Brickfield Newham: Hands-on Outdoor Brickmaking and Short Performance

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Brickfield Newham: Hands-on Outdoor Brickmaking and Short Performance

At this outdoor workshop in the Royal Docks, you will learn how to mix clay dug from the borough with local industrial materials to create a unique clay body for brickmaking. Each stage of the process will be demonstrated for you to try. Work alone or team up with a partner to see how many you can make!

After the workshop you can watch a new, intimate performance made by students from University of East London about housing in the borough.

You will also be able to see a traditional clamp kiln that we have built on site being fired.

Brickfield Newham is a community research project that questions clay and its importance to the urban landscape by connecting people literally to the earth beneath their feet. During the nineteenth century, itinerant brickmakers leased land across Newham to dig clay, make and fire bricks. These brickfields provided the materials that built houses for the borough’s workers and industrial infrastructure they laboured in.

This project is a collaboration between the University of East London, V&A East, Victoria & Albert Museum Research Institute and Brickfield. We have been supported by Newham Heritage Month, Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation and an Arts Council National Lottery Grant with in-kind support from ThisIsProjekt and Newham Council.

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How to Attend

We want everyone to be able to get involved. So let us know if there are any adjustments we can make so that you can join us. Email rosamond.murdoch@newham.gov.uk for access questions.

Covid-19 security measures will be in place following the Government’s latest guidance. The workshop and performance is planned with Covid-19 safety measures in place. Audiences and participants should not attend the site if they or a member of their household have symptoms of covid 19, have tested positive or have been told to isolate. Anyone with symptoms must not attend, must isolate and get a PCR test.

Time & date

Saturday 29 May 10am & 1pm
Sunday 30 May 11am & 2pm

Location

Brickfield Performance Site (adjacent Tate & Lyle Factory), 33 Factory Road, London, E16 2HB

Tickets

Free - registration required
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