Slow Down London

By Alexander Rose @zander

Apr 2, 02009

For those of you in the UK, on April 24th the Slow Down London festival begins its 10 day celebration of slowness. Our good friend David Rooney, curator of timekeeping at Greenwich’s Royal Observatory, will be kicking it off with a free talk at the National Portrait Gallery. Here is a write up in the Financial Times on the festival.

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