One Thousand & One Letters and Staffordshire St invite you to a unique letter-writing workshop as part of our annual Festival of Community. 

What if postcards advertised our local attractions instead of our holidays? 
In this workshop, you get to create your own postcard, showing off your local area's attractions. What does your local area have to offer? Send a postcard to a friend, classmate or family member, inviting them on your next adventure at your neighbourhood's beloved leisure centre, park or library. 

What can we learn from novelists about the future of our world?
In this portion of the workshop, we learn about the tools that science fiction writers use to create imagined worlds. Borrowing from their prompts, we write letters filled with our fantasies, anxieties and design ideas about the future of public leisure, addressed to the next generations. If you're interested in creative writing, connecting to your local community, or preserving public leisure spaces, this is the workshop for you.

Info:

Saturday 10th August
Time: 15:00 - 17:00 

Materials:

Materials are provided, but please bring some images on your phone of places in Peckham and beyond that matter to you. 

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

One Thousand & One Letters | @1001_Letters_ 

One Thousand & One Letters is a writing collective that advocates for the value in letter writing. It champions letters both as works of written art, and also as vehicles of interpersonal connection.

The facilitators of POSTCARDS TO THE FUTURE are Kimia (@kimiadomire) and Mana (@fair.creature.of.an.hour). Kimia works in the tech industry and writes a monthly introspective newsletter. Mana works as a policy advisor and writes genre-bending poetry.

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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