Join us at Pelican House for the second year of Materials Festival, where we explore visual and spatial practices as a force for radical imagination and transformative social change.
The theme for this year is embedded practice: what does it mean to develop a creative practice that is genuinely embedded in a place or community? How can we organise with our neighbours, colleagues and friends to respond to our shared material struggles? And what is our vision of the “good life” that we’re all building towards?
We’ll start the day at 10am, with free snacks and a pay-what-you-can lunch. Bookworkers and Beyond will be running a Publishing Fair, and we’ll be displaying London’s Ours, an exhibition of visual materials from the Greater London Council 1981–1986. After 6pm we’ll have a special performance by Circle Dance and a social with drinks and music.
Conversations:
- Multitudes, Migrants in Culture and Common Knowledge
- Lola Olufemi and Sarah Stein Lubrano
- Unit 38 and RESOLVE Collective
- House of Annetta
Case studies:
- Slow + Dirty Press
- FAT Studio
- Wards Corner Community Plan
- Tottenham Family Fight Back
Workshops:
- Artists & Culture Workers
- Autonomous Design Group
- Cooperation Town
- Section of Architectural Workers
- The Department of Information & Propaganda
- The People’s Prop Department
- workers.coop
Bookworkers & Beyond Publishing Fair:
- BOOKS
- F.A.T. Studio
- Migrants in Culture
- PageMasters
- Slow + Dirty Press
- Sticky Fingers Publishing
- and more to be confirmed!
Open studios with Pelican residents:
- Common Knowledge
- Migrants in Culture
- Unit 38
Plus!
- Performance by Circle Dance
- Collective art marking with the London School of Solarpunk
- Bethnal Green walking tours
- Free childcare for children over 5
Organised by Common Knowledge and Unit 38, with support from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Pelican House. All profits from ticket sales will be distributed between our speakers.