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Festival Team:
Adrian Evans Festival Director
Sophie Branscombe General Manager
Lucy Plaskett Head of Corporate Partnerships
Kitty Ross Programme Director
Ros Croker Programme Manager
Michelle Butler Programme Manager
Piers Mason Marketing Manager
Rosey Mercer Finance Manager
Sarah Coleman Programme Coordinator
Nikki Shaill Programme Coordinator
Jonathan Bartlett Production Manager
Helen Wilding Production Coordinator
Sam Kidby PR
Paul Hudson Corporate Partnerships
Barny Crockford & Patrycja Nowak Market
Team
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With additional support from:
Kate Forde, Cate Birch, Nicky Petto, Tiphaine
Tailleux, Georgie March and Henrietta Ross.
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And huge thanks to all our other volunteers
and helpers who make the event possible.
Welcome to the 16th
Mayor’s Thames Festival
Trustees:
Simon Hughes MP (Chair), John Barker,
Erica Bolton, Cllr Jim Dickson, Henry
Fajemirokun, Robert Gordon Clark, Kate
Hoey MP, Sue Hughes, Phil Morris, George
Nicholson, Huilin Proctor, Justine Simons,
Olga Stanojlovic, Uday Thakkar, Iain Tuckett
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The Mayor’s Thames Festival,
Mallside, Bargehouse,
Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street,
London SE1 9PH
020 7928 8998
thamesfestival.org
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The Mayor’s Thames Festival is organised by Thames Festival Trust, registered charity number 1074794.
The Trust reserves the right to cancel or amend the
advertised programme.
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Cover photo by Rocco Redondo
Performer Sheila Ruiz
Costume by Mandinga Arts
Design by Why Not Associates
Printed by Alternative Print Solutions
Printed on 100% recycled material, and to FSC and ISO 14001 standard.
Adrian
Evans
Festival
Director
On the weekend that London
says goodbye to the 2012 Games,
The Mayor’s Thames Festival
celebrates the end of a summer
like no other with extraordinary
creative projects commissioned for
London’s iconic river landscape.
I am very proud of the fantastic
festival programme we have put
together this year. We are working
with a rich mix of artists from
countries overseas including
Brazil, Colombia, Japan, Korea
and Sweden. There are also world
premières from outstanding
UK artists: Orlando Gough, Fiona
Hawthorne, Brent Holder, Sam Lee,
Paul McLaren, Moose and
Richard Wilson.
Come down to the river, to the
heart of the world’s greatest city,
for a weekend of excellent outdoor
arts. It’s for everyone, and it’s free!
Every September we
transform the River Thames
and outdoor spaces from
Westminster Bridge to
St Katharine Docks and
beyond with live music,
dancing, art installations,
river races, carnival and
fireworks. All events are
free, and many projects
result from creative work
we do throughout the year
with young people all
over London.
If you love
the Festival
JOIN US!
We are a registered charity
and need to raise over
£1 million to deliver the
festival each year. We only
manage to do this via the
generous support of our
corporate partners, funders
and our Festival Friends –
keen supporters like you
who love the work we do.
Sign up as a Festival Friend
and for ONLY £15 you will receive:
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Entry to a special Friends’ viewing area for the spectacular fireworks finale
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The inside track on our creative programme and Friends’ events
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Amazing offers and deals with our partners throughout the year, including
Pont de la Tour and the Oxo Tower Restaurant, Brasserie and Bar
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Entry to an exclusive Friends’ competition to win your very own private
champagne capsule on the EDF Energy London Eye
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Priority booking for exclusive members only events – this year includes
a fabulous Brazilian party on the river, with top Brazilian DJs, live
capoeira, and Afro-Brazilian dance
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A thank you on our website for helping to keep London's most
spectacular weekend of the year FREE for everyone to enjoy
For every Festival Friend, Thames Festival Trust will receive an
additional £15 in match funding from Arts Council England,
meaning that your support is doubly valuable to us.
To sign up as a Festival Friend
go to thamesfestival.org
You can still sign up during the Festival weekend at the Festival office
between 12pm-7pm both days (cash taken only). The office entrance is
off the courtyard behind the Oxo Tower.
