Handmade here
When was the last time you made or fixed something yourself? Can local access to space, tools, and communities for ‘making’ help us feel more connected to materials, made things and production processes? How can hands-on making help us to evaluate the everyday objects that make our lives?
With Tallie Maughan, founder of Turning Earth Ceramics, and Liz Corbin, researcher at the Institute of Making and co-founder of Open Workshop Network.
A new happy hour
We have two different east London drinks companies discuss what sets them apart from the crowd. From foraged fizz and community events, to E17 craft beer, these guys are doing things in a different way. Kathrin Böhm of Company Drinks and Jaega Wise of Wild Card Brewery.
Kathrin Böhm of Company Drinks and Jaega Wise of Wild Card Brewery
Parks and politics
Find out more about artist Gayle Chong Kwan’s The People’s Forest project; a two-year investigation into the history, politics, and people of London's ancient woodland, Epping Forest. Her sculptural work The Fairlop Oak is installed in the light well as you enter though Silk St entrance, as part of the Barbican’s foyers programme, and The People's Forest is on at the William Morris Gallery until 22 May.
Gayle Chong Kwan in conversation with Steven Bode, Director of Film & Video Umbrella.
Craft and Change
What are the benefits of exploring creativity more in our day to day lives? Whether through artistic projects, sewing, making, cooking or otherwise. How can we channel the individual creativity some of us leave behind in childhood?
And how can making and craft equip your activism, or challenge how you feel about yourself and others?
With Designer Donna Wilson & activist and founder of Craftivist Collective, Sarah Corbett.
