Join the Walking Trees Art Collective for a curious summertime wander as part of Staffordshire St's Festival of Community 2024.

 What happens when we slow down and give the world around us our full attention? We will meet at Staffordshire St where you'll will be given a map and a series of creative prompts to engage with the local landscape as they explore the urban ecology. Clues of the past shine through to the present, human and more-than-human living side by side, trees elders watching over us. 

Through your footsteps you will map the area gathering impressions and responding to the treasures they find. The wander will be followed by a creative jam back at Staffordshire St. Expect some writing, drawing, movement, poetry and storytelling. Through the power and sensitivity of art, we invite you on a journey of re-enchantment in urban ecology. 

All are welcome, no previous art making experience is necessary. 

Info:

Thursday 8th August
Time: 18:00 - 20:00 

Tickets:

Concession £5 (unwaged, low income, students)

General admission £10

Pay it forward £15 (if you are financially able, please consider paying more, to keep events accessible to all)

We have a number of free tickets available and want to ensure that cost is not a barrier to accessing this workshop. If you are unwaged, please email (no questions asked) info@staffordshirest.com to request one of these tickets, which will be on a first come first serve basis.

Walking Trees Collective | @walking_trees_collective
Walking Trees Collective was founded by graduates of Goldsmiths MA Art and Ecology programme, Finlay Forbes-Gower and Sophie Hughes. Through participatory arts, we explore some of the most pressing ecological questions of our time. Since 2022, Walking Trees Collective has been facilitating monthly gatherings to explore the parks and waterways of London as spaces of quiet blue and green resistance. Our walks engage with the historical, social and ecological themes of each space. We use a range of guided prompts including meditation, drawing, poetry, journaling and movement for participants to form deeper attentive connections with all that’s growing around them. Our events are open to public and attended by people from diverse backgrounds. We are a LGBTQIA+ space open to all and all backgrounds.

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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