WALKING TREES COLLECTIVE X FLORA BUCKET X FIZZ MARGERSON X WALTHAMSTOW MARSHES!

GREETINGS EARTHWORMS! 

Our next Walking Trees Collective will take place in the delightfully rugged Walthamstow Marshes! 

Come and lollop through the ‘Lammas Lands’ and explore questions with us such as; what exactly were the ‘commons’ ?! How do they exist today ? How can we reclaim them through playful, invigorating, creative practises ?!  What does it mean to create ‘common ground’ ?!

For this event, Walking Trees Collective are collaborating with two amazing artists: Flora Bucket and Fizz Margereson. 

Together, we will explore our relationship to weeds, poetics and folklore through weaving practises and journalling, 'commoning' through sound and field recordings and collective mapping processes amongst other activities! 

Come along to move, ponder, reinvigorate, rebel and reflect as a group.

No previous art necessary and all materials, snacks and tea provided. Come with an open mind and an experimental hat and be taken on a 'commoning' field day!

INFO!

• The precise meeting point will be confirmed 1 week prior to the event but it will be in the Walthamstow Marshes: nearest train stations are Lea Bridge and Clapton overground!
• We will meet on the 11th May at 1.50pm to start at 2.00pm. We'll go on until 5.00pm with a tea and snack break included.
• Expect some historical landing on the site, gentle movement, walking and multi disciplinary creative prompts to explore themes around the commons in an engaged way which is specific to the Walthamstow Marshes. 
• Expect to meet some wonderful new people!
• Expect to feel regenerated, calm and welcomed by the group
• Expect to open up and find expression in an un-intimidating space :)

• Above all else, have some fun, to be outside, learn about some ecological history and feel wholesome.
  
  The Walking Trees Collective's values & policies:
   

  * We are a LGBTQIA+ space open to all and all backgrounds. 

  *Tickets are tiered in relation to income - please let us know if you can not afford a ticket and want to come- we want everyone to enjoy the event and will always try to accommodate.

  *We value openness and creativity; if you do not want to share material with the group then this is fine and not insisted.

  *We sadly can not allow dogs or pets to join as it tends to disturb the focus.

  *We may need to cancel an event if the weather conditions are far too miserable - in this case we will email to let you know the evening before or the morning of if it's still changeable. However, we've never had to cancel on this basis in the past and some of the best times have been during the snow! You will receive a full refund in this case.

  *We have a 48-hour cancellation fee refund policy as we are a self-led community event which relies on tickets and numbers.

  *As an outdoor, public event, it is hard to make it fully accessible, however, wherever possible we will make changes to accommodate - so please feel free to contact us ahead of time.
  
  More about the artists involved:

  Flora Bucket (she/her)        www.florabucket.com  @florabucket
  Flora Bucket is an artist, researcher, educator and activist, whose practice focuses on the textile industry, in particular; textile waste. Flora is attempting to detangle the tightly knit problems interwoven into the global textile industry and explore the intersectional issues of class and environment. The textile industry is one of the longest and most complicated industrial chains in manufacturing. Through deconstructing and reconstructing textile waste, her work aims to unpick the complexities woven into the textile industry and call to action those responsible.

  
  Fizz Margereson (she/her)   margereson.f@gmail.com
  Fizz Margereson is a sound artist, music therapist and composer. She worked with the Almeida Theatre as a resident designer. She was associate designer to both Tom Gibbons and George Dennis on several different shows. She has composed and mastered music for several theatre companies in London. She has composed for Pollinations, an installation about plants that was based in the centre of Birmingham. She also designed sound and music for an Almeida Theatre radio drama. Fizz has just qualified as a music therapist and is currently working in a Hospice and an SEN school. She is working toward fusing these two practices of sound and music therapy together.

  
  Walking Trees Collective! (she/her x2)     @walking_trees_collective     @finlay_forbes_gower    @sophie_hughes_art

  Finlay Forbes Gower and Sophie Hughes are two artists based in London. They created the Walking Trees Collective as a way to explore London’s green (and blue) spaces. Walking Trees delves into social history and current ecology whilst harnessing the transformative power of art: drawing, poetry, printmaking, journaling and movement, to invite deeper more attentive connections with all that’s growing and flowing around us.