Saturday 16th November 11am-1pm - Deptford Lounge
Libraries as Spaceships: Drawin and collage workshop with Ruth Beale
Join artist Ruth Beale as they share the secrets of turning libraries into spaceships. Using drawing and collage, the workshop will be a chance to create your own library spaceship inspired by the art of sci-fi illustration.
Saturday 16th November 10.30am-12noon - Downham Library
Build a Dragon with MBxArtLAB
Join artist Ruth Beale as they share the secrets of turning libraries into spaceships. Using drawing and collage, the workshop will be a chance to create your own library spaceship inspired by the art of sci-fi illustration.
Sunday 17th November 2-4pm - Catford Library
Sci-Fi recipe book workshop with Jenny Pengilly
Join artist, Jenny Pengilly, to make your own sci-fi recipe book by imagination the future of food and eating. We will be taking inspiration from aliens, A.I, space and time travel, 3D printed food and more! We’ll be sifting through sci-fi books, films and images to collage ideas and illustrations to create recipe books with fantastical ingredients, cooking methods, and unusual styles of eating. Everyone will leave with their own recipe book and contribute to a collaborative sci-fi recipe book.
Monday 18th November 5.30-6.30pm - Downham Library
Nets, Knots and Space Crones: Ursula Le Guin inspired macrame workshop
“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do much the same again--if to do that is human, if that's what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time."
Join us at Lewisham Libraries for macrame workshops inspired by sci-fi writer Ursula Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. We will weave and knot our own straps to carry our own belongings – think reusable water bottles, keys and phones! Learning simple macrame techniques together, we will discuss Le Guin’s wonderful essay (we’ll have copies and print outs!) about the power of telling stories differently. Beginners welcome, suitable for 14+ and anyone interested in feminist science fiction
Tuesday 19th November 5-7pm - Catford Library
Museum of Imagined Futures: Virtual Reality Experience
Step into The Museum of Imagined Futures, a virtual reality experience which shows past predictions of the present day and enables visitors to step forward in time to get a glimpse of how technology may develop in the next fifty years. The film is approximately 10 minutes long for ages 12+
Thursday 21st November 3.45-5pm - Sydenham Community Library
Sci-FI recipe book workshop with Jenny Pengilly
Join artist, Jenny Pengilly, to make your own sci-fi recipe book by imagination the future of food and eating. We will be taking inspiration from aliens, A.I, space and time travel, 3D printed food and more! We’ll be sifting through sci-fi books, films and images to collage ideas and illustrations to create recipe books with fantastical ingredients, cooking methods, and unusual styles of eating. Everyone will leave with their own recipe book and contribute to a collaborative sci-fi recipe book
Thursday 21st November 4-5.30pm - Downham Library
How to sell Videogames with INTO Games
How do you market and sell a videogame? How do you build an online community? Join a games marketing professional and see how you can build a career as a games marketer. For ages 12-17
Friday 22nd November 6-7pm - Deptford Lounge
Creating better worlds with The Philosophy Foundation
Are you a world builder? Would you like to be? In this interactive, discussion-based session attendees will be invited to think about how to create a better, or maybe even the perfect world! What would you need to think about, who would you need to think about and what would be possible? Create worlds without lifting a brick and who knows? You may stumble on something important that may one day help us in the world we actually live!