Our project with Second Floor Studios & Arts is coming along nicely, with 80 artists studios set to open in Deptford within the next two months.
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Beep Studio in the Lewisham Ledger
This month’s Lewisham Ledger features a piece about the Havelock Walk creative community, including interviews with Ed & Peter from the Studio alongside painter Elizabeth Chisholm, printmaker Tessa Holmes and maker Simon McKeown.
Read the full issue online here.
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'Grow Tottenham' launches!
Easter 2018 sees a new community garden & cafe for NorthEast London.
The garden will serve an important social space for the local community, and is intended to host a range of events, organised both by the on-site team and other community groups, from film screenings, to talks and live music. There will be at least one volunteering session every week, and anybody is welcome to come and help take care of the garden.
The garden is designed to be mobile, and has been in 3 different locations since 2012, the same elements reconfigured each time it occupies a new site. The most recent version of the garden had a large public social area, a quieter 'members-only' garden where volunteers grow their own fruit and veg, a wildflower meadow, kitchen garden, cafe, greenhouse and training area. Beep Studio is delighted to have supported the garden in its new location.
Beep Studio supported the Grow team in planning and designing the temporary use of the warehouse as a venue for a variety of uses including artists studios, a cafe & bar plus a 200 person nightclub.
The Studios work was to enable the project, advise on specific products and construction arrangements and interface with sound system designers to create a temporary but high quality space. Importantly, this space can be enhanced by the Grow Community during its run at the Tottenham site.
The project follows hot on the heels of the successful 'Grow Elephant Community Garden' on New Kent Road, which hosted regular gardening workshops, volunteering sessions, and plant propogation for use on projects across Elephant and Castle.
You can find all the latest updates on their Facebook page, or find them and drop in here.
“Join us this good Friday as we celebrate the opening of Grow Tottenham.
We’ve been working hard over the last couple of months turning an old mechanics garage into a cafe, bar, studios & club, and building our community garden around it. It’s a really exciting space and hopefully a lot of good things will happen here over the next couple of years.
It’s been a huge collective effort to get to this stage, big thanks to everybody who has helped out in such a wide variety of ways
From March we’ll be offering free micro-allotment plots to local residents to grow their own fruit and veg. From April we’ll be opening a cafe/bar and looking for people who’d like to help programme and organise events. Sign up to our newsletter at www.growtottenham.org or call down to the garden for a chat any Thursday or Friday”
