Theatre-watch: Totally Thames Festival

Totally Thames festival is returning to London in September 2024 with a programme of events across the capital - celebrating the life and soul of the river that defines this city.

Events include live art and performances, mudlarking, foreshore walks and talks, and river events including the Great River Race.

One of the highlights of the festival will be One In One Out by Lucy Hayhoe - an installation that invites audiences to experience a mini queer night out in just five minutes! This tiny queer bar in Canary Wharf’s Crossrail Place Roof Garden asks what is the role of the gay bar in London’s future?

The landscape of queer London is always changing, from the queer history of London’s docks to the recent closures of queer nightlife spaces. For two days on 5th and 7th September, One In One Out explores nostalgia for lost LGBTQIA+ scenes, the consumption of queer space, and what it means to be queer and alone.

The Totally Thames festival will run from 1-30 September.

Programme

Mudlarking Exhibition in the Roman Amphitheatre

• Saturday 31st August – Sunday 1st September
• Roman Amphitheatre, Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, London, EC2V 5AE

Clean Thames Challenge

• Sunday 1st September – Monday 30th September
• Various Locations

Lecture by Andrew Lane with John Dunford

• Sunday 1st September
• Roman Amphitheatre, Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard,
  London, EC2V 5AE

Mudlarking Walk with Nicola White

• Wednesday 4th September
• London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Rd, London
  EC1R 0HB

One In One Out

• Thursday 5th and Saturday 7th September
• Crossrail Place Roof Garden, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AB

Hulked

• Saturday 7th September
• Edith May Thames Barge, West Quay, St Katherine’s Dock, 50 St
  Katherine’s Way, London, E1W 1LA

Mudlarking Masterclass with Steve Brooker

• Saturday 7th September
• Thames Foreshore on Isle of Dogs

Kids Choir & Sing for Water

• Sunday 15th September
• The Scoop at More, London SE1 2AA

St Katharine Docks Classic Boat Festival

• Saturday 7th – Sunday 8th September
• St Katharine Docks, 50 St Katharine’s Way, London, E1W 1LA

Tideway Boat Tour

• Thursday 19th September
• London Bridge City Pier, London, SE1 2HD

Great River Race

• Saturday 21st September
• From Millwall in the East to Richmond in the West

Thames Day

• Sunday 22nd September
• By the Church of St Magnus the Martyr, London, EC3R 6DN

River Song

• 28th September
• Theatreship, South Quay Plaza, London, E14 9SH

Mudlarking Weekend in Museum of London Docklands

• Saturday 28th – Sunday 29th September
• Museum of London Docklands, No.1, West India Quay,
  Hertsmere Road, London, E14 4AL

Lecture by Kate Sumnall

• Saturday 28th September
• Museum of London Docklands, No.1, West India Quay,
  Hertsmere Road, London, E14 4AL

Lecture by Museum of London Archaeology and Jason Sandy

• Sunday 29th September
• Museum of London Docklands, No.1, West India Quay,
  Hertsmere Road, London, E14 4AL