STST Community Day | Summer Fayre | The Wicker Arms x Festival of Community

There'll be the opportunity to try your hand at welly wanging, get involved in a scavenger hunt, and hear from the exhibition's curators. Expect dancing from the Wyrd Sisters, Queer Morris Dancing Clowns from London. Enter your vegetable sculptures into Folk Club's Best in Show. Plus workshops and more!

This is a family friendly, sober event. 

Folk Club's Best in Show

Keen vegetable sculptor? Corn dolly fanatic? Salt bread plaiter? Apple crumble extrodinaire?
Bring us your finest makes for a chance to win the prestigious Folk Club's Best in Show 2025
No category disallowed, no rules. Please bring your entries at 12pm, with prize giving at 4pm. 

There will be an opportunity to make contributions to the Show during the day. 

 

Schedule: 

12pm: drop-off Best in Show entries

12 - 2pm : Archiving Beermats | workshop

Join artists Sean Humm and Phoebe Kaniewska in archiving memories, stories and tales of our beloved pubs through beermats. Fuelled by pub snacks and drinks in pint glasses. On one side of the beermat will be participants will write their stories. On the other side, we will create a collective image that when put together makes a whole, using markers, pens, paints and pastels. Suitable for children. 

2pm: The Wicker Arms curator tour with the icing room and ha.lf

4pm: Scavenger Hunt and Folk Club's Best in Show prize giving

Info:

Saturday 30th August
12.00 - 16:00
 

Materials provided

This is a family friendly, sober event. 
Children must be accompanied by an adult
 

Tickets:
Free or donation 

 If you are financially able, please consider donating, to keep Staffordshire St events accessible to all.
 

Folk Club | @_folkclub
 

Folk Club is a place for all the lovers of folklore. It's a place to follow the year through the seasons and customs that mark it. Most of all it's a place for us to learn the lore of the land and its traditions together, one beautiful archive image and twisting tale at a time.

Run by Eleanor Dempsey and Elizabeth Bailey

Wyrd Sisters | @thee.wyrd.sisters

Queer Morris Dancing Clowns from London.

Phoebe Kaniewska | @phoebe_kaniewska 

Phoebe Kaniewska is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and facilitator. She facilitates workshops and art practises in a variety of settings, including galleries, museums and hospitals. She often works with fun, tactile materials like metal, wax and textiles, and makes moving sculptures and jewellery. Phoebe is interested in finding joy in community spaces and using humour and materials to explore disability, social activism and myths and stories.

Sean Humm

Sean Humm is an artist, illustrator and pub enthusiast living in South East London. He makes work focusing on the oral storytelling traditions in pubs. He does so using a range of traditional techniques, such as sign writing, reserve gilding and film.

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