Events

The Sharing Picnic 100

The Sharing Picnic 100 was a broad-based collaborative event produced by Home Live Art and The Friends of Arnold Circus. Joule managed all elements of production and programmed the bandstand music stage (by Jon Tyrrell). Production requirements were varied and complicated with numerous participatory projects, as over 50 local artists from Shoreditch's artist community joined with local groups, schools, volunteers and neighbourhood businesses and invited people to share in a vibrant community event around food and friendliness: a sumptuous picnic, participatory artists' fair, bandstand programme and the final challenge to cycle 100 times around the Circus and the amazing alternative vehicle parade.

Musical acts included Brassroots, The Matzos, Nathan 'Flutebox' Lee, Poetic Pilgrimage and Swing Zazou.

Participatory projects leading up to the event included Joule running a training course for volunteers associated with this event, the production of a beautiful community Cook Book, an Arnold Circus newspaper by Adam Dant  and a Kitchen Orchestra created in collaboration with Spitalfields Music by local elders and school children.

'It was a sublime afternoon filled with a kaleidoscope of colour and joy. ...a victory for hope and optimism all round!' Jalal Aziz, Friends of Arnold Circus