Thames Festival 2014

Monday 1st to Tuesday 30th September 2014
South Bank, Southwark, Greater London, SE1 9PH, England MAP
FREE

Daily capacity: 250,000

Last updated: Tue 12th Aug 2014

Launched in 1997, The Mayor's Thames Festival has grown to become London's largest free open-air arts festival. This year the festival has expanded and for the first time, this year's festival will take place across an entire month from Monday 1st to Tuesday 30th September 2014.

Line-up

The focus of this event has moved away from music with only Imperial Wharf Jazz Festival, the Kids' Choir, Handel’s Fireworks Music and Illuminations, and Battersea Reach Summer Fayre, offering live music this year.

Exhibitions, artworks, talks and walks include Source to Sea River Relay, Florentijn Hofman Commission, Mapping London, River Works - Jacques Limousin, Fire Garden by Carabosse, Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Festival, St Katharine Docks Classic Boat Rally, Blue Ribbon Village, Barge Driving Races, Maggie’s Culture Crawl, The Great River Race, The Boy Who Climbed Out Of His Face, Rivers of the World, Potmaking for Firing on the Foreshore, Thames: Dark River - Still Shining, The Big Thames Tidy, London’s River - The City’s Ebb and Flow, Books about Town, Panorama of the Thames Project, Brunel Boat Trip and Tunnel Descent, London Free Film Festival, You cannot step twice into the same river, Philomena, 1000 Londoners, River Fleet with Paul Talling, Late London: Sonic City - Bridging the World, Scanner, Totally Thames Blast!, The BIG Art & Storytelling Tall Ships Project, Sails and Tales - Family Adventure, Richmond Riverside Walk with Discovery Richmond, River Peck with Tom Bolton, Richmond Riverside Festival, The Thames SENSEation, Riverside Walk with The William Morris Society, River Westbourne with Paul Talling, Walk the Tidal Thames with The Thames Estuary Partnership, Bishops Brothels and the Bard with Brian Cookson, Teddington to Richmond Locks with Colin del Strother, Safe to Cross? Testing London’s Bridges, Architecture & Design - Riverside Exploration, Vauxhall to Battersea Riverfront with Colin del Strothe, Tower Bridge: A Celebration of 120 Years, Introduction to Wildlife Photography, Londonist Afloat: Totally Thames Quiz on a Boat, Richmond & Boat to Hampton Court Palace & Gardens, Discovering Putney’s Historic Riverside, Behind the Scenes at Tower Lifeboat, Firing on the Foreshore, Crossness Pumping Station Open Day and Guided Walk, Tower Beach Open Day, Keats Fleet Walk, Thames Cruise Aboard S.B. Lady Daphne, Twickenham Riverside Walk with Discovery Richmond, Counters Creek Part 2: The Borough Boundary, Richmond Riverside Cycle Tour, City Hunt Blackfriars, The River Roding with Mark Watson, Richmond & Boat to Kingston upon Thames, Exclusive Behind the Scenes Tour at Tower Bridge, The River Weekender, Foreshore Finds Open Morning, Roman Bath House Tours during Open House Weekend, Richmond Riverside Cycle Tour, London’s Lost Rivers - The Geek Off, The City and the River Thames, Screen-printing the Thames, Londonist Afloat: Terrific Tales of the Thames, Maritime Show and Tell, Swimming the Thames: Then & Now, Barking and Dagenham’s Riverside Industries, Thames Oddities, Myths and Mysteries of the Thames, Behind the Scenes at Tower Lifeboat, Twickenham Riverside Walk with Discovery Richmond, Wasafiri’s Words on the Water: Celebrating Thirty Years of International Contemporary Writing, Dazzle Ship London, A Trip down the Thames in Story and Song, Richmond Running Festival, Richmond’s River, London’s River, Adoration: Londonescence - Ed Gray, FloatArt London 2014, Policing the River Thames, Architecture & Design - Riverside Exploration, Downstream with Pete Smith, Twickenham Riverside Walk with Discovery Richmond, Discovering London’s Ancient Harbours: The Ports of London before the Great Fire, The First Crossness Engines Sewage Metropolis Steampunk Convivial, and Parr’s Priory Rowing Club Novice Regatta