CHUTNEY PRESERVES 8 at Camberwell Arts Festival

CHUTNEY PRESERVES 8 - Camberwell, Eighth Wonder of the World!

Camberwell Arts Festival 2014

Chutney Preserves Return to Camberwell Arts Festival to commemorate 20 years of this auspicious event, with a celebration of all the weird and wonderful of Camberwell

Sunday 22nd June from 1.30pm - 7pm

Camberwell Green, SE5,  Map here

What would you chose to represent Camberwell as the Eighth Wonder of the World? Would you vote for the Camberwell Beauty, Lettsom Gardens, the Hermits cave?! The Chutney Artists have created wondrous interactive exhibits, each representing a ‘Wonder of Camberwell’. They will be displayed upon Camberwell Green for your entertainment, pleasure and displeasure.  Come all ye folks of SE5 and the world; come to Camberwell Green on the 22nd June and vote for your favourite 'Wonder of Camberwell'

Here are the artists and their wonders:

Sarah Doyle - the Hermits Cave

Tim Flitcroft - the 'secret' Cold-war Nuclear Bunker

Ash Fitzgerald – St Giles
Ben Foong - Camberwell Carrot

Charlie Fox – Denmark Hill

Phillip Raymond Goodman – Buses

Caroline Gregory – John Ruskin

Rachael House – Rat Records

Calum F Kerr – The Camberwell Beauty

Joanna McCormick – Fed Karno's Fun Factory

Frog Morris – The Beast of Camberwe

Sarah Sparkes – The Camberwell WellScott Wood - 20 Wonders of Camberwell
With ceremonial music from the A Band 
and to conclude proceedings, Scott Wood presents: 20 Wonders of Camberwell! (a talk with live illustrations)

Convened by Sarah Sparkes

Sarah Doyle presents The Hermits Cave

Sarah will be presenting the local legend of the Hermit who lived in the cave and guarded the magical well within.

Ash Fitzgerald presents: St Giles

Ash calls his new Chutney commission, ST.DOMESDAY The idea is drawn from St Giles Church in Camberwell and the Domesday Book in which it featured.

Tim Flitcroft presents – The Nuclear Bunker'

Tim invites you to see into the future and a post -apocalyptic Camberwell through the eyes of a Nuclear Bunker dweller.

Charlie Fox presents: Denmark Hill

counterproductions 'Denmark Hill N Gauge' plots collected memories of the highs and lows along the Hill. Come rank the happiness, the social mobility, equality on the gauge's rising elevator

Phillip Raymond Goodman presents: 'the Buses of Camberwell Green'.

Working from their perspective, Phillip will present to you a picture gallery of the great red metal beasts, and encourage you too gaze into their realm. “The route master haunts the streets of London town, the fiery spirits of the bendy bus hang gaunt and malevolent in the outer boroughs and all places where the roads were too small for their serpentine presence, but in Camberwell, ALL the dead buses are there, and they co-mingle with the living buses, communicating with grinding gears, exhaust smoke signals and the frantic morse code of windows vibrating in their frames, for all the buses of Camberwell exist in the eternal bus time, where they who were once dragons and behemoths roam free through the misty trails of a humanity long dead”

Caroline Gregory presents: John Ruskin
John Ruskin has given his name to a park, streets and estates in Camberwell, but what was it that drove this sensitive soul away. At Caroline Gregory's stall, 'Effie's figs and fur' you will find some naugthty, edible horrors which, along with the noise of the steam trains playing in the background, would be enough to send John Ruskin running.

Rachael House presenst: Rat Records

When Vinyl Ruled The World In A Land That Time Forgot

Records- a portal to other dimensions, coveted talismans with unsuspected power.

Join Rachael House in uncovering the mysterious and arcane origins of Rat Records.

Calum F Kerr presents: The Camberwell Beauty

Sorgmantel Summer (Eighth Wonder: The Camberwell Beauty)

The Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa) is a large and distinctive butterfly. The first recorded sighting was of two near Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell in 1748. It was named thus in ‘The Aurelian’ published in 1766 by entomologist and engraver Moses Harris (1730 - 1788). It is also known as the ‘Grand Surprise or ‘Mourning Cloak’. The butterflies originally spotted in Camberwell may have come from Scandinavia. Beauties are strong flyers and travel over the North Sea in late summer when weather conditions are right. However they generally appear on the East Coast of England and are no longer spotted in Camberwell, until now? 

In Swedish ‘Sorgmantel’ literally means Mourning Cloak. Sorgmantel is a migrant from mainland Europe. In the political climate of 2014 with the European elections, the rhetoric of exclusion and prejudice seems to prevail in relation to migrants. These mysterious visitors will visit stealthily from Sweden. They do not recognise any borders and will chant, these beautiful migrants will chant:

We are here

We are among you

We are visiting your Green

We are free and not free

We are seen and unseen

Welcome them back as one of the eight wonders of Camberwell, draw or write on them about where you have come from, before their flight begins again.

Joanna McCormick presents: Fred Karno's Fun Factory

Jo's wonder will be a giant inedible custard pie inspired cake sculpture. Emulating the Fun Factory that once stood on Camberwell's hallowed ground. It will be a splendid, day glo, glittering and awe inspiring Chutney Wonder. 
"Cake" It will form the centre piece for a fun filled splat fest extravaganza where you will be invited to hit target with a mini custard pie. Every Bulls Eye wins a prize!

Frog Morris presents: The Beast of Camberwell Green

THE BEAST OF CAMBERWELL GREEN is believed to live in the long abandoned Camberwell underground tunnels and resurface to forage for food on Camberwell Green at night. Some say The Beast escaped from a Victorian medical experiment, others believe it to be space alien or an ancient tree nymph. Sightings have increased over recent months, perhaps you have seen or heard something? In June 2014 Professor Frog Morris plans to capture The Beast and exhibit it at Chutney Preserves Fair.

Sarah Sparkes presents: The Camberwell Well

Cast your wishes into the abyss of the Camberwell and marvel at the wonders you will fish out from it's murky depths!
 
Scott Wood presents: 20 Wonders of Camberwell From a sacred off-licence to a ghostly lion-tamer to Aleister Crowley’s father-in-law and the worlds smallest school mistress, Camberwell is full of strange and wonderful things. Join Scott Wood, host of the London Fortean Society and author of London Urban Legends: The Corpse on the Tube as he goes through twenty Camberwell legends, mysteries, ghost stories and hidden histories.

Convened by Sarah Sparkes

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