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Spiral Sanctuary Explorations – Songlines of Greenwich – BH365 celebrations

May 16 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Spiral Sanctuary Explorations  Friday May 16 2025 6.30pm to 9pm BOOK for walk HERE

Please meet at exit Woolwich Station (Elisabeth Line), Dial Arch Square, Major Draper Street, Woolwich, London, SE18 6GD

A gentle evening walk exploring unexpected aspects of Greenwich’s history, in celebrating diversity around Woolwich. This event weaves stories, places, people with the theatre of magic lanterns – to retell Greenwich as a Borough of migration, diversity and haven. You will be guided on a little walk, no ordinary walk, but one that looks into the nooks and crannies of old Woolwich Dockyards! Here we find ghosts, some we may know and some are less well known, others  mysterious.

We hear of historic narratives relating to Black seamen, historic records of migration, of Black Greenwich Pensioners at the Royal Hospital for Seamen; the story of John Blanke, trumpeter to Henry VII and then Henry VIII, the story of other Black Londoners hidden in the archives.

This walk led by local and invited artists Art of the Magic Lantern will  lead from new Woolwich  Centre, retelling of refuge and migration. This spiral sanctuary exploration will then pass through Riverside Woolwich, to cross down to the River Thames into Woolwich Old Docklands to explore and celebrate together all the diverse communities who have made their lives and livelihoods in the area.

This is the first event from a series of Greenwich Songlines walks co-curated by InspiralLondon for BH365 celebrations. Further walks and workshops to be announced from Feb 20 –  12 July 2025. BOOKING for walk HERE

Art of the Magic Lantern

The Art of the Magic Lantern is a collaborative project by Nicole Mollett and Frog Morris which re-purposes this pre-cinema projection equipment to create a new live performance pieces for contemporary audiences. The project brings together heritage research, drawing, socially engaged art practice, standup performance, and story telling.

For Songlines for Greenwich The Art of the Magic Lantern create a new preambulatory slide show among the sights, sounds and smells of Woolwich Old Dockyards.

This is the first event from a series of Greenwich Songlines walks co-curated by InspiralLondon for BH365 celebrations. Further walks and workshops to be announced from April to end July 2025 Supported by The Royal Borough of Greenwich and with additional funds from tfl WCGL.

 

       

supported by soundcamp, inspirallondon associate artists & by counterproductions.

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Woolwich Station
Dial Arch Square, Major Draper Street, Woolwich
London, SE18 6GD United Kingdom
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