BANKSIDE’S IMMERSIVE ARTS FESTIVAL 18 SEPTEMBER – 18 OCTOBER 2015

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Plan your visit and find out Welcome to Colourful what’s on at Crossings MERGE 2015 MERGE 2015 Adam Frank, Morgan Silk and Office for Crafted Architecture 03 Colourful Crossings Adam Frank, Morgan Silk and Office for Crafted Architecture Now in its fifth year, immersive arts festival MERGE returns to Bankside Various points along 04 The Chamber of Wishes Street, SE1 (see Bompas & Parr with a programme set to transform the map on page 20 for locations) 05 On Your Wavelength riverside destination. Marcus Lyall Southwark / This year’s diverse line-up includes 06 Time To Be Late Various performers major names and emerging talent from 18 September – 13 December

07 Interplay the UK and international art world. Using 7 days a week 60 Years, 60 Iconic Images the rich heritage and contemporary TV Times culture of Bankside they will stage £ FREE 08 Caravan Theatre Various artists interactive installations, experimental olourful Crossings sees Southwark 09 Chain Reaction theatre and live music; reinventing Street transformed into an outdoor TROPE historic buildings and open spaces. Cgallery with a series of on-street 10 Nursery Original Series Make a wish in a bioluminescent artworks which will bring pedestrian crossings 28 September – 13 December Various artists to life. These commissions made through the Award winning artist Morgan Silk will be wishing chamber, focus your mind to 12 Food Demonstration Gone Avenue of Art initiative, will take art out of its creating a large-scale anamorphic scene Wrong control a light and sound installation, traditional gallery contexts to transform public using photography. This illusionary interactive Jonathan Peck and Robin Linde enjoy live music on the Riverside Stage, spaces, bringing colour and animation to the artwork, where the road will appear to 13 Radio shows and live events street. Commissioned by Better Bankside and reveal a hidden world beneath and will then Programmed by Resonance take a look at never before seen images part funded by Transport for London. disappear when the viewer moves from the 104.4fm of the biggest stars from the 60s to the vantage point, celebrates the rich history and 14 The Riverside Stage 18 September – 13 December culture of Bankside. Programmed by Roots Events present day, and keep an eye out for a Beneath the railway bridge on the junction blue bunny. of and Redcross Way. New 28 September – 13 December 16 The Song and the Bottle Laithwaite’s and Adam Beattie, MERGE Bankside is curated and York based artist Adam Frank will bring his A neighbourhood isn’t just a physical Brooke Sharkey and guests work ‘Performer’ to the UK. This interactive environment; the architecture of our cities is produced by Illuminate Productions and 17 Tunesday installation encourages participants to perform nothing without the people who live in them. Various musicians at is supported by Modern and Better under a bright spotlight in which a computer We imbue memory, stories and emotions Mondrian London Bankside. controlled audio audience applauds as you in these places and share them with others 18 Rendezvous at Midnight become more active. The installation uses when we relay our day. ‘Crossing Stories’ The Rose Playhouse a real-time audio audience simulation and by Office for Crafted Architecture is an movement sensor to produce an illusion of a invitation to wander the city with your own 19 Happenings 500-member audience applauding just for you. memories and impressions.

02 mergefestival.co.uk 03 BANKSIDE TRANSFORMED BANKSIDE TRANSFORMED The Chamber of Wishes On Your Wavelength Bompas & Parr Marcus Lyall in collaboration with Rob Thomas

