Materials

🌟 Join us at Pelican House for the second Materials Festival! 🌟
Explore visual and spatial practices as a force for radical imagination and transformative social change.

Theme: Embedded Practice
What does it mean to develop a creative practice genuinely embedded in a place or community? How can we organize with our neighbors, colleagues, and friends to respond to our shared material struggles? What is our vision of the “good life” that we’re all building towards?

🕙 Schedule:

• 10 AM: Start the day with free snacks and a pay-what-you-can lunch.
• Publishing Fair: Hosted by Bookworkers and Beyond.
• Exhibition: London’s Ours, showcasing visual materials from the Greater London Council (1981–1986).
• After 6 PM: Special performance by Circle Dance and a social with drinks and music.

Conversations & Workshops:

• Multitudes
• Migrants in Culture
• Common Knowledge
• Lola Olufemi
• Sarah Stein Lubrano
• Unit 38
• House of Annetta
• Case Studies: Slow + Dirty Press, FAT Studio, Wards Corner Community Plan, Tottenham Family Fight Back
• Workshops by Artists & Culture Workers, Autonomous Design Group, Cooperation Town, Section of Architectural Workers, The Department of Information & Propaganda, The People’s Prop Department, workers.coop, and more!

Special Features:

• Open studios with Pelican residents
• Collective art marking with the London School of Solarpunk
• Bethnal Green walking tours
• Free childcare for children over 5

Organizers: Common Knowledge and Unit 38, with support from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Pelican House.

💰 Admission: £15
📧 Email us if you're unwaged and would like to come — no one turned away for lack of funds.