'Lighting Up The Lea', Cody Dock's annual free family open day is back and bigger than ever!
DATE: 21st September 2024
Time: 11:00-19:00
Cody Dock, 11c South Crescent, Cody Road, Canning Town, London, E16 4TL
Highlights:
- Action packed mini festival featuring live music, workshops, exhibitions, food and beverage stalls.
- Live folk music from around the world with Newham-based Flotsam Sessions and live sea shanties with The HogEye Men
- First chance for a behind the scenes tour of the historic lifeboat restoration, the Frederick Kitchen, made by the shipbuilders of the Thames Iron Works in 1913.
- Find out more about the recently awarded £1.6 million Heritage Lottery grant and how this will help to capture, preserve and showcase the history of the River Lea, London's second river and the Docklands.
- River of Hope Exhibition, work by local primary school children following their involvement with Cody Dock and Thames Festival Trust's 'River of Hope' project, an arts-based learning project linking schools around the world through the study of rivers and environmental issues.
- Rolling the Cody Dock Bridge - this is the only bridge of its kind in the world and has won several prestigious architectural and engineering awards and was built by Thomas Randall-Page
- Choir performances by local primary schools
- 'Your River Lea' photo exhibition
- 'Fragile Ecosystems' Film Screening
- DJ sets with DJ Badly Wired and DJ Brima
- Bring your bicycle for repair with the 'Black Knight' and enjoy the traffic-free riverside ways.
- Refreshments & Food from the Cody Dock cafe, the Cody Dock Bakery and the licensed Riverside Bar
- Live ensemble performance by the award winning music hub Newham Music
- Meet our Ecology team to find out more about the remarkable biodiversity around Cody Dock and the tidal River Lea. Learn about the range of Community Science projects on offer and the habitat improvement activities that are planned and chat with us to discuss how you can become involved.
- Common Threads and Plant Stories, two workshops for all ages. Do you have a beloved plant or piece of fabric with a story behind it? Tim, our Therapeutic Gardener and guest artists will lead the first of these exciting workshops that will run over the three years of our Lighting Up the Lea programme, culminating in the creation of a new piece of folk art that will eventually be displayed within our new heritage space. Bring a photo of the plant or a piece of fabric and share your stories.
Event website: https://codydock.org.uk/totally-thames-2024-lighting-up-the-lea/
Zone South East