n Your Wavelength is a mind-powered 88 Borough High Street, Railway Arch, 37 America Street laser and sound installation created SE1 1LL SE1 0NJ Oby Marcus Lyall, the British artist behind award-winning stage visuals for the London Bridge / Borough London Bridge / Southwark Chemical Brothers and Metallica, with a soundtrack by Rob Thomas. Become part of 24 September – 18 October 18 September – 18 October the installation by wearing a headset that uses the latest technology to transmit brain activity Wednesday – Sunday 12 – 7pm Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 7pm into spontaneously choreographed digital artwork on an architectural scale. Or visit the FREE See mergefestival.co.uk £ £ installation, located in a dark railway arch, and experience the epic light and sound show. A new commission for MERGE 2015, this site-specific artwork will be created from ompas & Parr invite you to make a “Experienced at firsthand, intersecting thought patterns, via an EEG wish in the ‘The Chamber of Wishes’ bioluminescence is a headset. The laser and sound will then amplify B – an immersive interactive remarkably powerful type participants’ brain activities to create a large- installation in which visitors will be able scale immersive light and sound installation. to focus on their hopes and dreams, while of light with a unique ability The installation highlights participants’ minds also experiencing one of the ocean’s great to attract and engage the as tangible objects and generates a unique mysteries up-close and personal. curious. The algae Pyrocystis ‘brain signature’ for each user. By unveiling the lost rich history of is extraordinary in its ability to Marcus has created experimental film springs, wells and grottos in London’s sense movement in water, and and interactive projects for the last 20 years Bankside, and the rare phenomenon of and now works on a range of moving-image bioluminescent sea water, Bompas & Parr to convert this into a dazzling projects. He has collaborated with sound artist aim to facilitate a truly unique merger light display.” Rob Thomas to write the custom software that between art, science, folklore and the – DR PARK translates EEG signals into data to drive the mystery of the natural world. They have real-time audio; and with Alex Anpilogov who enlisted the help of Microbiologist Dr Simon created the visual synthesizer, which translates Park to bring one of the ocean’s great the data into a real-time visual composition, to secrets to light. feed the laser. Bompas & Parr’s work focuses on the interrelationship between performance and “The aim is to reach a focused ‘state setting. They collaborate with specialist of mind’, that can only be achieved technicians, engineers, artists, scientists, through their ability to ‘let go’.” musicians and many other disciplines to create experiential exhibitions and events.

04 mergefestival.co.uk 05 In celebration of TV Times’ 60th anniversary, we are showcasing a selection of exclusive images BLACKFRIARS STORIES from its vast archives.

Time To Be Late PHOTOGRAPHY Various performers Interplay Various bus stops on Curated by Illuminate Productions Blackfriars Road for TV Times’ 60th Anniversary ever before seen images of the biggest stars of music from the 60s Southwark Nthrough to the early 80s, including Platform Southwark, James Brown, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 24 September – 25 September 1 Joan Street, SE1 8DA Muddy Waters, Marlene Dietrich, Kate Bush, The Small Faces, The Beatles, The 8 – 9am, 12.30 – 1.30pm, Southwark / Waterloo 5.30 – 7pm Doors and many more. These photographs show both the hype and excitement that 18 September – 18 October £ FREE occurred around star’s appearances – in unguarded moments, both behind the Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 7pm scenes and in the spotlight. An exclusive insight into iconic musicians and their FREE eep your eyes peeled when ‘Time £ interaction with audiences and each other. to be Late’ takes to the street. Part K evocative bus journey, part theatrical experience, the public’s daily journey to and from work will come alive through a series of energetic and humourous scenes PHOTOGRAPHY howcasing taking place at bus stops along Blackfriars TV Times’ Road. Performers include the award winning Sincredible Natural Theatre Company who have been 60 Years, 60 access to the making people laugh in nearly 80 countries stars of music, for over 40 years, and Scotty the Blue Bunny Iconic Images entertainment who will be performing his unique cabaret Curated by TV Times and sport over show. six decades including images of Peter “Wouldn’t it be good if extraordinary In and around Blue Fin Building, Sellers, Woody Allen, Liza Minnelli, The things happened when you were late! A 110 Southwark St, SE1 0SU Beatles, Bobby Moore, David Bowie, Cilla time when what is real, becomes unreal. (the home of TV Times) Black, Diana Rigg and many more. Imagine: it’s your Friday morning routine, As the only title to host ITV’s listings, you gather with a group of strangers for a Southwark TV Times had exclusive access to their fleeting moment to wait for your London stars throughout one of the most exciting bus. In transience, with time to kill, suddenly 17 September – 18 October periods of British entertainment, and you find yourself in the midst of something this continued after de-regulation. Both unimaginable - a policeman hands you a Monday – Friday, 10am – 7pm exhibitions demonstrate that since the cup cake whilst in pursuit of a wanted blue launch of TV Times in 1955, it has been at COMMISSIONED BY FREE bunny. Didn’t Alice say, “Imagination is the £ the heart of British television continuing only weapon in the war against reality?” to the present day. Visit whatsontv.co.uk

06 mergefestival.co.uk 07 Booking essential mergefestival.co.ukFor tickets visit

THEATRE BANKSIDE TRANSFORMED Caravan Theatre Chain Reaction Programmed by Robin Linde Productions TROPE (Carol MacGillivray and Bruno Mathez)

