2018 Summer – Arts Fest
Sat 23 June: 11:00 - 17:00, Camberwell Green
Head to Camberwell Green on Saturday, 23rd June for the penultimate day of Camberwell Arts Festival where you can celebrate #CreativeCamberwell from 11.00-17.00 with all kinds of art to buy, take part in, watch, learn, listen to and enjoy. Including the Poetry and storytelling corner, Music and singing gazebo and workshops including Unmapping Camberwell, Alexander Technique and the creative self, Mosaic making.
Happenstance will be demonstrating how their mini factory turns ordinary household plastic waste into useful objects. Why not release the artist in you with our Renaissance selfies pop up and Art-inspired cake competition or make-your-own Emoji balloon with Frog Morris. Don’t miss the Doggy Dress Up parade – organised by the London Animal Hospital, dog owners are invited to 'dress up their pet' in the theme of the Arts
Photography by Tim Casten | Workshops sponsored by Haarts Estate Agents
ALL’S WELL – Creative Workshops
11.00 – 12.30 ArtsFest workshop Unmapping Camberwell with artist Kimbal Bumstead
13.00 – 14.00 Make your mosaic summer plant pots with artist Kes Young
14.00 – 15.00 Make your mosaic summer plant pots with artist Kes Young
15.30 – 16.30 Alexander Technique and the Creative Self with LCATT trainers
16.30 – 17.00 Introduction to active rest for wellbeing with LCATT trainers
Singing and music making gazebo
10.15 – 11.00 0-3 year old Music Workshop with Camberwell Choir School
11.00 – 12.00 4-6 year old Music Workshop with Camberwell Choir School
12.00 – 13.00 7-10 year old Music Workshop with Camberwell Choir School
13.30 – 14.00 House of Praise Gospel Choir
14.30 – 15.00 Welcome Singers
15.30 – 16.30 Drumming Workshop with Jahdiafolila
16.30 – 17.00 Camberwell Recorder Consort
Poetry and story telling corner
11.00 – 16.00 We are weaving an eclectic programme of poetry and storytelling that won’t just be for children. So come learn, hear, take note and be amazed by the mythical stories and true life experiences. We have a floor spot so if you are a local and fancy telling that poem you wrote, come find us on the day. Suitable for children, adults will love it.
Louise Bland : Story teller: The Sweetest and the Bitterest Thing in All the World & Selfish Giant told with lots of audience participation. Suitable for children.
Jacqueline Crooks - Writer: Reading from her new book The Ice Migration. The book maps the migratory routes of her Indian, jamaican and German ancestors
Local poets Natalie Losinski and Gill Cody
Golden Oldies - Windrush Collective: we are privileged to host this amazing group of people including James Fairweather, Patricia Skeet, Grace Singh and Gloria Brown and hear their real life storytelling, and poetry relating to their experiences arriving as the Windrush Generation, and reading from their Golden Oldies book.
Sarah Lloyd-Winder - Storyteller: Atalanta Who ran like the wind. A children's story for 4+ year olds.
Dr Robin Lamboll - Poet: Cambridge Poet Slam winner performing entertaining yet factually accurate science poems.
Richard Watkins - Local Camberwell Poet: His short sharp poems explore grand ideas with straight forward words. See his All's Well poem cast in bronze (opposite Nandos)
Southwark Stanza - Poet Collective: Titfer Tat - a collection of poems inspired by local history of the Southwark Hat industry.
Temi Ogludade - Poet: Temi enjoys writing poems - the jumble of words, passions, rhythms, metaphors, fantasies, and truths that poems allow.
Kerima Mohideen - Storyteller: telling stories from around the world, about clever young women, brave parrots, fierce pumpkins and the delight of telling lies. For all ages.
Steve Tasane - Poet performer: delivering rhythmic, rappy, chantalong poetry that can be enjoyed by all ages, from toddlers to centenarians.
Festival Highlights
