The Elephant and the Nun Festival took hold across Southwark today for some end of summer shenanigans... Ida Barr aka Chris Green lead his Mash Up with Home Live Art in Nursery Row Park, while local dance groups took to the stage throughout the afternoon.
Home Live Art invited me to run a workshop as part of the event which I ran as Re-imagine your Elephant. Asking participants to think about their local area, particularly the drastic changes being made through the multitude of regeneration schemes happening across the borough, and providing a platform with which to re-imagine and re-design the buildings of Elephant and Castle using fruit and vegetables from East Street market.
The workshop went down very well with the local children, and was a busy day of cutting, chopping and sticking fruit and veg together to create some fantastical buildings. From tower blocks to UFOs, monsters to caverns, the brief was slightly veered from but with some brilliant results. With music blaring, dancers dancing the afternoon away and a lot of cake it turned out to be a great festival.
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