Gold Caravan on the River Walkway outside , SE1 9TG

Blackfriars / London Bridge

1 – 18 October

Thursday – Sunday, 1 – 7pm WEEK 2 The Alan Key £ FREE – to book a ticket Written by Sammy Kissin. Performed by visit mergefestival.co.uk Judith Amsenga 8 – 11 October

orking with emerging writers, This story plunges us into the tragi-comic unique, ghostly ballet. directors and actors, Caravan reality of what it means to be a human, Kirkaldy Testing Museum, TROPE blend animation, audio W Theatre brings mysterious and searching for love and meaning in the Southwark Street, SE1 0JF and music with computing, arts and immersive theatre productions to a small assemble-it-yourself age of Ikea. Jo’s bed is engineering. They will create a site- intimate audience of four people at a time. falling apart. When she goes to Ikea to buy a London Bridge / Southwark specific interactive kinetic artwork using Performers in the 70s gold safari caravan this new one, it seems her life is on the verge of latest technology and a Grade 2 listed year include: Sammy Kissin, Natalie Smith doing the same. What she doesn’t factor in is 25 September – 18 October Chain testing machine in the Museum. and Croft and Pearce. how everything is about to change. The artists Thursday – Sunday, 1pm – 7pm have been WEEK 1 WEEK 3 working The Ever Expanding Tale Of Travelling BY GEORGE £ FREE alongside Created and performed by Annemiek van Elst Created and performed by Sammy Kissin. engineering 1 – 4 October Performed by Sammy Kissin on 15 and 18 ROPE, designers in choreographed students October and Robin Steegman on 16 and 17 time, will become artists in residence from City Hitch a ride in the caravan and create your October Tat the Kirkaldy Testing Museum, taking of London own journey, with inspiration from the 1874 building made to University a little help from a The other week a complete stranger shouted house the first tensile testing machine in the and practicing engineers from friend. Annemiek van across the dock and asked “Do you own this world. ‘Chain Reaction’ explores the fluid Kirkaldy Testing Museum. Elst tells stories of boat?” I said “Yes”. He said “Then you must be nature of time through action and re-action, in Sponsored by The Royal Academy adventurous travels Sammy”. He said “George, who used to fish a series of playful, interactive and mechanical of Engineering, and in partnership through London here. He asked me to pass on a message. He artworks. Visitors will journey through an with Kirkaldy Testing Museum, and beyond. You wanted to say Goodbye”. The exchange was immersive world where the basement space AJTEquipment and City University will become part of so simple. I said “Oh”. I wanted to say “Please, of Kirkaldy Testing Works is re-animated in a London. this ever-expanding say bye back to George.” I’d like to say bye. tale.… This is an attempt at a reply.

