Z/Yen Xmas Event – Beyond El Dorado: Power And Gold In Ancient Colombia, Shunga: Sex And Pleasure In Japanese Art, British Museum, Followed By Dinner At Sardo, 13 December 2013

Because I had been to see the Colombian Gold a few week’s earlier – click here or below…

Beyond El Dorado: Power And Gold In Ancient Colombia, British Museum, 21 November 2013

…and in any case because Janie was more interested in the Shunga exhibition – click here…

…Janie and I saw a different exhibition from the rest of the people on our pre-Christmas Dinner works outing.

Below is the trailer vid for the Shunga:

We really enjoyed this exhibition.

I sense that the Z/Yen team enjoyed El Dorado too.

Z/Yen Xmas Dinner At Sardo In Grafton Way

The whole event was themed as “Gold” in honour of the El Dorado aspect. Almost everyone wore something gold.

Sardo was a Sardinian restaurant, rather a good one, which itself had a somewhat gold look to it.

I crafted a seasonal song to go with the gold theme:

DRESSED UP IN GOLD
( Sung to the tune of “Silver and Gold” )

VERSE ONE – SILVER AND GOLD – ORIGINAL VERSION (by Johnny Marks)
Silver and gold, silver and gold
Ev’ryone wishes for silver and gold
How do you measure its worth?
Just by the pleasure it gives here on earth
Silver and gold, silver and gold
Mean so much more when we see
Silver and gold decorations
On ev’ry Christmas tree

VERSE TWO – BITCOINS AND LAND – LONG FINANCE VERSION
Bitcoins and land, bitcoins and land
Long Finance topics are bitcoins and land
How do you measure their worth?
Just by the value they gain and disburse
Hedge funds and bonds, hedge funds and bonds
Seem such a bore when you show
Bitcoins and land valuations
In each portfolio

VERSE THREE – DRESSED UP IN GOLD – Z/YEN VERSION
Dressed up in gold, dressed up in gold
Z/Yen folk this Christmas are dressed up in gold
How do you measure dress sense?
Not by this sartorial elegance
Shrouding in gold, shrouding in gold
Might cause some people offence
(If) Z/Yen folk wear such decorations
At normal Z/Yen events

Once people got their heads around it…

…the singing went rather well.

We have loads of pictures from this event, which I have uploaded to a Flickr album for ease of navigation – click here or below:

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