Read about previous events:
Her Story: True Stories on the Heath at night
Supernatural Urban Forest Zombie Mix Up
The Odyssey in Elephant and Castle
“Smoke and Mirrors” at Tobacco Dock
24th May 2012 10.15am Stories and songs for under-threes at The Dish and The Spoon. £5 per family. Email for details.
25th May 2012 10am Last Friday of the month- storytelling at Woolfson and Tay Bookshop Bermondsey Square SE1. (One of Time Out’s “Hot 50” best shops in London.) £3 per family.
Friday 15th June 2012 We are delighted to announce that we will be going aboard the Docklands Community Boat. This is an old barge from the Mersey which is accessed by going through the derelict land around Millenium Mills. The monolithic shattered warehouses are normally behind locked gates and have just been bought by developers for £1.3bn. Join us on the barge for storytelling by candlelight as the sun sets over the Thames.
Places are very strictly limited. Half of the takings will benefit Gasworks Dock Partnership- a local charity which works to connect people in Newham to the river. Email me to book your place. £4pp
14th June 2012 10.15am Stories and songs for under-threes at The Dish and The Spoon. £5 per family. Email for details.
24th June 2012 All day. Bow Arts Quarter Fun Day. Celebrate the summer solstice with some family storytelling in our very own urban glade. Free!
29th June 2012 10am Last friday of the month- storytelling at Woolfson and Tay Bookshop Bermondsey Square SE1. (One of Time Out’s “Hot 50” best shops in London.) £3 per family.
29th June 2012 9.30pm “London Dreamtime present...Darkness” In the heart of the Urban Forest at the Heygate Estate. Email to book your place.
5th July 2012 4pm Family Storytelling at the Free Space Gallery Kentish Town, NW5 2BX.
7th July 2012 West Norwood Cemetery- Curious On a dark night in one of the finest cemeteries in London, performers will celebrate the living and remember the dead.
London Dreamtime will assemble a night of brilliant events celebrating the living and the dead among the tombs and mosaics of West Norwood’s Greek corner. There will be eerie stories, startling poetry, site-specific music and gothic morris dancing. The event will take place far from an electrical supply so expect acoustic performances from all. The audience will be expected to bring their own candles to light the way. If it rains, performance will continue inside one of the larger mausolea. With Sarah Rundle, Gulliver, John Constable, The Effras, Chris Roberts and Wolfshead and Vixen £10 per person
Friday July 27th 2012 “London Dreamtime present...True stories on the Heath” in association with ‘Storm in A Teacup’.
Five people, five amazing true stories. Join us at this twilight event by the magical Ladies’ pond.
£2 per person, booking essential, email neckingernell@yahoo.com
Friday 21st September 2012 8.30pm £8/£6.50 in advance, £10/£8 on the door. “MADWOMEN” at the Cinema Museum. With Mucky Puppets. The Cinema museum is a Victorian workhouse building crammed with cinema memorabilia from the 1900s the present day. Come and enjoy some scary lady silhouettes, the premiere of “spring Heel Jane” and storytelling with live shadow-accompaniment.
Thursday 18th October 2012 Free. “Charles and the Flickering Lights” Dickens re-imagined at the Cuming Museum. Join us for story, song and seance in celebration of the museum’s new Charles Dickens exhibition.
30th October 2012 2.30 - 4pm “Magic Lantern Stories” for families plus make your own lantern slide as part of the Cuming Museum’s half-term activities.