0608 mergefestival.co.uk 0709 THEATRE Nursery Original Series Nursery Theatre

Saturday 3 October Edric Theatre, 103 Borough Road, Ten Thousand Million Love Stories SE1 0AA Two person, multi character improvised theatre with Jules Munns and Heather Southwark / Waterloo Urquhart. Taking audience’s lives and loves and weaving them into a show that changes 2 October – 17 October every time, this is a show about love, what it means and how we succeed and fail in it. 7.30 - 10pm Winner - Best Female Performer, Brighton Fringe. “The future of comedy” (Fringe £ £8 – To book tickets go to Guru). “The thenurserytheatre.com perfect balance between realism and comedy slapstick.” he Nursery Originals series will (Brighton’s be a European first; a season of Finest). T new improvised shows with the production values of theatre, and the joy and Friday unpredictability of live comedy. Based on a 9 October programme running at the Hideout Theatre in The Wunderkammer Austin, Texas, the Nursery Theatre is bringing Join improv group Do Not Adjust Your Stage world, give life to characters - and chuck combined with joyful character comedy and top quality spontaneous shows to Bankside. as they create stories, scenes and characters, a giant D20 about the room. Then the a cavalcade of musical styles. They perform inspired by leading experts, academics, Gamesmasters begin to weave a story: at comedy clubs, parties and functions, Friday 2 October and all-round huge brains. In each edition, a unique story, in which YOU are the festivals and brawls. “Devastatingly funny”, Opening party, jam and selection night The Wunderkammer invites different expert hero. Roleplay Cabaret is a unique live (EdFringe Review) Celebrating the opening of the new speakers to deliver a short TED-style talk the roleplaying show featuring actual play Nursery season, we are proud to present audience hasn’t seen before on their passions from experienced comedians and a large Saturday 17 October a smorgasboard of the best improvisers and expertise, providing the springboard audience. (Praise for Jollyboat: ***** [Emotion] Play in London and the UK. With performers for improvised comedy theatre.” Breakneck Broadway Baby. ***** Three Weeks. *****) Set on the same patch of land over from groups including Peablossom Cabaret speed, slick...a thinking person’s thousands of years, [Emotion] Play starts in a (“Uproarious laughter” Edfringe Review), the improv night” (Remote Goat) Friday 16 October patch of woodland during Roman times and Maydays (5* Fringe Guru), The Oxford Imps The Peablossom Cabaret progresses through a temple to a Victorian (5* Three weeks), Katy and Rach (5* Remote Saturday 10 October Mr Pea and Miss Blossom perform a building that then gets renovated to become Goat), C3Something (5* Remote Goat) and Role Play Cabaret brand new set of toe-tapping cabaret a trendy office space. What happens on that Impromptu Shakespeare (“Outstanding” The Interactive Roleplaying numbers at every show. Be part of plot of land during that time? What loves Broadway Baby), the opening ceremony will Show from Jolly Boat. Two the show as they improvise lyrics and deaths and delights? Directed by Chris be a whistle-stop tour of improvisation at the Gamesmasters take the stage. on the spot about your hobbies, Mead, this is the first of the new Nursery Nursery and in London, with opportunities for The audience offers ideas, and your grandma, your cat... anything Originals shows, created specifically for the the audience themselves to play as well! together, they create a new at all! Slick, improvised lyrics are Edric Theatre.

10 mergefestival.co.uk 091311 “Never experienced MUSIC anything like it!” Resonance DAB Originals Radio shows and live events Presented by Resonance fm

resonancefm.com/listen 2, 9 and 16 October

9 September – 16 October 7.30pm (doors) Wednesdays, 5.30 – 6.30pm £ £9 (season tickets £21) To book your ticket go to mergefestival.co.uk

“The best radio station in London” (The Guardian) just got better. From September 2015, to coincide with MERGE, Resonance broadcasts on DAB in Greater London. To mark this launch and that of a new, additional station, Resonance Extra, on DAB in Brighton & Hove, MERGE Festival is proud to host DAB Originals a showcase for THEATRE musicians who are genuinely redefining new music. Using such diverse sources as the human bloodstream and iPhone Food Demonstration apps, and with all the complex musical concerns of both digital natives and Gone Wrong ERGE will be collaborating with post internet refuseniks, DAB Originals Created by Robin Linde Productions wo chefs present their newest food Resonance fm to produce six is a channel hopping tour of sound as in collaboration with Jonathan Peck creation together in a site-specific Mhour-long programmes featuring art today. Programmed by Resonance T performance for ’s artists, musicians and performers from the Extra’s Peter Lanceley. food demonstration kitchen. festival. Artists will talk about their work, DAB Originals is a series of cutting The Market Hall, Borough Market, By trying too hard, having a different musicians will play live, and there will be edge concerts in an intimate setting, Borough High Street, SE1 1TL approach to team work and by changing discussion on topics such as history and including performances by the the recipe last minute by mistake, all will go engineering. universally acclaimed Hidden Orchestra London Bridge unexpectedly wrong. Resonance 104.4fm is the world’s and Berlin audio flaneur RKSS, LSO Keeping up appearances during a live first radio art station, established by alumnus Robert 3 October food demonstration, whilst trying to save London Musicians’ Collective. It started Szymanek and the dish of the day, will escalate in this broadcasting in 2002 to provide a radical a return visit to On the hour 12 – 4pm interactive physical slapstick comedy. alternative to the universal formulae of MERGE by last (show lasts 15 minutes) mainstream broadcasting. It features year’s palpable programmes made by musicians, artists underground FREE and critics who represent the diversity of hit HOLOVR. £ London’s arts scenes.

12 mergefestival.co.uk 0913 The Riverside Stage

The Riverside Stage on the river walkway by the Millennium Bridge will showcase live music throughout the festival. The stage is curated to showcase and promote original song writing and musical talent. Bands this year will include winner of the BBC 2 Folk awards ‘Stick in the Wheel’ and the adventurous seven piece band ‘Mishaped Pearls’, nominated for Best Song- Folk Singer in The Independent Music Awards 2014.

