It’s Hackney WickED festival time again, the 4th annual festival so far at Hackney Wick.
It’s a kind of open studio artists festival, combined with lots of street food and music events, and his quickly become one of London’s most popular fringe festivals.
There’s also a Coracle Regatta on the Sunday.
Coracle Regatta
With the highest concentration of artist studios in the world, Hackney Wick and Fish Island once again will throw open their doors to welcome the world to a three day celebration of creativity. In its third year, there will be more than 500 artists partic
ipating in the festival with a series of new exhibitions, gigs and art installations in and around the Wick. Open studios and galleries including Space Studios Eastway, Elevator Gallery, Bridget Reilly, Britannia Works, the Peanut Factory, Schwartz Gallery, Mother Studios, Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery and Stour Space.
Friday 30th July – Sunday 1st Aug
HACKNEY WICKED ART FESTIVAL RETURNS THIS JULY! NOW IN ITS THIRD YEAR HACKNEY WICKED 2010 WILL BE BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER. THREE DAYS OF GALLERIES, OPEN STUDIOS, LIVE ART EVENTS, FLEA MARKETS, OPEN AIR FILM SCREENINGS, EXHIBITIONS, 4 LIVE MUSIC STAGES, THE WORLD FAMOUS CORACLE REGATTA AND MORE…
“The most vital art event of the summer” NY Arts Magazine
The London Festival of dragon boat racing 2010 had over 40 dragon boat teams competing and an entertainment programme to keep all onshore viewers entertained throughout the day. There was support from a number of corporate teams from financial sector and commercial retails sector which added to the competition action. Included in the programme were staged live entertainment and full children’s play area, Chinese cultural and curiosity stalls as well as stalls serving food and beverages throughout the day.
Dragon boat races are traditionally held as part of the annual Duanwu Festival observance in China. 19th century European observers of the racing ritual, not understanding the significance of Duan Wu, referred to the spectacle as a “dragon boat festival”. This is the term that has become known in the West.
Dragonboat festival racing, like Duanwu, is observed and celebrated in many areas of east Asia with significant populations of ethnic Chinese living there e.g. Singapore, Malaysia, and Greater China and now also in London as part of the London festival scene.