Free Creative Workshops and Guided Waterglades Walks
About this Event
New! Nature Story Trail in the Waterglades. Collect your free explorer trail map and guide from the Timber Lodge and head out on a 30 to 60-minute walk following the story of one of the animals that lives in The Waterglades. Then return to base and share what you discovered.
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Guided Waterglades Tour: Karen from The Conservation Volunteers will take you on a fascinating stroll through the Waterglades to discover our local flora and fauna and learn more about the wetland ecosystem. Meet at the Timber Lodge and sign up for a tour on the day.
- Cyanotype Print Workshop: Use the leaves, plants, and flowers gathered from around the area to create beautiful, sun-printed photographic art to take home. No experience needed—just bring your creativity!
- Making Infra-red and Thermal Images: Create arrangements of plants and objects and make images with specially adapted cameras to explore how they affect and are affected by heat in different ways. Select your favourite image to print and take home.
- Creative Arts in the Wetlands: Check out exciting new design ideas from Rosetta Arts' Artists Accelerator Programme who will be on hand to talk through their creative ideas to bring visual arts to the Waterglades and get your feedback.
Cyanotype workshops and activities are available throughout the day from 12-3pm at the Timber Lodge on a drop-in basis
Come for the nature, stay for the art. We can’t wait to see you there!
Urban Heat Collective
Urban Heat Collective
Info: Urban Heat Collective is a collaborative project bringing together UCL urban climate researcher Dr Oscar Brousse, local artist and educator Andrew Brown, and science communicator Judit Agui to explore how people experience heat in cities. The project investigates the complex relationship between solar radiation and the built environment with a particular focus on the role of green and blue spaces in cooling urban landscapes. Using alternative photographic processes, including cyanotype printing, near-infrared photography, and thermal imaging, Urban Heat Collective transforms scientific data into vivid, accessible visual experiences. Through heat walks, workshops and exhibitions Urban Heat Collective invites local communities in East London to actively engage and respond to urban heat.
The Conservation Voluntee
The Conservation Volunteers
Info: TCV is a National charity with a mission to connect people together to protect and restore nature, delivering lasting benefits for both. In East Village, they have been contracted to engage with local people to manage, restore and enhance the biodiverse habitats across the site.
Karen Pernyes is the local Senior Project Officer who organises community engagement activities including Citizen Science, Family-Friendly events and regular practical volunteering sessions. Karen will be happy to share her knowledge of both the flora and fauna of the site as well as knowledge about the local community and how to improve biodiversity in such an urban setting.
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