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 The Mayor's Thames Festival is an annual carnival and spectacle which takes place over two days on the banks of the River Thames between Tower Bridge and Westminster Bridge. Over half a million visitors usually attend while hundreds of artists and dancers taking part. The festival climaxes on Sunday with the Night Procession, featuring 2000 costumed performers travelling from Victoria Embankment via Blackfriars Bridge and finishing behind the National Theatre. The evening ends with a final massive fireworks display over the river as the pyrotechnics are set off from two barges between Blackfriars and Waterloo Bridge. There's more fire themed displays courtesy of Compagnie Carabosse who put on a spectacular Installation of Fire in the gardens of Tate Modern. During the daytime wonderful street theatre displays, food stalls and a craft market take place as well as scores of activities for kids. Head to More London for free entertainment and carnival shows including an all-day street theatre cabaret and choirs of over 750 people singing including a kids' choir. There are all kinds of boats on display and in action at the River Pageant, sailing from The O2 to Westminster Pier, and a Classic Rally river race turning St Katherine Docks into a hive of boating activities. The hugely popular Feast on the Bridge returns to Southwark Bridge, when this Thames crossing is closed to traffic, a huge dinner party taking place of the cars with grape treading and apple-bobbing to be done, and Konditor & Cook providing a monster six-metre iced cake.
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Further articles featuring Mayor's Thames Festival on LondonTown.com
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September 2009
(Published August 2009)
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| Mayor's Thames Festival
Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX
12th & 13th September 2009
Over half a million visitors usually attend the Thames Festival which takes place over two days...
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September Outdoor Events 2008
(Published May 2008)
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| Mayor's Thames Festival
Southbank Centre, Bankside and Embankment, SE1 8XX
13th September 2008 & 14th September 2008
Over half a million visitors usually attend the Thames Festival which takes...
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September 2008
(Published December 2007)
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| Mayor's Thames Festival
Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX
13th September 2008 - 14th September 2008
Over half a million visitors usually attend the Thames Festival which takes place over...
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Summer Festivals in London 2007
(Published May 2007)
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| Mayor's Thames Festival
South Bank Centre, SE1 8XX
15th September 2007 - 17th September 2007
Over half a million visitors are expected at this year's Thames festival which...
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