Earth Week Festival at The London EDITION with The Earth Issue | 15th – 22nd April 2019
In celebration of Earth Day 2019, The London EDITION has partnered with The Earth Issue Magazine on a week of programming and activations. The series will start on 15th April with the unveiling of a site-specific installation by celebrated Indian artist Svabhu Kohli and will continue with a series of panel discussions, workshops and wellness events all focused around the theme of environment and sustainability.
Kohli’s installation around the glass cube entrance to the hotel’s Lobby Bar will remain in place for one week, leading up to Earth Day on the 22ndApril. Kohli’s stylized illustrations of flora and fauna offer a dreamy glimpse into the artist’s love of nature and imaginative approach to art. Wrapped around the glass cube entrance, the artwork uses a sustainable alternative to vinyl made from polypropylene film, which is PVC free and can be fully recycled.
Alongside the week of activations, the hotel has created a special Earth Week Cocktail and will be donating £2 from each sold to Project 0, the hotel’s ocean conservation partner.
MONDAY 15TH APRIL
PRIVATE VIEW AND UNVEILING OF ARTWORK BY SVABHU KOHLI | 6pm until 9pm
Panel discussions:
The Earth Issue and Tanya Houghton on art and environmental activism.
Mary Charteris and Paul Cox in conversation about why sharks deserve our love not fear.
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL
FORAGED COCKTAIL MAKING WITH TOTALLY WILD AND BUNDLE DYE TOTE BAG MAKING WITH ARTIST MAY HANDS | 6:30pm until 8:30pm
Open to the public, tickets can be purchased here (£12+ booking fee)
Join for an evening of foraged cocktail making and bundle dying. The evening will be split into two sections giving participants a chance to create cocktails in one half and hand dye your own take-home tote; a great alternative to plastic shopping bags!
THURSDAY 18TH APRIL
YOU ARE WHAT YOU WEAR WITH KATHERINE HAMNETT, CORA HILTS, & SARA ARNOLD | 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Open to the public, complimentary tickets can be registered for here
Join Katharine Hamnett founder of her iconic namesake label, Cora Hilts, founder of conscious luxury brand Rêve en Vert and Sara Arnold, founder of clothing subscription rental Higher Studio for a conversation on conscious consumerism and how what you wear affects our planet.
MONDAY 22ND APRIL
WELLNESS DAY WITH LANI ROCILLO | Sessions available from 11am until 3pm
To celebrate Earth Day, the hotel’s resident wellness expert Lani Rocillo has created a special program to nurture heart, body and mind. Lani is a healing arts practitioner and a musician. She has trained in Sound Therapy, Energy medicine and Shamanic Practice. She works with the mediums of sound, plants, breath and performance with the intention of opening space to explore and access our innate capacity to heal and realise balanced health, compassionate purpose and grounded creative potential. Lani is creator of Wisdom Roundhouse, a multi-disciplinary healing arts platform exploring wellness and expansion of consciousness through the melding of the mystical, artistic and scientific crafts.
KUNDALINI YOGA AND SOUND MEDICINE | 11am until 12:30pm
Open to the public, tickets can be purchased here (£20+ booking fee)
Explore the cultivation of luminous life-force in our bodies – to heighten presence and awareness, elevate our creative spiritual capacities and return to realise a state of balance and clarity – through the practice of Kundalini Yoga whilst being immersed in harmonising sound.
SURROUND GONGS IMMERSION CLASS | 1PM UNTIL 2:30PM
Open to the public, tickets can be purchased here (£20+ booking fee)
Be surrounded and immersed in the meditative vibrations of Gongs. Be guided to a deep state of presence, inner sensitivity and calm, where the transformative currents of the Gongs permeate our cellular memory – cleansing and freeing our energetic channels to flow with radiant and vital life force. Creating harmony and spaciousness in our breath, our bodies, our hearts and our minds.
DREAM WEAVING WITH SACRED CACAO | 3pm until 4:30pm
Open to the public, tickets can be purchased here (£20+ booking fee)
Dream Weaving is a collaborative altar workshop designed to bring us together in a safe, sacred space wherein we come together in the city as a micro-community in a loving and creative way. This gathering will involve a sacred cacao ceremony, where we drink a rich brew of the plant medicine Cacao. A plant that powerfully opens the heart which aligns us to our feeling body, – restoring emotional balance, and allows to us communicate and relate with others more freely.
THE EARTH ISSUE EARTH DAY PARTY | 8pm until 11:45pm
Open to the public, complimentary tickets can be registered for here
Join The London EDITION and The Earth Issue to celebrate Mother Nature and the launch of the third issue of The Earth Issue Magazine ‘Manifesto’ with live music and performances by Desta French, Natty Waylah and DJ set from Henry Lowe.
For more information and tickets for all events please visit: www.editionhotels.com/london/events
