Name: The Big Draw Festival - 'Drawing with Light'
Start: 2025-10-30T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-10-30T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Camden Market Hawley Wharf

The Big Draw Festival - 'Drawing with Light'

At dusk, lit up dancers will parade along the now-pedestrianised Camden High Street and on Hawley Wharf canalside, directed by David Blake.
About this Event

Dancing and light will make lines through Camden High Street and onto Hawley Wharf canalside, in a 2 part performance.

Light offers the potential for expressive, fluid and dramatic mark-making – leaving permanent or temporary impressions.

Dance, directed by David Blake, will follow on from presentations and masterclass workshops with young people in local venues, and will respond to the populated street and canalside architecture.

Light, both worn and projected through technologies, will be coordinated with sounds, music and voices drawn from Camden’s recent and past histories, and will follow body movement and dance through street levels, steps, and canalside terraces.

These performances are part of Camden's Black History Season.

PART 1: 17:00

Camden High Street pedestrianised section (near Buck St junction) NW1 8NH

Performers will weave movement with fabric and lights around a newly installed seating and planting streetscape in the High Street by Edgy Collective, accompanied by a soundscape of Camden’s past and present.

PART 2: 18:00

Hawley Wharf, Water Lane, NW1 8JY

Performance will move up to Hawley Wharf with a series of impromptu interludes and a ‘Pied Piper’ procession leading to the canalside space. Dancers, student performers and participants will perform around the stairs and railway arches of the Wharf for a final piece expressing themes of hope and inspiration.