RiverFest was designed to increase awareness of issues involving the Thames, including how the natural world serves as inspiration for artists and writers, and was organized by a group of nineteen London artists and poets who have been "creatively exploring the Thames River within the boundaries of the city."
To this end they had a book launch on May 1st in which they introduced a beautiful "coffee table" style softcover as a collaborative effort.
I bought my copy of the river project: 19 London artists turn to the Thames on May 2nd when I attended an event at the central library featuring Cornelia Hoogland, Kane Foucher, Penn Kemp and Sheila Martindale, and I'm so glad I have one of these limited-edition works-of-art. (About 2000 were printed; preview the book here.)
It seems to me that we in the London Writers' Society may want to take a look at what they have done and see if there is a project that we would like to undertake in the future that would add to the appreciation of our city and people.
But back to RiverFest. This was Saturday's itinerary:
RIVER FESTIVAL Go with the Flow
When: Saturday, May 10, 2008
Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Place: Central Library, 251 Dundas Street, Stevenson & Hunt Room
Cost: Free
Films - Tonda Meeting Room:
11:00 a.m. - Bridges of London
11:30 a.m. - Lost April
12:30 p.m. - Vagabonds & Visionaries
1:30 p.m. - Slippery
2:30 p.m. - Canadian Heritage Rivers
3:30 p.m. - Flood of 1937
Presentations - Stevenson & Hunt Meeting Room:
11 a.m. - Cornelia Hoogland, Thames River Poetry
Noon - London Camera Club Workshop
1 p.m. - "The Story of the River" by Steve Sauder, UTRCA
2 p.m. - Multi-media Presentation by Pat Donnelly
3 p.m. - Penn Kemp, Poetry Reading
Displays & Artists Appearing in the Hudson's Bay Passageway:
- Kevin Bice - all day
- Maurice Stubbs & Iris Waddell - 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
- Kirtley Jarvis & Helmut Becker 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
- Marion Drysdale
- The Thames River Revisited (Recreating the Paul Peel canoe trip)
- Upper Thames River Conservation Authority
- Pendas Books
- London Public Library
- London Camera Club
- Brush & Palette Club
- London Canoe Club
- Friends of the Coves - Mellwraith Field Naturalists
- City of London - Pat Donnelly, Urban Watershed Program Manager
- City of London Thames Valley Corridor, Andrew Macpherson, Manager Parks Planning and Design
- Thames River Urban Water Cycle
The film on the Flood of 1937 was amazing. Chris Doty made that film and I was struck - again - with what a loss London suffered as a result of his death.
All the films listed above are in the LPL's film collection and can be viewed in library. If you have any interest in London history, you will enjoy them.
Also, do visit THE RIVER PROJECT'S website londonartists.ca.
Lastly, events to come are:
May 15 to June 22: The River Project: McIntosh Gallery (UWO)
May 16 to May 24: The River Project - Other Works: The Art Exchange (Wortley Road)
November 15, 2008 to January 10, 2009: The River Project: Woodstock Art Gallery
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