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 Migrants in Culture Common Knowledge Lola Olufemi Sarah Stein Lubrano Unit 38 House of Annetta Case studies Slow + Dirty Press FAT Studio Wards Corner Community Plan Tottenham Family Fight Back Workshops Artists & Culture Workers Autonomous Design Group Cooperation Town Section of Architectural Workers The Department of Information & Propaganda The People’s Prop Department workers.coop Bookworkers & Beyond Publishing Fair BOOKS F.A.T. Studio Migrants in Culture PageMasters Slow + Dirty Press Sticky Fingers Publishing and more to be confirmed! Open studios with Pelican residents Common Knowledge Migrants in Culture Unit 38 Plus! Circle Dance presents: Neither Albion Nor Britannia London's Ours! A GLC Exhibition Collective art marking with the London School of Solarpunk Bethnal Green walking tours 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.