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SUMMARY:Inspirallondon's SoilFood Fete
DESCRIPTION:So(i)lFood Fete on Peckham Rye Common\nDate 29th July 2023 Walks from 10.30 am  Fete Event from 12.30pm to 3.30pm\n“To see a World in a Grain of Sand\nAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower\,\nHold Infinity in the palm of your hand\nAnd Eternity in an hour.” (Auguries of Innocence – William Blake) \n \n  \nSoilFood Fete\nYou can join the celebrations earlier from 10.30 am by coming on one of our unique walks to Peckham Rye Common (see below or events to book a place)\n \nFor SoilFood Fete at Peckham Rye’s Tiny Forest from 1 pm – 3.30pm – Peckham Rye Park & Common – Green view end of Straker’s Road London SE15 3UA (Straker’s Road is by Solomon Passage Bus stop):\n \n \n  \nInspired by William Blake’s visions we stage a shared picnic with all walkers and participants (1pm-2pm). During this afternoon of SoilFood feast Inspiral offers a series of entertainments inspired by alternative natural sciences\, the visionary and experimental\, celebrating through the imaginal the beauty\, diversity and variety of the City’s green spaces. We offer song\, performance\, puppet shows\, conversation – all the angelic and the profane that bubbles and rumbles out from the earth\, up from its muddy boiling core. Through the afternoon the live performances will be enriched by short walks\, drawing workshops and activities that celebrate the rich soil food of the Common and the living diversity that lies beneath our feet. For more details see below: \nThe afternoon’s provisional programme includes: \n\nAn opening talk by Rachel Gomme on the planting of Peckham Rye’s Tiny Forest. Then we offer – collaborative drawing that invites fete attendees to contribute to a common artwork that draws on inspiration below and above the soil\, celebrating the importance of common living soil – alongside the Rye’s history of visions and imaginative visioning; Sarah Sparkes lost souls puppets and inspiral cake; Blakean songs from Tim Flitcroft and ritual music making with Charlie Gary and Mikey Georgeson; other lyric poems and song medley from local poets; Jo McCormick manifests Blake’s oak tree with a song; the Gary Feelers with Blake inspired kitchen ritual music workshop; J D Swann’s orniphilosophical walk and ornithological interventions.\nGail Dickerson offers an exploration into the soil of Peckham Common – working with London Clay\, paper and drawing materials to collect ‘Thought Fragments\, of what may have grown or been eaten on Peckham Common or at the time of the deposition of the London Clay 49 to 56 million years ago.\nFurther events and performers to be announced including performance poets – Luna Montenegro and Adrian Fisher\, Living Soils with Stephen Micalef.\nTo enjoy the full inspirallondon experience please do book and come on one of the two walks that lead to SoilFood Fete – Contextural Contexts and Soilfood (10am-12.30) or Urban Ecology and undergrowth SoilFood Walk (10.30am-12.30). The walks form part of the full living SoilFood Experience.\n\n\nTransport: From Peckham Rye Train Station you can take buses 197 and 12 to near Strakers Road (Soloman Passage Stop EF) or buses other side of park 343\, 363\, 63 etc. (by Academy School Stop) and walk across to cafe/public toilets and Strakers Road site. \nWALKS: \nContextural Contexts Walk 1.\nMeet from 10am to 10.30am at Textural Contexts Exhibition for coffee\, at the CORNER Gallery\, 117 New Cross Road\, London SE14 5DJ – starting with a short guided tour of exhibition and a textual contextual walk from New Cross to Peckham Rye that follows the scent of Watery Foxes. Led by curator artist Jo McCormick\, with support of InspiralLondon associate artist Frog Morris. Booking HERE \nTransport: From New Cross/New Cross Station you can take buses 53 or 453 to near bottom of New Cross Road by Corner Cafe  or equally buses to junction New Cross Road/Old Kent Road from Queens Road Peckham Station (36\, 171\, 177\, 436\, P13) \nUrban Ecology and Soil Walk 2.\nMeet 11 am at Dawson Heights Nature Reserve Dawson’s Hill (with InspiralLondon Artists and colleagues) Rachel Gomme\, Charlie Fox\, Sarah Sparkes and JD Swann on a walk that follows the InspiralLondon Trail down and through Camberwell Old Cemetery towards Peckham Rye Common. Booking HERE \nTransport: From Peckham Rye Train Station you can take buses 363 and 63 to Dunstans Road Stop WR or from East Dulwich Station take bus P13\, 176\, 185 or 40 to Quorn Road Stop L. \nFrom 12.30 pm these two walks converge and meet on the Soil of Peckham Rye Common by the entrance of the newly planted mini forest for a talk by Rachel Gomme and other invited urban tree enthusiasts. \n  \n  \n\n\n\nFor those coming on walks or joining us on Peckham Rye Common please bring water\, food and beverages to share. We will provide limited supply of bottled water and refreshments but the idea is for us all to bring some food to share with the soil and our neighbours… \nSoilFood is part of InspiralLondon’s project to explore and share in an ongoing on the ground mapping of the Metropole London. in encouraging everyone to walk the 350 mile spiral trail we offer a simple shared space in walking together and apart:  for experiencing\, mapping and dwelling in our city; particularly in thinking of what lies hidden\, unrecognised\, this diverse life beneath our feet as we walk the trail together. See inspirallondon.com \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/inspirallondons-soilfood-fete/
LOCATION:Peckham Rye Common\, Strakers Road\,\, London\, SE15 3UA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Contextural Contexts Walk for SoilFood Fete