Thames Festival Trust, Mallside, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf,
Bargehouse Street, London SE1 9PH
Saturday & Sunday
8 & 9.15pm
HMS Belfast
Public viewing from
the riverside walkway
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Saturday, 8.45pm
River Thames
between Tower Bridge
and London Bridge
Public viewing from the
riverside walkway
by City Hall
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Scharnhorst
Lower
Reach
Sounding
by Orlando
Gough
World Première
A Thames
Festival Trust
commission
by Richard
Wilson World
Première
photo: Jim Banks
A breathtaking performance on board HMS Belfast, created by a women’s choir and
a German choir with a percussion ensemble of
young men who drum against the fabric of the
vessel itself.
XX Scharnhorst is inspired by the Battle of the
North Cape, which took place in the icy waters
of the Arctic on Boxing Day 1943 and saw
German battle cruiser Scharnhorst sunk by
Royal Navy warships, among them
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photo: Zatorski + Zatorski
HMS Belfast. Composed by Orlando Gough
and directed by Emma Barnard, the piece
responds to HMS Belfast’s monumental
past to tell the story of the battle. Singers
and musicians come together on the unique
landscape of HMS Belfast to make a resonant
and unforgettable public event.
Find out more about visiting HMS Belfast at
iwm.org.uk
Lower Reach Sounding is an extraordinary
performance using ships’ horns by twice
Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard
Wilson RA.
With seventeen air and mechanical horns
and a chattering plumage of signal flags,
Cultureship De Walvisch will sing her own sea
shanty, calling to the very fabric of the Thames
and its iconic architecture as she retraces the
cargo vessel journeys of the past.
Cultureship De Walvisch (The Whale) is a fully
functioning 1896 sailing ship which is currently
being developed as an interactive artwork
and performance / visual arts space by British
artists Zatorski + Zatorski. She will journey
from her base at Hermitage Moorings to
Trinity Buoy Wharf (7pm), home of London's
only remaining Lighthouse, through Tower
Bridge (8.45pm) and into the Pool of London.
A unique collaboration between The
Cultureship and Richard Wilson with the
Thames Festival Trust. Sunday, 1pm
The Scoop at
More London
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Sunday, 3pm
The Scoop at
More London
Song
for the
Thames
Silkie
Sing for
Water
co-directed by
Roxane Smith
and Helen
Chadwick
A Thames
Festival Trust
commission
by Sam
Lee
World Première
A Thames Festival
Trust commission
photo: Rick Morris Pushinsky
Award-winning British traditional singer
Sam Lee's song cycle commission
celebrates the tenth year of the festival's
Kids' Choir.
Kids' Choir is a Year 4 & 5 singing project
aimed at increasing singing in schools. Led
by Choir Director Jonathan Pix, Song for the
Thames Silkie is performed by 600 London
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photo: Barry Lewis
are given a contemporary twist with the
unique instruments of the Junk Orchestra,
recreating the magical sounds of the river.
Sam Lee is one of the current leading lights of
the folk revival, taking traditional song in new
directions and onto new platforms. Choirs from across the UK sing in a
massed choir concert of over 800 voices
raising money for WaterAid. The concert
features an international repertoire of songs
making global connections through water.
The amazing Una May makes a special
appearance.
Since 2001, almost £700,000 has been raised
by singers around the UK, and beyond, to fund
clean water, sanitation and hygiene education
projects. This year choirs are supporting a
WaterAid project in the Afram Plains region of
Ghana. Together they will help transform the
lives of 10,600 people.
Earlier in the day, some of the choirs sing
extracts from their own repertoire by the
entrance to the LG Legal building above
The Scoop at More London: Hullabaloo
Community Quire (12pm), ReSound of
Cambridge (12.15pm), Cardiff Canton Singers (12.30pm), The Great Gustos (12.45pm)
and London City Singers (1pm). Saturday, 1– 9pm
Bernie Spain Gardens
by the OXO Tower
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Saturday, 4pm
Jubilee Gardens
by the London Eye
Homage
to Rio
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One
Thousand
Pans
by Brent
Holder & Fiona
Hawthorne
World Première
photo: David McHugh
There are special performances of Amas
by Shademakers (4 & 8pm) as part of an
amazing day of spectacle to mark the
Olympics handover from London to Rio. Co-designed by Rio Carnival designer Renato
Lage and leading UK designers Paul McLaren
and Sharon George, performers and artists
from Brazil and the UK have teamed up to
construct and bring to life a presentation of a
Rio-style float, the biggest the UK has ever
photo: Fiona Hawthorne
seen. Throughout the day, there are
performances from Rhythms of the City,
Paraiso School of Samba, London School
of Samba and Tropical Isles, all paying their
homage to Rio, the home of samba. And, for
Brazilian DJ vibes, head to the chill-out bar in
the Sunken Garden.
