Free Summer Film School for Young People // Another Place (Space is the Place)
Want to learn how to make a short film? Are you 13-19 yrs? Learn how to use video, shoot your surroundings, and create a collage of events that interest you. Sign up to these free filmmaking workshops this summer with artist Shepherd Manyika.
Animating Animals // Seniors Art School
For this Seniors Art School at Dilston Gallery, in response to our Dog Show, artist Flora Duley invited participants to make beautiful silhouette animations in the style of pioneering film director Lotte Reiniger. Playing with different ideas of animation and image-making, you
Hats Off! Victorian Hat Making Workshop for Families
This year Southwark Park celebrates its 150-year anniversary, and as a nod to the fashion trends of the time, we will make our own Victorian hats using feathers, ribbons and paper birds to adorn them. Come and get crafty and add another
Staging Sculptures // Seniors Art School
Exploring ideas of archives, collections and museums, taking the current exhibition as a point of departure, Abigail Hunt will work with you to find, make and curate a selection of interesting and inspiring objects, thinking about the relationships and stories behind objects and the way they
Lift, Pause, Thud. Easter Holidays Family Clay Workshops
Get hands-on with dry clay over the Easter holidays with artist Lucy Joyce. Coinciding with Beth Collar’s new terracotta sculptures for Dilston Grove, you will learn different clay processes and create tangible artworks to take home. Please come in old clothes as this workshop
Sculpture in the Park // May Half-term Family Workshops
Come and get arty! Inspired by sculptures in our current gallery exhibition, you will make different sculptures using mixed media and biodegradable materials with artist Flora Duley. You’ll also make a trail map of the sculptures and photograph or draw your work. The
Press On! Half-term Printmaking Workshops for Families
Join artist Fay Nicolson at our free drop-in printmaking workshops that run alongside the RCA: Print MA Interim Show at The Gallery. Over the course of two days, you will learn screen printing stencil processes and other printing techniques designed for children.
One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure // Seniors Art School
Our Seniors Art School occupied Marcia Farquhar’s piece The Open University – a pop-up lecture theatre located in a skip – to consider the value of objects and ideas. Working with artist Holly Graham, the group produced a short hand-bound publication, with the
Bedfellows Sex Ed Workshops with Bacon’s College
Following John Walter’s CAPSID exhibition and generously supported by the Wellcome Trust, we programmed a young people’s project with Bedfellows and Bacon’s College, a series of workshops over September and October 2018 looking at debunking sex education through creative writing, discussions and zine-making. The school
Seniors Art School // One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure
A talking project open to all with inquisitive minds over the age of 55, that considers how we value objects and ideas; taking Marcia Farquar’s piece The Open University – a pop-up lecture theatre located in a skip – as a point
Puppets and Performance: Half-term Workshops for Families
Join artist puppeteer Isobel Smith at our free drop-in puppet-making workshops inspired by Marcia Farquhar’s exhibition currently showing in both our sites. You will make lively puppets, dry papier mache masks and stage mini performances using a puppet theatre. For the Clothing
Drawing Disco!
Alexa Lowe
Come get your draw on! Explore the joys of drawing and how your marks change with each tempo. Led by artist Alexa Lowe, you will draw in response to changing music, on different surfaces and with a variety of exciting materials. This
All That Summer: Four Weeks of Workshops for Families
CGP London // Dilston Grove 1 & 2 // 8 & 9 // 15 & 16 // 22 & 23 August // 10am – 12 pm & 1 – 3pm each day Come and enjoy a series of free drop-in workshops at
Foraging Orchestra
As part of Annabel Frearson‘s workshops organised for pre-schoolers on 4, 6, 11 & 12 August at Dilston Grove, the artist rustled up an orchestra with the participating children using sounds, words and materials found in Southwark Park, in response to Alec Finlay’s nest