Photo gallery: Search Party 2011 - The Cultural Exposé

On July 23rd, The Culture Club recruited a team to take part in Search Party – an interactive treasure hunt organised by Sing London, in conjunction with the Olympic Open Weekend, marking a year until the Games hit the Capital. The aim was to collect four stamps to get an invite for a party we had to find while picking up cryptic clues along the way. Not the easiest thing to do on a Saturday afternoon, I gotta say, and our team of 9 took roughly 4 hours to get around the trail in Shoreditch, where we had to:

Taste-test water to see which one was tap, filtered or bottled,
Sing TLC’s Waterfalls and Frankie Valli’s Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,
Do an interpretive rain dance,
Perform the infamous opener “To be or not to be” from Hamlet (directed by a clown),
Clean an old hospital ward floor with toothbrushes and dustbins,
Hoola-hoop and take part in an egg and spoon race,
Draw a pair of criminals from the 1940s,
Look for a pair of pants (!?),

Plus alot of other crazy bits and pieces before eventually getting to the boisterous party at St Botolph without Bishopsgate. A truly fun-filled day – but absolutely knackering!

Search Party 2011 (Photos by Karen Hartley)