We are delighted to be able to put on two extra performances of Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project verbatim theatre performance with Ewan Wardrop in October 2023 in Sussex. Our funders, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, have agreed for us to use our project contingency budget to make these free to all. […]
Update: The film of this performance is now on our Vimeo channel and free to watch at your leisure. You can find it here: https://vimeo.com/840443841 Online screening with Q&A Friday 30th June 2023, 6pm to 8pm, Zoom Join us on Zoom to watch the film of this wonderful performance that was recorded on the 3rd
On Thursday 11th May 2023 we will be hosting our second Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Reminiscence Event on Zoom between 6:30pm and 8:30pm. The main purpose of this is to include club audiences, regulars, hosts and performers, who are now situated outside of London, in the Sweet Thames project. It is also
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Kennedy Hall, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY Saturday 3rd June, 2023. Doors open 6:30pm with a 7pm start. This fun-filled performance event draws on the twenty-five recently collected oral history interviews for the Sweet Thames project hosted by Star Creative Heritage, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and supported
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We had a full house for the Sweet Thames exhibition launch on Saturday at Cecil Sharp House in Storrow Hall, coincidentally where one of the earliest London folk clubs ‘The Cellar’ began in the mid-1950s. The project team had fun setting up the exhibition banners, folk club bunting and audio posts in good time for
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Saturday 11th February, 2.30pm-4.30pm, Cecil Sharp House Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project has recorded twenty-five oral history interviews for the project and we have been drawing on these and our archival research to produce a transportable exhibition. The exhibition explores a number of themes which were highlighted during the interviews, including early
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These two interactive workshops will run in the Committee Room, Cecil Sharp House, 6-9pm on Thursday 17th November and Thursday 24th November 2022. Get involved in the Sweet Thames project and register now to join our wonderful volunteer team for these workshops. Places are limited. Please book your place here. In these workshops we will
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On Friday 23rd September we will be hosting a Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Reminiscence Event on Zoom between 6pm and 8pm. The main purpose of this is to include club audiences, regulars, hosts and performers, who are now situated outside of London, in the Sweet Thames project. It is also open to
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Monday 15th August 2022. 12:30 to 4pm The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML), Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, NW1 7AY We are recruiting now for our Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage project volunteer team who will receive free training to assist us in conducting archival research at the VWML. We will
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Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project Launch and Digitisation Drop-in Open Day Event. Saturday 2nd July 2022, 11am to 3:30pm, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML), Cecil Sharp House, NW1 7AY. We managed to digitise some important photos and documents at this event and meet new contacts for the project. If you missed our
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