GDIF 2024 | London’s free, annual outdoor performing arts festival 23 August-8 September 2024
This Woven O
26 – 28 August | St Mary's Gate, Greenwich Park
What to Expect: Family friendly | Great for Kids | Speech free
Free
Commissioned by GDIF and returning for 2023 in Greenwich Park, this sculptural installation invites you to enter a magical circular sanctuary, woven entirely from willow.
Disabled artist Oliver MacDonald’s exquisite artwork will become the setting for a specially commissioned new theatre production from Julie McNamara on 26 August* and workshop activities on 27 and 28 August.
More information on This Woven O
Site Access
All shows at Greenwich Fair are free to attend. Just show up.
Assistance Dogs Welcome
Level Access
There is level access to each performance location.
There is a mix of hard-standing and grass areas. Trackway will be used to create accessible routes.
There will be short ramps onto any raised areas.
Access Viewing areas
A priority area for disabled audiences will be marked with a sign or flag. Space for wheelchair users and various seating options will be available at each performance site.
Distances between sites
The festival site includes Greenwich Park, Old Royal Naval College and Cutty Sark Gardens.
Most performance sites are 5-15 minutes away from each other. Each site has multiple performances throughout the day.
The show ‘The Air Between Us’ is at the top of Greenwich Park next to the General Wolfe Statue and near The Royal Observatory. An accessible buggy with 1 wheelchair space and up to 4 companions will be available (on a first-come-first-served basis, provided by the Royal Parks team) between St Mary’s Gate and the Pavilion Café in Greenwich Park in both directions. More details will be available at the GDIF accessible social point near St Mary’s Gate.
Check the map and brochure to plan your route or ask a volunteer who can direct you to an information point.
Quiet Space and Access Areas
A covered Quiet Space and Access Area will be provided onsite at the Old Royal Naval College. The Access Area will have volunteers and staff available for access information throughout the day. This will be located on King Charles Lawns.
Greenwich Park will have an accessible relaxed social area near St Mary’s Gate.
Many nearby peaceful areas have bench seating across Royal Greenwich Park and the Old Royal Naval College.
Assisted Access Routes
GDIF volunteers will guide audiences on the following access routes:
1) BSL/Captioned/Speech Free performances
2)Audio Described performances
3)Performances with Easy Read available
Details of routes and meeting points coming soon.
Accessible Toilets
Revolootion (formerly Mobiloo) changing places facilities with a hoist and changing bench will be available at Greenwich Fair.
Please bring a sling to use the hoist.
Greenwich Park has accessible toilets behind the Royal Observatory.
Blue badge parking
Cutty Sark Gardens, Park Row (25 Park Row, London SE10 9NL), College Way Car Park
Greenwich Park, car parking via Blackheath Gate only ( Greenwich Park Car Park South, London SE10 8QY)
Drop-off points
College Way, SE10 9LS
Greenwich Park top- Observatory, Blackheath Ave, London SE10 8XJ
Greenwich Park bottom- St Mary’s Gate, London SE10 9JL
Contact
For Access questions, contact [email protected] // 07899 893 935
For other audience questions, contact our Box Office: [email protected]
Access
Text Free Installation
You are welcome to feel the texture of the woven wood
Credits
Installation created by: Oliver MacDonald
Directed and written by: Britny Virginia Albert, Sonny Nwachukwu, Kate Lovell
Photography by: Richard Matthews
Produced by: Graeae and GDIF
This Woven O has been created in Suffolk by the following creative team:
Artist and Architect: Oliver MacDonald
Willow work: Peter Dibble
Wooden Armatures and Carpentry: Ian MacDonald
Creative metalwork: Chris Day
Metalwork: J.T Pegg and Sons LTD
Structural Engineering: Atelier One
Graeae Creative Credits:
- Director — Kate Lovell
- Director — Sonny Nwachukwu
- Director — Britny Virginia
- Movement Director — Darragh O’Leary
- Sound Designer — Oliver Vibrans
- Costume & Set Designer — Stephanie Greenslade
- Caption Book Designer — Natalie Cooper
- Tactile Book Designer — Aofie Barron Flynn
- Voiceover — Luke Elliott
- Performers: Britny Virginia, Chandrika Gopalakrishnan, Charlie Folorunsho, Deborah Mcleod, Elinor Machen-Fortune, Farrell Cox & Rachael Merry
Supported by
This Woven O at GDIF 2023 is supported by the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Royal Greenwich Festivals, Royal Parks, Greenwich Park and Arts Council England.
Where to find it
St Mary’s Gate, Greenwich Park