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