This event is meant to celebrate London’s greatest natural assets, the River Thames. The festival took place annually on the River Thames itself, at the open spaces, riverside walkways and bridges from Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge and beyond. As the venue was within walking distance from our home and being an art lover, we’ve decided to immerse ourselves in the city’s cultural life.
We started with the art exhibitions at the OXO Tower which showcase some 200 schools’ students’ works in collaboration with some cutting edge professionals. The arts exhibited were from UK, Eastern Europe, India, Vietnam, Brazil, Mexico and Far East in China.Then, we headed to the river sidewalks along the River Thames where we witnessed the high profile arts events which transform the open spaces to some of the best street arts, cultural dancing and music, choirs and mini orchestra, circus, carnivals, art illuminations and installations, carnivals and finally some food feasting.
On our way back we could see some of the participants of the Night Processions gathered and prepared themselves with their make-ups and costumes. We have managed to capture some good photos in the background of some loud, lively music. As it was still about 1.5 hours before the actual processions and we were freezing cold due to the strong wind, we’ve decided to go home and wind down with a cup of hot tea, before heading for the cream of the event, the fireworks, which stunningly capped the festival.
Like art and music, the fireworks have its very own composer. Mike Jones, the winner of the Montreal International Fireworks Competition in 2007, which equivalent to the Olympics in the fireworks world, has designed and drawn inspirations from Italy, Spain, China, Taiwan and US to display this year’s fireworks stunning effects with such a fine, dynamic movements and pyrotechnic noise. Overall it was a brilliant event, which has impressively portrayed the colourful and vibrant cultural life of London.
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