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Join us for an exclusive first Wind, Tide & Oar film screening at Royal Museums Greenwich. NHS-UK Director Hannah Cunliffe will host a Q&A session with Huw Wahl & Rose Ravetz after the film. The event includes the launch of the accompanying Wind, Tide & Oar book, and a drinks reception aboard the famous 1869 tea clipper Cutty Sark. Tickets also include free day entrance to the Cutty Sark and a tour around The Sea-Change Sailing Trust's engineless sailing barge Blue Mermaid. You will have the opportunity to purchase signed copies of the book during the drinks reception.
Wind, Tide and Oar explores the extraordinary combination of skill and absorbed attention practised by the few exceptional sailors who are still prepared to go to sea in boats without the backup or aid of an engine. By encountering those who choose to sail in this way the project will inhabit the experience of being in dialogue with nature, rather than against it, and ask what the art of engineless sailing can tell us about the ways in which we are living today and our interaction with and responsibility to the natural world around us.
After the premiere, Blue Mermaid will then embark on a three-month sail training and screening tour, departing from Greenwich, with the film screening onboard in ten East Coast ports. The tour is part of Sea-Change Sailing Trust's National Lottery Heritage Fund supported 'Skippers of the Future' programme, which will see them visiting: Greenwich, Gravesend, Maldon, Ipswich, Harwich, Lowestoft, Woodbridge, Gravesend, Chatham, Ramsgate, and St Katharine Dock. The voyages will be crewed by trainees working towards their National Historic Ships UK Traditional Seafarer elementary certificate. In each port Blue Mermaid will be open for members of the public to come aboard and learn about the heritage of Thames sailing barges, and about the work of this historic fleet today.
Other venues are sought to screen the film throughout 2024. The film, in post-production, will run circa 1h 20m. Exhibition: 4K digital, Stereo. The screening fee is £150. Reduced fees for charitable venues may be negotiated - please get in touch to discuss. A post-film discussion/Q&A can be arranged either online or in person, to further engage the audience.
Read more about Wind, Tide, and Oar, a National Historic Ships UK Shipshape Network East project.
Event Programme:
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Cutty Sark admissions
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Blue Mermaid Open for Tours
5:45 PM Doors Open Wind, Tide & Oar Premiere
6:00 PM Film Start Lecture Theatre, National Maritime Museum
7:45 PM Q&A w/ Huw Wahl & Rose Ravetz & Book Launch, Lecture Theatre, National Maritime Museum
8:15 PM Reception, including poetry readings by Jessica Taggart Rose and readings from WTO book, accompanied by a complimentary glass of champagne, the Cutty Sark ship.
Location: National Maritime Museum & Cutty Sark, Greenwich
Date and Times: 23 April 2024 | 6pm - 10pm
Prices: £20 Adults
Zone South East
