Totally Thames festival 2025

With the river facing mounting environmental pressures, from pollution to habitat loss, this year’s festival places a renewed focus on ecology and care. Artists across a variety of disciplines will respond to the river’s challenges, using creative expression to spark awareness, inspire dialogue, and imagine more sustainable futures.

Composer Narotam Horn will kickstart the festival as he presents River Recital 2025 Summer Concert on 7th September at The Arts Ark, Tower Bridge Moorings. This unique river stage is set against the backdrop of Tower Bridge on London’s only floating gardens. The concert honours the river’s biodiversity while amplifying the voices of communities living along its banks. In partnership with the Museum of Homelessness, this mesmerising performance will explore the intersection of ecological and social vulnerability, raising funds for housing support and celebrating alternative ways of living with water, sparking important conversations around homelessness, sustainability and social change.

On 13th September at Crossness Pumping Station, Conduit will see five femme artists from across the London jazz scene use improvisation, repertoire, loops and synthesis to explore elemental change and collective care. Led by Bridget Walsh, the performance draws from lived experiences and environmental research, inviting audiences to cohabit and collaborate alongside. With water as both theme and medium, Conduit highlights how artistic practice can help us better understand the climate crisis and beyond, through emotion, sound and community. Through music, meditation, soundscapes, synthesis, loops and samples, Bridget Walsh, Rosie Turton, Isobella Burnham, Momoko Gill and Jan Halen will create and co-regulate in real time, exploring everything from wildfires to revolution, misogyny to mutual-aid, lullabies to Land Back. The space will be opened with a special guest set from virtuoso guitarist and expansive vocal artist, Rosie Frater-Taylor.