Players from panyards all over the UK
converge on the South Bank to perform
Ary Baroso’s 1939 classic Aquarela do Brasil
as a musical tribute to the handover of the
Olympic torch from London to Rio de Janeiro.
Participating bands include: CSI, Croydon
Steel Orchestra, Ebony Steel Band, RASPO,
TLA, Steel Pan Academy, Harlow Steel Band,
Panjazz International, Metronomes, Pan
Nation and NTSB. This record-breaking ensemble is the largest
steel band ever assembled, with up to four
hundred musicians playing a thousand steel pans.
Produced in association with the Notting Hill
Carnival Festivals Trust.
Sunday, 12 – 10pm
Bernie Spain Gardens
by the OXO Tower
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Where
the Wild
Words Are
photo: J Dartnall
Words are released from the captivity of
the page into the wilds of the riverside
environment in wondrous ways.
Explore pop-up poetry emporia, engage
in wandering wordplay and delight in the
freshest of sounds and the free-est of speech
performed live.
Retreat to the Sunken Garden to indulge in a
drink on the lawn from our chill-out bar, enjoy
retro DJs and join Scrabble Sunday to play
vintage, giant, spinny or junior versions of the
classic game.
Wild Sideshows & Activities (12 – 6pm)
The Poetry Takeaway writes and performs
free, bespoke, made-to-order poems for you:
the hungry literary consumer.
For Books’ Sake challenge you to hunt down
hidden words and tame them into DIY stories,
inspired by wild women writers.
Lost & Found invite you to don a letter and
put your heads together to make the silliest
words imaginable.
The Saison Poetry Library with watery
words, books to borrow and poetry
prescriptions for all ages.
Bandstand Stage (12 – 10pm)
12pm Undercurrent presents ‘Taking the
Plunge’ – original songs from artists who
swim just outside the mainstream.
2pm Roundhouse Summer Jam Roundhouse young performers present a mash-up of fresh acoustic music and
spoken word.
3pm Catherine Brogan BBC Edinburgh
Fringe Poetry Slam Winner 2011
4pm Poejazzi one of London's leading
spoken word and music nights provides a
platform for the most exciting performers you
haven't seen or heard of yet.
6pm Lyrix Organix: Relay rewrites the
rulebook for live music and spoken word. A
360 degree mix of potent poetry, revolutionist
hiphop, spine-tingling soul and jaw-dropping
beatbox. Featuring UK female beatbox
champion Grace Savage, multi-award
winning poet Dean Atta, raw blues'n'soul from
Zee Gachette (Z-Star) and freestyle rapper
Natty Speaks – crowned by a headline set
of irresistible West African music from kora
master Jally K Susso & Manding Sabu.
Expect lyrical fireworks!
8.30pm Lyrix Organix: DJ set
Semi-permanent
installation
The Jetty, in front of
OXO Tower Wharf
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Saturday, 12 – 10pm
The Scoop
at More London
Rhyme in
Grime
Circolombia
photo: Moose Benjamin Curtis
photo: Circolombia
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by Moose
A Thames
Festival Trust
commission
Artist Moose has pioneered ‘clean art’ and
‘grime writing’ as innovative techniques
that allow words and images to emerge
from the muck and natural matter on our
streets and walls. Discover fragments of
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land emerging from
the Thames’ riverside walkway, in a unique
installation by Moose that will bring new life to
Eliot’s ninety-year-old poem.
‘Circolombia’s joy is completely infectious’
Created in partnership with Forward
Arts Foundation. Extract from 'The Fire
Sermon' taken from The Waste Land © Estate
of T.S. Eliot and reprinted by permission of
Faber and Faber Ltd.
Direct from Cali in Colombia, Circolombia is
gritty, modern, full of attitude and comprised
of a motley crew of exuberant young artists,
Metro****
whose awe-inspiring acrobatic prowess is
matched by their high voltage energy.