DESCRIPTION:Contextural Contexts Walk to SoilFood Fete\n\nMeet 10/10.30am at Textural Contexts Exhibition\, at the CORNER Gallery\, 117 New Cross Road\, London SE14 5DJ – starting with a short guided tour of exhibition and a textual contextual walk from New Cross to Peckham Rye that follows a green pathway toward the common. Led by curator artist Jo McCormick\, with support of InspiralLondon associate artists. This walk will explore some of the green open spaces that lie hidden beyond the main thoroughfare to Peckham Rye. Stopping specially at Besson Street Gardens where volunteers will welcome us to the garden\, introducing urban ecology and gardening just behind the main road. Please come prepared for a picnic on the Common if you wish to enjoy the soilfood of Peckham. \nBOOK HERE \n \n  \nTEXTURAL CONTEXTS exhibition explores the concept of texture through examinations of landscape – mapping\, pattern\, domestic architecture\, nature and the human form. Bringing together a diverse mix of artists who each explore the aesthetics of texture within their work in a unique way\, this exhibition merges the work of 20 artists to create an immersive installation. The theme of textural resonance is explored through different genres and artistic mediums including drawing\, painting\, printmaking\, collage\, abstraction\, text based work\, puppetry\, film\, installation\, figurative expressionism and still life. Themes include the climate crisis\, the nature of and contextural concepts surrounding the notion of home\, the human figure\, mapping the landscape and the visceral and textural qualities of stillness and physical movement. \nTransport: From New Cross/New Cross Station you can take buses 53 or 453 to near bottom of New Cross Road by Corner Cafe  or equally buses to junction New Cross Road/Old Kent Road from Queens Road Peckham Station (36\, 171\, 177\, 436\, P13). Despite the train disruptions the Overground to New Cross Gate runs and it is just 5 minutes walk to the Corner Gallery. \n \nSoilFood is part of InspiralLondon’s project to explore and share in an ongoing on the ground mapping of the Metropole London. in encouraging everyone to walk the 350 mile spiral trail we offer a simple shared space in walking together and apart:  for experiencing\, mapping and dwelling in our city; particularly in thinking of what lies hidden\, unrecognised\, this diverse life beneath our feet as we walk the trail together. See inspirallondon.com
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/contextural-contexts-walk-for-soilfood-fete/
LOCATION:Corner Gallery\, 117 New Cross Road\, London\, SE14 5DJ
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SUMMARY:Urban Ecology and Undergrowth Walk to SoilFood Fete
DESCRIPTION:Urban Ecology and Undergrowth Walk 2 for SoilFood Fete\n\nMeeting from 10.30 am for 11 am start at Dawson Heights Nature Reserve Dawson’s Hill SE22 0HB (with InspiralLondon Artists and colleagues) Rachel Gomme\, Charlie Fox\, Sarah Sparkes and J D Swann on a short but spectacular walk that follows the InspiralLondon Trail down and through Camberwell Old Cemetery towards Peckham Rye Common. \nThis is our meeting point on Dunstans Road – open entrance to Nature Reserve. We will have time to explore and do some foraging. Please remember to bring water and picnic for our final destination at tiny forest on the Common. \n \nBOOK HERE  \nTransport: From Peckham Rye Train Station you can take buses 363 and 63 to Dunstans Road Stp WR or from East Dulwich Station up Lordship Lane to Upland Road take bus P13\, 176\, 185\, 312 –  or 40 to Quorn Road Stop L. As Saturday 29th July is a train strike day – we will provide a way for anyone coming late to find us (note this is  a short walk down Donkey Alley toward Underhill Road entrance to Camberwell Old Cemetery\, where we will stop to talk – we will be at this spot until 11.45 am). Note buses: 176\, 185\, 312 go up Lordship Lane to near Dunstans Road.\n\n \n \nThis walk is inspired by the green interspaces and diversity of plants that grow in the untendered cracks and open spaces that lie beneath our feet. The undergrowth that grows between the paving stones\, the plants that colonise the spaces around street trees\, self seeded trees and shrubs. \nThis is a short accessible walk that visits the green space of Dawson Heights\, the nature reserve in Camberwell Old Cemetery and the tiny forest at Peckham Rye. With unrivalled views of the city we follow inspirallondon trail and its hidden geometry. To ask what lies beneath our feet and celebrate all kinds of over and undergrowth. \nWe will finish the walk at Peckham Rye Common’s Tiny Forest for the SoilFood Fete (All Welcome)\n \nInspired by William Blake’s visions we then offer a shared picnic with all walkers and participants. During the SoilFood feast a series of entertainments inspired by alternative natural sciences\, the visionary and experimental\, we celebrate through the imaginal the beauty\, diversity and variety of the City’s green spaces. Please bring picnic – food and drink to share if you can and want to stay to enjoy the entertainments)\n \n  \nRemember to come prepared for the weather\, bring water etc. We will provide some light refreshments.\nSoilFood is part of InspiralLondon’s project to explore and share in an ongoing on the ground mapping of the Metropole London. in encouraging everyone to walk the 350 mile spiral trail we offer a simple shared space in walking together and apart:  for experiencing\, mapping and dwelling in our city; particularly in thinking of what lies hidden\, unrecognised\, this diverse life beneath our feet as we walk the trail together. See inspirallondon.com \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/urban-ecology-and-undergrowth-walk-to-soilfood-fete/
LOCATION:Dawson’s Heights Nature Reserve\, Dunstan's Road\, East Dulwich\, London\, SE22\, United Kingdom
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