Four photographs of actor Ewan Wardrop performing for the Sweet Thames Project.

Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project verbatim theatre performance with Ewan Wardrop – Extra performances.

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. […]

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Four photographs of actor Ewan Wardrop performing for the Sweet Thames Project.

Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project Verbatim Theatre Performance with Ewan Wardrop

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

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Sweet Thames performance & final celebration event with Ewan Wardrop

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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Sweet Thames online reminiscence event with Martin and Eliza Carthy

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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Sweet Thames Exhibition Launch

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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Performers at The Troubadour folk club in 1963.

Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club exhibition curation workshops

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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Interviewees for the Sweet Thames Project

Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project Oral History Interviews.

In July 2022 we ran four oral history training workshops for twenty project volunteers to learn interviewing skills in order to record at least one interview for the project each. The workshops were fun and engaging and we established a cohesive team of volunteers, making friends along the way. The interviews took place over the

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