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BUS: 65, 237 and 267 all stop right outside.

TRAIN: we are only a short walk from either Brentford or Kew Bridge overground station.

CAR: on-site car park (1st hour free and Blue Badge holders park for free).

CYCLE: secure cycle parking.

GETTING HERE IS EASY

WATERMANS – YOUR LOCAL ARTS CENTRE40 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DSBox Offi ce: Open daily 1pm–9pmwatermans.org.uk Follow us @WatermansArts

Information contained in this brochure is correct at the time of going to print. Watermans is managed by Hounslow Arts Trust Ltd (No. 1164904)

Registered as a charity (No. 267426) VAT No. 422352977

Grab a drink and a seat (no sitting on the ground at Watermans!) and enjoy the last two in our series of Summer Outdoor Cinema by the River. See website for full details.

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS THE MOVIE ( 15)FRI 15, 8PM, RIVERSIDE TERRACE, £10 (£9)Ab Fab with drinks by our beautiful river – Patsy and Edina would approve.

PINK FLOYD: THE WALL ( 15)SAT 16, 8PM, RIVERSIDE TERRACE, £10 (£9)Catch it while the V&A’s major Pink Floyd exhibition is on (without the queues!).

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RIVERWEEKENDERBox Offi ce: 020 8232 1010 watermans.org.uk

The fourth annual River Weekender: a festival of arts and exploration for all ages

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MY GUMPY’S OUTINGSTUDIO 1, SAT, 10.15AM, 11.30AM, 1.30PM & SUN, 12.30PM, 2PM, 4PM, £6 PER CHILD

TA K E PA RTGet messy with ever-popular Artburst and their interactive take on the much-loved book by John Burningham, Mr Gumpy’s Outing.

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FRI 15 SEPT, 6–10PM, VARIOUS PRICES PLUS FREE EVENTS. WHOLE CENTRE AND THEATRE

M I N I B O O K F E ST We’ve teamed up with North London’s ArchWay With Words Book Festival to bring you our very own mini book fest, themed around London and its river. In an evening of captivating speakers and new writing, Iain Sinclair and Caitlin Davies present their latest books, Ian Rawes plays vintage recordings of life on the Thames, and storyteller Griot Chinyere Nwaubani presents a new watery tale inspired by the river. Plus a chance to catch up-and-coming playwrights from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama performing work inspired by the Thames.Theatre programme for Watermans with Words6pm • £5 Ian Rawes & the London Sound Archives

7pm • £5Caitlin Davies

8pm • £10 Iain Sinclair

9.30pm • £3New Writing

AVM Curiosities present

A GLUTTON’S GUIDETO THE THAMESSAT 16 SEPT, 6PM & 7.30PM. STUDIO 1TICKET £18, INCLUDING FREE GLASS OF PROSECCO OR NON-ALCOHOLIC COCKTAIL

TA ST I N G TO U R

From Monster Soup to Spam Fritters, this historical tasting tour is an era-straddling journey that will stop off at an Elizabethan, Victorian and mid-21st century Thames. Join award-winning food historian Tasha Marks as we sip, sniff and discuss some of the fl avours, ingredients and recipes of each era.

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Totally Thames in partnership

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WORKING RIVERRIVERSIDE GALLERY, FREE

E X H I B I T I O N This exhibition uncovers the history of London’s boatyards over the past 60 years, spotlighting this vital river industry, which has been under threat, with many boatyards forced to close. It includes history of barge and boat building at Brentford Docks and Lots Ait and records the oral histories and key fi gures in London’s boatyards.

“ London at its crazy best.”Vanity Fair

TRAVEL UNRAVELLEDSUMMER EXHIBIT IONMAIN GALLERY, FREE

D RO P - I N AC T I V I T I E S

Come and look at the work of the talented children and young people who took part in our summer programme Travel Unravelled and take part in free family drop-in activities.

Maria Arceo presents

FUTURE DUSTENTRANCE TERRACE, FREE

I N STA L L AT I O N Maria Arceo has collected plastic from over 40 beach clean ups along the Thames to create the stunning installation Future Dust, which informs and challenges our understanding of the scale of plastic pollutionin the Thames. Illuminated at night by Dutch interactive light artist Tim Scheffer.

Talk by artist: Sat, 1pm on the Entrance Terrace.

OSADIA HAIRSCULPTURERIVERSIDE TERRACE, DROP IN TO TAKE PART OR WATCH, 12.30–2PM & 3–4.30PM, FREE

P E R FO R M A N C EHair dressing becomes theatre with Barcelona-based artists Osadia, who will transform guests into river-themed beauties – will you be a mermaid or a pirate?

“ They create fantastically strange hairdos on willing and brave audience members.”BBC

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The River Weekender is part of Totally Thames 2017 that runs from 1–30 Septemberwww.totallythames.org

Duduetsa Marimba Group presents

FROM L IMPOPO TO THE THAMESSAT 16, 2PM & 4PM (45 MINS), BAR, FREE

SAT U R DAY M U S I C From Limpopo to the Thames seeks to share the folk songs of the cultures surrounding the Limpopo river of southern Africa with the banks of London’s Thames.

Gestalt Arts present

L IQUID HISTORY PROMENADES THROUGH THE CENTRE 1.30–4PM(20 MINS), FREE PERFORMANCE ON THE RIVERSIDE TERRACE AT 4.30PM

S U N DAY M U S I C Opera, physical theatre and carnival collide in this new production that tells the story of London and the ebb and fl ow of its people through fi ve found objects from the River Thames and from the Museum of London Docklands.

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