London’s brightest, brashest club night Sink The Pink joins forces with cabaret wunderkinds Bourgeois & Maurice to present an unforgettable night of Christmas revelry.

This one off Christmas party mixes alternative performance and sharp-tongued cabaret with DJs, disco and full-blown tranny dance routines. Highlights will include a Fortune Telling Elf, the 12 Gays of Christmas Tranny Choir, new songs, Christmas remixes (old songs with bells in), Glitter my Shitter, prossecco on tap and a real log fire!

Treading the line between comedy, cabaret and a catwalk explosion, Bourgeois & Maurice almost defy categorisation. The cult musical duo have established themselves as one of the international cabaret scene’s sharpest, funniest and spectacularly-dressed acts with their award-winning catchy-as-hell satirical songs, racking up performances around the world from New York to Belgrade, London to Melbourne.

This heaven-sent collaboration will make sure Christmas is celebrated just as Jesus would have wanted- a joyous proclamation of anarchy and great outfits.

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Doors 7pm | Show 9pm | Party 11pm – 4am

Project Instrumental brings a sparkling sonic treat to East London this winter, wrapping 300 years and both hemispheres, 2 concertos and a concerto grosso, tintinnabuli and tango in 1 tantalising hour. Then revel awhile in festive ambience, meet the orchestra and be transported by Wharf Kitchen’s sublime seasonal elixirs featuring specialities from those master distillers, Sipsmith.

Programme:

Notes on Winter
Montague: Snowscape: St. Polten
Corelli: Christmas Concerto
Pärt: Frates for Strings & Percussion
Vivaldi: Winter – soloist: Steven Crichlow
Piazzolla: Buenos Aires Summer – soloist: Lowri Porter

Doors: 7.00pm Concert: 7.30pm
Tickets: £8 Limited Early Bird; £10 Advance; £15 Door
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The ‘Biological Bakery’ is open for business. Come and experience a live laboratory where edible body parts are produced in a DIY assembly line. Enter the set of hot Aussie pop band Architecture in Helsinki’s ‘Dream A Little Crazy’ music video created by Lucy McRae, Thomas Ermacora, Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl. Exclusive DJ set performed by lead vocalist Cameron Bird.

The Biological Bakery, is a DIY bio–fabrication laboratory operated by Dr Bird, accompanied by cloned assistants conducting a series of trials, replicating living archives of himself and family. His perfected process is accidentally contaminated resulting in a new fantastical living skin shining light on the black swans of innovation.

Maverick Aussie Pop Band Architecture In Helsinki are soon to release their 5th studio album ‘NOW 4EVA’. Expanding on the thriving dance-pop ecosystem of their most recent LP ‘Moment Bends’, their forthcoming album hinges on the kinetic energy shared by AIH’s five members as well as their mutual and unwavering love for upfront Pop Music. Their current single ‘Dream a Little Crazy’ is a joy filled tune powerfully crafted for a generation of anti-gloom futurists.
www.architectureinhelsinki.com

What you’re in for.
Exclusive DJ set &
sub sonic body shakes, Synthetic synaesthesia, half baked bio metrics, audible organs, Cymatic cocktails

Wear Whites

Details:
7–11pm

Lab Address:
LimeWharf, Vyner Street
E2 9DJ, London
Bethnal Green Tube 7min walk
Limited tickets available! RSVP essential: biobakery@victoriawharfprojects.co

Creative team:
>Lucy McRae is a Body Architect exploring the relationship between the body, technology and the grey areas of synthetic and organic materials http://www.lucymcrae.net/
>Mathias Gmachl and Rachel Wingfield are a creative duo operating at the convergence of design, architecture and science. They create experiences and environments that allow people to dream, re-imagine and collaboratively create new visions for our future. http://loop.ph
>Thomas Ermacora is a creative director and futurist working in the fields of architecture, newmedia, food and technology, also founder and director of LimeWharf – a Hackney based cultural innovation hub and artistic laboratory. Latest music video he directed – Imogen Heap, Heapsong

The ‘Biological Bakery’ is open for business. Come and experience a live laboratory where edible body parts are produced in a DIY assembly line. Enter the set of hot Aussie pop band Architecture in Helsinki’s ‘Dream A Little Crazy’ music video created by Lucy McRae, Thomas Ermacora, Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl. Exclusive DJ set performed by lead vocalist Cameron Bird.

The Biological Bakery, is a DIY bio–fabrication laboratory operated by Dr Bird, accompanied by cloned assistants conducting a series of trials, replicating living archives of himself and family. His perfected process is accidentally contaminated resulting in a new fantastical living skin shining light on the black swans of innovation.

