Shoreditch Festival '11

The tenth Shoreditch Festival takes place at Regent's Canal between Shoreditch Park and Victoria Park and surrounding spaces from Friday 15th to Sunday 24th July with activities, events and performances is completely free to all.

Line-up

Main Stage: Red Baarat, Soul Rebels, Why Why Peaches, Flight Brigade, Owiny Sigoma Band, and The Whip.
Floating Stage: SAE Electronica Hub on a floating stage out in the Regent's Canal featuring DJ sets with live accompaniment. Confirmed acts making waves this summer include Grasscut and the Towpath Café Music Festival.
The Floating Cinema: This customised narrow boat hosts a varied programme of free on-board screenings, canal tours, talks and workshops. The Floating Cinema will embark on expert film history tours with screen historian Ian Christie on 16 and 17 July. From 16 to 20 July, it will be moored at Waterhouse Restaurant showing onboard artists' film screenings each evening.
On the Water Festival boat trips provided by Laburnum Boat Club and Islington Boat Club, visit the Floating Forest, the Floating Classroom, hire a water taxi, take part in interactive towpath workshops with Cardboard Camera, Shoreditch Spa and the British Heart Foundation.
Community Performance Stage: Showcasing Shoreditch talent featuring performances in a variety of styles including Samba, Steel Pan, Capoeira, Jazz, Cut A Shine, street dance from Ebonessence and The Firm, plus Apples and Snakes poets and spoken word artists.
CREATE Programmers Present: A group of young people from across the Olympic host boroughs, will produce a series of events as part of the Shoreditch Festival. This includes a table tennis hub, workshops on filmmaking, street dance and capoeira and a stunning 50m long large-scale photo exhibition along the Regent's Canal towpath.
Sing London Search Party: Search Party is an unusual, immersive, treasure hunt through East London leading to a secret party.
Shoreditch Bark Dog Show: Pooches on parade compete in hotly contested categories in Shoreditch Park.

Shoreditch Festival looks forward to working with a wide range of partners to explore and animate the waterside with film screenings, live music, dance performances, art commissions, fashion, literature and spoken word, health hubs, theatre shows, heritage trails, podcast expeditions, food markets and plenty more with crafts, floats and boats.

Last year, Shoreditch Festival 2010 was Hackney's largest free festival working with over 65 programme partners from across the borough, attracting an audience of around 30,000 people and showcasing the talent of more than 400 young people aged 11 to 24.

Jon Guest, British Waterways' London waterway manager said, "British Waterways is very pleased to welcome the Shoreditch Festival to the Regent's Canal in 2011. London's waterways offer a green, car-free, route through the city; connecting different communities and cultures, providing a haven for wildlife and an open-air display of the nation's heritage. We very much look forward to working with Shoreditch Trust in 2011."

Getting there

Tube: Old Street, Liverpool Street, Dalston Junction, Haggerston, Hoxton.
DLR: Bank. Railway: Old Street Station, Liverpool Street Station
Buses: 141, 149, 242, 243, 76, 21, 271, 394

Accommodation

This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in the area.

For more information see the Shoreditch Festival website.

Shoreditch Festival aims to bring together communities through engagement in high-quality performances and cultural experiences.

More information will be here when available.