As part of Staffordshire St's Festival of Community 2024 we invite you to a Folly Building workshop with Charlie Hawksfield.  

Join us for a workshop about architecture and community, exploring how looking afresh at the structures around us can re-empower us reimagining them anew. 

A ‘folly’ is an ornamental structure with no fixed purpose. Charlie, Maisie and Chris will help you create matchstick and wood structures. 

Info:

Saturday 3rd August
Time: 12:00 - 16:00 

Materials: 

Materials provided, resources on self build and outsider architecture for reference and guidance from artists and trained technicians will shape the session.

Free or PWYC if you are financially able, please consider paying more, to keep Staffordshire St events accessible to all.

Charlie Hawksfield | @charliehawksfield | @follybuildingworkshop  

The Folly Building Workshop is an experimental, self-build project. We designed a structure for our community out of up-cycled material in 2022. The first folly was built in Camberwell with the help of House 54 community group, we discussed the merits of communal living and what sort of structure might reflect that.

About the Festival of Community 2024:

Staffordshire St presents our annual Festival of Community. The collaborative programme of workshops, events and fiestas will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets.

This year Pipe Dreams, a collaborative project conjured by Jimi and Madeleine Famurewa, will form the centrepiece of the Festival - prepare to be transported to the half-remembered fantasia of a London orbital waterpark in the mid-1990s.

Exploring notions of community, place and belonging, over the summer Staffordshire St will become a locus for playful creativity and celebratory knowledge sharing.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

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