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London Modern 22

  • Waltham Forest Town Hall Forest Road London, England, E17 4JF United Kingdom (map)

A new cultural festival. Join us on December 10 for a celebration of the arts, design and architectural movements of the mid-20th century.

Celebrate modernism in all its forms, from buildings to music to fashion to art and design, and find out what modernism can teach us about living well in the 21st century.

Join us from 10am to 6pm at one of London's greatest modernist buildings, the recently refurbished Waltham Forest Town Hall, for talks, debates, tours, masterclasses and exhibitions.

Our programme:

  • John Grindrod, historian and author of Concretopia and Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain, is your host

  • Neal Shasore, head of the London School of Architecture, on architectural culture in interwar London

  • Jude Rogers, journalist, broadcaster and author of The Sound of Being Human, brings her personal guide to The Waste Land and TS Eliot's London

  • Charles Holland, teacher, writer and principal of Charles Holland Architects, on London's many modernisms

  • Masterclass with the Twentieth Century Society: meet and learn from the grassroots campaigners saving modernist gems from the wrecking ball

  • Travis Elborough, writer, historian and cultural commentator, on modernist London in pop culture

  • Hawkins Brown, the architects behind the restoration, take you behind the scenes of the Grade II-listed Waltham Forest Town Hall

More speakers and events will be announced shortly – follow us on Twitter and Instagram or sign up for email updates here. Tickets here.

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