LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SURREALISM

Monday 26th June to Sunday 9th July

in the following venues:

rivers & streams & lakes
bookshops, junk shops & markets
pubs & bars
parks & gardens & woods
trains, planes & automobiles
cafes & restaurants
cemeteries, wasteground & abandoned sites
the streets
online & offline
everywhere & nowhere
... anywhere other than inside a museum, art gallery or lecture hall.

The SLAG is organising a series of games, dérives and events in London for the duration of the festival. All the necessary details, with dates, venues and instructions for games, will be issued over the coming days and weeks. If you are in London, you are warmly invited to participate, either with us or independently. If you are not in London, you are equally warmly invited to participate by playing the games wherever you are, whether in the UK or elsewhere, during these two weeks.

Our hope is that you will not just play alongside us but also suggest your own games, events or other ideas for the festival. If you don’t like any of our suggestions, don’t just sit there wishing we had come up with better ones, invent your own and make them happen yourself. If you send your ideas, games, events etc. to us at the email address below, we will disseminate them via our mailing list. We will also compile an album of photos, reports, texts & images from the festival for distribution to all the participants – please send us any material which you would like to be included.

In the words of Lautréamont, “Poetry must be made by all.” The London International Festival of Surrealism is not designed for passive consumption. This is a DIY festival: it is up to you to make it happen.

An emission of the SLAG ~ SURREALIST LONDON ACTION GROUP

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Surrealist London is a city that will always remain to be invented