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 hereX
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Pub Quiz | pub quiz
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XXA day full of workshops, talks, and guidance which invite visitors to share their experiences of swimming.​
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XX12 August 2025, 7 - 10pm
Free, sign-up here
Peckham Life Drawing Summer Special | workshop
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XXFor this two-part event, we want to explore the role of water, heat and relaxation in building collective freedom and solidarity through visiting the Glengall Wharf Garden x Community Sauna CIC pop-up.
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13 August 2025, 7 - 9pm
Book here
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Film Club x Carousel | screening
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Join us for a South London water park themed life drawing session where you can draw and/or pose. Swimwear optional.
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14 August 2025, 7 - 9pm
Book here
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Cyanotype | workshop
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Wash off your week with a sensory vocal bath created by and for trans and gender non-conforming folks.
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XX16 August, 7 - 11pm
Free or PWYC, sign-up here
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Word Club x | workshop
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A workshop with Charlie Hawksfield about architecture and community, exploring how looking afresh at the structures around us can re-empower us reimagining them anew.
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20 August, 7 - 9pm
Free or PWYC, sign-up here
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Word Club x Everything Sounds | readings
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Are you a local father to a young person? Join us for coffee, tea and conversations around the exhibition and parenthood. Toys provided!
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21 August, 7 - 9pm
Free, drop-in
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WA artist talk | workshop and panel
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Pipe Dreams curator Jimi Famurewa hosts author Jenny Landreth (Swell; Swimming London) and director Olivia Smart (Black Stroke) in a conversation about the past, present and future of historic disparities and inclusivity in swimming culture
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23 August 2025, 4 - 9pm
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Whistles | workshop
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What happens when we slow down and give the world around us our full attention? Join the Walking Trees Art Collective for a curious summertime wander
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24 August 2025, 10am - 1pm
Free, book here
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Draw and/or Be Drawn | workshop
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Join Elida Silvey for Staffordshire St’s Word Club all dayer, a place for cross-disciplinary writing, from prose, non-fiction, poetry, academia and more.
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28 August 2025, 7 - 9pm
Book here​
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The Wicker Arms Summer Fayre | community day
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One Thousand & One Letters invite you to a unique letter-writing workshop. What if postcards advertised our local attractions instead of our holidays?
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30 August 2025, 12 - 4pm
More info here
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