The Cans Festival

The Cans Festival

Infobox Film Festival
name = The Cans Festival


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location = London, England
language = International
website = http://www.thecansfestival.com

The Cans Festival was an urban art festival held from 3-5 May 2008 in London and organized by the noted street artist Banksy.

Festival

Banksy invited thirty-nine artists from around the world, including Bsas Stencil, Prism, Roadsworth, Blek, C215, Dotmasters, Sten, Sadhu, Lex, Faile, Logan Hicks, Vhils, Vexta and John Grider exhibited their works in an abandoned tunnel near Leake Street in South East London. [cite news | title = Banksy Hosts The Cans Festival | url = http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/05/banksy-cans-festival.php | publisher = Cool Hunting | date = 2008-05-06|language=English|accessdate=2008-05-17]

The festival’s name is a play on the famous French film extravaganza The Cannes Film Festival.

ee also

* Banksy

References

External links

* [http://www.thecansfestival.com/ The Cans Festival Official Website]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7377622.stm BBC website news story article]
* [http://www.bartosik.org/scrapbook/cans_festival/cans.htm Personal Account in photographs of the fesitval, by James Bartosik]


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