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This is a dummy page showing how an London Improvisers Orchestra gig page may appear once the Culture Reverb memory system is live. It is for demonstration purposes only and not yet connected to the full network. London Improvisers Orchestra London Improvisers Orchestra – Culture Reverb Demonstration Page This page is a demonstration of how Culture Reverb may look once live. The London Improvisers Orchestra webpage automatically generates a gig page containing a full interactive list of performers. These pages will connect to individual artist pages, instruments, collaborations, and venues, allowing scenes to emerge from the data. Once fully live, everything on the page will be connected across the open web. The London Improvisers Collective is a London based collective that performs monthly concerts throughout the year. For more information on Culture Reverb, contact John a John at info@fourthportal.com London Improvisers Orchestra #39 28 September 2025 Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2BA Sam Eastmond Jonny Martin Faradena Afifi Martin Hackett Douglas Benford Tilly Coulton Gina Fergione Kes Matsui Steve Beresford Benjy Sandler Benjamin Krauss Olga Ksendzovska Jess Bull Anderson Julian Woods Gerardo Gozzi Aurelie Freoua John Eyles London Improvisers Orchestra #38 9 July 2025 St Mary’s New Church, Stoke Newington Church St, London N16 9ES Jerry Wigens Sam Eastmond Steve Beresford Julian Woods J onny Martin Aurelie Freoua Chris Killick Martin Hackett Chris Hill Manuel Miethe Isabel Anders Dave Fowler Douglas Benford Bettina Schroeder Jo Morrison John Eyles John Bisset Adam Bohman Sue Ferrar Andrei Abramov Phil Minton Ivor Kallin London Improvisers Orchestra #37 8 March 2025 St Mary’s New Church, Stoke Newington Church St, London N16 9ES Dave Fowler Douglas Benford Steve Beresford Sam Eastmond Olga Ksendzovska Julian Woods Chris Hill Martin Hackett Thomas Mejer Ivor Kallin Jonny Martin Jerry Wigens John Bisset Noel Taylor Sue Ferrar Sung Mi Marina Kim Gina Fergione London Improvisers Orchestra #36 7 June 2025 St Mary’s New Church, Stoke Newington Church St, London N16 9ES Tansy Spinks Julian Woods Chris Hill Faradena Afifi Martin Hackett Korhan Futaci Douglas Benford Alan Newcombe Jerry Wigens Thomas Mejer Gina Fergione Jo Morrison Steve Potter Julia Doyle

The Fourth Portal, Great Yarmouth pop-up operated from August to December 2022 to test the business model, including the Mind Room, and develop the hybrid component. GREAT YARMOUTH Fourth Portal at Stonecutters Way and North Quay, 2020-2022 We had a fun and successful test pop-up of Fourth Portal in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth from August to December 2023 Gallery TRANSFORMATION The then derelict Citizen Advice Bureau in a backstreet of Great Yarmouth slowly transformed into the Fourth Portal over a period of four months, soon becoming a vibrant and well-visited location. read more WATCH MIND ROOM The Fourth Portal Mind Room introduced available technologies that have the potential to impact those suffering from mental health issues in positive ways. read more MIND ROOM LIFTPOD The Liftpod was the first attempt at converting an old goods lift within the pop-up into a fully hybrid space, merging the virtual lift with people sitting in the real-world elevator. read more ARTISTS Fourth Portal engaged local artist Peter Rudolfo, exhibiting his dreamlike Great Yarmouth street scenes in the main room and artist Kevin Gavaghan challenging paintings in the Mind Room. read more KEVIN GAVAGHAN Kevin Gavaghan Kevin Gavaghan is a self-taught artist, originating from North London and now working from his studio in Hertford. His paintings are evocative figurative imagery dancing around the fringes of surrealism and abstract art. Kevin predominantly paints in oils. His process involves collecting images and photographs that inform an emotional connection about any given moment in his past. The artworks reflect emotional memories of his life growing up in the 1970s in a large Irish family, coping with the complexity of life with Tourette Tics and anxiety-related illnesses. Paintings are created organically and continue to develop throughout the process. Each painting will often change personality many times before settling on what Kevin believes reflects a truth within his thoughts. An eye condition called ‘Central Serous Retinopathy (CSR) developed 20 years ago that sometimes distorts his vision by producing fluid on his retina. Kevin chose to embrace the condition within his art. This embrace has led to a palette and application of bold vibrant colours. The paintings dissect and bend his figures and portraits to the point of abstraction. For Kevin, it highlights the multi-layers of life and our inner emotions rather than the external likeness of his subject. Peter Rodulfo Peter Rodulfo (b. 1958, Washington DC) is a British artist and sculptor. He spent much of his youth travelling across India and Australia before settling in Norfolk. Peter studied at the Norwich School of Art and Design between 1975 to 1979. His first solo exhibition was in 1980 at the Margaret Fisher Gallery; he has continued to exhibit widely over the next forty years in the UK, Europe, Asia, the USA, and South America. For the past decade, he has resided in the Norfolk coastal town of Great Yarmouth, where he has absorbed the novel visual experience of the urban environment and popular seaside culture. The subject matter, style and imagery of his paintings have remained broad and experimental, possessing a variety of meanings while