This weekend in London, as part of the Thames Festival, Southwark Bridge is going to be closed to motorists and transformed by a team of artists for an all day feast with dancing and entertainment from 12pm to 10pm - the Feast on the Bridge.

Southwark Bridge will be set with 170 tables and there will be story-telling, street theatre, harvest activities, music, dancing and food from exceptional farmers and producers. Expect to see: high and low tide soup ceremonies with a ceremonial soup cooked by chef Miche Fabre Lewin, the soup will be made from locally grown pumpkins, grown by children from local primary schools. The shells will be carved into lanterns and there will be a pumpkin carving competition.

There will also be music from french street music band, Las Torres; ska from The Zen Hussies big boogaloo; Mexican-style rockabilly from Carlos and the Bandidos; and a ceilidh from Cut A Shine to finish the evening at 10pm.

Sounds quite exciting, doesn’t it? 40,000 people turned up last year so it’s no small event. Get down there early, and if you do, add your photos to our flickr group and be sure to come back, and tell us all about it!

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Photo credit: Feast on the Bridge by polyvinyl (CC License)

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