Overview

Please Note: This event is for incoming Study Abroad students who are studying at King’s for either a semester or a full year only

A special walk especially curated to introduce new Londoners to the local street art scene. This tour is always varied, because as you know, Street art is prone to be updated all the time. You never know what you’ll find!

Here is an explanation of the tour, according to our walking company, London Walks (The oldest and best walking tour company)…..

Bombing with Banksy & Co. "People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly" – Banksy. There's no other London Walk like this one. It's intense on the senses. It's a corkscrew of a route that pops cork after cork of east London's vibrant, heady, dynamic street art scene. It gets up close and personal with Banksy and Ben Eine and Shepherd Fairey and Invader and Co. It decodes them. Like a great jazz musician it improvs (because this outdoor gallery – aka Shoreditch and Spitalfields – gets "rehung"* every few months). It's guided by a street art collector. A savvy local, Pepe's got great connections – knows the scene as well as the artists themselves. It ends at a street artist's studio and gallery. *Six months is the average life span of street art in east London. So the walk – true to the scene – changes all the time. Makes for a unique buzz. Okay, Banksy, here we come. N.B. the walk ends in Shoreditch High Street, a short walk from Old Street Station and Liverpool Street Station.

Tickets on sale until Wednesday 20th September, 5.00pm (at which stage we'll send the guest list to our tour operator).

T&C’s:

• Please meet your peer advisor at Liverpool Street station, outside the Bishopsgate West exit, top of the escalator by the Wasabi kiosk. They'll be wearing a blue tee shirt (and standing with our guide).
• He’ll be holding up a ‘London Walks’ brochure.
• The tour sets off at 2.15pm sharp, and lasts 2 hours.
• The tour will happen rain or shine (dress appropriately).
• Bring your student ID, and email confirmation as proof of purchase. We will have supplied them a guest list, and they'll be holding up a London Walks pamphlet.
• Our guides name will be confirmed TBC closer to the event, please keep an eye on Twitter @KCLSU_Events