Canal Dream Art Festival is a floating arts festival staged along Regent’s Canal in King’s Cross, bringing art, performance, music, poetry and community together in unexpected waterfront settings. The 2024 edition transformed the waterways into a multi-arts platform, with exhibitions, screenings, dance performances and workshops spread across five narrowboats - the “dream fleet” - and a canalside venue on Caledonian Road.
As part of the festival, Nathalie curated Hidden Rivers, an exhibition at RedKite Floating Gallery & Art Space that explored London’s waterways through installation and recycled materials, and collaborated with other artists and venues to amplify the festival’s environmental and cultural themes.
Through her work at gowithYamo, Nathalie also developed an interactive digital map that guided audiences through the festival’s dispersed programme, inviting exploration between sites and increasing engagement with exhibitions and events that might otherwise have been overlooked. Festival partners credited the map with helping the festival “engage with more people,” enhancing audience participation across the week-long event.
Canal Dream Art Festival celebrates the interconnection of art, water, heritage and community. By activating London’s waterways as cultural corridors, the festival encourages audiences to experience art beyond traditional gallery spaces and connects diverse creatives and visitors around issues of environmental stewardship, place and collective imagination.
