EVENTS
Fringe 2025
Alexa Reid and Sara Clifford
Tidelines: A Site-Responsive Workshop
An open access, intergenerational, site-responsive workshop (Ages 8+ *children must be accompanied by an adult)
Join creative practitioners Alexa, Natasha and Sara for a hands-on, site-responsive workshop, that will employ mark-making and creative-writing to unlock the untold stories of Deptford Creek.
This workshop marks the start of a research journey, laying the groundwork for a future site-specific performance. We’re inviting local voices and anyone who is curious to help shape the project from its earliest stages…
Funded by Goldsmiths, University of London. As part of Deptford X 25
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Opening Hours
Intergenerational Workshop – 26th July, 10.00-13.00
Access information: Accessible toilet, Guide dog friendly, Wheelchair accessible
Follow: @alexareidstudio @sara.clifford35 @natashlohan
About Sara Clifford:
Sara studied English at the University of Manchester and holds an MA in Screenwriting. As a playwright, she has written over 40 plays, including commissions for Soho Theatre, York Theatre Royal, and Nottingham Playhouse. She has served as Writer in Residence at both Brighton University and Chichester Festival Theatre, and her play A Thousand Days was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. In 2019, she was appointed Writer in Residence for the South Downs National Park, resulting in the rural touring production Cherry Soup, which later toured the Chilterns as Sour Cherry Soup.
Her interest in landscape-inspired writing deepened through a Developing Your Creative Practice grant, with a focus on Ecodramaturgy, and a three-year project, Chalk Land/Conservation Conversations, culminating in a co-created community opera in and around Newhaven, Sussex. Sara recently completed an MA in Writing for Opera at Guildhall (with Distinction) and was selected for the Royal Opera House’s Engender mentoring programme. Her first chamber opera libretto, Time and Tide, and song cycle, Gilded, were produced at the Guildhall and the Composers Conference (New Hampshire), respectively. She is currently developing three new operas in collaboration with different composers.
About Natasha Lohan:
Natasha is a musician, sound artist, and creative health facilitator whose practice spans group singing, creative health projects, sound design, and teaching. Rooted in culturally democratic arts practice, conservatoire training, and improvisation, her work invites others to discover and enjoy their voices, experiencing the power of collective sound and self-expression. As a trained performer and experienced facilitator, Natasha brings adaptability and responsiveness to a wide range of settings, age groups, audiences, and disciplines. Her practice expands conventional ideas of music-making, exploring why we make music and the vital role it plays in our personal and communal lives.
Recent commissions include a collaborative composition project for Beckenham Theatre Trust and Ageing Well in Lewisham, bringing together The Befrienders older adults singing group and the Venner Road Dementia Café; a co-composition with artist Moi Tran and the Voice of Domestic Workers collective for the Wellcome Collection; and the Singing for Lung Health project with Trinity Laban. Ongoing projects include leading London Irish Community Voices and facilitating the staff wellbeing choir at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
About Alexa Reid:
Alexa is a cross-disciplinary artist and educator working at the intersections of theatre, live art, and installation. Her practice explores archives, site/place, folk narratives, mythology, ritual, botany, ecology, and the convergence of body, science, and the humanities, with a particular interest in matrescence. Alexa’s practice is characterised by totemic objects, object-based dramaturgies, performable costumes, and immersive, sense-centric experiences. Alexa’s work is often developed within and for specific sites.
Alexa has created and presented works across the UK and internationally in collaboration with ArtAngel, ArtsAdmin, The Horniman Museum, Cricoteka (Krakow), Teatro Garibaldi (Palermo), Punchdrunk, The Whitechapel Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery (Washington), and others. Alexa was a founding member and co-artistic director of Lotos Collective (2006–2011).
Recent projects have taken her to diverse sites such as former salt mine in Austria, a medieval castle in Germany, a deconsecrated church in Naples, and an Augustinian Abbey on Incholmb Island in the Firth of Forth. Alexa has taught widely in the HEI institutes including Central Saint Martins, Rose Bruford College, Brunel University, the University of Guelph (Canada), and Università Agrigento (Sicily), and has been a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, since 2012.
https://www.alexareid.com
