London Design Festival 2023 Partner Programme
Understanding Canals: The Veins of the City
Dream overview
Understanding Canals: The Veins of the City is a series of multi-disciplinary art and design events organized by Canal Dream CIC in collaboration with Slash Arts, Global Generation & the Floating Garden, Word on the Water.
It encompasses Dream Nights, Art Exhibitions, Community Engagement Activities, Canalside Discussion.
And at the Festival Canal Dream CIC launched the Canal Dream Hub, a waterway-based innovation and collaboration platform and the Canal Dreamer, a zine featuring multidisciplinary creative practices on the canal.
Dream Time
16-24 September 2023
Dream Location
Kings Cross Design District, London
Regent’s Canal
Organised by
Canal Dream CIC
Programming Partners
Slash Arts
Word on the Water
Global Generation & Floating Garden
Link:
Our programme on LDF web
Canal Dream X London Design Festival 2023
Dream programme
Dream calendar & Dream map
Dream impact
Artwork & Artist
Dream Night I
Film
Artworks & Artists：
The door of dreams——Zixin Wu & Yunru Yan Rosa
Unnamed Road——Songkai Zhou
The Girl and The Great City——George Merabishvili
Rye——Siyuan Meng
Tenderfold——Jun Chen
Temporades——Cristina Conde Tkatchenko
Thirteen——'Hope Nature' Studio
Swimming——Stanley Mathews & Greg Randolph
Into the next Fde——Yaya Wang
Curator:
Adam Zhu, Yuxuan Wu
Dream Night II
Music, Performance & Poetry
Artists:
Paul's daughter
Fitzroy Holt
Kian Vaziri
Hughie Hunter
D.R.R.Sidaway
Jiarong Yu
Andra Anghelache
Brandon Squires
Cecilia Raab, Fani Raab
Haobin Wang (Jorge Jobim) and Rowan Ibbeken
Ke Peng
Art Director: Yiru Yan (Cainy)
Curator: Kai Marks, Hardy Gru, D.R.R.Sidaway
Executive Producer: Yobe Wei, Yiming Pi, Linlin Zhu
Technician: Emory Vaughan
Art Exhibition I: Meanings of Home: Transcending Borders
Presented by Slash Arts
Artists: Pamela Enyonu, Mary Thatcher
Curator: Simon Hodgkinson
Art Exhibition II: Bodies of Water - Vienna meets London
Presented by Slash Arts
Artists: Birdly, Satur Chong, Richard Cook, Monika Drabot, Simon Hodgkinson, Konstantina Hornek, Hannah Imhoff, Damla Ilhan, Miya Kosowick Mawatari, Nadine Schuller, Naj Shirazi, Roberta Sweet. Musicians: Nina Oltarzewska, Cecilia Raab, Fani Raab, Hannah Wimmer.
Curator: Hannah Imhoff
Supported by: Arts of Change, Austrian Cultural Forum London
Community engagement activities: Natural Fabric Printing & Dyeing Workshop
Presented by Global Generation and the Floating Garden
Canalside Discussion, and Canal Dream Hub & the Canal Dreamer Zine Launch Events
Guests:
Chuntian Hu
Qian Sun,
Simon hodgkinson
Laura Price
Pamela Enyonu
Coordinator:
Linlin Zhu
Festival Team
Organization
Funded & Organized by
Canal Dream CIC
Programming Partners:
Slash Arts
Global Generation & the Floating Garden
Word on the Water
Creative Director & Producer
Chuntian Hu
Programme Manager
Simon Hodgkinson
Laura Price
Jillian Linton
Paddy Screech
Technician
Emory Vaughan
Photography/Videography Team
Director of Photography:
Zhiwu(Adam) Zhu, Yuxuan Wu
Photographer:
Ruoying Hai
Yongfeng Xiao
Mary Liu
Dongcheng Cai
Yobe Wei
Aerial Photography:
DRONIST LONDON (PAUL, Ramsey)
Film editor: Yuxuan Wu, Chuntian Hu
Marketing Team
Head of Marketing:
Kai Marks
Katie McGoran
Giulia Moliarov
Visual Designer:
Yefei Shi
Yobe Wei
Zhenyi Zheng