Made on the Mardyke/Made by the river - Totally Thames 2025

Made on the Mardyke/Made by the river by Rainham Marshes

Join us on Saturday 6th September 11am-4.30pm - as part of Hydracity 2 for Totally Thames 2025

As part of Totally Thames 2025 InspiralLondon's Hydracity 2 Festival - at a workshop location near the Thames Estuary & Mardyke confluence - (secret location to be confirmed) join artist Charlie Fox for river creature making workshop and then weather permitting - with the creatures we will explore the foreshore of Rainham Marshes for an improvised photo shoot. This part of the Thames is extremely photogenic and evocative as the river is allowed to 'flood' its banks and nourish the marshlands that lie between Rainham and the mouth of the river Mardyke.

Then join us in the afternoon to enjoy the Mardyke and search for the emerging creatures… looking into the past, experiencing the present and imagining into future: in the next 100, 1000, 10,000, million years – imagining what hybrid creatures will appear in the post-natural environment of the Mardyke?

With workshop participants and the creative input from the river as it transforms the materials that make up its environment, we encounter some creatures from the near future emerging from the River Thames. And as we picnic together, by the river, we will discuss the Mardyke and the larger Thames rivers - as natural resources, grappling with all the human waste and pollution thrown their way; to think about how the river digests this waste, transforms it and is transformed, in a hybrid cycle of regenerations.

• • 11am-1.3opm Workshop Making.
  • Picnic/lunch break
  • 2pm- 4.30pm pm we arrive at Field of Peace
  • With time for picnic and discussions

For the day of exploration:

Please note – you are advised to bring a picnic, wear suitable clothes, shoes for weather conditions – some refreshments including water (tea and coffee) will be provided. If you cannot afford to donate then email contact@inspirallondon.com and we will reserve you a free space.

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