Maverick Aussie Pop Band Architecture In Helsinki are soon to release their 5th studio album ‘NOW 4EVA’. Expanding on the thriving dance-pop ecosystem of their most recent LP ‘Moment Bends’, their forthcoming album hinges on the kinetic energy shared by AIH’s five members as well as their mutual and unwavering love for upfront Pop Music. Their current single ‘Dream a Little Crazy’ is a joy filled tune powerfully crafted for a generation of anti-gloom futurists.
www.architectureinhelsinki.com

What you’re in for.
Exclusive DJ set &
sub sonic body shakes, Synthetic synaesthesia, half baked bio metrics, audible organs, Cymatic cocktails

Wear Whites

Details:
7–11pm

Lab Address:
LimeWharf, Vyner Street
E2 9DJ, London
Bethnal Green Tube 7min walk
Limited tickets available! RSVP essential: biobakery@victoriawharfprojects.co

Creative team:
>Lucy McRae is a Body Architect exploring the relationship between the body, technology and the grey areas of synthetic and organic materials http://www.lucymcrae.net/
>Mathias Gmachl and Rachel Wingfield are a creative duo operating at the convergence of design, architecture and science. They create experiences and environments that allow people to dream, re-imagine and collaboratively create new visions for our future. http://loop.ph
>Thomas Ermacora is a creative director and futurist working in the fields of architecture, newmedia, food and technology, also founder and director of LimeWharf – a Hackney based cultural innovation hub and artistic laboratory. Latest music video he directed – Imogen Heap, Heapsong

Curated by Thomas Ermacora in collaboration with Lucy Bullivant, Urbanista.org. Presented as part of the Space for Ideas & Urbanista.org/Recode discussion series

Key speakers:

Mitchell Joachim, Co-Founder, Terreform One
Richard Reynolds, Founder, Guerrilla Gardening
Paul Smyth, Founder, Something & Son and FARM:shop

‘Metabolic Cities’ is a joint thematic evening in the Space for Ideas and Urbanista.org/Recode event series hosted by LimeWharf, and will investigate potential conceptual frameworks for the interaction between the built environment and ‘living’ technologies.

‘A number of research teams around the world, academic institutions and material science companies are influencing the future of the fabric of the built environment’ says Ermacora. ‘In deploying speculative, unfinished technologies need a chance to mature in a real setting, they are helping to define ways in which architecture, urbanism and planning the future of cities will happen. ‘

‘This event is an opportunity for selected practitioners involved in different arenas of the urban realm to talk about how they see the interaction between the living and the inert in the not-so-distant future closer to 2050, and for the audience to intervene in these far-reaching discussions.

Will cities become more organic? Places where the buildings are grown, with skins functionally integrating energy generation and food production, for which there is no such thing as the distinction between nature and the building? Are there real prospects for a symbiotic relationship between synthetic and organic biology in urban environments of the future?

Why can’t questions around sustainability be treated in a less formalistic, technocratic way but instead in a fashion which integrates with the processes nature? Wouldn’t today’s anthropocentric cultures therefore have a better chance to evolve, breaking the boundaries between architecture and nature? What are the prospects for a more sensual urban environment that doesn’t generate an opposition between what we build and where we come from?’

Tickets:
You can buy tickets for individual talks (£8/£5 students) or get a discount by purchasing a membership for all 8 talks in the Space for Ideas series plus an additional social event (£50/£30 students).
Your ticket includes some light food & drink.

Book tickets here

Space for ideas is an event series co-created by LimeWharf, GoodPeople, CIVA, and The Exponentials. The evenings explore a variety of topics, and we are striving to create a perfect balance between inspirational talks and collaborative discussions. Our collective mission is to create a platform where good people can connect, learn, explore and make good ideas happen. Space For Ideas website

Thomas Ermacora is a thought leader and futurist working mainly as a creative director and social entrepreneur in the fields of design, new media, food and disruptive technologies. He is the founder, architect and curator of the victoriawharfprojects.co cultural innovation gallery and Clear Village strategic urban regeneration specialist agency.

