A 7 Day Festival of Arts & Creativity
Art Social returns this week, the second annual festival from the pioneering charity and not for profit members’ club, The House of St Barnabas, based at 1 Greek Street, Soho. All this week is a range of free events for any Broke in Londoners, including film screenings from artists such as Jeremy Deller and Laure Prouvost in the historic chapel. The week long festival, Art Social, aims to explore how art relates to human needs as outlined in the psychologist Maslow’s Pyramid, in a creative and accessible way.
Highlights
All week you can see work by Keef Winter who has created a huge geometric sculpture that will sit above the secret courtyard garden and will glow with the colours representing different levels of human needs. There will also be a large scale installation in the centre of Soho Square by the sculptor Hester Reeve. The 3 metre high teapot explores ideas of domesticity and the comfort sought in the now very British tradition of tea-drinking.
the giant teapot
Weekend tickets are a snip at £10 per day or £15 for the weekend. The weekend will feature a curated programme of events, talks, pop-up lectures, parties and gigs. The magazine Oh Comely will host “Feast on Creativity”, a series of artist workshops including tie-dying classes with Tie Dye High Five and fresh flower button hole workshops with The Flower Appreciation Society. The mini-manifesto programme will include Tom Hodgkinson of The Idler talking about the importance of sleep and Anna Murray of Patternity talking about how pattern affects our way of seeing. The Saturday night will culminate in a silent disco under the stars, as curated by Tony Nwachukwu of CDR fame and with Daddy G from Massive Attack headlining.
The map
What: Art Social 2015
Where: The House of St Barnabas, 1 Greek St, London, W1D 4NQ
When: Monday 21st – Sunday 27th September
Cost: Free and paid events
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You may also want to check out the More London Free Film Festival.
