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FESTIVAL "RUSH HOUR JAM"

Music and also an art gallery at Earl's Court underground station

Monday 30th June - Saturday 19th July

Everyday during the rush hour, between 4.30pm and 6.30pm the Earl's Court station will be transformed into an exciting and unusual festival venue. We hope to bring a little colour and inspiration to your journey home with some great live music and visual art at one of London's busiest underground stations.
Look out for these special festival events in the week before and weekdays during rush hour during (some Saturdays included) throughout the festival.


TRAIN RIDES IN THE CEMETERY

Sunday 20th July, 11am

The West London Line from West Brompton station is getting two new stations: Shepherd's Bush, opening on 1st October 2008 and Imperial Wharf in 2010. To celebrate, the Group has secured the LITTLE RED TRAIN in the Cemetery! We also have raffle tickets for amazing prizes, including free travel, museum passes AND the model railways displayed at the Streetfair!


PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

This year the festival in connection with Snappy Snaps on the Earl's Court road will be running a competition to find the best festival photographer of 2008. All you have to do is get snapping! Final submissions will be entered into a competition to win some great prizes from Snappy Snaps, and also take pride of place in the winners' gallery on the festival website, and posted on the "Talent Button" section of the festival website for all to see. Snappy Snaps Earls Court will donate a stretched and mounted A1 canvas (RRP £120) as the first prize for the Earls Court Festival Photographic Competition.

Click here to enter


BROADWAY COMES TO FESTIVAL 2008!

The Earls Court Community Festival would like to extend a warm welcome to Broadway, our designated charity for 2008...
More info >>


YOUNG PEOPLE

Earl's Court Youth Club Open day

Saturday 19th July

To celebrate the re-opening of one of the few places in the area for young people. Five-a-side pitch, State of the art recording studio. There'll be lots to do on the day. Football coaching sessions, Mceeing, Street dance circus skills and a whole lot more. Contact Steve Hunt on: 0207 373 7970 for more information.


WALKING ABOUT HANGOVER SQUARE

Danger and Madness in Earls Court: The sinister world of Patrick Hamilton

Saturday 12th July, 3pm

A joint London Adventure Society & Sohemian event

Presented by Nigel Jones (Hamilton's biographer) and Marc Glendening

Meet in front of Earls Court underground station (Earls Court Road exit), where two representatives of Mr Hamilton will await you: look out for two gentlemen wearing tweed jackets, hats, old school ties, sharply pressed trousers and Oxford brogues. Follow them to enter the menacing world of Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) and his most famous novel, Hangover Square.

Like all Hamilton's books, Hangover Square offers an incisive and perversely humorous insight into the British class structure and culture of the 1930s and 40s. You will visit venues associated with the book and Hamilton's own life, including the scene of his near fatal engagement with a fast travelling motor vehicle that was to hasten his decline into depression and heavy drinking.

The walk will last approximately 2 hours, concluding at The King's Head, 17 Hogarth Place.


SCENERY CHEWER FILM CLUB

Screening of Hitchcock's 'Rope' and film noir classic, 'Hangover Square'

Sunday 13th July, 2pm

The newly launched film club, Scenery Chewer, will be hosting a screening of Hitchcock's 'Rope', followed by lost film noir classic, 'Hangover Square' in Earls Court. The event will be a celebration of the playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton.
An Earls Court resident, Hamilton wrote the screenplay for the Hitchcock classic starring James Stewart, as well as the novel 'Hangover Square', which was turned into a movie by John Brahm, director of the more well-known classic, 'The Lodger'. The film is set in Earls Court, a home for both Hitchcock and Hamilton at these points in their careers. The event will run from 2 pm to 8 pm, and will see the screening of the two films, as well as other inspiring works. The event is the result of a partnership between Scenery Chewer and the Earls Court Community Festival. The event will take place at The Troubadour, 236-7, Old Brompton Road. For more information, please email tirusanthan@hotmail.com or visit Scenery Chewer


CHELSEA YOUTH FESTIVAL

Saturday 16th August

What skills do you have? Want to help organize an amazing event? Live performances, film, music, art, photography. Workshops organized by Point Blank. Contact Sonia Mc Collin on: 0207 584 6753 and get yourself involved.