Key projects included:
Artists
Lesley Asare is a British Ghanaian artist, Tamalpa teacher, somatic coach, and breathwork practitioner.
Drew is an artist and graphic designer, creating graphic harvests and facilitating creative embodiment workshops, incorporating art, sound, movement and origami.
Meera Shakti Osborne has a practice of collective healing through creative self-expression.
Tyreis Holder, a South London artist with Jamaican/St. Vincent heritage, explores self, identity, and colonial spaces through installation, textiles, poetry, and more. Her work, embracing textiles as healing language, addresses trauma among Black women. She sparks conversations on race, disability, community, class, sexuality, and culture through lived experiences.
Activity
An afternoon of free performance art on Peckham Square co-developed with the South London Refugee Association.
2024
Artist and youth worker Meera Shakti Osborne collaborated with teenagers from Inspire Walworth to create a thoughtful and hopeful installation at Peckham's Sky Shopping City.
2024
In collaboration with the South London Refugee Association, artist, poet, and visual storyteller Tyreis Holder facilitated workshops with young people to co-create a vibrant and healing new artwork at Rye Lane Market.
Seek, Sort, Sense is a free activity pack designed for children aged 3-6 years old that encourages engagement with green spaces in the area.
2023-2024
Rye Lane Reconnected, a community-led initiative, collaborated with social artists, residents, and community groups to commission artworks for Peckham's Rye Lane.
Pass(Portal) is a free print and digital activity pack to facilitate creative conversations on the meaning of diaspora on a micro level, exploring home, culture, and travel.
A Journey Through Time and Culture is a free activity pack to facilitate creative conversations on the meaning of diaspora. Though it was designed with a classroom setting in mind for KS3 and KS4, it is open and appropriate for use in a variety of settings for all ages.
In 2024 we launched Memories for the Future, a two-year inquiry exploring the contributions of the diaspora in shaping Peckham’s identity and heritage.