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Sebastian Blake
Some things just seem right. I got a flyer through the door promoting a new street smart singer-songwriter from London. Just one listen to Sebastian’s smooth vocals and pop acoustic sound, and I’m sure you’ll agree, this will be a perfect performance for the Bermondsey Street Festival. Click on Sebastian’s photo for a preview YouTube video. Catch him in the Acoustic ‘Garden’.
Fashion Show
Fashion never stops on Bermondsey Street and the festival is no exception. The annual fashion explosion will literally (and actually) stop traffic to bring you the hottest collections for Autumn / Winter 2013-14, hot on the heels of London Fashion Week.
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We will indulge in collections from; Zandra Rhodes & Andrew Logan, Michael McGrath, Susie Stone, Pussy Willow, Bermondsey Fayre, Newham College, Find my Style, Marmalade and our floral finale from Igloo!
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Get those cameras ready – the show starts at 3pm on Morocco Street. To get your fashion taste buds going check out the action from last year in this short film.
Alison Ray
Gravity is a dance piece about the relationships human beings create, identifying love, hate, conflict, and reconciliation within a limited space.
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The style of movement uses styles of street and contemporary dance. The identifies the power struggles between couples. And the subsequent effect this can have on relationships. As a miscommunication takes the couple on journey of discovery and transformation.
The Drop
The Drop bring the sunshine to the Bermondsey Street festival with their laid back reggae lilt. Catch them on the Bliss Music Stage. Looking forward to this!
‘Kawaii’ Tea Ceremony
The tea ceremony will be a twist on a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Step into a surreal pastel world of plastic and sweets. The performance piece is influenced by current Japanese culture. The artist Emma Chipperfield lived in Japan for 4 months and encountered many cultural contradictions from traditional Japanese culture to modern.
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The tea ceremony represents the decline of Japanese culture into fake and cheap ‘kawaii’ culture, but at the same time is also designed to be a celebration of what makes Japanese culture so unique with a mixture of criticism and enjoyment. Transport yourself into a world where cuteness is a lifestyle. Drink up the atmosphere and interact with the tables of cute objects!
Amelia Cardwell
Catch local choreographer Amelia Cardwell’s performance of By Your Side / One is the loneliest number /Allez Allez Allez’ in the White Cube Forecourt.
Amy Neilson Smith
Amy is an actress, poet and well reviewed performance poet, publications including Artemis, Ariadne’s Thread, Indigo Dreams Publishing and charity writing for MacMillan Cancer. She has worked alongside Carol Ann Duffy, Maya Angelou and Leonard Cohen, as well as being shortlisted for The Pighog Press Prize. Amy is appointed associate of the new poetry company iOpen poets (Arts Council) - who recently performed at The Brighton Festival, Dome Theatre, as well as individual featured reads at Shuffle, Velvet Tongue, The Komedia, The Poetry Café, an assisted read at The Royal Festival Hall, and she is currently writing her debut play. You can contact Amy here.
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Amy also performs slightly more risqué material at alternative poetry night the Velvet Tongue (Ernesto Seralze), but we can expect a tailored show for the Bermondsey Street Festival!
Open Artist studios
Southwark Studios and the Bermondsey Project are holding their open day event arranged to coincide with the festival. Explore this growing artist community just 5 minute walk from Bermondsey Square. See map below for details.
Delaney
Delaney are a blues duo, originally from Kent/Sheffield but now living just around the corner. They’ve played Brighton Fringe, The Great Escape Festival, Sky 1 and The 2012 Olympic Games, and now The Bermondsey Street Festival. Catch them @2pm in the ‘Acoustic Garden’. Click the photo for more from their Soundcloud.
StoryVerse
Join Francesca Beard’s improvisational story telling workshop ‘StoryVerse’. Find the B3Media stall to meet Francesca and start telling your story!
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Ballet Ensemble London
Ballet Ensemble London are a neo-classical dance company based in Bermondsey. Catch them at our dedicated dance and performance space in the forecourt of the White Cube Gallery at 2.30pm.
Sign Dance Collective
Sign Dance Collective will be performing ‘Half A Penny And The Other Side Of The Coin’. Taking the audience through a roller coaster of cut up images satirising political thought and consumerism in layers of hypnotic dance performances, shades of humour to break through the intoxicating intensity of the piece.
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The Other Side Of The Coin features the lost and early poems of Frederico Gracia Lorca, and an unpredictable live music accompaniment by Dead Days Beyond Help.
