River Festival
May. 10, 2008 11:00 AM 04:00 PMAs part of London Public Library's participation in Celebrate the Thames 2008, we are hosting a River Festival featuring presentations, workshops and displays at the Central Library. Please join us!
Go with the Flow River Festival
Saturday, May 10, 11 am - 4 pm
Central Library
Films - Tonda Meeting Room
11 am Bridges of London
11:30 am Lost April
12:30 pm Vagabonds & Visionaries
1:30 pm Slippery
2:30 pm Canadian Heritage Rivers
3:30 pm Flood of 1937
Presentations - Stevenson & Hunt Meeting Room
11 am Cornelia Hoogland, reading her original Thames River Poetry
Noon London Camera Club workshop
1 pm Upper Thames Conservation Authority The Story of the River - Steve Sauder
2 pm "Revisiting the Thames River" Multimedia presentation by Pat Donnelly
3 pm Pat Kemp, Poetry Reading
Displays - Hudson Bay Passageway
The River Project artists:
Kevin Bice
Maurice Stubbs & Iris Waddell - 11am - 1pm
Kirtley Jarvis & Helmut Becker - 1 - 2 pm
Marion Drysdale
The Thames River Revisited (Recreating the Paul Peel canoe trip)
Other displays:
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority
Friends of the Coves
McIlwraith Field Naturalists
Pendas Books
City of London - Pat Donnelly, Urban Watershed Program Manager
London Public Library
City of London, Thames Valley Corridor - Andrew Macpherson, Manager, Parks Planning and Design
London Camera Club
Brush & Palette Club
Thames River Urban Water Cycle
London Canoe Club