Moments of Idleness/FLOW– immersive river concert

Aim

Help us realize a beautiful riverside concert where we invite the soundscape of the river Thames and its surroundings to co-create with us!

Ever notice how rare it is to just… stop? No phone, no scrolling, no rushing — just listening, breathing, being here. Moments of Idleness / FLOW is a site-specific concert on the Thames, part of Totally Thames Festival 2026. The music will pause — sometimes mid-song — with silence, wind, birdsong, and the river itself becoming part of the piece.

You won't just watch it happen. Performers *and* listeners can initiate the pauses. The audience doesn't just attend — they shape the flow.

It's a shared experiment in presence. What happens when the sound stops — and you're the one who stopped it?

THE EVENT
📍 Where: The Pier House, Hermitage Moorings, Wapping High St, London E1W 1NG
🗓️ When: Thursday, 3 September, 6:30pm 🎭Performers: Milena Knauß (soprano) and Lana Bode (piano)
🎟️ Tickets: £22 standard / £18 concessions
Money tight? Free tickets are available, no questions asked.

Afterwards, stick around for tea by the river with the artists — a chance to share reflections, or just sit in comfortable silence by the river together.

WHY THIS CAMPAIGN EXISTS

Ticket sales cover part of our costs, but because we are performing in a beautifully intimate space, capacity is limited. Rather than pricing people out of an evening dedicated to *stopping*, we are committed to keeping admission accessible, including fully free tickets for anyone who needs them. This campaign closes that gap.

Money raised goes directly toward:

- Musicians' fees — paying every performer fairly for a piece that asks more of them than a standard set (real-time listening, real-time responsiveness, no fixed script)
- Piano tuning, Venue hire
- Free ticket pool— so "no questions asked" is a real promise, not a limited one
- Tea by the river — cups, hot water, simple hosting for the after-piece gathering
- Documentation — a modest audio/video record of the performance, so the pauses the audience creates aren't lost the moment they end

FUNDING GOAL

Goal: £2,800

- Musicians' fees: 40%
- Piano tuning, Venue hire: 25%
- Free ticket pool (subsidizing ~15–20 free seats): 15%
- Tea, cups, simple hosting: 5%
- Documentation (audio/video record): 10%
- Platform & payment fees: 5%

If we go past goal, the first stretch use is more free tickets; the second is professional recording/editing so the piece can live on past one evening.

REWARD TIERS

| Tier | Pledge | What You Get |

| Just Support | £10 | Our thanks, named on the site (if you'd like) |
| Standard Seat | £22 | One standard ticket (same as door price — pledging here just gets funds to us faster) |
| Pay-It-Forward | £22 | Funds one free ticket for someone else, no questions asked |
| Concession Seat | £18 | One concession ticket |
| Two Seats + Tea | £40 | Two tickets, guaranteed spot at the river-tea afterward |
| Founding Supporter | £75 | Two tickets + a thank-you in the documentation credits + early access to the recording |
| River Circle | £150+ | Four tickets + named as a core supporter + a longer post-event conversation with the artists |

This is a small, site-specific, one-night piece — not a large production with reserves to fall back on. Every pound funds something concrete happening on 3 September, not overhead. If the campaign doesn't fully reach goal, the concert still happens; it just means fewer free seats and a lighter recording. We'll tell backers exactly which way it went.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 8th October 2026 at 6:03pm