#FirstSaturdays is a new initiative from LimeWharf founder, Thomas Ermacora, programming a full day of free interactive experiences within LimeWharf & Wharf Kitchen to promote cultural innovation on Vyner Street once a month. Drawing on the artistic legacy of First Thursdays, Ermacora hopes this creative, recurring event will acquire fresh audiences and further enliven & increase weekend traffic for the local community. In advance of the inaugural #FirstSaturdays event, it has already organically expanded to include many other galleries and businesses along Vyner Street who will be spontaneously joining in for 1 March 2014.
07/06/14 #FirstSaturdays June
/FOOD/
All day – East End Beigels
/LIVE MUSIC/
3-5pm Giacomo Como & Smitty’s Street Gang
/WORKSHOP/
11am-1pm
Technology Will Save Us – DIY Electro Dough: Create circuits and electronics using electric dough
Book tickets here
DIY Electro Dough promises to take a hands on approach to discovering the possibilities of using electronics and programming in creating physical objects. During this workshop you’ll get to mould and create your own responsive and interactive sculptures using LEDs, batteries and playdough! One of the most enjoyable ways to build your own switches & construct your own circuits.
2pm-6pm
Textile Techniques Crafting Workshop with artist, Jennie Fagerstrom & guests
Free to attend, drop in.
/DJs/
12pm-7pm
Vinyl Library DJ’s Clive , Ralph and the lads dig deep in to the crates and bring us an eclectic selection of vinyl rarities and big hitters.
7pm-10pm
tbc
/FILM/
tbc
/DROP IN ACUPUNCTURE CLINIC/
2-6pm
with Rita Shamia BH Dip MAcuC, CNHC
Donna Machela, MSAAc CNHC
Loolie Habgood Ba Dip ShamHom
Auricular (ear) acupuncture (NADA protocol). Brilliant as an all round tonic – for stress, weight control, smoking, insomnia and anxiety.
£10 – 30 minutes
Body acupuncture. We diagnose you based on your symptoms, your tongue and pulse. You lie on the treatment couch and relax. (You might even fall asleep)
£20 – 40 minutes
/PRAGMATIC TAROT/
11am-1pm
Pragmatic Tarot – Tarot as technology, without any mumbo jumbo
Everything changes. The tool we use to help us navigate these changes – is a clock. Clocks, with their set of simple symbols, help us visualise our path through time. In many ways the Tarot works in the same way, distilling the infinite down to a limited set of options. The tarot may be a bit more complex than a watch face, but it does not need to be any more esoteric.
The Tarot is a practical tool which harnesses rational and intuitive thinking to explore the nature of change. The process of finding connections between the cards, seeking patterns and coincidence allows the intuition to kick in, providing a few “suggestions” that can seem (and often are) profound. These intuitive leaps of understanding are a perfectly natural result of working with a symbolic system.
The pragmatic tarot school introduces a way of learning tarot as a set of simple, overlapping patterns. Anyone is welcome, complete beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
Requirements
You need:
* Your own cards
* A Tarot diary
To take part you need your own deck of cards. It’s going to be best to stick to one of the classic decks – recommended the Rider Waite deck or the Marseille Deck. Both are available on Amazon for about £10. (If you can’t get some cards before the class, don’t worry too much, they are just needed for your own explorations.)
You don’t need to know anything about the Tarot, but if you do, then there is no reason you can’t learn more.
/HAPPENING ALONG VYNER STREET/:
Wilkinson Gallery – Ketty La Rocca
Hada Contemporary – AHN Jinkyun’s ‘Three Faces, Two Places, One Device’
Further special events tba.
03.05.14 #FirstSaturdays May
/FOOD/
11-3pm – Wharf Kitchen Big Breakfast & Brunch brought to us by the @hackneychef himself. Start your day with a proper Saturday breakfast.
4pm-late – East End Beigels
/LIVE MUSIC/
6pm – Kourosh Kanani & Jeremie Coullon
/WORKSHOP/
11am-1pm
Technology Will Save Us – Family DIY Mini Synth Kit Workshop APOLOGIES THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED
2pm-6pm
Textile Techniques Crafting Workshop with artist, Jennie Fagerstrom & guests
Free to attend, drop in.
/DJs/
12pm-7pm
Vinyl Library DJ’s Clive , Ralph and the lads dig deep in to the crates and bring us an eclectic selection of vinyl rarities and big hitters.
7pm-10pm
Joel Culley collective
/FILM/
tbc
/DROP IN ACUPUNCTURE CLINIC/
2-6pm
with Rita Shamia BH Dip MAcuC, CNHC
Donna Machela, MSAAc CNHC
Loolie Habgood Ba Dip ShamHom
Auricular (ear) acupuncture (NADA protocol). Brilliant as an all round tonic – for stress, weight control, smoking, insomnia and anxiety.