‘Sweet Thames, run softly,
til I end my song.’ T.S. Eliot
Immerse yourself in a day of Colombian culture
with Circolombia performances at 2, 3, 5 & 7pm.
There are also Zumba Sessions (1& 2.45pm),
Dance & Drums (4 & 6pm) and Live Music (7.45pm).
Sunday, 7.15 – 10pm Blackfriars Bridge and
Victoria Embankment
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Sunday, 10.30pm River Thames between
Waterloo and Blackfriars
Bridges
Night
Carnival
Fireworks
Finale
photo: Barry Lewis
The Night Carnival is the Thames Festival’s
signature event – an extraordinary, vibrant
illuminated parade of 1,500 dancers,
drummers, lantern-carriers & costumed
masqueraders. Don’t miss this searingly hot
mix of music, street dance and carnival from
homegrown and overseas talent.
With: Albert & Friends Instant Circus, A.P.P.L.E.,
Art Start, Bloco Fogo, Caporales San Simón
Londres, Elimu Paddington Arts Band,
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photo: Rod Olukoya
Emergency Exit Arts, Festive Road, Flamingo
Carnival Arts, Fox Carnival, HAFAD, Imagineer
Productions, Inspiration Arts, Kinetika Bloco,
Latin American Multicultural Group, London
School of Samba, Mahogany & the Hypnotic,
Mandinga Arts, Morenada Bloque Kantuta,
Morenada Intocables Londres, Oshu KanatsuRyu Shishi-Odori Dance Troupe, Paraiso
School of Samba, Same Sky, SE1 United,
Shademakers, Sunshine International Arts
and Truro School of Samba.
The Fireworks Finale is designed by Mike
Jones of Pains Fireworks, a company that
has London roots stretching back to 1593.
Amplified by the reflective waters of the
River Thames, the Finale packs a massive
pyro punch with over a ton of fireworks
ignited in choreographed, computer-linked
sequences to produce a blazing display of
pyrotechnics and a jaw-dropping spectacle of
exploding colour against the London skyline.
The display is fired from two barges
placed mid-river between Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges.
The Fireworks are best viewed from Victoria
Embankment. There is a Disabled viewing
area for Night Carnival and Fireworks on the
north end of Blackfriars Bridge.
Saturday, 1 – 8.30pm
Sunday, 12 – 10pm
Tate Modern Forecourt
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Saturday & Sunday,
12 – 7pm
Tate Modern Forecourt
All Eyes
on Korea
Meekyoung
Shin & Hong
Sang-sik
photo: Korean Cultural Centre
photo: Leanne Conradson
Saturday
1.10pm Babbling Comedy 2 by Perfordian Factory
2.20pm Traditional Korean Wedding Demo
& Stage Performance
4.40pm Kukkiwon Taekwondo Display Team
5.50pm Traditional Korean Music Performance
7pm K-Pop Contest
Prior to each live performance,
there are large-scale Media Art
projections by Lee Lee-nam.
Sunday
12.10pm Babbling Comedy 2 by Perfordian Factory
1.20pm Traditional Korean Wedding Demo
& Stage Performance
3.40pm Kukkiwon Taekwondo Display Team
4.50pm Traditional Korean Music Performance
5.50pm Babbling Comedy 2 by Perfordian Factory
6.50pm Kukkiwon Taekwondo Display Team
8.10pm Screening of Jeong Yoon-chul’s film Marathon
Drop-in workshops for all the family!
Contemporary Korean artist Meekyoung
Shin leads a workshop making colourful
soap-bricks. These will be used to create
a replica of Cheomsungdae, the seventh
century astronomical observatory in
Gyeongju, Korea, one of the oldest scientific
installations on Earth.
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The second art workshop features
contemporary Korean artist Hong Sang-sik
whose work involves creating shapes and
objects with dried noodles.
Saturday & Sunday
11 – 6pm indoors at
gallery@oxo and outdoors
at St Katharine Docks
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Rivers of
the World
A Thames
Festival Trust
commission photo: Syed Rashad Imam
This creative project links over 2,000
young people around the world each year
through a focus on a common theme: their
river. Students from London, Buenos Aires,
County Donegal, Derry-Londonderry, Dubai,
Seoul, Surakarta and Sylhet have shared their
river research, learned about each others’
cultures and worked with local artists to
create fantastic river-inspired artworks.
