• Feast on the Bridge

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One of the Thames Festival's major commissions sees Southwark Bridge transformed by a team of artists led by Clare Patey into a magical feasting environment with banqueting tables, activities for all and the chance to sample food from some of the UKs best sustainable producers. Visitors to the bridge can try churning butter and foraging for food along the Thames; you can tread grapes at the Festival Wine Bar, bob for apples, carve pumpkins, share seeds and help create a 6-metre long cake - the Beast on the Bridge.
Feast on the Bridge has been concieved as a spectacular communal 'harvest supper' that aims to reconnect an urban public with the growing cycle and to encourage people to reclaim a public space, share a meal and conversation. Work has been taking place behind the scenes since early April with people from across London growing mobile edible gardens to bring to the Feast, to cook, share and exhibit. Cakes are being baked, tea-pots collected, guitars tuned and bunting sewn - come along and join us!
• 1.22pm Sacred Mayonnaise Ritual - Low Tide
• 3.30pm Communal Mayonnaise-making
• 7.35pm Sacred Mayonnaise Ritual - High Tide
• 2, 4 & 6pm Butter-churning
• 2, 3, 4 & 5pm Story-telling
• 5pm Slicing of the cake - Beast on the Bridge
• 3, 5 & 7pm Treading of the grapes
The team behind Feast on the Bridge includes;
Alex Barrow - Accordian
Alex Laird - Medical Herbalist
Bikini Beach Band - Music
Cathy Wren - Designer
Clare Brass and Virginia Gardiner - Food Loop
Clare Patey - Curator
Eleanor and Nigel Barrett - The Wine Machine
Hazeldene Farm - Made on the Bridge
Isabel Walker - Facepainting
James Murcott - Biogastronomy
Jeremy Leahy - Build Team
Kathy Taylor - ‘Skip Memorial Potager' Mobile Garden
Keith Jefferson Smith - Made on the Bridge
Konditor and Cook - Beast on the Bridge (cake decorating w/shops)
London Community Recycling Network - Compost give away
Mari Reijnders - Construction
Miche Fabre Lewin, Flora Gathorne-Hardy and Annabelle Macfadyen - Sacred Mayonnaise Ritual
Mike Gittings - Construction
Miles Irving - Forager
Neil Cooper - Production Manager
Richard Reynolds - Guerilla Gardener
Rose Hamson Flowers - Flowers
Ruth Soroko - Food Card Game
Sean Reynard - Construction
Sophie Dauvois and Rachel Ortas - Okido workshop
Sophie Herxheimer - Artist (tablecloths)
Sorensen and Byrne - ‘Tick-tock' Mobile Garden
Tim Mitchell - Photographer
Touchwood Trees - Project Gardeners
Tom Beeston - ‘Made on the Bridge' interactive farming experience
Urban Wine Company - Festival Wine Bar
Zoe Cameron and Damaris Boothe- ‘Tuck in' Mobile Gardens

More London kindly supported the Feast on the Bridge growing project.

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