It’s bank holiday, again! and nature is blooming everywhere 🌿🌸🌞 I’m excited for a busy summer ahead with 3 funded projects; each about collaboration, taking people to places they don’t normally get to go and place-making through sharing- food, creativity, music, stories & memories. They are also about celebrating being in nature, in London! Can’t say too much more but watch this space for more info.. ****************************************************** In the meantime the caravan’s next appearance is with @brockley_open_studios at Hilly Fields fair on Sat 22 June. BOS is all about opening doors, community building & sharing the amazing creativity that goes on in the quiet streets of SE4 & SE14.
It also falls on Refugee Week and its 2019 theme ‘you, me and those who came before’. I’ll be mapping people’s lives and histories through the journeys they’ve made and their parents and grandparents before them. These are what makes us who we are! Come and drop by the caravan and tell me your stories!
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and finally time to breathe.. We had a great day yesterday @thfest - thanks to the festival, TH centre and St Catherine’s Church for having us and for everyone who dropped by for a visit and a chat.
Room with a View offered a metaphor for migration by transforming the caravan into a bird shelter, with nesting eagles, hummingbirds, swan bills, ospreys and other bird life from around the world visible through each window via a series of live wildlife webcams.
Different parts of the installation gave a creative voice to refugees from AFRIL’s Helping Hands foodbank in Lewisham. Displayed alongside the birds were framed 19th C world maps with each member’s route to the UK embroidered over in gold. Outside the caravan were upcycled postcards from exile with messages from participants to the world.
With thanks to AFRIL for the collaboration and to Explore.org for providing access to their amazing range of webcams.
You can find their webcams and films documenting social campaigns here:
Website: explore.org
Facebook: facebook.com/exploreorg
Twitter: @exploreorg
Instagram: @exploreorg
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2KSeUU5SMCX6XLRD-AEvw
Shelters of the world.. the simple bird shelter, in thousands of gardens across Britain.
If you want to protect and nurture bird life, you’re supposed to create shelters and have a garden rich with different plants and vegetation. It’s a known fact we definitely need different species to have a healthy bio diverse ecosystem so we can all thrive.
These are images I found from National Geographic magazine, 1950. Tropical birds, painted with beautiful colours and celebrated for their majesty
Birds migrate, people migrate - we could try treating people in the same way?
Room with a View is tomorrow at @thfest
11-6pm outside St Catherine’s Church, SE14
We’re in good company - there are some brilliant other events to celebrate the last weekend of Telegraph Hill Festivals 25th anniversary year
Check out the full programme here: http://telegraphhillfestival.org.uk
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