Friday Late: Farewell Leicester Square

Come and party after hours and celebrate the emerging jazz age of the 1920s and the dawn of a new kind of London nightlife on Friday 6 February 2015 at London Transport Museum, Covent Garden. Here are just some of the glamorous activities guests can indulge in: • Join head bar tender Erik Lorincz, from the American Bar at the Savoy for a cocktail presentation. The award winning barman will be talking about the history of the cocktail and the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel and his design genius behind the evening’s speciality 1920s cocktail • Listen to a 1920s style live jazz band • Join an Art Deco workshop and make a flapper headband or guys can print their own Art Deco pocket handkerchief to smarten up their jackets • Travel back through the decades with a talk about sex and scandals, law-breaking nightclubs, risqué cabaret and the rise of drug culture at the end of the First World War • Bright young things can get in a flap in a friendly pub-style quiz • Explore the Museum in a scavenger hunt • Jazz up your look at the luscious hair and beauty parlour with the ladies from Lipstick and Curls • Join London Transport Museum curator Simon Murphy in an illustrated talk entitled “From depression to boom” which delves deeper into the themes of the Goodbye Piccadilly exhibition, the Museum’s current exhibition about life during and after the First World War The Farewell Leicester Square Friday Late toasts the new jazz age and the start of modern nightlife in London. As well as music, a bar, and creative make and take mini workshops there will be a talk by author Lucinda Gosling about early 20th century dance venues, life after dark and how sex and scandal was never far from society’s door. The event also bids a farewell to the Museum’s current Goodbye Piccadilly – from Home to the Western Front exhibition which has been extended and will now finish on 19 April 2015.

Suitable for
18+

Admission
Adult £10 Concession £8

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000033?id=EVENT511060