Mitchell Joachim, PhD, is a Co-Founder of Terreform ONE. He is an Associate Professor in Practice at NYU and EGS in Switzerland. He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He is a TED Senior Fellow and has been awarded fellowships with Moshe Safdie and Martin Society for Sustainability, MIT. He was chosen by Wired magazine for The Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To. Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell in The 100 People Who Are Changing America, and his many awards include AIA New York Urban Design Merit Award, Victor Papanek Social Design Award, Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity, History Channel Infiniti Award for City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best Invention with MIT Smart Cities Car. Dwell magazine featured him as The NOW 99 in 2012.
http://terreform.org

Richard Reynolds has been guerrilla gardening for nearly a decade, transforming neglected patches of his local community and writing about similar activity around the world. His book On Guerrilla Gardening (Bloomsbury, 2009) charts activities across 30 countries and 360 years. His accidental activism is part of a loose global movement in which he plays a leading role sharing inspirational stories and stoking motivation.
http://www.guerrillagardening.org

Paul Smyth is an engineer and designer and the founder and Director of Something & Son, Co-Create Consulting and FARM:shop, all established in 2010. FARM: shop is London’s urban farming hub, indoor farm and café, created with Sam Henderson (now running a successful farm in Dorset) to excite and inspire city dwellers to grow their own food and make an income doing this. It cuts carbon and reduces waste by using the latest agricultural innovations in aquaponics, hydroponics, vermiculture and greenhouse design.
http://farmlondon.weebly.com/farmshop.html

This performance features a collaboration between Cevanne and Crewdson, the release of debut EP ‘Their Scintillant Blades’ from Gregor Riddell and Rob Lewis and release of debut album from the Elliot Galvin Trio. Doors 6:30pm with the performance starting at 7:30pm.

Tickets £7 advance, £10 on the door
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Cevanne/Crewdson

Cevanne is an Anglo-Armenian composer and performer from Suffolk. Her work is grounded in the British isles – digging deep into their rich soil, to find artefacts which one would not always imagine to be native. From this stance, she has written for choir, chamber ensemble, dance, sculpture, symphony orchestra, oratorio, radio drama, soloists, theatre, comedy, and more. Cevanne’s work often explores improvisation, humour, dance, and line (both narrative, and melodic). She is Composer-in-Residence at Handel House, and is inspired to adopt Handel’s open attitude to societies, and styles, of all kinds.

Hailing from the chilly North of England, Hugh ‘Crewdson’ Jones left school at the age of 16 so that he could go on a tour with his punk band supporting The Buzzcocks [The band also supported The Dead Kennedys, The Alarm and Bad Manners!]. He has played at the Southbank Centre’s lauded Ether Festival, has leaked a track – ‘Mime’ – online which was picked up for editorial on the US’s influential Fader website and has played gigs in London supporting the likes of The Invisible. He has also already worked up remixes for La Shark & Esben and the Witch, as well as unofficial remixes of the Invisible and Fourtet. Live as in the studio, Crewdson creates sound from machinery, found items, manipulated vocals and saxophone which he samples and manipulates through his idiosyncratic electronic set up, controlling his sounds with a Playstation joystick and sometimes midi motorcycle handlebars. Starting with the limited edition Dust EP, you can expect an upbeat, playful and dark concoction of electronic music, taking in influences from techno, jazz, 2-step, dubstep, your doorstep… whilst answering that question of what might happen if you threw Polar Bear, Flying Lotus, Aphex Twin and maybe even The Streets in a room together!

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Gregor Riddell/Rob Lewis
Listen here
Gregor Riddell is a cellist and composer. He is a founder member of the Solstice String Quartet which has performed at major European concert halls and premiered a substantial number of works including his own, Touch-In, Touch-Out. He is also a member of Living Room In London which released its debut album on SessionWork Records in 2012 and has commissioned works by Peter Wiegold, Charlie Piper, Raymond Yiu, Milton Mermikides, Cevanne-Horrocks-Hopayian and David Ibbett. Last year he held an Artist Residency at the Banff Centre where he wrote a substantial work for cello and electronics, which he recorded last autumn with producer Rob Lewis. He is a member of the Norwegian composers collective, NMK, and involved in nu:nord for which his cello trio, Tre Voci, is resident ensemble. In January 2014 they will release their debut record on Slip Discs Records and tour the UK including a performance at Kings Place Out Hear Series. Gregor is a resident artist at new London venue LimeWharf.

Rob Lewis is a London-based producer, sound artist and musician. In addition to his work with experimental electronics, his credits include site-specific installations, theatre sound design and classical recordings with artists from around the world.

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Elliot Galvin Trio

The Elliot Galvin Trio consists of Elliot on Piano, Tom McCredie on Bass and Simon Roth on drums. Playing all original material by Elliot, drawing on a broad set of influences from African Township to 20th Century classical music, and retaining a strong emphasis on improvisation to create a playful and highly original sound. The Trio came together in late 2012 and has already played across the UK in a number of prestigious venues, including their premier gig at the Vortex Club. They are also currently preparing to release their highly anticipated debut album ‘Dreamland’ early next year on the Chaos Collective label.

