SALON NO. 59: LONDON BOHEMIA
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2 reviews - Westminster Arts Reference Library
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £7.00 - £9.50
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16
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Thu, 25th Oct 2018 @ 18:30 - 20:30
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18:30 - 20:30
Each ticket includes a 'Wardour and Dean' of Hendricks Gin
Ironfoot Jack and The Colony Rooms
Despite recent transformations, Soho remains associated with Bohemians. Tonight we find out why as artist DARREN COFFIELD and writer COLIN STANLEY take us on a trip through the area's pre-war and post-war underground arts scene. Along the way we meet some very strange (and some very famous) characters, including Francis Bacon, a Doctor Who and a James Bond..
First up, COLIN STANLEY tells the incredible true tale of escape artist, fortune-teller, author, cunning man and raconteur “Ironfoot Jack,” aka Jack Rudolph Neave (1881–1959), the self-styled “King of the Bohemians”, a well-known Soho character in pre- and postwar London.
Neave’s unpublished manuscript was discovered amongst cult author Colin Wilson’s papers by Colin, who assembled and annotated the text for publication. Jack was one of the earliest Soho club promoters and opened the famous Caravan Club, one of the district's first gay friendly establishments, in 1934.
A fabulist ,vagrant, sponger, mystic, conman and smelling like 'a goat in a rut', his life truly was a bohemian tale.
Then, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the closure of London’s infamous arts establishment, The Colony Room Club, former member DARREN COFFIELD tells tales of its 60 year history when more romances, more deaths, more horrors and more sex scandals seemed to take place there than anywhere else.
In the regimented and sexually repressed postwar London, the Colony attracted professional drinkers to a man, woman or something in-between, since sexual non-conformity always played its part in the mix. It brought together the confluences of talents that would help define postwar London and will be forever associated with the artistic circle of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
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Tickets/Times
| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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| LONDON BOHEMIA Standard | 18:30 - 20:30 | £9.50 |
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LONDON BOHEMIA Concession
Please bring proof of concession
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18:30 - 20:30 | £7.00 |
Location
Address
Westminster Arts Reference Library, 35, St Martins Street, London, WC2H2CP
Nearest Station
Leicester Square (Tube)
Organiser
Antique Beat
Antique Beat
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12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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