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IWA CANALWAY CAVALCADE 2023

Awakening in Spring II Waves

Dream overview

About IWA Canalway Cavalcade

This legendary event has been bringing communities together since 1983 and will once again be transforming the heart of the London canal network, with more than 100 colourfully dressed boats, live music, refreshments, craft stalls and plenty of family fun for all to enjoy.

It's one of the largest waterways festivals in the country and an important tradition in the local community. Boaters travel for miles to attend and the event attracts visitors from across London, and beyond.

This was Canal Dream's first year at the festival and the Inland Waterways Association awarded us the Marcus Budill Trophy:

the Marcus Boudier Trophy (For the best decorated privately entered boat) was awarded to ‘Rachel’, steerer Mark Saxon, and the Canal Dream.

About Awakening in Spring II Waves

The second audio-visual performance of the Canal Dream, with 4 performers and 2 musicians presenting 2 myths about river and clouds with their bodies and sounds.

Dream Time

30 April 2022, 2pm

Dream Location

Little Venice, London

Awakening in Spring
II Waves

Between the wind and the wind,
countless waves.
Between the mountains and the seas,
the clouds, and the rains.
Between the body and the mind,
the eyebrows and in-sights.
Between dreaming and awakening,
river blues of canal dreams.

Awakening in Spring
驚蟄

First pentad: The peaches begin to blossom.

Second pentad: Orioles sing clearly.

Last pentad: Eagles are transformed into doves.

一候桃始華，

二候倉庚鳴，

三候鷹化為鳩。

Jīngzhé, 驚蟄, is the 3rd of the 24 solar terms (節氣) in the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. In the Gregorian calendar, it usually begins around March 5 and ends around March 20.

The word 驚蟄 means the awakening of hibernating insects. Traditional Chinese folklore says that during Jingzhe, thunderstorms will wake up the hibernating insects, which implies that the weather is getting warmer.