Next Stop 2012

EEA will be working with The Gateway Boroughs, Thames Gateway London Partnership, LDA, Arts Council England, The Sports Council and CLG to deliver Next Stop 2012, a participatory arts programme to mark the commencement of the British leg of The Olympic Games.

The programme will embody the spirit of ‘The Games’ and performances will be showcased at cultural events in each of the 5 boroughs:

Barking and Dagenham 2 Nov
Molten Festival will be celebrating its finale by kick starting the London Olympics’ on Sunday 2 November 2008 on Abbey Green in Barking Town Centre. Emergency Exit Arts, the UK’s leading creators of spectacular celebrations, will be presenting Shockwaves, an incendiary performance with a giant fiery Phoenix bird, the flaming lions of Barking and Dagenham, human Catherine wheels, the finest in Global music from Continental Drifts and a volcanic eruption over Barking town centre with a fireworks display that will be out of this world.

Join us during the Molten Festival from July to November for our Shockwaves workshops where you can make your own lantern to light your way to Abbey Green for the fabulous finale show.The project is part of Next Stop 2012, funded by Thames Gateway. Shockwaves is supported by Barking and Dagenham Council, Continental Drifts.