River walkway outside Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Southwark / Blackfriars

19, 20, 26 and 27 September

12 – 6pm

£ FREE

PROGRAMME

SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER

12pm Jack Harris 12pm Ned Roberts 12pm Robert Chaney 12pm Nic Dawson Kelly 1pm Iyatra Quartet 1pm Quest Ensemble 1pm Jenny Wren 1pm James McArthur and the Head Gardeners 2pm Shama Rahman 2pm Alice Phelps 2pm Hallelujah Trails 2pm Samantha Whates 3pm Ma Polaine’s Great Decline 3pm Adam Beattie 3pm Lounge Cat Ideals 3pm Lords of Thyme 4pm Self Help Group 4pm Jones 4pm Bouche 4pm Dana Immanuel and the Stolen Band 5pm Mishaped Pearls 5pm Son of Kirk 5pm Simon Stanley Ward 5pm Stick In The Wheel

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oes music change the taste of wine? swingin’ describe the sounds of the Rory The Song and Will a Sancerre seem zestier with Tunesday More Electric Organ Duo – some would say D Nouvelle Vague being played? Or Various musicians at a little big band is more accurate, such is the the Bottle will your Chianti appear more refined after Mondrian London range of their sound. The authentic rhythm- listening to Tchaikovsky or folk? and-groove organ duo is rare these days, so Live music by Adam Beattie, Join Laithwaite’s for a unique live musical thanks for Rory More and his 1962 Lowrey Brooke Sharkey and guests wine tasting experience, where two favourite Dandelyan, Mondrian London, Heritage Deluxe organ. Geoff Leonard is a things come together to charm and sway your 20 Upper Ground, SE1 9PD rising mover on the specialist vinyl scene, senses. championing mega-rare early disco, sell-out Laithwaite’s, 219-222 Stoney By pairing great music with great wines, Blackfriars / Southwark nights at the world famous Bethnal Green Street, SE1 9AA you will experience how music can both alter Working Men’s Club, and groovy oddities and complement 22 and 29 September, and library recordings for a growing fan London Bridge a wine’s essence – 6 and 13 October base of London listeners at Back2Back radio. and vice versa. Tuesdays, 7 – 9.30pm 15 October The event 29 September will be held in A Wonderfulsound evening featuring live FREE 7.30 – 9pm the beautiful £ music by Shawn Lee, DJ set by Miles Laithwaite’s Arch Copeland £ £25. Book tickets by emailing store. Laithwaite’s Shawn Lee is one of the most prolific [email protected] are a family owned or Tunesdays at Mondrian London, musicians of his generation; a multi- or call 0207 4076378 independent wine MERGE will be in residence at the instrumentalist, producer, singer songwriter merchant who, for over the last 50 years, have FDandelyan each Tuesday evening for a and composer who has released 34 albums been finding some of the most exciting and series of live music events to showcase and as an artist to date. He has played, produced enjoyable wines in the world. Their tasting promote original song writing and musical and written on hundreds of records, and table is the longest in the world and they talent. Dandelyan bar transports guests to has worked with a diverse range of artists pride themselves on knowledge and expertise a place where they can lose themselves in including Jeff Buckley, Kelis, Money Mark, in wine. They have been awarded Winner of exotic flavours and magnetic conversation. Amy Winehouse and Princess Superstar. the IWC Merchant of the Year in 2015. You will be taken on a journey of discovery Lee’s music has been used extensively in to experience and enjoy new tastes and both film and TV, including Monuments Men, unexpected combinations in an interior Oceans 13, Eastbound & Down, Ugly Betty “She’s sure to stop you in your designed by Tom Dixon. and Confessions of a Shopaholic. tracks…Really is so beautiful” When Miles Copeland isn’t creating – BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC 22 September electronic tinged budget beat soulful pop Live music by influenced by the sun-dappled songsmiths of Rory More, DJ California old in his Wonderfulsound studios Musician Brooke Sharkey has lured a set by Geoff or releasing artists on his Wonderfulsound considerable audience with her intense and Leonard record label, he DJs his infamous expressive style, drawing the listener into her Not since the Wonderfulsound Libraries which reflects his ever more narrative songs with a spacious days of Georgie unique passion and obsession for melody, backdrop of chanson, blues, folk and Latin Fame, 1960s sound and atmosphere all smothered in a music. Adam Beattie’s distinctive voice and clubland Soho, pop sensibility. direct lyrical style ties together an eclectic mix and black and Go to mergefestival.co.uk for further of ‘folk stews, dirty blues and groovy minor white B-movie soundtracks, has the electric details of Tunesday events on 6 and 13 swing’. They will be joined by guests. organ sounded this good. Hip, hot and October.