These are exhibited indoors at the gallery@oxo, and on outdoor panels at St
Katharine Docks, next to Tower Bridge. They will also be enjoyed by millions of people
from September 2012 as the exhibition
travels to riverside locations in each of the
participating cities.
Rivers of the World is a Thames Festival project delivered in
partnership with the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms
with support from HSBC Global Education Programme.
gallery@oxo is owned and managed
by Coin Street Community Builders,
www.coinstreet.org
Legend
A
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Walkway Congestion
St John Ambulance
Lost Children Points
Disabled Access Stations
*The river walkway by Blackfriars
Bridge may be congested. Please
follow diversion signs and stewarding
advice.
Westminster
Big Ben
Embankment
Temple
Blackfriars
Cannon Street
St Paul’s
Cathedral
Tower
Hill
St Katharine Docks
Night Carnival
Tower Pier
London Bridge
City Pier
Tower Bridge
London Bridge
A
Southwark Bridge
Blackfriars Pier
Fireworks
Bankside
Pier
Millennium Bridge
Festival Pier
Blackfriars Bridge
Embankment
Pier
Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Pier
Hungerford Bridge
Westminster Bridge
Westminster Pier
St Katharine’s Pier
HMS Belfast
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B
Blackfriars
Waterloo
Southwark
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Saturday events
01One Thousand Pans (p.11)
02 Unlimited Commissions (p.26)
03 BFI Film Fundays (p.29) 03 Watch This Space (p.24)
03 The Burnt Out Punks (p.25)
04 Lost & Sound (p.33)
05 Homage to Rio (p.10)
Tate Modern
OXO
Tower
London
Eye
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05
05
05
07
07
07
08
09
03
Rhyme in Grime (p.14)
Shishi-Odori (p.27)
Rivers of the World (p.20)
All Eyes on Korea (p.18)
Meekyoung Shin & Hong Sang-sik (p.19)
Thames Lens (p.28)
Firing on the Foreshore (p.32)
Sailing Barge Lady Daphne (p.31)
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10
11
11
12
13
13
05
06
XX Scharnhorst (p.6)
Blue Ribbon Village (p.30)
Circolombia (p.15)
Lower Reach Sounding (p.7)
Classic Boats (p.35)
Rivers of the World (p.20)
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08
Sunday events
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02
03
03
03
04
05
Shishi-Odori (p.27)
Unlimited Commissions (p.26)
BFI Film Fundays (p.29)
Watch This Space (p.24)
The Burnt Out Punks (p.25)
Lost & Sound (p.33)
Where the Wild Words Are (p.12)
London
Bridge
09 10 11
City Hall
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Rhyme in Grime (p.14)
Rivers of the World (p.20)
Night Carnival (p.16)
Shishi-Odori (p.27)
River Fireworks Finale (p.17)
07 All Eyes on Korea (p.18)
07 Meekyoung Shin & Hong Sang-sik (p.19)
07 Thames Lens (p.28)
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05
06
06
13
Sailing Barge Lady Daphne (p.31)
XX Scharnhorst (p.6)
Blue Ribbon Village (p.30)
Song for the Thames Silkie (p.8)
Sing for Water (p.9)
Classic Boats (p.35)
Rivers of the World (p.20)
River Barge-Driving Races (p.34)
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Saturday & Sunday
1 – 7pm
Watch This Space Festival
Theatre Square, outside
the National Theatre
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Saturday, 10pm
Sunday, 9pm
Watch This Space Festival
Theatre Square, outside
the National Theatre
Watch
This
Space
Festival
The Burnt
Out Punks
in The
Stockholm
Syndrome 1.2
Amazing non-stop
programme of street
theatre and al fresco
circus, culminating in an
explosive performance
by The Burnt Out Punks!
photo: Ludovic des Cognets
Saturday
1pm
1.30pm 2pm 2.30pm 3pm 3.30pm
4.30pm
5pm 5.30pm 6pm 6.30pm The Lords of Strut
nabokov’s Symphony
Oddlings’ Mannekino
Hoop La La
The Ramos Acrobats
Duo Joli Vyann
nabokov’s Symphony
Oddlings’ Mannekino
Miss Behave
Burnt Out Punks 'teaser’
Mario, Queen of the Circus
photo: Magnus Jonsson
Sunday
1pm 1.30pm 2pm 2.30pm 3pm 3.30pm 4.30pm 5pm 5.30pm 6pm 6.30pm The Lords of Strut
Oddlings' Mannekino
Hoop La La
nabokov's Symphony
Waifs & Strays' Mechanica
Duo Joli Vyann
The Lords of Strut
Hoop La La
Miss Behave
Burnt Out Punks 'teaser'
Mario, Queen of the Circus
All hell breaks loose as a fire-driven,
petrol-fuelled, anarchic punk circus
explodes onto Theatre Square.
