Family Art Fun Day - Ground News

Join us to make Ground News - a slow, messy, collaged local newspaper, sharing stories by children and families, inspired by the ecologies we find ourselves intertwined within.

Each workshop will have activity stations to make collective “news reports”, guided by invitations inspired by heathland plants like Heather and Broom that grow freely in the Wilderness. We will be exploring, observing and playing with processes like monoprinting, DIY photograms using natural developers, writing and photographs. Everything generated during these workshops will be collaged and shared with participants, families, neighbours and the wider public through the form of a kind of newspaper at a later date. 

ABOUT KNEED

Kneed is a collaborative practice formed by Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham. We are interested in building systems of care, support and resistance where external pressures are causing these to be exhausted or lacking. Our workshops and studio practice focus on collectivising experiences, memories and stories around our ecologies, labour, time and care, mobilised as tools to resist systems of oppression, exhaustion and isolation. Our approach to making work is centred around process, conversation, imagination and friendship.

ABOUT TURF:

Founded in 2013 by Croydon locals, Turf is Croydon’s homegrown artist space and the first entirely artist-run contemporary art space in the borough. Based in Croydon’s Whitgift Shopping Centre, we put on free exhibitions 7 workshops, provide affordable artist studios, run a free creative project space for locals & host a number of other local creative organisations and collectives. A registered charity, Turf aims to provide paid opportunities for artists and creatives who might otherwise be undersupported.

A request from the Turf team - if you book, please turn up!

Around 30% of people booking free tickets don't attend. As a charity, we aim to support people who need creative opportunities the most and our free tickets are limited and in high demand. Every person who doesn’t turn up means someone else can’t attend, so please let us know if you can’t make it to free up a space. If you don’t attend twice or more without letting us know, you may be restricted from booking again.

KEY ACCESS INFO​

• To help us support you best, please let us know if you have any access needs when booking.
• For access info about getting to Turf and the Turf space, click here.
• Our unit in the Whitgift Centre is 4 minutes walk (0.2 miles) from Wellesley Road Tram stop via the underpass, and 7 minutes walk (0.3 miles) from West Croydon Station and 8 minutes walk (0.4 miles) from East Croydon station.

WORKSHOP CODE:

Turf aims to be a space where all are welcomed & respected. We ask all attendees to align with this spirit when booking and support us in creating a welcoming & collaborative atmosphere together. We ask that everyone is;

• Kind and respectful in our language and behaviour towards others. Turf is a space which is anti racism, sexism, homophobia and ableism.
• Considerate of others’ time; allowing others room to speak & engage.
• Respectful of the space itself as belonging to many people, treating the space & objects with care.