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Crafternoon Tea Club is going to create a colourful art installation in the trees of Hackney Wick – and it needs your help. In a bid to create new friendships between local residents and local artists, Crafternoon Tea Club will be creating ‘The Wick Woven Web’ using larger than life friendship bracelets. The bands will then be woven into a colourful, web-like installation tied between trees in Wick Village Green. 'The technique of connecting the threads represents the new connections made, and the final installation will represent the area’s social networks,' say founders Beccy McCray and Hannah Elbourne.
If you want to take part, the Crafternoon Tea Club is asking that you collect no-longer-needed textiles to bring along to one of its creative workshops where they will work with you to connect the various fabrics using the simple two strand knotting technique used for friendship bracelets. Materials could include; wool, yarn, string, ribbons, even an unraveled old jumper… bright and colourful is good but the longer and stringier the better. If you can’t make the workshops, simply make a fabric donation (you can arrange this by contacting Crafternoon Tea Club via their website or Facebook). The installation will literally be made from the fabric of the community. The workshops are open to all ages and there will be music and BBQs with riot girl group Gaggle DJing on the Sunday.
Workshop Times:
Saturday 21st July, 2-7pm, the Mabley Green Torch Relay Festival, Lee Conservancy Road
E9 5RN.
Sunday 22nd July, 12-6pm, Street Interrupted, Prince Edward Road, E9 5LX (in front of the Hackney Pearl Café).
The Installation will go live in Wick Village Green on 27th July, timed to coincide with the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.