SAVE OUR ART! Walk+workshop

Somers Town Space is creating a People's Museum! Run by insiders  in  inner london NW1 with a passion for history of 'Radicals,reformers and rebels'.  We've 4 publications, events, Pop Up Museums,  street festivals and eventsPlease support us and donate to help us in our efforts to preserve heritage here - find ot more and support ushereNext Publication: JourneysOrder on www.aspaceforus.clubsomerstownhistory@gmail.comFacebookor Twitter.

A Space for us People's Museum

Discover the incredible lost art of Somers Town at this half day event with guided walk and activities.

People's Museum Somers Town

J﻿oin us and discover unique working class ceramic heritage in Somers Town. Learn all about 1930s artist Gilbert Bayes&#x27; &#x27;Art in Everyday life&#x27; work in St Pancras Housing through a guided walk.E﻿njoy family friendly art activities.Find out about our campaign and heritage trail to restore this to the area it was intended for. See the 2 tailors that we retrieved from the USA last year. &#x27;Stolen art back from the USA &#x27;- Camden New Journal February 2023Art in everyday life were the words of Gilbert Bayes, the artist who created art based fairy tales on walls, ships, birds nursery rhymes and saints&#x27; stories on drying posts on washing, for St Pancras Housing in the 1930s.C﻿ome to our half day workshop and m﻿eet the artists and the architects of our new heritage trail.P﻿rogrammeAll day art Workshop - family friendly: Design a heritage trail/ make your own &#x27;finial&#x27; led by professional ceramicist. N﻿OTE: There are 2 slots for the walk in order to keep a manageable group size. 1.30 Introduction + View Refreshments - all 1.45 Guided Walk by Steve McCarthy to estates Group A (40 mins) Film/ Talk by Founder of Museum (25 mins)3pm Guided Walk by Steve McCarthy to estates Group B (40 mins) Film/ Talk (25 mins)Background Somers Town has been called the &#x27;fairy tale district&#x27; - join us for a guided walk and workshop around the history of this art - finials and lunettes based on folk tales... Hans Christian Anderson, the Brothers Grimm, and saints stories St Nicholas, St Anthony...WhoLed by experienced Guide Steve McCarthy of Hidden London Walks.co.uk, we co-present a live tour, a visual feast, stories, and a mystery of their loss.With local insights from the People&#x27;s Museum people who live here, you have unusual access to unseen art in hidden courtyards. Y﻿our ticket sale will help our campaign to restore/ buy back more finials. Or buy a book!Please supportWe appreciate donations to contribute to our fund to campaign to replace the sadly damaged and missing finals.  Three are to be replaced - the broken St Antony of Padua statuette and 2 finials; and further to that, to replace all missing finials to restore this district to its intended &#x27;art in everyday life&#x27;!For why shouldn&#x27;t ordinary people have art?Low cost options available. Please email info@aspaceforus.clubPeople&#x27;s Museum A Space For us Somers Town 52 Phoenix Road NW1 1ES www.aspaceforus.clubhiddenwalks.co.uk

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Guided walk  Group  A

Guided Walk  Group B

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