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The Wayfaring Cinema Collective (WCC) welcomes you to a unique experience of nomadic distribution and cinema-making: film, fire, food and friendship, embodying new possibilities for mutual meeting and the exploration, culturally and socially, of different freedoms and desires.

In this first iteration the WCC is touring the most recent feature film, Wayfaring Stranger, by Jarman Award-winning artist and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman, alongside works by Turner Prize-nominated artist Delaine Le Bas and acclaimed writer Damian Le Bas.

The evening takes place outside with a fire and hot food. Shortly after sunset, the film programme will begin, enabled by the collective’s purpose-built travelling cinema.

The film and subsequent conversation will consider freedom of movement, gendered security in the rural landscape, and the challenges facing minoritised cultures, particularly GRT life, as well as celebrating the importance of community in person.

Opens at 6pm. Last entry at 7pm. Films start at 7pm, concluding with a discussion with filmmakers Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Damian Le Bas.

‘Gypsyland’ (2014) by Delaine Le Bas. A series of short films based in London, Peterborough, Bolton and Glasgow, between 2023-2014.

The video represents a symbolic reclaiming of places with identifiable Romani/Gypsy genealogies, but which today are emptied of its historical Roma tenants. Delaine Le Bas is among the most recognized artists of Romani background, building her artwork around the themes of nationhood, race, gender, identity and, especially, the issues of belonging and “othering”. Delaine is a cross-disciplinary artist creating installations, performances, photography and films, she is internationally recognised as a Romani and British artist, representing Roma in the first Roma Pavilion Venice Biennale in 2007 and was recently nominated for The Turner Prize 2024. 

‘Realities Checked’ (2024) by Damian Le Bas. A series of short films , scripted by Damian Le Bas using the anonymised words of Romany and Traveller people interviewed for the Realities Checked project. 

Damian Le Bas is a writer, filmmaker and visual artist. His first book The Stopping Places won the Somerset Maugham Award, a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award, and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Damian is widely published as a journalist and poet and was recently appointed as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 

‘Wayfaring Stranger’ (2024) by Andrea Luka Zimmerman charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven per formers, across seven days, representing seven decades.

Filmed in landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless, often destructive, human interaction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one’s own terms and without conflict with others and the environment. Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award-winning artist and filmmaker whose multi-layered practice explores fragile refusals and counter memories, itinerant lives, human and otherwise, in relation to structural and political injustice

‘King of Things’, Chris Trimmings and ‘Master Craftsman’ Alex Tuckwood will be on hand to fix your ‘bits and pieces, odds and sods’. Part of Bits and Pieces, Odds and Sods exhibition.

The right to repair is about educating and empowering consumers so they can repair the goods which they own. Drop off your goods for fixing at the former Beaumont Bed shop during the month of August, for a FIX IT WEEKEND on 28-29 August 2021. Limited slots available. Drop off and Book now!

Curated by Scully & Scully,  as part of Bits and Pieces Odds and Sods exhibition.

ALEX TUCKWOOD is a local Designer and Maker with a passion for finding out how things work by taking things apart and fixing items which are broken. Recently he completed building The Thamesmead Travelling Cinema and is Director of Plastic Please, a recycling project based in Thamesmead.

CHRIS TRIMMINGS ‘King of Things’ has been invited to join Thamesmead Texas with his ever-evolving shop, a spinoff from his regular car boot pitch at Birchmere Park, where he has traded since the 1980’s. Artist Liam Scully has been workshopping with Trimmings, a former Rag n Bone man to turn his hand to sculpture, making assemblages from an array of objects collected on his travels. Trimmings will be on hand to look at breathing new life into your broken bits and pieces odds and sods.

Nomadic artist led platform present a selection of films on social housing, gentrification and regeneration from the 1970’s – present day. The evening includes artist films by Katharine Meynell, Zoe Redman, Jocelyn Pook and John Smith. Selected by artist Vanessa Scully, as part of the series ‘ Thamesmead Texas presents:  The future of artists and architecture in Thamesmead’ the event sits within a new installation entitled ‘Heavy View’ by British Artist Laura Yuile that developed out of Yuile’s consideration of technological and architectural obsolescence.  

Curated by Vanessa Scully,  as part of The Future of Artists and Architecture exhibition. In partnership with TACO! Part of Art Licks Weekend 2019.

VANESSA SCULLY is an Australian artist and filmmaker based in London. Most recent projects explore her mixed-race heritage as a ‘person of colour’, whilst questioning the institutional knowledge of ‘the Philippines’, as depicted by mass media news and entertainment. Scully graduated with an MA in Experimental Film from Kingston School and Art in 2019.

Join Brian Guest, General Secretary of S.P.A.R, Society for the Preservation of Admirable Rubble for a special walking AGM (Annual General Meeting) that will take in areas of Thamesmead where rubble is prevalent. There will be encounters with past, present and future rubble sites in the area.

Society for the Preservation of Admirable Rubble (S.P.A.R) is dedicated to the preservation of rubble in all its varied forms. S.P.A.R campaigns to keep rubble created if businesses and homes are demolished within any development that replaces it, as a conscience of its passing.

Curated by Scully & Scully, as part of The Future of Artists and Architecture exhibition. Part of Art Licks Weekend 2019.

CALUM F. KERR is an artist whose work involves performance, sculpture and sound. His artwork relates to place through inhabiting characters such as J. D. Swann (ornithological investigator), Brian Guest (founder of the Society for the Preservation of Admirable Rubble), a White Sperm Whale and Maurice the Dodo.

A walk in Thamesmead with local artist Natasha Bird, exploring links between the plant life and city infrastructures. A short audio walk along a section of the Ridgeway – the last section of the Southern Outfall Sewer – as it passes through Thamesmead. Consisting of observations and field recordings, the walk explores the crossover and seepage between city infrastructures of sewage and transport, and the plant life that exists alongside it.

Curated by Scully & Scully as part of The Future of Artists and Architecture exhibition. Part of Art Licks Weekend 2019.

NATASHA BIRD (1985) is an artist living and working in London. Her current work is concerned with ideas of flow and stagnation and their potential for production, both in historical and present day real-world technologies, as well as sci-fi and fantastical narratives. Previous shows include The Polder as a Cyborg at Cultureland, Amsterdam, Testbed Alice at the Old Waterworks, Southend, and Rose Tower at the Kennington Residency, London.