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Social Artist Dan Thompson explains how we can make revolution an everyday thing.

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Soca/Zouk, Kingsland Road N16

The South Kilburn Explorer's Club

Like Iain Sinclair, Geoffrey Fletcher, Bill Drummond, Richard Long or The Caravan Gallery?

The Empty Shops Network has been exploring towns and cities across the UK, using a variety of techniques to quickly uncover interesting stories about places - just like the artists and writers listed above. If you'd like to spend an afternoon with the Empty Shops Network's founder Dan Thompson, he'll be leading a series of practical exploration activities at Workshop 24, South Kilburn on Saturday 11th June, from 1-5pm.

It's the last afternoon that Workshop 24 will exist; on Sunday 12th it's packed away and gone for good. The fun will start at 1pm and end around 5pm, and it's free. There will be plenty of tea, and some cake. Booking is essential - email [email protected] to confirm a place. (There's a free copy of the Explorer's Handbook fanzine for the first ten people.)

And then come along - and spend an afternoon treasure hunting, word collecting, sideways looking, sound mapping, place making, story finding and urban exploring.

Brent has its own open studios scheme launching in October (see http://www.northwestlondonarttrail.co.uk/) - the Kilburn version of Spare Place might help you find a suitable venue to join in.

The Common Academy of Arts at Workshop 1a

The Common Academy of Art will be a temporary art school popping up in an empty shop in Shoreham-on-Sea this August. The timetable of the Academy will be composed of activities proposed and led by anyone with a great idea. Thanks to a bursary from American Express and other fund raising activity we are able to fund materials and equipment to facilitate all sorts of ideas. Mornings and afternoons will be mainly aimed at children, young people and families, whilst the evenings will be reserved for screenings, talks and more grown up classes. I am looking for anyone who would like to give a talk or presentation during one of the evening sessions. Talks can be as long or short as you like - 5 minutes? 2 hours? - and be on any subject. We will have projection equipment and WiFi available too. As the Common Academy of Art is an art school talks on visual art, literature, media, music and performing arts would be fantastic, though please don't feel limited to these areas. Local history, travel essays, arts education, the current issues faced by the arts, empty shops and regeneration, craft, gardening, the day you met 5 people called Gladys. Anything! If you have an idea for a talk that could interest, inspire, inform and/or entertain then I'd love to hear it. The Academy will take place over five days, from August 3rd to 7th. Although I can't offer payment for contributors I can pay for travel costs and hopefully an interesting and unusual evening.

If you would like further information about the project or want to propose an idea then please email me at [email protected]. You can also keep up to date with developments on our blog, commonacademy.blogspot.com and follow us on Twitter, @commonacademy

#shoreham #shoreham by sea #art #academy #art school #autonomous #empty shops

Guerilla gardening with Bianca Donnelly aka Girl With A Spade - one of our final week workshops at Workshop 24. Wednesday 8th June, 1-4pm. She planted 500 red tulips with local residents as part of our four-month residency.

Do It Yourself

The Empty Shops Network return to Workshop 24, Peel Precinct, Kilburn for one final week of activity exploring the Big Society and Do It Yourself Culture. Ideal for community leaders and creatives alike. All sessions are free but places are limited to ten per session. To book email [email protected], Tweet @artistsmakers or text to 07859 228347.

Tuesday 7th June: DIY Design: create branding that's handmade, homespun and just as impressive as the big boys. With Steve Rowland, designer for Heavenly Records, Memphis Industries and Workshop 24. 1-4pm

Thursday 9th June: Empty Shops Surgery: iron out the creases and sooth the struggle, by spending an hour with Empty Shops Network founder and author of the Empty Shops Toolkit Dan Thompson. One to one sessions, hour long, from 1-7pm. Sorry, fully booked: get in touch for future surgery sessions

Thursday 9th June: Social Media Surgery: Sort out your Twitter from your Facebook, your Flickr from your Quora. Sit down for an hour-long one to one session with Daniel O'Neill, between 1-7pm. Booking essential.

Thursday 9th June: Words work together: A poetic exploration of the use of language, lyrics, and literature to give communities a voice. Participants will learn practical skills to use with local communities and get creative themselves. With Simon Mole. 1-4pm

Saturday 11th June: The Explorer's Handbook: explore the city by looking up, over, around, under and through - an afternoon of exploration for artists, writers and photographers that will unlock new ways to look at where you live. Led by artist and explorer Dan Thompson. 1-5pm. Exhibition of work created 6.30-7.30pm. Results will also be used to make a fanzine - all participants will receive a copy.

#kilburn #south kilburn #workshops #community #development #leadership

librarianista-blog

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Augustine Birrell (via librarianista)

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There’s a kind of energy to gardens in a city, that’s what I liked the most: people buying pound-shop storage boxes and growing them full of fresh produce. And doing things in such tiny spaces.

Alex Mitchell (via pdsmith)

Documenting everything that went on at Workshop 24, and celebrating the creative people in South Kilburn, this book includes interviews, photos and creative responses to Peel Precinct. It's all Made In South Kilburn.

#book #publishing #blurb #workshop 24 #kilburn #south kilburn #london #empty shop #empty shopsnetwork

Afternoon tea with Fozia - 1000 cups of tea in four months at Workshop 24. And a whole lot more besides.

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More shots from the 'A Nice Cuppa Tea' party

From the 'A Nice Cuppa Tea' party in Peel Precinct, commissioned by Workshop 24 and organised by Kula Club

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