Elliot Galvin, Tom McCredie and Simon Roth are all rising stars on the British improvised music scene, and this ensemble sees them reach new heights.

Edible Stories bring stories to life through unique, provocative and immersive edible experiences.

This carefully curated and themed dining experience, takes some of your favourite written stories and brings them to life exclusively through the use of food. Coming into the experience you are given the information of time and directions to a given place, but not the title of the story.

During a two hour experience the still secret story is broken down and presented as various edible courses. Without any form of verbal narration; the food, your interaction with it, the interaction with the people at the table with you, and your environment will allow you to pull together the clues and gradually uncover the story.

In this perfect combination of role play, food and story, you are the protagonist of your own experience. It is up to you to let yourself go and become fully part of the telling.

2 nights only. 12&13 December, 20:00-22:00
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This curated narrative culinary experience will prelude future collaborations between Chloé Morris and Thomas Ermacora. The Wharf Kitchen and chef, Matt Casey, along with the Edible Stories House chefs will be the backbone of this adventure.

Curated by Michael Norton

It is ideas that change the world. From lending money to the poor to dealing with gang violence, social entrepreneurs have been inventing solutions to the problems they find in their communities and in the wider world. These are often “impossible people”, people with a vision who are determined, passionate, persistent, risk taking who are prepared to give it a go. Their ideas often appear impossible – completely new and sometimes counter-intuitive ways of doing things which they have invented.

This evening will show how impossible people with impossible ideas can change the
world. It will feature three extraordinary and very different people who make things
happen:

• Geoff Mulgan, currently Director of NESTA, the foundation promoting innovation, as a young graduate founded DEMOS, which became the leading think tank of the late 1990s pioneering such ideas as The Third Way. He then led the Young Foundation as a worthy successor to Michael Young.
• Annys Darkwa, herself an ex-prisoner, founded Vision Housing to rehouse prisoners on discharge. Her staff are also ex-offenders and their mix of shared experience and compassion is resettling a growing number of offenders who are becoming ex-offenders.
• Kofi Oppong is co-founder of Circle Sports, an award-winning social enterprise which trains unemployable young people for jobs in sportswear retailing.

These three people will share their journey and their secrets, and they will challenge you to do something to make a difference to the world with your own impossible ideas.

The second half of the evening will be in small groups around specific themes. Participants will all be invited to come up with “impossible ideas” which will be put into an “ideas bank”. Each group will be asked to present one idea, explain the problem to be solved, their idea for solving it, and three immediate steps they would take to put it into action. Participants will then be invited to collaborate to take some of these ideas forward.

The six themes will be:
• Health and wellbeing.
• Engagement and employment for young people.
• The big society of active and cohesive communities.
• Offending behaviour, crime and punishment.
• Older people in an aging society.
• Environmental awareness and action.

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What do human rights mean to you? Is social justice achievable? What is the interplay between social justice and advances in technology and global connectivity? This big picture day will focus on the topics of social justice and human rights, with a view to examining their role in an increasingly interconnected and online world. We will welcome speakers and workshops that seek to rearticulate and challenge notions of what human rights and social justice mean. We also want to hear from people who can speak about practical projects that confront these issues in a real way.

Key Challenges
1. What are human rights anyway? Are they still fit for purpose?
2. Both human Rights and many social justice movements are misinterpreted and misrepresented in the popular press. How do we translate and communicate human rights and social justice for the new century?
3. Does Web 2.0 expand the opportunities for true, meritocratic participation, or does it just change the shape of the table? Are we seeing new groups rise to prominence in new ways, or are the same people being heard? And what implications does this have for the most vulnerable and disenfranchised groups?
4. Is ‘clicktivism’ – online activism and its associated petitions a way of bringing activism to the more silent majorities, or does it break down the cultures of solidarity and horizontal cooperation in traditional social movements, reinforcing the vertical relationship between citizen and state?
5. Is respecting and protecting the rights of others a peertopeer responsibility? If so, how and by whom should the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of citizenship be communicated and defined?
6. Through new trends, particularly in institutionled campaigns, has the nature and role of the individual been coopted and distorted?

Outputs
Along with participant directed focus, one of the questions we hope to address through discussion and workshops is how do we tell a story of human rights that rescues it from the media. This and other themes will be captured and collated through blogs, popplets and a mash up of activist and techie collaboration on project ideas.

