London Dreaming Comes to Brompton Cemetery This Weekend
With talks, workshops and a film screening exploring the subject of sleep
London Dreaming, which comes to Brompton Cemetery this weekend, 4 and 5 May, is a new event offering a series of talks, screenings and workshops exploring our city's relationship with sleep and its deceased residents.
These events are hosted by independent arts label Antique Beat and arts event company A Curious Invitation, who also host London Month of the Dead every October.
While some events have already sold out, tickets are still available for talks on the science of sleep and dreams, sleepwalking and hypnagogoia - the state between wakefulness and sleep - and pre-cognitive dreams.
There is also a workshop on lucid dreaming, an introduction to hypnosis and trance and a screening of Berthold Bartosch’s 1932 animated film The Idea, accompanied by music from pianist Thomas Ang and Lydia Kavina a virtuoso on the weird contactless instrument the Theremin.
You can find the whole programme and book tickets here.
Tickets, costing between £12 and £20 include a free Hendrick's Gin Cocktail.
Brompton, dubbed The Great Garden of Sleep, is one of the Magnificent Seven, London's septet of Victorian cemeteries that became showcases for neo-classical and new-Gothic architecture within six miles of St Paul's Cathedral.
The Grade I listed cemetery is the resting place of over 200,000 people, a haven for wildlife and a popular destination for locals and tourists alike.
Nestled among the trees and undergrowth are over 35,000 gravestones and monuments. The cemetery is alive with the amazing stories of all the people buried there since the 1830s, including artists, actors and aristocrats.
The Friends of Brompton Cemetery also host regular events, including guided tours taking place every Sunday at 2pm in summer. Find out more here.
May 1, 2019