Making Inroads - A Story of Putting Down Roots
Central Library, 2 Fieldway Crescent, London N5 1PF
Rowan Art’s Making Inroads project tells the stories of people who live or work on or near Holloway Road - a major historical route into London and one of the most culturally diverse places in the world. The project is produced by Rowan Arts and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Through photography and oral history interviews Making Inroads explores how people have come to settle in the area, how they have made it their home and what connection it has to the places they have come from. 40 people have been interviewed and photographed - 20 from other countries and 20 from other parts of the UK – all with an object that connects them to the place they are from.
This exhibition includes photographs of participants and marks the launch of the website and the accompanying book, which will be available for free at the exhibition.
Cubitt Exhibition: ‘Cubitt People's Republic’
Islington Museum, 245 St John Street, London, EC1V 4NB
Cubitt Education presents an exhibition of works made during our programme of enriching and inspiring arts activities for the local people of Islington. The title of the exhibition is inspired by Finsbury People's Republic; an independent local Council that built the Finsbury Health Centre in the late 1930’s. The
Council declared itself independent and developed substantial plans for a welfare system that treated everybody as equals and individuals with a right to quality of life.
The exhibition includes: Picturing Democracy: Picturing Community: a series of photographic portraits of Councilors and local people who play important if often overlooked roles in the Borough, taken by young people from the weekly ‘Photography Club’ at Elizabeth Garret Anderson Secondary School.
Cubitt Creative Mentors is a scheme that brings together professional arts practitioners with children and young people at key points of transition in their lives. The mentors include Cubitt Artists Sarah Pickstone, Anne Ryan and Frances Burden. The exhibition will feature artwork by mentor and mentee side by side.
Works from Photoshop Club which runs weekly at a local secondary school, and at each session professional artists, designers, animators, photographers meet pupils informally and share their skills in a peer-led learning environment.
The exhibiting young artists and photographers have helped to curate this exhibition.
Social Justice Exhibition
St Mary Magdalene Academy, Liverpool Road, London, N7 8PG
St Mary Magdalene Academy specialises in humanities and global citizenship. Their Street Gallery will be host to an exhibition that focuses on themes of integration, identity and isolation. The exhibition will follow on from this year’s Refugee Week that takes place from 14-20 June, with the aim to promote understanding and awareness between host communities and refugees and asylum seekers.
Invisible Library: INK Illustration Chloe Regan, Rachel Gannon & Fumie Kamijo
Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA
INK Illustration’s travelling Invisible Library exhibition comes to Free Word. The Invisible Library project will transform the gallery space into an imaginary library filled with books that have been alluded to in novels, but have never actually existed…until now.
Part aesthetic adventure and part metafictional exercise, INK has chosen forty imaginary book titles from the Invisible Library Blogspot and illustrated their covers. INK then invitees attendees to take up the threads and continue writing the narratives within. Thus by the close of the exhibition, the once blank pages of each book will be enlivened with imaginative poly-vocal stories. Free Word Centre is an international centre for literature, literacy and free expression which aims to promote and protect the power of the word.
