Horse Hospital (London)
Address: Colonnade, Bloomsbury / London WC1N 1HX / United Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 7833 3644
Email: popculture at thehorsehospital.com
Contact: Roger Burton, Tai Shani
www.thehorsehospital.com
1 screen, 90 Seats
Tech: DVD/ 16mm
History: The Horse Hospital is a unique arts venue in London which has been providing a space for underground and avantgarde media since 1993. We offer regular events to their members showing rare film, music, and art, as well as hosting a significant collection of fashion items and related material.
Organisational status: Not for Profit
Editorial Line: We program, underground, cult, rare + archive 16mm, independent and avant-garde fiction and documentary.
Programming for film festivals including The Fashion in Film Festival, 1968: All Power to the Imagination and hosting various independent film and animation festivals.
Regularity: 4 days
Other stuff: We also program around 6 exhibitions a year and related activities..
Publicity: We have a 5000 mailing list
Our website
Facebook
Listings on the internet, newspapers and magazines
Audience: We have a very varied audience, different events attract different audiences.
Funding: We finance the gallery activities through ‘Contemporary Wardrobe Collection’ which is also part of The Horse Hospital.
Contemporary Wardrobe is a specialist hire company which supplies vintage street fashion, couture items and accessories to the Film, TV and Fashion industries. Born out of a passion for youth culture, and recognition of street fashion’s importance in our social history, the collection now exceeds fifteen thousand garments, designed between 1945 and the present day, and representing a multitude of diverse youth movements and cult fashions.