer each other on and this is a space where we can share those vulnerabilities – the highs and lows of being an artist.”

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Podcast episodes are available to listen to on Spotify and iTunes

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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Stratford

RUN | Lee Valley Velopark Race Whether it’s a 5k, kids race, 10k, 10 miles or a half marathon, this event has you covered on a Moto GP-style one-mile circuit in Stratford.

Aug 27, 9am, from free, runthrough.co.uk Where?

Stratford Picturehouse Stratford

FILM | Buena Vista Social Club Wim Wenders’ instant classic tells the tale of musician Ry Cooder travelling to Havana to bring retired performers back to the stage and international fame.

Aug 19, 1pm, £7.50, picturehouses.com Where?

Copper Box Stratford

Women Of The Wick founder Sara Kärpänen believes everyone has a story to tell and the voice to tell it

It’s a counterwork to that societal pressure that we should be enemies instead of sisters supporting one another

SPORT | Professional Fighters League The Mixed Martial Arts promotion is set to host its play-offs bout in Stratford with elite men and women competing across six weight classes.

Aug 20, 5pm, from £46.30, pflmma.com

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Ahead of its opening next year, Sadler’s Wells East is looking for young dancers locally to take part in workshops with a few places available to participate in its debut production in Stratford sadlerswells.com

Sara Kärpänen, Women of the Wick

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