directly addressing the viewer's powers of association and imagination. Peter's work inhabits the world between what we know and dream, treading a line between reality and imagination. His artworks evoke a kind of instability, a sense that change, like the end to a long British Winter, is only constant. GOODBYE The Great Yarmouth pop-up was a challenging undertaking with a location off the main thoroughfares, however, local people embraced the Fourth Portal and were sad to see it closing after such a short time. comments Thank you Great Yarmouth 4 December 2022 The Fourth Portal popup in Great Yarmouth has now ended. Our original intention was to stay for only six weeks to test the concept during summer. Stage one went so well that we decided to stay for another ten weeks to complete our stage two testing. It's been great! Blog posts and videos to follow. Stage 3 testing of the Fourth Portal will be fully online for five weeks from 4 January 2023, with the next season of the Discussion Festival. Discussion Festival is online in a very cool 4-floor virtual house, which you can just wander around as you please. Free entry. Read about previous Discussion Festivals. Opening Times: The Great Yarmouth popup has now ended. You can join us in Gravesend or visit our virtual Lucia House

Fourth Portal offers hybrid events spaces - real world and virtual - for meetings, events and social gatherings using the latest technologies. Welcome Gateway to the Fourth Industrial Revolution Animating dormant places, inspiring innovation, and building do-it-yourself communities for over 25 years Snapshot of the queue for the Fourth Portal, Gravesend, 26-28 Jan 2024. Fourth Portal fosters knowledge exchange by bringing technology, social gathering and innovation together. We animate discarded locations, invigorate communities and stimulate economic activity by inspiring confidence in people, places and potential. Town centres are not returning to how they were twenty years ago. In the next ten years, businesses and jobs will have little resemblance to companies and employment from ten years ago. Knowledge being exchanged at the Fourth Portal The next generation of 'go-to towns' will be the ones with DIY culture . Recent technological breakthroughs, including generative AI, will transform how people work, learn, interact, socialise and grow. Creating the spaces and inspiring communities will be crucial for towns wishing to be part of this next wave of innovation and social revolution. GRAVES END Fourth Portal St Andrew's Waterside Mission Church Gravesend 2023 - 2024 Fourth Portal opened its second test site in May 2023 at St. Andrew's Art Centre, nestled by the River Thames in Gravesend. St. Andrew's was infrequently used, except for occasional exhibitions, meaning it was rare for residents or visitors to access the stunning interior. By implication, the entire riverside was generally deserted, except for people fishing and dog walkers. Fourth Portal attracted more than 10,000 visitors in the first ten months, putting the location firmly on the map in Gravesend, across Kent, London and the UK. Gravesend Event Archive Inspired Recent reviews FOURTH PORTAL REVIEWS All Categories Play Video Play Video 01:21 Review by Kitizo | 13 April 2024 Kizito, a civil engineer from Gravesend, had never seen the Fourth Portal before and was intrigued as he parked up outside. He found space as something special and that there should be more attention as it allows the locals to express themselves. Play Video Play Video 00:58 Review by Tim and Liz | 14 April 2024 Tim and Liz were taken by surprise when coming across the Fourth Portal on their Sunday afternoon walk. Guitar teacher and musician, Tim became fascinated by the innovative music technology and the diversity of the Fourth Portal audience. Play Video Play Video 03:41 Review by Harriet | 19 January 2024 From our inspired page. Local born and bred Harriet Hammond began coming into the Fourth Portal in the early summer of 2023 and was soon developing the Hypermedia event series along with co-founder Joe Clarey. Play Video Play Video Review by Elvin | 28 January 2024 INSPIRATIONAL AND INNOVATIVE Elvin nails the Fourth Portal in 50 seconds. Walking along the Thames Path with his partner, he wandered into the Fourth Portal and sees the robots. Head of Data Analytics for a FinTech company, Elvin immediately made the link between play, robots, learning, knowledge exchange and more. Fabulous review. https://www.fourthportal.com/event-documentation/ Play Video Play Video 00:34 Review by Jaye | 30 Nov 2022 Jaye reflecting on the Fourth Portal test site in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, from July-December 2022. See more on the Fourth Portal Great Yarmouth page. Play Video Play Video Review with Ravi | 15 March 2024 Objects stimulate the majority of the reviews about the Fourth Portal. Ravinder Singh here holds a Tights Ball made using 320 pairs of nylon tights and weighs around 10kg. This is how much landfill 320 pairs of nylon tights take up and there are around 2.5 billion pairs made each year. This ball will not begin to break down for at least 1,000 years! (Head Chemist, SwissRe Insurance, 2014). Video by Jagdev Verdee, guest Ravinder (Ravi) Singh, founder of Khalsa Aid International Background Tights Ball stories (2012-2015) https://re-imaginingtights.tumblr.com/ Event flyers for Gravesend Fourth Portal Lab Do you have a town, building or location you wish to discuss? Get in touch. contact The Fourth Portal offers real-world and virtual spaces to meet, work, socialise, learn and enjoy events. Join us on the journey.