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Farmers' Medley at Festival of Britain
August 4-5, 2011, Southbank Centre, London, UK
August 2011

Southbank Centre celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain with a four-month Festival of British culture and creativity from April 22 to September 4, 2011. We are invited by curator Clare Cumberlidge to take part in "The Land".

Clare Cumberlidge, Wapke Feenstra, Antje Schiffers, Adam Sutherland (for reading loud replaced by an actor), Cathy Mager & Farmer Kevin Pinion, Cefn-Y-Coed, Wales
— Clare Cumberligde & Co
— Jap Sam Books

Images of Farming - publication
Former Farmland 2008
Pinion, Cefn-y-Coed / Tyn-y-Pwll, Lllanidloes / Fordhall, Market Drayton

Especially for Festival of Britain, Wapke Feenstra and Antje Schiffers compiled a two-day event at the Queen Elisabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. Their Farmers' Medley includes the UK book launch of Images of Farming in co-operation with JAPSAM Books, with talks and village food, screenings of three films made by British farmers as part of the series I like being a Farming.... and Drawing Farms on the rooftop of the centre.

Location: Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Londen, UK. Southbank Centre is one of the largest arts centres in the world, occupying a 21-acre site in the midst of London's most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames.

For more information: Festival of Britain