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The End of the Summer Spitalfields Festival

I think this was meant to be a sort of homage to the closing day of the two week festival and ushering in the night.
the time was 9pm and we had just heard a concert of choral english music at Christ Church.  Like many of these events that are supposed to be significant it was frustrating. Too short to see much, and lost my two friends who were with me at the concert and then got lost in the stampede to the square. I could not hear the chants either.  And of course, it rained

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Barbican -An Evening With Sweet Honey in the Rock

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Fire on the Green - J. Cullen - All Saints Chorus

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London Lumani Choir

One of the last concerts of the season.  It seems very lazy not to go there more often- the church is one of the Bishop of London's pet projects and hosts work around reconciliation.
I think though it is more famous for its world music concerts, hosted by Wallee.
This choir was meant to be Cuban music but to me it just sounded totally african- but then I am a real philistine about music

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Environment Petition: The Bishop of London: Stop development in Christ Church Spitalfields churchyard. | Change.org

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Laka D

The first week of the festival and my first stewarding session of the season.
Laka D is brilliant and the choir, embarrassingly for such an area, all white, some known to me, singing beautiful upbeat jazzy songs.
As a lowly steward my task was to stand there, give out programmes and wear a yellow lanyard with my name on it.  You would think that was pretty easy.
Mistake number 1  Got there one minute too early and crashed the  professional organisers meeting instead of waiting for the stewards briefing.  The pros tend to huddle together and whisper as if they were organising the D Day landings
Mistake number 2 Do not get your  lanyard twisted!  Mine was and worse still came off entirely when I removed my scarf
mistake number 3 Missing out on the fire steward duties. They consist of sitting on a chair by the exit until the end of the show. Instead I opted for giving out the programmes-and that led to
Mistake number 4 Surely I should not need reminding to add the word 'free' to the word programme when dishing them out.  Avoids that dash past you

Big Lunch for Royal revellers in Spitalfields just hits the sun in time - News - East London Advertiser

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Jubilee Party in Spitalfields