About
18th July 2010, 1pm-5pm
1pm-4pm : picnic, artist's fair, music on the banstand
4pm-5pm: alternative vehicle parade & cycle ride
Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate, Tower Hamlets, London E2
Join in and celebrate the renovation and centenary of Arnold Circus, at the heart of the world's first social housing scheme, with a grand community picnic, artists' fair, music on the band stand and 100 laps cycle ride & alternative vehicle parade.
The Sharing Picnic 100 is a broad-based collaborative event, produced by home live art with The Friends of Arnold Circus - over 50 local artists from Shoreditch's artist community join with local groups, schools, volunteers and neighbourhood businesses, to invite people to share in a vibrant community event around food and friendliness: a sumptuous picnic with cooking demonstrations, artists' food projects and the sharing table, an artists' fair with participatory activities, installations and games and a bandstand music programme with brass bands, beat boxing, female rappers and more. The final challenge to cycle 100 times around the Circus will feature an extraordinary alternative vehicle parade by artists Francis Thorburn & Richard Elliott.
Participants: Abake, Aesop, Adam Dant, Alex Bettler, Alex Rich & Momoko Mizutani, Alix McAlister, Ben Freeman & Ditto Press, Bethnal Green Technology College, Bob & Roberta Smith, Brassroots, Cathy Wren, Clare Patey, Columbia Primary School, Cowling & Wilcox, Foodcycle, Francis Thorburn & Richard Elliott, The Gentle Author, Jerome Rigaud Electronest, Jonathan Polkest, Julia, Juliana Ong, Kondirto & Cook, La Grotta Ices, London Fire Brigade, Markus & Karin Bergstrom, Mary Spyrou, Matzos, MC Paul L Martin, Miche Fabre Lewin, Nathan 'Flutebox' Lee and The Clinic, Nazareno Crea, North Brick Lane RA, Poetic Pilgrimage, Rochelle School, Rock A Hula!, Romana Sharmin, Search Party, Society of Wonders, Sophie Hexheimer, Spitalfields Music, St Hilda's East Community Centre, St-Pierre & Miquelon, Swing Zazou, Tatty Divine, Thinkpublic, Tim Mitchell, Virginia Primary School, Winkball, Yuri Suzuki.
Supported by: A Foundation, The Albion, Arnold & Henderson, The Arts Council of England, Awards for All, The Big Lunch, Bishopsgate Foundation, Calvert22, Canary Wharf Group, Cowling & Wilcox, Create 10, Food cycle, Friends of Arnold Circus, Garfield Weston, The Heritage Lottery Fund, home live art, Joule, The Live Art Development Agency, London Borough of Tower Hamlets Arts & Events, Spitalfields Music, St Katharine & Shadwell Trust.
For more information please contact:
home live art: laura@homeliveart.com Tel. 07957 565336 www.homeliveart.com www.facebook.com/homeliveart www.twitter/homeliveart
Friends of Arnold Circus: naseem360@googlemail.com Tel. 020 7729 821 www.foac.org.uk
