Greenwich + Docklands
International Festival 2008
19-22 of June 2008

London’s leading annual festival of free, outdoor spectacle kicks off in Woolwich with a barnstorming Fanfare of London premieres. Building on the success of last year’s visit by Studio Festi, we welcome the Spanish/ Argentinian company Grupo Puja to Greenwich with an awesome aerial spectacle. Our ever popular programme
of outdoor dance sweeps back into Canary Wharf, whilst in Bow we’ll be staging the London premiere of one of
France’s leading and most exciting street arts companies, Oposito, who will be working in collaboration with UK
artists and local people in one of the largest processional shows ever staged in East London. The Festival is also proud to be programming one of the first free public access events to be held under the O2’s iconic roof.

This exhilarating event will include thrilling new work, as well as return visits, from several of our most talked about companies from previous years. And to close the festival, an emotionally charged choral performance by Nitro will make dramatic use of the imposing setting of Wren’s Royal Naval College. GDIF is a highly ambitious festival and would not be possible without the support of its core funders Greenwich Council, Tower Hamlets Council and Arts Council England as well as many other supporters and sponsors. This year a new Arts Council funded initiative entitled “Without Walls” has enabled the Festival to work in collaboration with other leading British outdoor festivals to create a platform of performances by new and emerging street artists – look out for the “Without Walls” stand at various events to find out more about this exciting initiative. We’re enormously grateful to all our partners, who have enabled us to bring you our most extensive programme yet – in the words of one of our enthusiastic audience members in 2006 “GDIF gets better every year!”

Contact:

Greenwich + Docklands
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Tel.: +44 208 305 18 18
Fax : +44 208 305 11 8
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Bradley Hemmings T/020 8305 1818.
email bradley@festival.org
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