£10 – 30 minutes
Body acupuncture. We diagnose you based on your symptoms, your tongue and pulse. You lie on the treatment couch and relax. (You might even fall asleep)
£20 – 40 minutes
/PRAGMATIC TAROT/
11am-1pm
Pragmatic Tarot – Tarot as technology, without any mumbo jumbo
Everything changes. The tool we use to help us navigate these changes – is a clock. Clocks, with their set of simple symbols, help us visualise our path through time. In many ways the Tarot works in the same way, distilling the infinite down to a limited set of options. The tarot may be a bit more complex than a watch face, but it does not need to be any more esoteric.
The Tarot is a practical tool which harnesses rational and intuitive thinking to explore the nature of change. The process of finding connections between the cards, seeking patterns and coincidence allows the intuition to kick in, providing a few “suggestions” that can seem (and often are) profound. These intuitive leaps of understanding are a perfectly natural result of working with a symbolic system.
The pragmatic tarot school introduces a way of learning tarot as a set of simple, overlapping patterns. Anyone is welcome, complete beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
Requirements
You need:
* Your own cards
* A Tarot diary
To take part you need your own deck of cards. It’s going to be best to stick to one of the classic decks – recommended the Rider Waite deck or the Marseille Deck. Both are available on Amazon for about £10. (If you can’t get some cards before the class, don’t worry too much, they are just needed for your own explorations.)
You don’t need to know anything about the Tarot, but if you do, then there is no reason you can’t learn more.
/HAPPENING ALONG VYNER STREET/:
Wilkinson Gallery – Pennacchio Argentato, Time To Rise
Hada Contemporary – Lee Jeahyo: Grass Flower
Further special events tba.
05.04.14 #FirstSaturdays April
/FOOD/
11-3pm – Wharf Kitchen Big Breakfast & Brunch brought to us by the @hackneychef himself. Start your day with a proper Saturday breakfast.
4pm-late – East End Beigels
/MUSIC/
5pm – Old Hat Jazz Band (quartet)
Listen here
Old Hat Jazz Band continues the tradition of crafting hot and swinging music, playing favourite tunes of the 1920s and 30s. Featuring some of the finest musical talent London has to offer and combining the quintessential sound of the era with originality and characterful musicianship, Old Hat Jazz Band enjoys playing for dancers and listening music lovers wherever they are invited.
/WORKSHOP/
2pm-6pm
Textile Techniques Crafting Workshop with artist, Jennie Fagerstrom & guests
/DJs/
12pm-7pm
Vinyl Library DJ’s Clive , Ralph and the lads dig deep in to the crates and bring us an eclectic selection of vinyl rarities and big hitters.
7pm-11pm
Phil Passera
Seasoned producer and one half of DJ outfit PAYFONE, PP escapes the studio and brings us a genre hopping set of sonic delights to take us discoing in to the night.
/FILM/ Back by popular demand
‘Hackney Captured’, 50 Years From The Archive
55min duration – screened every hour on the hour from 12-6pm
Proudly presented and donated by Dalston’s Rio Cinema. The films are a rich source of memories, featuring footage of Hackney landmarks throughout the last century, enabling us all to relive Hackney’s rich and vibrant history on the big screen.
/HAPPENING ALONG VYNER STREET/:
Wilkinson Gallery – A.K.Dolven in conversation with Rolf Wallin at 2pm
Further info here
Closing week of A.K. Dolven: Teenagers Lifting The Sky
Hada Contemporary – Park Seungmo: Absence
Further info here
Cultivate Evolved will be open early from 10am and stay open until 8pm. The walls will be full of art and in-house artists will be around making art on the day, either in the space or out front on the street. Further special events tba.
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01.03.14 #FirstSaturdays March
MUSIC
3pm – 4.30pm
Kourosh Kanani & Jeremie Coullon
6.30pm – 9pm
Giacomo Como & Smitty’s Street Gang
Guest DJ’s Spinning Vinyl all day. Sift through our record stall for a rare find or two!
FOOD
10am – 2pm
Wharf Kitchen chefs dish up a wholesome and hearty breakfast selection from. The perfect start to your First Saturday!
3pm – 9.30pm
The hackneychef brings us traditional East London Bagels. Salt Beef & English mustard, or Goats cheese and beets (v)
FILM
Hackney Captured – 50 Years from the Archive (PG)
55min – Screened every hour from 12pm until 6pm
TEXTILE TECHNIQUES
12noon – 4pm
Jennie Fagerstrom & Barley Massey of Fabrications
BEERS & COCKTAILS
10am – 11pm
German Weiss beers, Swiss 1936 bottled beers, Belgian Trappist beers, Vaporetto Prosecco, Hangover Bloody Marys and fresh Mint Juleps
