When
Where
The Clore Ballroom, Level 2 - Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX,
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Join us for sustainable craft workshops bringing life back to unloved materials, and proving that December doesn’t have to cost the Earth.
Create your own winter fun with sustainable craft workshops making beautiful things from old and waste materials, accompanied by uplifting songs and a giant festive sing-a-long.
Join textile artist Sue Man of ESEA Unseen for an afternoon of fabric collage and making pouches using discarded textiles as a festive gift to others or yourself. Learn to make a drawstring pouch/bag for air pods, glasses, jewellery or snacks, with Man and other textile artists on hand to demonstrate and guide the sewing. Grab a needle and chat away.
The afternoon is accompanied by a learn-to-sew basics table, teaching beginners easy first stitches and vital button-sewing techniques, alongside a DIY make-your-own-Christmas-cracker workshop with Elizabeth Jackson.
From 1pm, Let’s Go Gospel Choir brings their unique, festive energy to the floor, offering a fun, joyful, and interactive performance for all the family to enjoy. Join in the celebrations with a repertoire that spans gospel, soul, pop and reggae, along with Christmas classics.
Winter Reimagined aims to use only reused or waste materials throughout the day, partnering with scrap projects and getting inventive to make use of scraps and salvaged materials.
Schedule
1pm – 2pm: Performance by Let’s Go Gospel Choir
2pm – 2.45pm: Sing-along with Let’s Go Gospel Choir
3pm – 6pm: Fabric workshop with ESEA unseen
Sue Man is a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of ESEA Unseen, which organises interventions fighting for intersectional social and climate justice, using experimental textiles, conversations and social engagement as a vehicle to heal, connect and build resistance. She has been facilitating creative workshops for the London community for the past 15 years.
Let’s Go Gospel Choir is one of the UK’s most exciting and diverse community choirs, offering a dynamic and joyful experience for audiences of all ages. Founded by choir director Lena Wright, the London-based choir organisation currently runs community choirs in a variety of boroughs across London.
Elizabeth Jackson lives and works as an artist and facilitator in London. She graduated in 2021 with an MA in Ceramics & Glass from the RCA. She leads creative workshops in schools, prisons, care homes and other community settings.
The skills you develop by taking part in this activity can be used to build your Kingston Award reflections on Career Zone. Find out more by watching our Kingston Award video, visiting our Kingston Award webpages or getting in touch with us.
*This is an externally hosted event and inclusion on Kuextra does not constitute an endorsement or approval by Kingston University.
