Festival of community 2025
8 August - 31 August 2025
12-6pm Wed - Sun
Staffordshire St presents 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.
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Our festival exhibition is The Wicker Arms by curatorial platforms ha.lf and the icing room. Inspired by a fascination with folk horror, the space will be transformed into an artist-inspired pub and immersive exhibition.
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EVENTS
The Wicker Arms | exhibition
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Opening 7 August 6 - 9
More info here
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Wicked Pub Monsters | family workshop
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Join us create your own folklore-inspired animals or characters inspired by pub names, the exhibition and folklore
9 August 2025, 12 - 3.30pm
Free, more info here
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The Wicker Arms Pub Quiz
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Welcome to The Wicker Arms Pub Quiz, where the best teams in the borough are invited to take part (or just bring your mates). Our bar will be open and our quizmaster will be at the ready. £2 per team
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12 August 2025, 7 - 10pm
Free, sign-up here
Peckham Life Drawing | workshop
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A themed life drawing session inviting you to step into The Wicker Arms and draw experiences from a very special model who will share some of their embodied folk/horror practice in their poses.
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13 August 2025, 7 - 9pm
Book here
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STST Film Club x Carousel: After Hours | screening
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Carousel: After Hours presents an evening of experimental film, readings and folk music by four contemporary artists.
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14 August 2025, 7 - 10pm
Book here
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BISONNE: Heritage Prints with Bernice Mulenga | workshop​
​A cyanotype printing workshop where you will make prints reflecting your own heritage or personal story.
16 August, 2 - 4pm
Book here
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STST Word Club x BISONNE: Re-Imagined Folk Tales | workshop
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A writing workshop which re-imagines traditional folk tales from across the world to practice worldbuilding and create new stories.
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20 August, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Free, book here
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STST Word Club x Everything Sounds
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A gathering of readings, music and conversation, centred around familial relationships, human relations with nature and the non-human, shelter(ing), bodies, and playfulness with language.
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21 August, 7 - 10pm
Book here​
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Sonic Healing Immersion Therapy | workshop
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An immersive experiential process that aims to interpret and amplify a participant’s thoughts, dreams or memories through improvised sound.
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23 August 2025, 4 - 7pm
Free , more info here
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Artists in Conversation | talk
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An artist’s conversation with a folk horror twist, peeking behind the veil of works that inhabit The Wicker Arms, blending storytelling, object activation and engagement. Everyone welcome.
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23 August 2025, 7.30 - 8.30pm
Free , more info here
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Ceramic Whistle Making | workshop
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Join artist Emma Carlow for a half-day ceramic workshop to make two whistles inspired by folk art bird whistles. Age range: 10+
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24 August 2025, 10am - 1pm
Free, booking essential
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Beware of the Moon with Peckham Life Drawing | workshop
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​​Peckham Life Drawing invites you to a folk/horror themed life drawing session where you can draw and/or pose within The
Wicker Arms.
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28 August 2025, 7 - 9pm
Book here​
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Festival of Community Summer Fayre | community day
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Try your hand at welly wanging, get involved in a scavenger hunt, hear from the exhibition’s curators, and enter your vegetable sculptures into Folk Club’s Best in Show. Plus workshops and more! This is a family friendly,
sober event.
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30 August 2025, 12 - 4pm
More info here
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