Date/Time
13th June 2022 - 18th June 2022
All Day
Location
Toy Library, Langthorne Park Pavilion, Birch Grove
Categories
Join us for our Avenue Road Estate Workshops to inform the community and culture strategy for the site.
UP Projects have been appointed by Bellway Homes and Waltham Forest Council to develop a Community and Culture Strategy for the Avenue Road Estate in Leytonstone, East London.
UP Projects and design and architecture collective, genuinefake will be hosting a series of workshops to give you a voice and a chance to shape the community and culture offer proposed for the development of the Avenue Road Estate. Register your interest now.
If you are a parent…join us for ‘Make my Day!’
Date: Monday, 13 June 2022
Time: 15:30-17:00
Location: Toy Library, Langthorne Park Pavilion, Birch Grove, E11 4YG
Play is integral to every child’s development (mentally, physically and socially). Through examining daily rhythms through the four seasons of the year, we will create a map of PLAY in the area for the various ages. Exploring the provisions currently available and how the future development of the Avenue Road Estate can consider the needs (interactions, activities and spatial) of parents and children in the area.
If you are a creative…join us for ‘Creative State of Mind!’
Date: Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Time: 12:00-13:30
Location: X7eavan Academy, Nexus Centre, 3 Snowberry Close Leytonstone London E15 2AH
Wanstonia was the name given to a micro-nation created in 1994 in the Leyton area. They had their own passports, national anthem, and flag. This workshop will explore what an imaginary state created by Avenue Road Estate creative practitioners would look and operate like today.
How would the methods of citizenship be practiced and enacted? What would the unique culture and crafts of the nation look like? How would they be celebrated and/or traded? What acts of diplomacy towards the neighbouring nation would be put in place?
Through this process we will explore existing challenges and opportunities faced by the local creative community, reflecting on how the future development of the estate can consider and foster a thriving ‘nationhood’.
If you are aged 12-17…join us for ‘Let’s Dance: Architecture & Movement!’
Date: Saturday, 18 June 2022
Time:13:00-17:00
Location: X7eavan Academy, Nexus Centre, 3 Snowberry Close Leytonstone London E15 2AH
Architecture and the built environment have a direct (and indirect) impact on the body and how it occupies, experiences and moves within space. We shape and are shaped by our surroundings.
Dance, the language of movement, and other forms of expression, such as spoken word, can be a universal language for us to share and explore our experiences.
This workshop will invite participants to survey, engage & enter in a ‘dialogue’ with and about the architecture of the Avenue Road Estate and its surroundings. Telling stories and opening insights about how architecture and our experiences of architecture can be used to support the future development of the site.
Something for everyone else… join us for ‘Let us break bread together!’
Date: Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Time: 18:00-19:30
Location: X7eavan Academy, Nexus Centre, 3 Snowberry Close Leytonstone London E15 2AH
Bread has a significance beyond mere nutrition in most cultures. The many variations of breads that can be found on the high streets surrounding the Avenue Road Estate, are a testament to the diversity of the cuisines and cultures making up this area of contemporary Britain.
The British public was recently invited to ‘invent’ a dessert to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee.
This workshop invites the residents of the Avenue Road Estate to ‘invent’ a bread together. One that will celebrate and represent the historic milestones of the estate (past), mark the significance of change (present) and create a symbol of ‘hope’ for the future, supporting the future development of the site.