The final weekend if June closes part of Phoenix Road, for a performance and events, for the London Festival of Architecture, where the focus is Somers Town.
You can view stages and installations, and take in many performances including our “mock auction” on Sunday at 2pm.
We open the festivities with our film showing at 6pm at the People’s Museum Somers Town 52 Phoenix Rd, NW1 1ES
Here’s our programme:
Friday 24th June
6pm Film + Q&A with John Cowley St Pancras rent Strike – when 6000 took to the streets to protest rent rises! 1960
Saturday
11am Mural Painting – put Somers Town history on its walls!
From 12pm Outdoor meal – Decolonising dinner
All day – Performances and installation Outdoors on the installation Phoenix Rd
Sunday
11am FREE Screen printing Outdoors on Phoenix Rd with artist Jenny (t-shirts on donation)
12.30pm Walk: Ossulston Estate – Echoes of Karl Marx Hof 26th June 12.30 by founder and resident Diana Foster Tickets
2pm Fun Auction – we auction off Somers Town “art” with a serious purpose – why were 80 Doultonware Gilbert Bayes artworks from St Pancras Housing stolen and sold at auction?
FREE fundraiser for our campaign to restore art to estates.
3pm Walk The Model Estate: Oakshott by Camden Guide Fabien Watkinson Tickets
All day – Performances and installation Outdoors on the installation Phoenix Rd
A joint London Festival of Architecture and Camden Council event.
Why is there a charge for walks and they are expensive
I am presuming you have had grants towards events
Actually no – we had no grant for any of the LFA events. So we put all the events in order to get our museum known. We always offer the option of free or on donation. Thanks!