16 mergefestival.co.uk 1317 THEATRE Happenings Rendezvous The Joke’s on You at Midnight Comedy at Heeltap 18 October, 7pm. Free. At The Rose Playhouse – Midnight Jayde Adams, Funny Women 2014 winner performances and just back from Fringe will be at Heeltap for one-night only. (“Future of British Comedy” Diva Mag, “Fearless force The Rose, 56 Park St, of nature“ The Independent). Jayde will work Southwark, London SE1 9AR into her performance jokes that have been added by the public to an interactive mural London Bridge / Southwark created by local artist Sean Murphy. Visit Heeltap during MERGE to read the mural of 18 and 25 September, jokes and add your own, and then see Jayde 2, 9 and 16 October perform her interactive set at the end of the festival. Every Friday at Midnight Porky’s Bedales £5. To book your ticket, visit Every Wednesday Sunday 4 October £ rosetheatre.org.uk 18 New Globe Walk SE1 5 Bedale Street, SE1 Porky’s will be hosting live Blues every Don’t miss this Sunday Session at Bedales Wednesday during MERGE. Porky’s brings wine bar in Borough Market. Live music ENCOUNTER ONE a taste of the deep south to Bankside with and half price bottles of wine – the perfect First Night Out! authentic American BBQ dishes, Americana- combination. 18 September, duration: 80 mins between lovers and enemies with scenes inspired cocktails and a range of bourbons, Heady Conduct Theatre presents scenes from from Shakespeare’s Othello, The Taming rye whiskies and craft beers. Contemporary Applied Arts Reckless being performed in the first ever of the Shrew, Coriolanus and Antony & 19 September, 3pm midnight performance at The Rose. Directed Cleopatra. Directed by Pamela Schermann. The Union Jack 89 Southwark Street, London SE1 by Rebecca Rogers. Every Saturday and Sunday from 8pm Architectural glass artist Kate Maestri will ENCOUNTER FOUR 225 Union Street, SE1 discuss the commissioning process and how to ENCOUNTER TWO Shakespeare and Classical Music Traditional pub, The Union Jack, will host live successfully collaborate with architects. Kate’s A Night With The Elizabethans 9 October, duration: 1 hour music, including Jazz, Soul, Funk and Rock central precept is that her work should be site 25 September, duration: 1 hour An evening with classical music and Jazz on Saturday and Sunday nights from specific and large glass installations should Mystic and madness at midnight with scenes Shakespeare. Directed by Pamela 8pm. be integrated into the structure; responding from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth, Schermann. harmoniously to architecture. Tickets £5. Places Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus and Ben Golden Hinde are limited, call 020 7620 0086 to book. Jonson’s The Alchemist. Directed by Pamela ENCOUNTER FIVE Thursday 24 September Schermann. Twelfth Night – A Gender Experiment JAZZ NURSERY, The Camino 16 October, duration: 1 hour Golden Hinde, 5 Canvey St, SE1 ENCOUNTER THREE A gala of scenes… The only chance to see 1 Pickfords Wharf, SE1 Given the luminescence of the ‘The Chamber Lovers and Enemies all four gender castings of Twelfth Night on Rick Simpson “Klammer” of Wishes’, Camino Bankside will have a special 2 October, duration: 1 hour the stage in one night. Directed by Natasha and Alex Haines Trio. More flight of cava on offer throughout MERGE with Tonight focuses on the power struggle Rickman. info at jazznursery.com a luminescence of its own…

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3 Colourful Crossings 4 The Chamber of Wishes 5 On Your Wavelength 6 Time To Be Late 7a Interplay 7b 60 Years, 60 Iconic Images 8 Caravan Theatre 10 9 Chain Reaction 10 Nursery Original Series 12 Food Demonstration Gone Wrong 14 The Riverside Stage 16 The Song and the Bottle 17 Tunesday 18 Rendezvous at Midnight

MERGE Bankside is curated and produced by Illuminate Productions and is supported by Better Bankside and Tate Modern

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