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Somers Town: What Future? programme

June 16, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - June 18, 2016 @ 5:00 pm UTC+0

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A 3-day Programme – photos, films, walks and a big debate!
THURSDAY  16th
6pm Exhibition Opening  + Refreshments 
 FRIDAY 17th

4pm  Big Map A giant plan with route between stations / parks  ‘green vision’ 

Friday  6pm – 8pm Film Night 
‘Somerstown’ (1984, Sue Crockford) documentary with Archival footage of 1930s slum clearance ((45 mins)
+ ‘somerstownwishes’ documentary (2015, D Foster) (25 mins
Sue Crockford will open the film night
(Donation to Somers Town History Club) 
 
SATURDAY 18th
12pm – The Great Destruction Walk 
 (meet at Chalton Gallery) 
2 pm – Social Housing History Walk
(Model estate  Oakshott Court
Suggested donations £10 / Somers Town Residents Free 
4pm Debate: Somers Town – Don’t squeeze us ou
on change, housing, community, social cleansing – and are there alternatives? 
Michael Parkes, Donna Turnbull, members of the Somers Town Planning and Development working group, local councillors and YOU! 
JOIN US! 
Somers Town: What future? part of London Festival of Architecture 2016, with this year’s theme of community. Our event looks at Somers Town, an area that developed innovative social housing throughout the 20th century. Bordered by the fast-changing N1C, threatened by HS2, undermined by Crossrail 2, and now facing the possibility of the local council building luxury housing on its parks, Somers Town is at a turning point: one that many fear could extinguish its existing community. This is why it is timely to reflect on what it means to be a community and on the future of social housing. 

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Start:
June 16, 2016 @ 6:00 pm UTC+0
End:
June 18, 2016 @ 5:00 pm UTC+0
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Website:
https://somerstownwhatfuture.wordpress.com/

Organiser

TAS and START
Email:
somerstownarts@gmail.com
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Venue

Chalton Gallery
96 Chalton Street
London, NW1 1HJ + Google Map
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