East Street Library Workshop

Yesterday East Street Library were kind enough to allow me to run a new workshop in their cosy, welcoming space. Experimenting with a slightly less visual workshop instead focusing on street songs donated to me by a local resident a few months ago. 

The archive is a fantastic insight into the fun, silly and often sad songs sung by Southwark children as they clapped, skipped and danced around the streets in the area. We used the songs as a starting point to either make our own, or write our favourite lines onto labels we decorated, laminated and hung out on the railings to entertain the curious passers-by on Old Kent Road. We bumped into a local family whose daughter I met at Surrey Square School as we hung them out, who came to join us decorating the streets of Southwark. 

Eleanor Shipman

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