Materials
Join us at Pelican House for the second Materials Festival, where we explore visual and spatial practices as a force for radical imagination and transformative social change.
The theme for this year is embedded practice: what does it mean to develop a creative practice that is genuinely embedded in a place or community? How can we organise with our neighbours, colleagues and friends to respond to our shared material struggles? And what is our vision of the “good life” that we’re all building towards?
We’ll start the day at 10am, with free snacks and a pay-what-you-can lunch. Bookworkers and Beyond will be running a Publishing Fair, and we’ll be displaying London’s Ours, an exhibition of visual materials from the Greater London Council 1981–1986. After 6pm we’ll have a special performance by Circle Dance and a social with drinks and music.
Conversations
Multitudes and Migrants in Culture
Lola Olufemi and Sarah Stein Lubrano
Unit 38 and RESOLVE
House of Annetta
Case studies
Slow + Dirty Press
FAT Studio
Wards Corner Community Plan, Tottenham Family Fight Back and Save Soanes
Nijjor Manush
POMOC
Workshops
Artists & Culture Workers Ldn
Cooperation Town
Section of Architectural Workers
The Department of Information & Propaganda
People’s Prop Department
workers.coop
Bookworkers & Beyond Publishing Fair
BOOKS, Bookworkers and Beyond, CAMP!, elsewhere press, Em–Dash, F.A.T. Studio, Freedom Bookshop, Hajar Press, How To Catch A Pig, MayDay Rooms, Migrants in Culture, Pagemasters, Sticky Fingers Publishing and The People’s Letters.
Open studios with Pelican residents
Migrants in Culture
Unit 38
Walks
Walking where paths cross with Alisa Oleva
East End social justice walk with Pablo Sendra
Plus!
Circle Dance presents: Neither Albion Nor Britannia performance
London's Ours! A GLC Exhibition
Live newsletter making with Bookworkers & Beyond
Collective art marking with the London School of Solarpunk
Free childcare for children over 5
Organised by Common Knowledge and Unit 38, with support from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Pelican House.
All profits from ticket sales will be distributed between our speakers. Email us if you're unwaged and would like come — no one turned away for lack of funds.