The Flying High Tour is kindly funded by Arts Council England. Please visit their site by clicking here.

I have been working in partnership with Croydon Airport, Croydon Aerodrome Hotel and Trinity School (home of the Mitre Theatre) to bring this event to life.

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WHAT IS IT?

Amy 95 and The Flying High Weekend celebrate the 95th anniversary of one of the most significant feats in aviation history; Amy Johnson's solo flight from England to Australia, which began on 5th May 1930 at Croydon Aerodrome!

The weekend events bring together the Flying High Tour and Historic Croydon Airport Trust with its two significant teams of historians, aviators and aviation enthusiasts, and professionals and volunteers from the world of the arts and engineering. Together we are hosting this celebratory weekend of interactive activities, talks, tours, exhibitions and performance inspired by Amy Johnson.

The weekend will showcase the work going on countrywide to keep Amy's legacy alive and build on the ever popular Croydon Airport open days. These open days, taking place first Sunday of the month, have brought thousands of people from across the UK and further afield to the iconic Grade 2 listed Art Deco building of Croydon Airport House to discover the magic of this significant and important gem of a building.

WHERE?

Amy 95 activities will be taking place in and around Croydon Airport House and will be working in partnership with Flying High Weekend activities in neighbouring Croydon Aerodrome Hotel.

On the evening of 3rd May activities will extend to the Mitre Theatre in Shirley Park, Croydon, as it hosts a performance of my one woman show,

'Amy Johnson: Last Flight Out' with a post show guest panel and Q&A supported by Trinity students.

WHY?

Inspired by the extraordinary achievements of Amy Johnson, the weekend celebrates Amy's legacy on the 95th anniversary of Amy's flight. It is part of a joint endeavour to keep Amy's memory and legacy alive into the next generation.

A significant part of the weekend is a selection of children's activities as well as the launch of FLY: The Amy Johnson Festival of Inspiration. This is a new movement supporting arts, engineering and aviation collaboration and apprenticeships through a 5 year programme of community events leading up to the centenary of Amy's Australia flight in 2030!

It is VERY EXCITING!!

BOOKING:

Amy 95 and Flying High Weekend activities are bookable separately please click each pink link accordingly.

Entry is by suggested donation daytime events.

Booking ahead is advised.

There is a charge for the evening performance on 3rd May.

WEEKEND PROGRAMME

SATURDAY 3rd MAY

CROYDON AIRPORT HOUSE

Hourly 10am-3pm Guided tours

of Croydon Airport House & Control Tower

1-2pm and 3-4pm

Children's Flight Mapping Workshops

All day exhibition

of Amy Johnson artefacts

Historic Croydon Airport activities BOOKING HERE

SATURDAY 3rd MAY

London Croydon Aerodrome Hotel

ALL OF THESE DAYTIME ACTIVITIES AT LONDON CROYDON AERODROME HOTEL ARE BOOKABLE BY ONE DONATION HERE

11am : Launch of FLY Festival

Amy Johnson Room

If we launch it, it's real!

Introducing this ambitious festival and its aims for the next five years. The launch is accompanied by...

Creative Collaboration Workshops

Hurricane Room

Visitors are invited to be part of this initial phase of FLY Festival, informing us on your thoughts about Aspiration, where connections can be made, ideas that can be explored.

Sessions are approximately 45mins long and visitors can drop in on the day in the hotel's Hurricane Room: 11.30am, 2.15pm, 4.15pm:

1pm TALK: 'The Life and Death of Amy Johnson'

Amy Johnson Room:

Talk from Jane Delamaine: Amy Johnson researcher, writer and speaker

Founder and director of the Amy Johnson Project, Jane Delamaine has dedicated the past 13 years to bringing Amy back to life for a whole new generation and not allowing her memory to slip out of history. Jane joins us as someone with a vast knowledge of Amy's life and as a believer that Amy's story cannot fail to inspire and empower.

1hr approx

3.15pm TALK : Solo2Darwin:

Amy Johnson Room

Amanda is the true spirit of adventure. From an early age, Amanda had a dream of being a pilot. From small beginnings she has successfully navigated a twenty year journey towards her biggest dream - solo pioneering a vintage aeroplabe across the globe. Solo2Darwin was Amanda's tribute Amy johnson. No stranger to diversions and emergencies, Amanda has faced challenges of dyslexia, cancer and a commerical pilot career in a male-dominated world. Amanda believes that ordinary people can do extraordinary things and is a living example of this. She's passionate about inspiring others to keep their dreams alive and live them. Not everyone has to learn to fly... just follow your own dreams.

45mins approx

10.30-4pm EXHIBITION:

Invited organisations in aviation, engineering and creative projects inspired by Amy as well as children's work from Amy Johnson Workshop Day at local Victor Seymour School, Carshalton.

SATURDAY 3rd MAY
MITRE THEATRE

7.30pm PERFORMANCE: Amy Johnson: Last Flight Out

Mitre Theatre, Trinity School, Shirley Park

My one woman show inspired by Amy Johnson's solo flight from England to Australia. In this show, we meet Amy in a world of memories, desires, wishes and ambitions and as we find out about her life, we start to see how the pieces fit and the tools Amy used to engineer her dreams to reality....

Followed by Q&A with Jenny Lockyer,

Jane Delamaine and Amanda Harrison.

The show is an hour and ten minutes,

followed by an interval then Q&A of approx 45mins.

BOOKING OPEN NOW HERE