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➡️ ARTIST WEEKENDER FULL PROGRAMME
11am to 6pm Saturday & Sunday – free access to all artists’ works.
As you wander around, look out for Nicholas Carn‘s The Creek Speaks, an immersive sound installation housed within a section of gas piping on the site of Creekside Discovery Centre. The work is a real-time auditory assemblage of field recording fragments from around the Creek and beneath the water.
📍 Saturday 19th October – Events
11am to 11.30am – Beth Blandford will introduce her work Resources for Rewilding and set visitors up to draw their own rewilding ideas.
11am to 6pm – Beth Blandford’s drop-in sessions running all day. Beth’s illustrations narrate stories of rewilding. Beth invites visitors of all ages to reflect on the tools they and others need to rewild spaces important to them, to imagine and draw what this idea might look like. (all ages).
11.30am to 12pm – Gail Dickerson will talk about her installation Complexity of Layers, an exploration of the layers of London, from made ground down to the chalk and all that flows into the creek with the constant deposition of sediment from the layers of geological strata and the human layers of mapping and planning.
12pm to 12.30pm – Yu-Ting Chung & Philippe Malaussene will introduce their sculpture/mural Creekers, an organic mural, hand-crafted on a Wattle & Daub surface, drawing inspiration from the Deptford creek’s seafaring and industrial histories, and framing this in-situ work within the natural environment.
1pm to 2pm – Andrew Finch will talk about his film The Love Below before the screening.The Love Below is a film which explores the South East London waterways and their dwellers. Coursing below street level, the River Quaggy and River Ravensbourne run 17km through London’s South Eastern boroughs, largely unseen.
3pm to 4pm – Palvinder Nangla’s mixed-media textile conversations. Over the Deptford X Artist Weekender, Palvinder will create a series of twelve embroidery works called Unlocking Emotions, investigating the collective and individual impact of trauma – both on the body and within communities. Drop in and talk, work with Palvinder engage and influence his embroidery work. (suited for 8y+)
📍 Sunday 20th October – Events
11am to 12.30pm / 1.30pm to 3pm – Usva Inei drop-in print-making workshop
Usva Inei’s project Rebuilding and Reclaiming Roots is a communal print-making workshop, during which participants will learn how to create hand-printed relief patterns onto fabric, which will be linked together as a quilt-like exhibit. (all ages)
11am to 6pm – Beth Blandford’s drop in sessions running all day. Beth’s illustrations narrate stories of rewilding. Beth invites visitors of all ages to reflect on the tools they and others need to rewild spaces important to them, to imagine and draw what this idea might look like. (all ages)
1pm to 1.45pm – Exhibition tour with the Director of Deptford X Kwong Lee (with BSL interpreter)
2pm to 2.30pm – Juliana Kasumu will introduce her film installation Adura Baba Mi (with BSL interpreter). Adura Baba Mi is a raw and intimate portrait of the lives of a Nigerian family. Through poignant interviews with her parents, filmmaker Juliana Kasumu unveils the complexities of their relationship, shaped by their deep religious faith and cultural heritage.
3pm to 4pm – Palvinder Nangla’s mixed-media textile conversation. Over the Deptford X Artist Weekender, Palvinder will create a series of twelve embroidery works called Unlocking Emotions, investigating the collective and individual impact of trauma – both on the body and within communities. Drop in and talk, work with Palvinder engage and influence his embroidery work. (suited for 8y+)
4pm to 4.30pm – Bea Macdonald & Yassmine Betioui will introduce their five short films before the screening. This body of work shot entirely on analogue film has culminated over the last two years, threading together time and the artists’ respective geographies – London and Paris. These works examine how poetic use of personal archives can open up a space for the imagination, through directly engaging with social histories and the presence or loss of collective memory and experience.
🎦 Screening times (Saturday and Sunday)
11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm Andrew Finch (one film, 31 minutes)
12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 5.35pm Bea Macdonald & Yassmine Betioui (five films, 28 minutes)
➡️ Accessibility: Creekside Discovery Centre is wheelchair accessible but you will need some assistance on their rough surfaces outside. Their building is fully accessible.
If you require any accessibility assistance, please contact admin@deptfordx.org
Dogs: Dogs are not allowed unless they are for disability assistance.
Venue : Creekside Discovery Centre, 14 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA
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