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London Arts Council Culture Days Event Starting at 5p.m. September 29th, www.londonarts.ca/culture-days.
Celebrating its 8th year, we’re focused on the heart of our city Dundas Street, the main street of London, ON to create a Spectacle Spectacular!
Everything you will experience has been carefully curated to create a one-of-a-kind experience for Londoners and visitors.
- Ill at Will Dance Crew will be performing, for the very first time, a cutting edge mash up of hip hop and visual art movement
- Visual Artists creating a 90’ interactive mural
- Ruth Douthwright choreographing an original dance, featuring seven dancers performing a fusion of techniques from around the world
- Lefty Smudges, the human post office, will be circulating mail art created by London youth through LAC’s Culture City education program
- Erik Mandawe, multidisciplinary artist and LAC’s recently appointed Artist in Residence, will be working with five other Indigenous Artists to create a 20’ labyrinth art installation
- Tom Cull, London Poet Laureate, is curating an entire city block of live and experimental multi-media poetic performance
London’s music scene, an incredible show from the King’s College Choir to Junction Beats Percussion Project to WHOOP-Szo and many more.
Special Feature: Nanjing Little Red Flower Dance Troupe from our Sister City Nanjing, China
Performing from 6 – 6:45p.m. Main Stage, Richmond and Dundas Street
Nanjing Little Red Flower Dance Troupe, one of the most recognized performing arts companies in China for its combination of both culture education and art education, not to be missed!
Enjoy one of the richest cultures in the world through the talent of these young performers.
For more information on Culture Days in London, please contact:
London Arts Council
Innovation Works
201 King Street
London, ON
N6A 1C9
519.439.0013 | @LdnArtsCouncil
www.londonarts.ca