Frankly, these guys should know better at
their age, but that won’t stop these over-ripe
rockers from performing one of the more
unpleasant displays of grubby hardcore
circus you’ll ever see.
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Saturday & Sunday,
Southbank Centre
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Saturday
12pm Bernie Spain Gardens
by OXO Tower
3 & 5pm Gabriel’s Wharf
Bandstand, by OXO Tower
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Sunday
12pm Jubilee Gardens by
London Eye
7.15 – 10pm Night Carnival
Unlimited
Commissions
ShishiOdori
part of the
London 2012
Festival
London
Première
photo: Alison Baskerville
Extraordinary new work by deaf and
disabled artists.
The Garden by Graeae and Strange Fruit
Saturday & Sunday 1 & 6pm
Riverside Terrace at Royal Festival Hall
Music fills the space as disabled artists take
to four-metre-high sway poles to create new
stories in the air of grace, growing up and
imagination – gravity-defying outdoor theatre.
photo: Shishi-Odori
Irresistible: Call of the Sirens by Jez
Colborne
Saturday 4 & 7pm
The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall
Working in collaboration with Mind the Gap,
Jez has composed something truly irresistible
– a symphony of sirens, a musical experience
that combines alarm sirens, other nontraditional instruments and singing voices to
create a breathtaking choral work.
The Oshu Kanatsu-Ryu Shishi-Odori
Dance Troupe are a group of fourteen
dancers who stage a folk performance
from the Tohoku (north-east) region of
Japan, an area that was devastated by the
2011 earthquake and tsunami. Each dancer
beats a taiko drum hung at the waist, and
wears a carved wooden shishi-gashira (deer
mask) adorned with real deer horns and hair
taken from horsetails. Dancers carry sasara
on their backs, which consist of slidingscreen paper on bamboo, measuring over
three metres in length, and represent the
purification strips used in Shinto ceremonies.
Shishi-Odori is produced by the Japan
Foundation, supported by the Great Britain
Sasakawa Foundation, with thanks to the
Embassy of Japan in the UK.
Saturday & Sunday
12 – 6pm
Tate Modern
Forecourt
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Saturday, 10.45am – 2pm
Sunday, 11.30am – 3pm
BFI Southbank
Thames
Lens
BFI
Film
Fundays
Photo
Masterclasses
Aardman
modelling
workshop
photo: Tung Mac
Enter your festival pictures into our photo
competition for the chance to win an
amazing Nikon D5100 kit worth around
£1,200, plus a break for two at the Guoman
Tower Hotel at Tower Bridge, as well as a
host of runner-up prizes, including three
Nikon COOLPIX S9300s and a School of
Photographic Imaging course! There are free
photo masterclasses in association with
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photo: © Aardman Animations Ltd 2012
Amateur Photographer, What Digital Camera
and Nikon in our photo marquee in front of the
Tate Modern.
This year we are also launching an exciting new
River Prize, supported by the Port of London
Authority – send us your pictures of the Thames
for a chance to win a trip on a PLA harbour
service launch and a visit to Port control!
For your chance to win, email your photos to
competition@thamesfestival.org
Saturday, 10.45am – 2pm
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Ahoy there me hearties! To celebrate the
release of The Pirates! In an Adventure
with Scientists! on DVD and Blu-ray, BFI
Southbank is hosting a special Pirates Fun
Day with a screening of Pirates! at 12.45pm,
and a special Q&A session with director
Peter Lord. Tickets £5. Enjoy free workshops,
create your own pirate character and bring it
to life with claymation animation techniques.
Sunday, 11.30am – 3pm
Peppa Pig, Ben & Holly and Friends
On Sunday, meet some of Peppa Pig’s
top creative folk, watch new episodes,
never seen before on TV and glimpse at
a rarely seen classic episode of The Big
Knights. Note, this is a ticketed event.
