Event
KINGDOM | Downe
24 May 2015
Event times
Meet at Bromley South train station at 10.30 on Sunday 24th May to get the bus together down to Downe.
Cost of entry
Free to attend and participate. Costs will vary for transport individually and some activities, ie. pub stop on this occasion.
Cudham Rd
Address
- Cudham Rd
- Downe
- Orpington
- BR6 7LH
- United Kingdom
KINGDOM is an open, artist led exploration of the UK that brings together communities of creatively minded beings through its monthly day excursions. On these trips focus is placed on being, doing and gathering, rather than making and showing amongst a varying group of discursive visitors.
About
KINGDOM | Downe
For May’s KINGDOM we will be both celebrating and sharing our sorrows in light of the recent election results by visiting Downe, the birthplace of recently resigned Nigel Farage, which just happens to also be the place where Charles Darwin wrote his theories of evolution.
We will take these two opposing yet intertwined and strangely similar men of ‘progress’ as points for discussion. Exploring the area in which they both lived, we will discuss issues of environment and genetics in relation to both Darwin’s theories, and political constituencies.
The group will walk Darwin’s footsteps through the Downe Bank nature reserve, and visit his grave. We will also visit the site that used to house Buckston Browne Farm, a surgical research centre which was raided in the 1980s by anti-vivisection activists.
We aim to meet up with a local Scout/Girl Guide group, to talk to them about exploration and the 'survival of the fittest' theory in relation to modern aspiration. The day will be punctuated by other planned and unplanned activities and interventions.
Meet at Bromley South train station at 10.30 on Sunday 24th May to get the bus together down to Downe.
The event is open for anyone to join, all you need to do is book your train and get on it. Some small change may be necessary for bus rides and a pub stop. Everyones encouraged to bring along a picnic lunch.
We look forward to meeting you!
Kerri and Ellie
KINGDOM is a project with dual aims; to bring together new communities of creatively-minded human beings, as well as seek engagement with places outside of London. It hopes to create a wider national awareness of knowledge and agency outside of the capital, and further understanding of site and place as an important context for contemporary practices. By embracing alternative forms of research and actively seeking local input, KINGDOM hopes to uphold the breakdown of hierarchies, to create spaces and occasions to collaborate, speculate, and be spontaneous together.
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