Tuesday 26 October, 3:30-5pm
Free | Open to all | No experience necessary | Suitable for families | Snacks and refreshments provided
As part of LBBD’s New Town Culture programme, Carole worked with local families through Spring & Summer of 2021, to grow, care for the White House garden, and cook together. Working with soil and plant life, together they explored the histories of plants, nature and the built environment, and who has access to experiences outdoors.
As the garden curls inward for Autumn, conserving its energy for the coming Spring, Carole opens up to talk about how to be safely and proudly Blak Outside.
Carole is joined by Harun Morrison (They Are Here), who led the transformation of the White House garden in 2017.
Families are very welcome to join us for this artist talk, followed by snacks and drinks.
COVID-19 guidance:
This event will be presented indoors at the White House with adherence to all relevant COVID-19 guidelines. The White House is regularly cleaned, well ventilated, and will collect the contact details of visitors (securely stored for 14 days and then deleted).
We ask that you stay at home if you are feeling unwell, displaying COVID-19 symptoms, have been advised to by the NHS Test & Trace app, or have returned a positive Lateral Flow Test (LFT).
All of the White House staff present will complete an LFT in advance of the event. We encourage visitors to do the same, and to wear facemasks if they would like to do so. Single-use face masks and hand sanitiser will be available for all visitors.
If you would like to discuss our COVID-19 procedures, or anything else, please email whitehouse@createlondon.org
About Blak Outside:
Blak Outside is a multidisciplinary creative collective providing culturally diverse and inclusive events. The collective host the Blak Outside Festival, an annual grass roots, intergenerational event supportive of working class social housing residents and the QTIBIPOC (queer, trans, intersex, Black, indigenous, people of colour) community.
Carole Wright, founding member of Blak Outside, is a creative urban activist, community gardener and beekeeper. Wright currently works with Tate Modern, Landscape Institute, Urban Tree Festival (UK) and Peabody Trust. Wright has previously worked with Tate Britain, The Showroom, Whitechapel Art Gallery and St Mungo’s to develop creative community projects, lead workshops and walks. Wright regularly works with primary and secondary school students, housing estate residents and housing managers, church users groups and local councillors. Wright currently manages two community gardens in Southwark, South London.
Recent projects include Blak Outside 2020 Festival (The Garden Museum and Peabody Blackfriars, London, 2020); Walking my Manor (Cordwainers Grow, London, 2020); Walking whilst being Blak Outside (Industria Publication, 2020); IFLA World Congress (Oslo, Norway, 2019), The Big Lunch (Eden Project, 2019); Penfold Medicinal Garden (The Showroom, London, 2018). @blak_outside
About They Are Here:
They Are Here (f.2006) is a collaborative practice steered by Helen Walker & Harun Morrison. They are currently based in London and on the River Lea. Their work can be read as a series of context specific games. The entry, invitation or participation can be as significant as the game’s conditions and structure. Through these games, they seek to create ephemeral systems and temporary, micro-communities that offer an alternate means of engaging with a situation, history or ideology. In parallel, they initiate multi-year socially engaged projects that become generative spaces for further works. They Are Here work across media and types of site, particularly civic spaces. Institutions they have developed or presented work include: CCA Glasgow, Furtherfield, Grand Union, Konsthall C (Stockholm), Southbank Centre, South London Gallery, Studio Voltaire, STUK (Leuven, Belgium) and Tate Modern.
This event is supported by New Town Culture, a programme of artistic and cultural activity taking place in adult and children’s social care across the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham; and presented by the White House, Create London.