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NonClassical are getting into the holiday spirit early, and celebrating with a FREE chamber music event. Two very exciting young musicians — violinist ELOISA-FLEUR THOM and cellist MAX RUISI — will perform string duo works by iconic Hungarian composers. The evening explores how Bartók, Kodály, and Ligeti shook up classical music in the 20th century, creating their own original, expressive soundscapes through the use of Hungarian folk music and innovative micropolyphony.

In keeping with the theme, there will also be traditional Christmas treats, Eastern European folk music, and a specially-themed DJ set from Nonclassical residents; expect to devour Beigli, dance to folk tunes, and shout “Boldog Karácsonyt!” by the end of the night.

Programme:
Kodály – Duo for Violin and Cello, Op.7
Ligeti – Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg
Bartók – Selections from Hungarian Folk Melodies

Artists:
Eloisa-Fleur Thom (violin)
eloisafleurthom.wordpress.com

Max Ruisi (cello)
maxruisi.com

Doors @ 6.30pm / Music @ 7.00pm

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Programme:
Rozalie HIRS – Bridge of Babel
Edmund FINNIS – Brother
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART – Duo in B-flat major for violin and viola K 424
Adagio
Andante cantabile
Andante grazioso

Taking Time – A film by Anne Harild with live electronic soundtrack by Edmund Finnis, LCO Composer-in-Association.

Tickets £6 in advance here
£10 on the door

Performers:
Galya Bisengalieva, a gifted violinist of Kazakh origin, was born into a musical family and began playing at the age of five. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras in both Europe and Asia, performing concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch and Mendelssohn. She is a deeply committed chamber and orchestral player, and has held the position of concertmaster in several orchestras, which has taken her to prestigious venues such as Column’s Hall, Moscow, The National Centre of the Performing Arts, Mumbai, and the Lincoln and Kennedy Centres in America. She has also led under the baton of such illustrious conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Vladimir Jurowski. Galya is a founding member of the Gagliano Ensemble.
Future engagements include a performance of Schnittke ‘Concerto Grosso’ with Charlotte Bonneton and the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra. She plays on a recently commissioned violin by Jürgen Manthey.

Charlotte Bonneton is a French violinist and violist and pupil of Gyorgy Pauk with whom she studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London. She performs frequently on both her instruments as part of a classical duo with the violinist Daniel Pioro and is also the violist of the Castalian String Quartet. A winner of the 2nd Prize at the Wieniawski International Violin Competition (Junior Category), Charlotte has performed in many important venues as a soloist and chamber musician, including the Maison de Radio France, the Auditorium du Louvre, the Festival Radio-France in Montpellier, the Wigmore Hall and the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam.

London Contemporary Orchestra website

From next to nothing over a decade ago there has been a proliferation of social
entrepreneurship training. But are you born a social entrepreneur with the very special skills that you will need… or can you be taught or trained… or can you find ways of learning the skills that are needed to take your ideas through to “world domination”?

Our three speakers are all finding exciting ways of encouraging young people to learn the skills of social entrepreneurship… and then to go on and make a difference in the world:

• Oli Barratt invented Make Your Mark With A Tenner, which gave 10,000 £10 notes to school children and asked them to multiply this through entrepreneurial activity.
• Lily Lapenna developed Enterprise In A Box for MyBnk. Just like Monopoly you simply follow the instructions. But unlike Monopoly you end up with a profit of real money.
• Ben Ramsden developed the Pantrepreneurship Challenge whereteams of students
compete to sell fairly traded organic underwear and win a prize of seeing the cotton
grown and turned into Pants2Poverty.
• Alastair Wilson, who will chair the evening, runs the School for Social Entrepreneurs, which provides experiential learning to people starting out on their projects.

You will find out what it takes to be a social entrepreneur and the skills that you need
to develop, and at the same time you will be inspired by four amazing people who have “been there and done it”. It will give you a new perspective on how to make your mark on the world and what you need to do to get started.

You will be asked to come up with some new ideas for Enterprises-In-A-Box, and you will be challenged to come up with your own ideas for how to turn £20 into £50 or even more as a starting point for developing enterprise skills. And those with good ideas will receive a crisp £20 note to help them get started!

Book tickets for this event here (£8/£5 students)
You can also get a discount by purchasing a membership for all 8 talks plus an additional social event (£50/£30 students) here

Your ticket includes some light food & drink.

Space for ideas is an event series co-created by LimeWharf, GoodPeople, CIVA, and The Exponentials. The evenings explore a variety of topics, and we are striving to create a perfect balance between inspirational talks and collaborative discussions. Our collective mission is to create a platform where good people can connect, learn, explore and make good ideas happen. We welcome you to join us on this adventure.

Space for Ideas website