ALL WORKSHOPS
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Shade Building with Architect Owen Pearce
SATURDAY
12:00-18:00
Free, drop in.GARDEN
Come help us build a large, multi-sail shade for our garden - essential as London gets hotter and heatwaves more intense. You’ll go away with skills to create your own shades - in parks, on your street, to protect both your neighbours and wildlife.
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Natural Dyeing with Auda Sakho
SATURDAY
12:00-14:30, 15:30-18:00
Free, drop in.GARDEN
Artist Auda Sakho leads this drop in workshop. Naturally dye the sails for our community shade, and create your own wall hanging. -
Foraging with STORE Projects and Silo
SUNDAY
11am-3pm
LOCAL WALKING, GARDEN£5
This workshop starts with a local guided walk by sustainable restaurant SILO to identify ingredients for foraging. You’ll enjoy a picnic of snacks made with foraged ingrdients, before returning to Collective for a STORE-led session creating a foraging basket from reclaimed materials. -
Plastic Recycling with Are You Mad?
SATURDAY
12:00-18:00
FREE, DROP-INGARDEN
Learn how to recycle and reimagine locally collected plastic waste in to beautiful new items. We are exploring the radical idea of community-owned waste that generates an income for local communities. -
Food Growing with Global Generation
SUNDAY
12:00-14:30
FREEGARDEN
Learn the basics for growing your own food, whilst discussing the wider context of food insecurity - and how we can create resilent food networks for our communities.
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Lamp Lab with The Fixing Factory
SATURDAY
12:00 - 14:00, 14:00-16:30
£3SCHOOL HALL
At this workshop you will learn the basic foundations of fixing electrical items, with a focus on electrical lamps.
DISCUSS
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Podcasting with Trasmission Roundhouse
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
12:00 - 14:30
FREEGarden
Transmission Roundhouse live from Camden Inspire! Chat to our youth podcasters about your experience with climate change, your fears and the future vision you are going to work towards.
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Poetry in the Park
SUNDAY
12:00-14:30
FREEGarden
An informal poetry group where you will use poetry writing, conversation and creative collaging to express your hopes for the future.
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Applying for Funding with Camden Giving
SATURDAY
10:00-11:30
FREEAUCTION ROOMS
Camden Giving’s Head of Grants will host this morning workshop exploring your climate project ideas, and coach you through how to build a narrative that appeals to funders. This is a group exercise where you will help to develop the ideas of your workshop neighbours, too.
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Panel: Power in Numbers: Grassroots Action Starts at Home
SATURDAY
12.30-14:00
FREE, BOOK AHEADAUCTION ROOMS
Featuring people who are already doing the work to bring communities together around climate action. Learn about the impact they are having and get inspired for your own initiatives.
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Panel: Building the World we Want: Activism Beyond Borders
SATURDAY
16:00-17:30
FREE, BOOK AHEADAUCTION ROOMS
Leading voices in architecture, activism and law to explore what meaningful progress actually looks like and what it takes to turn ambition into lasting change.
MAKE
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Kintsugi with Dotty by Design
11:00 - 12:30
£3School Hall
An introduction to Kintsugi, the ancient and mindful art of mending broken china with the golden seal.
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Mosaic Making with Debra Collis
14:00 - 17:00
£5School Hall
Make a mosaic from broken tiles. Debra is an expert teacher from the former London School of Mosaic.
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Japanese Sashiko Mending with Tamsin Lines, CSM
SATURDAY
12:00-14:00
£3SCHOOL HALL
Learn the traditional Japanese repair stitching craft, using reclaimed or recyled materials. Bring your own garment or use those provided.
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Kids Natural Printing with Grace Parker & Up to Earth
SATURDAY
15:00-17:00
£3GARDEN
A workshop for children aged 8+, exploring climate change with positive conversations around nature and creativity. The kids will create their own cyanotype prnt with natural materials. -
Kantha Blankets with Ambia Khanom
SATURDAY
14:30-17:30
£5SCHOOL HALL
Learn the traditional art of kantha blanket-making, its history and conemporary possibilities. Using reclaimed materials, you will make a small textile piece and learn the techniques to make your own larger blanket that tells your story.
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Weaved Book Binding with Kami Paper
SATURDAY
12:00-14:300
£3School Hall
You’ll create your own notebook with a simple book binding stitch, decorated with sweet wrappers and paper offcuts. Feel free to bring your own materials to bring your book to life in your unique way.