Creating The Future

A series of workshops combining arts and crafts with science and ecology to help us imagine positive futures in Finsbury Park, Commons/Jamboree Hut, next to Lidl, inside the Seven Sisters Gate in the park).

The Creating the Future workshops have been running since October 2024 and take place on the third Sunday of every month in Finsbury Park.

These workshops aim to build an informal community in the heart of Finsbury Park, that come together to learn about resilience in response to some of our questions, confusions, concerns and desires for the future. These workshops combine art, craft making, storytelling and scientific data to slow down debate and find more gentle and positive ways of thinking, creating and collaborating.

The Commons/Jamboree Hut is wheelchair accessible, the workshops are designed to be inclusive, cross generational and with accessibility in mind. Please contact Rachel for more information and any questions about accessibility or taking part.

Creating the Future – Stories for the Future
Sunday 19th December 2024
2.00-5.00pm
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Exploring storytelling, myth and folk tales, alongside scientific data, this workshop will explore how we can create alternative narratives about where we come from, where we are going and where we might return to. We will work co-operatively to create a series of interactive flip books, drawing on our own histories, places we have called home, the cultures, climates, languages and food that have rooted us or displaced us, as well as our favourite stories, songs and myths.

More workshops for 2025 to be confirmed soon!

Cost
The suggested ticket cost is £10 a session OR donate as you can. Some sessions are FREE (details will be provided). Seasonal refreshments will be provided at each session.

Background
Rachel Jacobs is running this series of monthly public workshops as part of The Commons Residency Project in Finsbury Park. The workshops draw on Rachel’s previous work creating the ambitious 30 year national project ‘Future Machine & When the Future Comes’; ‘Performing the Future’ that explored how we might think positively about the future in response to climate and environmental change; and the workshop series ‘The Republic of Learning’ – part of “Materialising Data, Embodying Climate Change” a collaboration with Giles Lane, Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London, Proboscis, Birkbeck University of London and NERC British Antarctic Survey.

For more information about the artist/facilitator Rachel Jacobs visit: www.i-am-ai.net/about