CAUGHT BY THE RIVER: THAMES 18+
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Caught by the River: Thames
London stories told in words and pictures
TALK: Tom Bolton
The author of Vanished Cities: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods in conversation with Ian Rawes of The London Sound Survey
FILM: Todays Special (2004)
Three short films by Paul Kelly and Saint Etienne that document a rapidly disappearing Cafe culture in London.
READING: Michael Smith
Dark Waters: a meditation on the dark poetry of the thames, as it meanders from the bright lights to the badlands of the estuary
FILM: Thames, by William Raban (1986)
'From London Bridge to the seaward limit is a distance of 50 miles. The Thames flows eastward through a temporary landscape of docks, wharves and warehouses. Travelling on the tide in a small boat, the camera scans the Kent and Essex shores. This modern scene is interwoven with paintings, photographs and archive film which reveals a time when the river was the artery to an empire and the busiest waterway in
the world'. - W.R.
at The Social, 5, Little Portland Street, London W1
7pm - 11pm, tickets £5 in advance. Details can be found on the social.com
A Caught by the River Social Club presentation.
Antidotes to indifference published daily at caughtbytheriver.net
In 1999 The Social opened in Little Portland Street. The brainchild of a record company whose offshoots included a hugely successful underground club night, The Social was set up with a simple manifesto – to provide great music and better booze to anyone who fancied tripping through the doors.
15 years later and still run by the original team who created it – Heavenly Recordings & The Breakfast Group – the bar is an award winning London institution. Designed back then by a partnership of David Adjaye and Will Russell (now of Pentagram) with the proviso of withstanding nuclear attack or – at the very least – the worst that people could chuck at it, The Social has launched over a million hugely successful hangovers.