Festival of community 2024
25 July - 11 August 2024
12-6pm Wed - Sun
Staffordshire St presents Festival of Community 2024: a collaborative programme of workshops, events, exhibitions and drop-ins that will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets. Exploring notions of community, place and belonging, Staffordshire St will become a locus for playful creativity and celebratory knowledge sharing.
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Our festival exhibition is Pipe Dreams by Jimi & Madeleine Famurewa, a nostalgic exhibition that transports visitors to the half-remembered fantasia of a London orbital waterpark in the mid-1990s and the collective memories held within these transient spaces.
EVENTS
Pipe Dreams | exhibition
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Opening 25 July 6 - 9
More info here
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Swimming and Flowing | yoga
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We invite you to a yoga and art workshop. Come swimming and flowing with Teresa Paiva and Isabella Ludlam, merging in community.
26 July 2024, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Book here
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Family Day | workshop
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A day full of workshops, talks, and guidance which invite visitors to share their experiences of swimming.
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Curator tour with Jimi and Madeleine at 11:30 and 14:30
talk | Swim Dem Crew 12:00
talk | Saxon Crown Swimming Club 15:30
workshop | Junk Modelling drop-in
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27 July 2024, 11am -5pm
Free, sign-up here
Glengall Wharf Gardens x Community Sauna CIC | workshop
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For this two-part event, we want to explore the role of water, heat and relaxation in building collective freedom and solidarity through visiting the Glengall Wharf Garden x Community Sauna CIC pop-up.
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31 July 2024, 5.45 -9pm
Book here
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Peckham Life Drawing Summer Special | workshop
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Join us for a South London water park themed life drawing session where you can draw and/or pose. Swimwear optional.
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1 August 2024, 7 - 9pm
Book here
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Trans Chorus: Sensing Sounds | workshop
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Wash off your week with a sensory vocal bath created by and for trans and gender non-conforming folks.
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2 August 2024, 7 - 11pm
Free or PWYC, sign-up here
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The Folly Building Workshop
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A workshop with Charlie Hawksfield about architecture and community, exploring how looking afresh at the structures around us can re-empower us reimagining them anew.
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3 August 2024, 12 - 2pm
Free or PWYC, sign-up here
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Pop’s n Tot’s | play morning
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Are you a local father to a young person? Join us for coffee, tea and conversations around the exhibition and parenthood. Toys provided!
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4 August 2024, 11am -1pm
Free, drop-in
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Open Water: How can swimming make space for everyone? | panel
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Pipe Dreams curator Jimi Famurewa hosts author Jenny Landreth (Swell; Swimming London) and director Olivia Smart (Black Stroke) in a conversation about the past, present and future of historic disparities and inclusivity in swimming culture
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6 August 2024, 6.30 - 9pm
Free or PWYC, book here
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Walking Trees x Peckham Pen-Tangle | workshop
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What happens when we slow down and give the world around us our full attention? Join the Walking Trees Art Collective for a curious summertime wander
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8 August 2024, 6 - 8pm
Book here
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Word Club | all dayer
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Join Elida Silvey for Staffordshire St’s Word Club all dayer, a place for cross-disciplinary writing, from prose, non-fiction, poetry, academia and more.
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Memory Zine workshop | 3 - 4.30
9 August 2024
Book here
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Word Club x Exteriors open mic | 6 - 9​
9 August 2024
Free or PWYC, book here
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Postcards to the Future | workshop
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One Thousand & One Letters invite you to a unique letter-writing workshop. What if postcards advertised our local attractions instead of our holidays?
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10 August 2024, 10am -5pm
Free or PWYC, sign-up here
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