The Street Art Walk
When: 2 pm every Sunday (from May 5 onward) Where: Liverpool Street Tube, Bishopsgate exit (Circle, Central & Metropolitan Lines)
"People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly" – Banksy. There's no other London Walk like this one. It's intense on the senses. It's a corkscrew of a route that pops cork after cork of east London's vibrant, heady, dynamic street art scene. It gets up close and personal with Banksy and Ben Eine and Shepherd Fairey and Invader and Co. It decodes them. Like a great jazz musician it improvs (because this outdoor gallery – aka Shoreditch and Spitalfields – gets "rehung"* every few months). It's guided by a street art collector. A savvy local, Pepe's got great connections – knows the scene as well as the artists themselves. It ends at a street artist's studio and gallery. *Six months is the average life span of street art in east London. So the walk – true to the scene – changes all the time. Makes for a unique buzz. Okay, Banksy, here we come.
THE LONDON WALKS SUMMER PROIGRAMME RUNS FROM 1ST MAY 2013 TO 31ST OCTOBER 2013. VIEW THE FULL PROGRAMME AT WWW.WALKS.COM