#Festivalcast: The Waterloo Shot Tower
The Shot Tower stood nearly 200 ft tall on the river front by Waterloo Bridge for nearly 140 years until the early 1960s, an...
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This is the archived website of the Waterloo Festival 2021 with additional material from Waterloo Festival 2020. We hope you will enjoy exploring this cornucopia of arts, heritage and community creativity. For the current website, visit here.
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from 2021
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 14, 2021
Podcast: Singing Saved My Life
'Singing Saved My Life' is a series of uplifting five-minute podcasts for the Waterloo Festival. These real-life stories recorded...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 28, 2021
#Festivalcast: Meet Abs Tripp
In this episode Artistic Director of the Waterloo Festival, Euchar Gravina speaks to artist Abs Tripp about her involvement in the...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 3, 2021
#Festivalcast: Walking the Festival
An audio-tour of the South Bank site as it looked at the Festival of Britain of 1951. Led by Alan Powers and Elain Harwood, of the Twentieth
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Waterloo Festival Team
Oct 22, 20201 min read
Penny Lecture: Memories of a Lost City
In collaboration with Morley College, we're bringing you an online Penny Lecture! Discover the history of the Cardboard City encampment...
Waterloo Festival Team
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #12: The Inner Vision Orchestra
Euchar Gravina, Artistic Director of the Waterloo Festival, speaks to Baluji Shrivastav OBE and local Kate Portal. Founder and member of...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jul 20, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #11: Blackfriars Stories
Euchar Gravina, Artistic Director of the Waterloo Festival, speaks to George and Andy about the transformations of the SE1 area in the...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jul 13, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #10: Chatting with Florence Eshalomi MP
Recorded at the end of June 2020, this episode is led by Maelo Manning, a local Waterloo resident and activist, as she interviews the...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jul 6, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #9: Women of Waterloo
Recorded remotely between May and June 2020, this episode explores historic figures in Waterloo through new monolouges written by...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 28, 20201 min read
Waterloo Lives
from The Museum of Things That Dont's Stand Still To finish off Waterloo Festival 2020, we're exhibiting a project by postgraduate...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 24, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #8: Two Men in a Box
This podcast episode, presented by Flux Soup on Morley Radio, is a play for radio. Pole and Chadwick work for an undisclosed department...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 21, 20203 min read
Fête de la Musique: Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3
Fête de la Musique (World Music Day) is celebrated globally on 21st June. We hear from Christopher Stark, conductor of the Ernest Read...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 20, 20201 min read
Storyradio #4: Final Unveil and A Summoning Spell
For the duration of this year's Waterloo Festival, Storyradio are our resident storytellers. With a story every two weeks, Storyradio are...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 19, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #7: chatting with Music in Detention
This podcast episode, released for #WorldRefugeeDay 2020. features a conversation between Euchar Gravina, Artistic Director of Waterloo...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 16, 20201 min read
Premiere: our rendition of La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #7
"Collective singing is one of the oldest ways human animals have of being together. It is believed by many archaeologists that...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 11, 20201 min read
A quick call from #2: Lance Prime #BLM
Through this series, we explore creative reactions to the recent events in the US and the UK and the #BlackLivesMatter movement....
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 10, 20201 min read
A quick call from #1: Shirina Carstens #BLM
Through this series, we explore creative reactions to the recent events in the US and the UK and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. First...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 9, 20201 min read
The Last Word on Black Lives Matter
"The system's not failing us, the system wasn't built for us in the first place", says Daniel Gregory, aka DJ Switch, of The Last Word...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 5, 20201 min read
World Environment Day #5: Mozart and the Orchestra for the Earth
In the run-up to and around the 5th of June, World Environment Day, we've been exploring our urban environment, the climate change crisis...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 5, 20201 min read
World Environment Day #4 / Festivalcast #6: is a local and global green recovery possible?
Festivalcast on Morley Radio As the UK and other countries contemplate easing coronavirus-related movement restrictions, important...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 2, 20201 min read
World Environment Day #2: 'bangs, ghosts and mutterings'
In the run-up to and around the 5th of June, World Environment Day, we'll be exploring our urban environment, the climate change crisis...
Waterloo Festival Team
Jun 1, 20202 min read
Storyradio #3: The Invisibles
For the duration of this year's Waterloo Festival, Storyradio will be our resident storytellers. With a story every two weeks, Storyradio...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 28, 20208 min read
Waterloo at home #2: Flux Soup ‘Fanatical Botanicals’
Over the course of a series of features and blogposts, Flux Soup are presenting Waterloo at Home; a sensory journey through a Waterloo...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 28, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #5: Fanatical Botanicals
This podcast episode, presented by Flux Soup covers the lives of six important figures who lived in the Waterloo area and who were...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 21, 20201 min read
Mental Health Awareness Week #2: On kindness
Composer Saul James, creator of The Breathe Key, interviewed our chair, Can Giles Goddard, on kindness. The Breathe Key is an online...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 20, 20206 min read
Reloading the canon: what about music by women?
It's exactly 124 years since German pianist and composer Clara Schumann passed away. Conductor of the Nonesuch Orchestra, Dan Shilladay,...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 18, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #4: Coin Street Remembers living in Waterloo
Waterloo residents Abigail Tripp, member of Flux Soup, Tom Keller, resident of Palm Co-op and Coin Street Community Builders board...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 16, 20202 min read
Storyradio #2: Persepolis
For the duration of this year's Waterloo Festival, Storyradio will be our resident storytellers. With a story every two weeks, Storyradio...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 16, 20201 min read
Citizen-DJ!
The Library of Congress is currently inviting people to test their new exciting website, particularly aimed at audio lovers! This...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 14, 20201 min read
Concert roulette: listen/watch a concert now!
Lost to what you should listen next? Or in the mood to watch a concert? We want to share with you our latest internet discovery: Concert...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 7, 20201 min read
Baluji at Home!
Before the current public health crisis struck, the Inner Vision Orchestra, the UK's professional orchestra of blind musicians, were...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 6, 20201 min read
Storyradio #1: The Vulnerable
For the duration of this year's Waterloo Festival, Storyradio will be our resident storytellers. With a story every two weeks, starting...
Waterloo Festival Team
May 6, 20203 min read
Our creative partners #1: Flux Soup
Waterloo Festival thrives on creative partnerships, on bringing artists and musicians to collaborate with and showcase their wonderful...
Waterloo Festival Team
Apr 28, 20202 min read
Call: sing and send us your voice!
For Waterloo Festival 2020, Rita Says and The Jerico Orchestra were planning a wonderful rendition of La Monte Young's Composition 1960...
Waterloo Festival Team
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #3: Rumi's Circle
The whirling world of Rumi and Sufism: Sarah Dallas, from St John's Waterloo, talks to Fatimah Ashrif of Rumi’s Circle about whirling...
Waterloo Festival Team
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #2: Biophilia
Michal Matlon of HB Reavis presents the latest thinking in building and workspace design, exploring how colours, natural materials and...
Waterloo Festival Team
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Festivalcast on Morley Radio #1: The lost hospitals of SE1
Join Elaine Andrews, Morley College's Librarian, and Sarah Dallas, from St John's Waterloo, as they take us around SE1 discovering our...
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