28th September, 7pm – 10pm: Open Studios and Live Music by Mosquito Farm and Leisure FM

07.10. – 05.11.2024, Mon – Fri, 10am – 1pm
SET Woolwich, Beresford St, London SE18 6BU

SET is excited to announce our upcoming collaboration with Videocity – Let the Grassroots Grow: Simply Nature. This will be launching on the 28th of September as part of Open Studios at SET Woolwich!

“Let the Grassroots Grow” is a multi-part programme focussed on exploring communities and the wider international art scene, by exploring the garden, nature and ecological activities as a meeting space for communities, ideas, and culture. Our goal is to bring new perspectives with shared values and will benefit SET, riesa efau and Videocity’s communities and audiences by supporting an ongoing exchange of knowledge, experience and practice beyond borders. We aim to let the (grass)roots of each of the participants and the collaboration to grow into a sustained partnership over the years to come.

The Simply Nature exhibition will be displayed for the first time in the UK as part of the “Let the Grassroots Grow”, alongside an experimental live performance from SET Woolwich members and band leisure fm from 8pm-9pm.

Artists: Lisa Maria Baier, Adonia Bouchehri, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Leon Michel, Abi Palmer, Veronika Pfaffinger.

The exhibition launch will also be accompanied by an experimental sound piece and sculpture from Mosquito Farm, created in response to “Let the Grassroots Grow” in the SET Garden from 7pm-7:30pm.

Radical Gardening in the City – SET Woolwich Garden – October 12th 2024

Please join us for this incredible workshop exploring the radical histories of gardens within the city!

This unique two-part workshop will begin by exploring the crucial role played by green spaces in London: as a site for fostering community resistance to gentrification and social cleansing, and emphasising the demands of right to grow and climate justice movements.

You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your practical gardening and planting experience, through seed sowings and demonstrations, and rethink traditional approaches to gardening. Through this workshop, you’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to the SET Woolwich garden to provide food, flowers, forage and shelter, for the wider SET Woolwich community and local wildlife.

This session will be led by Jack Jeans from Walworth Garden. He lives in South London and is hugely inspired by the histories of ‘radical’ and grassroots gardeners, this informs and inspires Jack’s daily practice as a horticulture tutor, community gardener and food grower in London.

Curators: Amina Ali, Andrea Domesle, Polina Chizhova and the Videocity-Team. With thanks to Rowan Bell.

This project is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany through the collaboration between Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Creative Scotland, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe-Institut London and Wales Arts International / Arts Council of Wales.

Cultural-bridge.info