Delicia Elliott
Supported by The Live Factory artist development programme, Delicia will be performing songs from her anticipated 2nd EP (available Jan ’14). Her sophisticated, deep soul-ful vocals will add a wonderful richness to the laid back feel in the Acoustic ‘Garden’. Delicia has a reputation for delivering a truly heart-felt performance. Catch her in the Acoustic Garden @12.45pm.
The Cracked
Love this! The Cracked are a London based Afro / Latin eight piece (playing original material), who always make it their business to get everybody up and dancing! Check the link below for confirmation. Or, here’s a tip: Check their website for some free downloads!
Rhys Lewis and The Relics
The Bliss Music Stage shows that it also does reflective. Rhys Lewis & The Relics are an emerging 5-piece band from London. They formed in January 2011 whist studying at The London Centre of Contemporary Music on Union Street, SE1.
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Since then Rhys Lewis & The Relics have been performing regularly around London, picking up a reputation for being an exciting and refreshing sound.
Chainska Brassika
ChainSka Brassika are a 9 piece ska-fuelled, energetic reggae and dub band from South East London. Their lively old-school ska sound combined with the skank of todays bass culture commands any audience to get up and dance. ‘This I know’ is their latest single.
Joy of Sound Music Workshop
Joy of Sound is a ‘ground-breaking project that enables people with multiple disabilities, carers, volunteer musicians and artists, and all-comers, to make music together on an equal and inclusive basis’.
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The group is supported by a wonderful team of facilitators who have experience of working with people with a whole range of musical abilities. So come along and join in!
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Facilitators use a variety of techniques; listening, watching, mirroring, reacting and reflecting, searching for the slightest sound or gesture to be the seed of an improvisation. A group orchestration is built by amplifying and developing the initial seed, then introducing and interweaving new themes offered by other participants. Building into an increasingly complex harmonic circle. It’s a richly rewarding experience!
3rdthought
3rdthought is an international and intergenerational arts project based in SE1. Invisible People is 3rdthoughts one-to-one show where a poem, a story, a joke, a conjuring trick or a tip is performed face to face on payment of a coloured token.
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Having performed at the Mayor’s Olympic open Air Festival and recently returning from the Edinburgh Fringe we are proud to have 3rdthough perform at the Bermondsey Street Festival. Check out more about the 3rdthought project here.
Voss Malone
Building complex melodic patterns Voss Malone create very beautiful, ethereal music. Multi-instrumentalists their performance features a variety of world music instruments including a Dulcimer, 2 Lyres, a Mandolin and a variety of Guitars. Catch them in the ‘Acoustic Garden’.
The Dog Show
The legendary Bermondsey Street Festival dog show returns!
Our annual canine competition is organised by local pet emporium, Holli and Lil in aid of the Deaf Dogs Network.
Registration is from 11.30am in Tanner St Park on the day of the festival and the show starts at 1pm-3pm. The classes are:
- The Lily Class: Best Pedigree Gal
- The Eddie Class: Best Pedigree Boy
- The Holly Class: Best Mash up Boy or Gal
- The Gus Class: Anything Goes
- Best in Show: Top 8 dogs from each class
The show is judged by Simba, Winner of Top Dog Model, Louise and Cookie from Darling Dog and Sarah (co-founder of Holy and Lil).
Feet Off The Ground Collective
Feet off the Ground Dance performs in unusual contexts. Making site-specific, outdoor work collaborating with live musicians, using the form of Contact Improvisation. Contact Improvisation is an imaginative and playful dance form that is acrobatic, energetic and unpredictable.
Feet off the Ground Dance performs in places where you wouldn’t expect to see dance happening, allowing audiences to revel and enjoy the moving spectacle as it happens in the moment.
Collaboration is a pivotal part off Feet off the Ground Dance’ work and we are delighted to be collaborating with talented musicians from South-London based band Sashi and the Wild Beans, who will be improvising alongside the dancers.
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Catch them at the dedicated dance and performance space in the forecourt of White Cube art gallery.
Dig It Soundsystem
Announcing the welcome return of the Dig It Sound-system! Last year these guys captured a late summer moment in the Black Swan Yard.
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Dig It describe their music policy as “simply to make people party: from deep house, electro funk and acid house, through to reggae, ska, funk, soul, blues and rock and roll and every thing in between, the only proviso is to make people smile: we have a large collection of DJ’s who chomp at the bit to be let loose on our number one mobile sound. As long as it’s quality fun, it gets played. “