What’s going on?
Pumpkin Carving – Saturday October 28th!
We’re getting into the Halloween spirit this October at Art in the Park… Drop in any time between 1-4pm to take part in our Pumpkin Carving Workshop (don’t forget to bring your own pumpkin!) Suitable for all ages.
Zeppelin 1917 exhibition and workshops
Almost one hundred years ago, on October 19 1917, a Zeppelin bomb landed in Calmington Road. The Friends of Burgess Park project “Zeppelin 1917” will uncover the stories of local heroes and piece together the dramatic raid right over what is now Burgess Park.
Wreath Making – Saturday December 9th!
Join us in the Art in the Park studios on Saturday December 9th for an afternoon of wreath making. This workshop is absolutely free and open to all ages.
Green Elephant Drawing Club
Get creative this summer! We’re running an arts project this August, open to anyone 8-16 years old who wants to draw.
Join us at Newington TRA Hall on Thursday 3rd, Tuesday 8th, Thursday 10th, 17th and 24th of August from 4-6pm. With an exhibition of the artworks made at the Art in the Park studio on the 29th of August from 4pm.
Marking Places
Marking Places is our creative project funded by the Big Lottery Awards For All fund. We are working with the community to create some commemorative markers for heritage sites in Burgess Park. Our next sessions are focusing on the market gardens that were once on the site of Burgess Park begin at our studio on Tuesday 25th April from 11am-1pm.
Community Green
We’re delighted to announce that our successful application to Bankside, Borough and Walworth Neighbourhood Fund, mean that we will be continuing this project from May 2017. The project began in 2016 with funding from the The Mayor Of London’s Get Moving fund which encouraged fresh approaches to physical, mental and creative activity for older Londoners. Run in partnership with Southwark Council and based in Burgess Park community garden, it was one of only 16 projects in London to receive funding. Under the Community Green banner, and thanks to a small grant from Notting Hill Housing, we also ran Intergenerational Summer Workshops for people to design, decorate and plant containers for their balconies and gardens.
Place to Remember
Place to Remember was our heritage project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund exploring the social and architectural history of four local buildings in Walworth and Camberwell. We were delighted to have so many local people and organisations involved, and that ASC gallery was able to host our final exhibition.
Garden Planters with Rose Court Care Home
We have been working in the garden with residents of Anchor’s Rose Court Care Home and members of Age Concern Lewisham and Southwark’s Yalding Road Healthy Living Centre, thanks to a small grant from United St Saviour’s.
Pottery Classes – for Children and Adults
We run classes for adults and children at the studio. Come and have some fun with clay! Enjoy clay painting and wheel throwing, ceramics and ceramic painting. We are now offering kiln firings and other services to ceramicists without their own kiln of studio. Firings start from £40 – please get in touch with Nam Tran for more details for classes and firings.
Thank you to The Bigger Picture!
The Bigger Picture at EDT Film Club has funded the purchase of a pottery wheel for the use of local people in Southwark and Lambeth. To have a second wheel has allowed us to work with twice the number of people at each session and events. Thank you all at the Bigger Picture EDT Film Club!
Courses and Workshops
We have many new art courses and workshops running throughout the year. Life drawing, wood carving, mosaics, pewter and more. See here for more details. Some concessions are available.
Want to work with Art in the Park?
Art in the Park is a charity devoted to enriching Londoners’ lives and environment through the visual arts. We run art, performance-based and heritage projects, education and training workshops and are involved in community, studio and public art projects. Our well-resourced studios and training space are located in the centre of Burgess Park, London and run by a team of experienced and talented artists.
Become a member
Find out more about who we are and what we’re up to by becoming a member of Art in the Park. Members can expect regular updates on events and workshops. There will be two meetings each year for members to share experiences and views on how Art in the Park should develop and grow.
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Team Building with Art in the Park
All successful companies need innovation, creativity, and ingenuity. Art in the Park has organised creative team-building days for many different work-teams over the years. These sessions are tailor-made for the group and we are flexible as to content and size of team.
