Things You Miss When You’re Streets Away
Even though I receive several “kulture vulture” e-newsletters a week, read the essential London weekly listings magazine (the original Time Out), The Guide supplement that comes with The Guardian on Saturday in addition to regular exposure to the media through daily newspapers and television…it seems I should be looking more closely because I’m not sure how I missed out on this.
Fine, crowds aren’t exactly my thing but I do love theatrical events such as The Sultan’s Elephant, just one part of a weekend of street art by the French theatre company Royal du Luxe, which by all accounts brought London to a standstill last Friday afternoon. Thanks is due to The Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, and The Arts Council for bringing this fantastic cultural spectacle to London, even if I somehow managed to miss it completely while I was just streets away on Tottenham Court Road and in Covent Garden shopping for my partner’s birthday presents.
Still, it’s nice to read about. A full account can be had from Emma Brockes in Saturday’s Guardian (”Elephant In The City: Is it an advertisement? Is it a bomb? No, it’s French street art”).
