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Viewing Banking on Banksy

The world’s most elusive artist gets a new exhibition at Red Eight Gallery, the first contemporary art gallery in the Square Mile. Located in The Royal Exchange, it champions established and emerging artists, including Boogie Moli, Adel Dauood and Lisa Thomson, and offers secondary market works by such celebrated names as Keith Haring, Harland Miller and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The gallery’s buzzy debut show, Banking on Banksy, presents some of Banksy’s most popular prints such as Girl with Balloon and Happy Choppers alongside one-off works and signed editions. Among the works up for grabs are Flower Thrower, No Ball Games and Christ with Shopping Bags. Prices start at a hefty £25,000, but happily you can visit for free.

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Dates
25 August 2022 — 15 September 2022

Doing The World Reimagined sculpture trail: Camden to Westminster

Few topics are as little discussed in Britain as its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. The World Reimagined initiative hopes to change that through art. Currently installed across the country are over 100 globes, each bearing the response of an individual artist to the global impact of the transatlantic slave trade. The project aims to raise awareness around the past and create a future for racial justice.

The initiative’s newest art trail (Camden-Westminster) features eleven new sculptures and takes you from Mornington Crescent tube station to Westminster Abbey via Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The large globe sculptures en route are inspired by the project’s nine key themes, ranging from ‘Mother Africa’ to ‘The Reality of Being Enslaved’.

Highlights include Nicola Green’s The World in a Waterlily, Amazonica at Westminster Abbey, which explores the deep-rooted connection between racial justice and climate justice; and Uncertain Voyage by Nadia Akingbule on Neal Street, which explores the complexity of Britain’s relationship with Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean across the generations.

After the exhibition, the globes will be auctioned at Bonhams. Catch it while you can.

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Dates
13 August 2022 — 31 October 2022

Doing Greenwich + Docklands International Festival

The Greenwich + Docklands International Festival is back for 2022, with a series of exciting free events, theatre, dance and circus happening across the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

This year’s free festival is centred around the theme of ‘Common Ground’ in a bid to remind us of the importance of shared values, rituals and togetherness. ‘As we emerge from the pandemic, with growing economic challenges at home and terrifying events on our doorstep in Europe, I hope that the festival will offer audiences a moment of sanctuary from the anxious times that we’ve been living through,’ says artistic director Bradley Hemmings.

Opening the festival is the UK premiere of SPARK, Daan Roosegaarde’s dazzling large-scale installation inspired by the natural phenomenon of fireflies. Other highlights include Stephanie Lüning’s multi-coloured foam-based artwork that transforms our perception of space and Arjan Kreidhof’s mindful reinvention of a fairground ride. Also worthy of note is Discover Ukraine: Bits Destroyed, which will project images of 56 Ukrainian mosaics onto the facade of the Old Royal Naval College

Thesps should explore the programme of new work and touring productions from Graeae, Tara Theatre, Middle Child Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company, while dance fans should look to performances by the Royal Ballet and Greenwich-based Protein. Dancing City, a two-day dance takeover at Canary Wharf, also comes highly recommended. With family-friendly theatre, dance, installations and games, the Greenwich Fair is the perfect day out for tots and teens.

What better way to kick off the bank holiday weekend?

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Dates
26 August 2022 — 11 September 2022
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