Staffordshire St MAKES | Wicked Pub Monsters | The Wicker Arms x Festival of Community workshop

Using a variety of accessible materials – cardboard, scrap fabric, branches, tape, foam clay – we will be designing and building our unique 'pub monster' puppets. Each puppet will have their very own bell to make a sound! 🔔

Facilitated by artist Masha Barks and poet Bella Aleksandrova, this workshop is perfect for children aged 5 and above, encouraging storytelling, play, and craft. The session will be drop-in, so you are welcome to join anytime between 1-3pm.

Info:

Saturday 9th August
12.30 - 15.00
 

Materials provided

This workshop is suitable for ages 5+
Children must be accompanied by an adult
 

Tickets:
Free or donation 

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Masha Barks | @mashabarks :
Masha Barks is an interdisciplinary artist specialising in painting, performance and new media. Her work explores intraspecies connectivity and encounter, drawing upon the concept of human-animal hybridity and the nature-cultural relations of the world at large. Primarily collaborative, her methodology is based on actively rearranging humans in ecological terms and animals in ethical and cultural terms by involving both beings in the co-constitutive cultural environment shaped by an order of respectful communication and cooperation. She graduated from Goldsmiths in BA Fine Art (2022)


Bella Aleksandrova | @existentialbell :
Bella Aleksandrova is a poet, event producer & facilitator. Particularly interested in social engagement, her practice manifests in hosting collaborative spaces and happenings, grounded in learning through collective and multidisciplinary making. When not writing, she curates poetry & music series The Sky Has Not Fallen Yet, currently based at Hundred Years Gallery.

About the exhibition:

Staffordshire St presents The Wicker Arms. Inspired by a fascination with folk horror, curatorial platforms ha. lf and the icing room come together to transform the space at Staffordshire St into an artist-inspired pub and immersive exhibition.

Incorporating work from 20 artists, The Wicker Arms materially explores ideas around community, through which we refocus narratives of belonging.

 

The Wicker Arms will be the centrepiece of Staffordshire St’s annual Festival of Community 2025: a collaborative programme of workshops, events, exhibitions and drop-ins that will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets. Exploring notions of community, place and belonging, 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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