Launched in 1997 with an amazing high wire walk across the Thames, the festival has grown to become the capital's largest free, open-air arts festival.
Thames Festival commissions high-profile, cutting-edge arts events for unique environments on and around the river. It also showcases the best in street arts, with pyrotechnics (that's 'fireworks' to you and me), illuminations, art installations, river events, street theater, massed choirs, circus, and music. Tens of thousands dance in the streets at the festival's climactic event, a spectacular Night Carnival that's a vivid mixture of masquerade, dance, music, and fantastic costumes.
(2007 was the 10th anniversary.)
- The Thames Festival River Pageant is on Saturday 1-30-3.30pm.
- 7-10pm on Saturday and Sunday there's a Fire Garden (installation) outside Tate Modern.
- Sunday, 7.15-9.30pm, is the night procession along Victoria Embankment, traveling east, over Blackfriars Bridge and west along Upper Ground, finishing behind the National Theatre.
- The final is fireworks between Waterloo & Blackfriars Bridges on Sunday at 9.45pm.
- Blackfriars
- Waterloo
- Southwark
- Embankment

