The Golden Vanity

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ARTS IN EDUCATION PROJECT - TIDAL REACH

With the benefit of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we have been able to stage two new programmes, 'The Golden Vanity' and 'A Growing Infection'.

The Company of Watermen and Lightermen joined us for these as a third project partner, allowing us to cover a wider area in terms of geographical area, of themes and of casts. 

As with all our programmes, these covered pivotal periods in the history of the City.

'The Golden Vanity: Tudor London and its River'

Historically, this production focused on the 1590s, looking at the effects both of late Tudor exploration in the City and at the way the many uncertainties of the day influenced the lives of Londoners.

We were able to add a replica Tudor boat moored at St Katherine’s Dock, areas of the Embankment and Watermen’s Hall to the Church as locations for parts of the programme, adding considerably to children’s sense of becoming part of the City’s “real life”.

Click on the photo above to see more pictures and artwork from previous Tudors programmes.