Before the screening at 1.30pm there are
free workshops with stop motion animation
experts. Thanks to BAFTA, Channel 5 and
Nickelodeon Jr.
Box Office 020 7928 3232
bfi.org.uk
Saturday & Sunday
12 – 6pm
More London
by Tower Bridge
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Saturday at 12 & 2.30pm
Sunday at 1 & 3.30pm
Departs from London
Bridge City Pier
Blue
Ribbon
Village
Thames
Sailing
Barge
Lady
Daphne
photo: Ros Croker
A river and environmental zone with
stalls and attractions from charities
and businesses involved with the
river's ecology, wildlife, history and the
industries that the Thames supports.
Some of the activities provided by Thamesbased groups include: swash-buckling
sailors from the Golden Hinde demonstrate
nautical skills and tell tales of their voyages at
sea; Wildlife Man Jules conducts ponddipping demonstrations for children to find
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photo: John Appleyard
and identify water-based mini-beasts and
Seaside Sisters show you how to sew your
own river rosettes. You can also make
fantastic fish sculptures from willow, design
river-themed screen-printed t-shirts with
professional artists and explore the
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
Trust's curious collection of wildlife.
The Blue Ribbon Village is sponsored by Thames Water
The Lady Daphne was one of thousands
of red-sailed ships dominating London's
skyline in the days before road transport.
On these trips towards Greenwich, and back,
participants see the sights along the Thames
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 – twice!
Tickets are on sale via the Thames Festival
website and a very limited number of tickets
are held back to purchase on the day.
Saturday 11 – 5pm
Foreshore by
Shakespeare’s Globe
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Saturday & Sunday
12 – 4pm
Foreshore by the
National Theatre
Firing
on the
Foreshore
Lost and
Sound
by Output Arts
photo: Steve Stills
As the tide recedes, two fires will be
constructed and lit on the foreshore, with
pots made in advance of the Festival
using Thames clay. Firing pots in this way
has a history going back 6,000 years, and
examples of such pots can be seen on the
show-and-tell table at the top of the Globe
stairs until 5pm.
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photo: Jonathan Hogg
Led by Bankside STEWards, participants
will be able to see and even handle objects
found on the Thames foreshore which tell the
history of Bankside from the end of the last
Ice Age until today: hand axes, boats, pots
and food all shed light on Thames trade and
industry over the centuries.
Thames archaeologist, Dr Fiona Haughey, will be on hand to answer questions and lead free archaeological walks at 12 and 1pm.
Meet at the top of the Globe stairs.
What's been lost? Car keys? Hair?
Innocence? Uncover stories that range from
the mundane to the extraordinary: Lost and
Sound is both playful and poignant. Using
only the public's stories and specially adapted
metal detectors, participants discover voices
buried in the sand.
The audio has been collected from interviews
with the local community and stories from
families at the Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea Adolescents’ Service recorded
at the Cremorne Riverside Centre. Lost and
Sound is a playful and intimate portrayal of a community.
Sunday 1 – 4pm
River Thames
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Saturday & Sunday
10am – 6pm
St Katharine Docks
BargeDriving
Races
Classic
Boats
photo: Nathalie Crouch
The barge-driving races re-enact the way
that watermen 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.
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photo: Jack Hardy
The Novice Barge-Driving Race from
Waterloo Bridge to Tower Bridge starts at
1pm.
The Steve Faldo Memorial Race from
Tower Bridge to Westminster Bridge starts
at 3pm.
A replica Phoenician sailing ship is
part of a collection of beautiful classic
boats in the Docks’ Central Marina.
Between 2008 and 2010, Phoenicia
successfully circumnavigated the whole of
Africa, recreating a feat first accomplished
by Phoenician mariners in about 600BC.
There is a free exhibition aboard the vessel.
London Area Sea Cadets are also on hand
over the weekend with boats on the water and
a stand demonstrating knot tying and more.
And, don’t miss the festival’s Rivers of the
World outdoor exhibition!
You can travel to St Katharine Docks
in style with a free River Taxi between
Festival Pier and St Katharine’s Pier.
Sailings are on the hour from Festival Pier and
half past the hour from St Katharine’s Pier. The
first taxi is at 10am and the last is at 6pm.
For further information please visit skdocks.co.uk
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