Cultural Venues — CFFC

Time to join in with this week’s Fun Foto Challenge but Dan’s warned us to be aware of future planned subjects so I’ll be choosing with care 😎👍

What counts as a cultural venue? Well that’s a difficult question to answer and I’ll try to explore that. Some of my choices may seem a bit left-field 😅

The London Transport Museum is perhaps a very good example since it qualifies both as a venue and also as a place where a part of London’s culture is displayed. The main venue for the public is at Covent Garden but the museum has a depot at Acton where conservation of exhibits is carried out. Here’s a line-up of buses at that site…

Museums are very important venues from a cultural point of view – Only sometimes they’re displaying someone else’s cultural property 🙄 The British Museum…

Part of London’s culture is its shopping streets – Oxford Street being marketed to the world…

While we’re in the dark – Cinemas are cultural venues. Here, the neon lights of the Phoenix, East Finchley, are reflected in a parked car…

…A mix of popular and art house films can be viewed there in a cosy venue. Meanwhile, North Finchley boasts the Arts Depot for a mix of music and stage productions including hosting schools productions, along with courses in the arts and crafts…

Going off at a tangent – Chapungu Sculpture Park in Zimbabwe where accomplished Zimbabwean sculptors work on site and sell their wares…

…And Great Zimbabwe itself…

…A historic city dating to a period covering the 11th to 14th centuries.

The Tate Modern – Art Venue with attitude…

…And the National Gallery which displays art and overlooks Trafalgar Square – on this occasion during a protest…

…At which I was a participant👍 – Trafalgar Square is popular for that sort of thing 😅 …

…And that’s culture in action!

One last shot of a different sort of Venue – The UK has a Love-Hate relationship with its railways and I can’t leave without a shot of St Pancras with clearly some cultural thing-a-me-jig planned 🤣…