ALL WORKSHOPS
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Shade Building with Architect Owen Pearce
SATURDAY
12:00-18:00
FREEGARDEN
Come help us build a large, multi-sail shade for our garden - essential as London gets hotter and heatwaves more intense. You’ll go away with skills to create your own shades - in parks, on your street, to protect both your neighbours and wildlife.
No need to book but you can see more info and reserve a free space if you like, below.
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Natural Dyeing with Auda Sakho
SATURDAY
12:00-14:30, 15:30-18:00
Free, drop in.GARDEN
Artist Auda Sakho leads this drop in workshop. Naturally dye the sails for our community shade, and create your own wall hanging.No need to book but you can see more info and reserve a free spot if you like, below.
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Foraging with STORE Projects and Silo
SUNDAY
11am-3pm
LOCAL WALKING, GARDEN£5
This workshop starts with a local guided walk by sustainable restaurant SILO to identify ingredients for foraging. You’ll enjoy a picnic of snacks made with foraged ingrdients, before returning to Collective for a STORE-led session creating a foraging basket from reclaimed materials. -
Plastic Recycling with Are You Mad?
SATURDAY
12:00-18:00
FREE, DROP-INGARDEN
Learn how to recycle and reimagine locally collected plastic waste in to beautiful new items. We are exploring the radical idea of community-owned waste that generates an income for local communities.No need to book!
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Lamp Lab with The Fixing Factory
SATURDAY
12:00 - 14:00, 14:00-16:30
£3SCHOOL HALL
At this workshop you will learn the basic foundations of fixing electrical items, with a focus on electrical lamps.
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Remapping Camden: Guerrilla Green Corridor Workshop
SUNDAY
12:00-14:00
FreeGARDEN
Led by Castlehaven, a hands-on workshop exploring how wildflowers, tree pits, and community action can create green corridors that support biodiversity.
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Introduction to Fermentation
SATURDAY
12:00-13:30
£3SCHOOL HALL
Josephine from OmVed Gardens will guide you through the essentials of fermentation, demystify what’s happening in the jar, and show you how to bring these techniques into your own kitchen with confidence.
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THIS IS WHAT UTOPIA LOOKS LIKE - Kids Drama Workshop with ShyBairn Theatre
SATURDAY
12:00-13:00, 14:00 - 15:00
FREE, BOOK AHEADSCHOOL WORKSHOP
Join us for a drama workshop where you will share ideas and perform your own story for the future! Suitable for ages 12 - 18.
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Food Growing with Global Generation
SATURDAY
13:30 - 16:00
FREEGARDEN
In this hands-on workshop with Global Generation, you’ll explore the basics of growing your own food. This drop in session will start with collectively building a planter from reclaimed materials before you help to plant it up with vegetables and fruit. You’ll learn practical skills for building food-growing planters, what to plant and when, seasonal growing, and sustainable approaches to producing food in small spaces.
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Food Waste to Healthy Soil: A Practical Guide to Home Composting
SUNDAY
13:30 - 15:00
Free, book now.GARDEN
Join Calthorpe Community Gardener Marta to learn how to compost at home! Transform your everyday food waste into nutrient-rich compost for your plants right at home. Whether you have a garden, a small balcony, or just a spare corner in the kitchen, this practical, hands-on workshop covers simple composting systems you can easily set up and run yourself.
DISCUSS
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Podcasting with Trasmission Roundhouse
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
12:00 - 14:30
FREEGarden
Transmission Roundhouse live from Camden Inspire! Chat to our youth podcasters about your experience with climate change, your fears and the future vision you are going to work towards. No need to book!
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Poetry in the Park
SUNDAY
12:00-14:30
FREEGarden
An informal poetry group where you will use poetry writing, conversation and creative collaging to express your hopes for the future.
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Applying for Funding with Camden Giving
SATURDAY
10:00-11:30
FREEAUCTION ROOMS
Camden Giving’s Head of Grants will host this morning workshop exploring your climate project ideas, and coach you through how to build a narrative that appeals to funders. This is a group exercise where you will help to develop the ideas of your workshop neighbours, too.
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Panel: Power in Numbers: Grassroots Action Starts at Home
SATURDAY
12.30-14:00
FREE, BOOK AHEADAUCTION ROOMS
Featuring people who are already doing the work to bring communities together around climate action. Learn about the impact they are having and get inspired for your own initiatives.
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Panel: Building the World we Want: Activism Beyond Borders
SATURDAY
16:00-17:30
FREE, BOOK AHEADAUCTION ROOMS
Leading voices in architecture, activism and law to explore what meaningful progress actually looks like and what it takes to turn ambition into lasting change.
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The Cultural Food Project with Earth Tenders
SUNDAY
11:00 - 13:00
FREEGarden
This workshop explores personal food stories and histories, the origins of everyday food staples and their cultural significance through a radical, anti-colonial lens.
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London is Melting - A Creative Workshop with Somers Town Community Association
SATURDAY
15:00 - 16:15
FREEGarden
If London was melting, where would we go? Who would we turn to, and what places would still hold us when the systems we rely on start to buckle under extreme heat? This workshop sits with these questions, bringing together different voices to think through what urban preparedness could mean for London's future
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Is Nature part of our Culture?
SUNDAY
12:30 - 14:30
FREEGarden
This workshop is about biocultural diversity, the intersection of nature and culture. participants are invited to explore nature through a lens of cultural diversity, understanding how our past present and futures are intertwined with the nature around us.
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Why are we Melting? Heat, Inequity and the Built Environment
SUNDAY
13:00 - 14:00
FREEAuction Rooms
Join us for a talk and workshop exploring if Doughnut Economics holds answers to the challenges facing our city?
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Kintsugi with Dotty by Design
SUNDAY
11:00-12:30
SOLD OUTSchool Hall
An introduction to Kintsugi, the ancient and mindful art of mending broken china with the golden seal.
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Japanese Sashiko Mending with Tamsin Lines, CSM
SATURDAY
12:00-14:00
£3School Hall
Learn the traditional Japanese repair stitching craft, using reclaimed or recyled materials. Bring your own garment or use those provided.
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Kids Natural Printing with Grace Parker & Up to Earth
SATURDAY
15:00-17:00
FREEGarden
A workshop for children aged 8+, exploring climate change with positive conversations around nature and creativity. The kids will create their own cyanotype prInt with natural materials. -
Kantha Blankets with Shama Kun
SATURDAY
14:30-17:30
SOLD OUTSchool Hall
Learn the traditional art of kantha blanket-making, its history and conemporary possibilities. Using reclaimed materials, you will make a small textile piece and learn the techniques to make your own larger blanket that tells your story.
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Weaved Book Binding with Kami Paper
SATURDAY
12:00-14:300
£3School Hall
You’ll create your own notebook with a simple book binding stitch, decorated with sweet wrappers and paper offcuts. Feel free to bring your own materials to bring your book to life in your unique way.
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Plan Your Growing - Zine Making workshop
SATURDAY
15:00 - 17:00
FREESchool Hall
Nurture your inner gardener and storyteller in this hands-on, creative two-hour workshop with The Gardening Drawing Club with Poetic Pastel Press founder Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck.
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Seed Ball Making with Rochester Square
SATURDAY
13:00 - 16:00
FREEGARDEN
Join local Camden Pottery studio Rochester Square to make your own seed bomb from reclaimed clay.
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Paper Bracelet Making with WM College
SUNDAY
11:00 - 13:00
FREESchool Hall
Learn how to make rolled beads from a variety of different papers including recycled magazines, leaflets and wrapping paper. Then, transform your beads into a bracelet, necklace or earrings.