From The Soil Up, Wild Clay Workshops, Peckham Festival of Community 20 August 2023, Staffordshire Street Studios
Join Jessy Solomon-Harper and Mattie O'Callaghan for a family-centred wild clay workshop and get stuck into playing and making. Come dig deep into the stories and histories of Peckham hidden beneath the concrete. We will be making new worlds together through getting hands on with clay processing and building, thinking about our relationships to the earth and the materials we make our cities with.
Getting stuck in // make your own clay - Thinking about histories and stories from the soil, where does clay come from? How can we collaborate with nature? What does it mean to take from the earth? Looking deeper into the life cycle of materials we will process wild clay into a usable, playful material.
Making new worlds with clay // make your own wild creature - Experimenting, how can we make art that’s good for our communities and planet? How can we give back to the earth? How can we reimagine our city? We will use the clay to model out our ideas and make wild creatures.
Sunday 20 August 2-4pm
Jessy Harper-Solomon and Mattie O’Callaghan have been collaborating on creating workshops exploring wild clay and questions around ecological healing, regenerative materials and land justice.
From The Soil Up is part of Staffordshire St's Festival of Community, co-curated with Peckham Platform and F.A.T Studio.
The collaborative programme of workshops, events and fiestas will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets. Exploring notions of community, place and belonging, over two long weekends Staffordshire St will become a locus for playful creativity and celebratory knowledge sharing. Full programme of events and more info here
LOOP
This workshop is also part of Staffordshire St's LOOP programme, a series of events for artists and the wider community, collectively exploring regenerative processes and materials. Curated by Lisa Darrer