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(Pub)lic House: A Short Film about Croydon

Join Phoebe and Roger Wagner for a screening and discussion on their short film of collective poems spoken and written by the Croydon community.

Pubs across Croydon have been boarded up, abandoned and left empty. Phoebe remembers growing up in them. Roger (her Dad) remembers playing music in them since the early 90s. Together they go on a pub crawl across Croydon asking 3 questions: “What happened in these pubs, what are they now and what could they become?”. The film was compiled through interviews and workshops, and their exploration of the music, stories and sounds that populate(d) these pubs. (Pub)lic House was one of the projects within Turf Projects’ latest commission series Desire Paths, as part of This Is Croydon, London Borough of Culture 2023.

After the screening, Roger will  host a Blues gig called ‘When Hendrix Played the Star' celebrating musicians who began in Croydon so stick around!