Starting tomorrow at 4pm, and running until 19 May Brixton’s Brick Box, home to the market’s great crêperie, is hopping along a borough to co-host the Wandsworth Arts Festival Hub 2013. And it sounds well worth a little excursion.
The hub is part of this year’s bigger Wandsworth Arts Festival, and it takes the form of a giant Cabinet of Curiosities situated on an overlooked public space by the river Wandle. What are the curiosities? On display are many of the weird and wonderful items found in recent Wandle river clean-ups – we also love this alphabet artwork, left, created from just some of them. But the temporary structure, built by award-winning architecture and design collective, Assemble Studio, will also host a packed programme of events and exhibits.
Tomorrow’s launch event, for example, includes live classical jazz from Fuzion, Comedy from Femmes on the Thames’s Rosie Wilby, short story readings, screen-printing workshops and, at 9pm (our personal favourite), Raise the Roussosoff, a tribute to the legendary 1970s crooner, Demis Roussos (beards and kaftans supplied). Other highlights over the next couple of weeks there include a cocktail and live music lounge, waterside art projections, a pop-up circus, classic cover versions performed by Old Dirty Brasstards (pictured above), performance poetry, gardening workshops and even some championship yo-yo-ing.
Words: Kate Burt
