Help make 1000 clay human hearts by attending one of 20 free 2.5 hour workshops during February and March (no prior art experience is needed). Take part in the Moving Hearts Procession as we carry the hearts from King's College London to the Migration Museum at the Workshop in Lambeth on Saturday 24 March. Walk the Moving Hearts Spiral installation of fired hearts at the museum where you will get to touch the hearts and record your own response to 'who belongs?'
Click register to sign up and see workshops by date. All workshops are open to the public.
Locations
North London - at Clay Time, 168 Blackstock Road, Highbury East, N5 1HA
- 25 February 2018 (Sunday), 10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30
Central London - at Strand Campus, King's College London, WC2R 2LS
- 28 February 2018 (Wednesday), 16:00-18:30 and 19:00-21:30
- 1 March 2018 (Thursday), 19:00-21:30
- 7 March 2018 (Wednesday), 9:00-11:30
South London - at the Migration Museum at the Workshop, 26 Lambeth High St, Lambeth, SE1 7AG
- 3 March 2018 (Saturday), 10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30
- 5 March 2018 (Monday), 19:00-21:30
- 6 March 2018 (Tuesday), 19:00-21:30
- 10 March 2018 (Saturday), 10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30
- 12 March 2018 (Monday), 19:00-21:30
- 17 March 2018 (Saturday), 10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30
South London - at the London South Bank University, 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA
- 6 March 2018 (Tuesday), 10:00-12:30
Telegraph Hill Festival Workshops - at Telegraph Hill Centre, Pepys Road, SE14 5TY
- Free tickets for these workshops will soon be available on the Telegraph Hill Festival website
- 13 March (Tuesday), 13.00-15.30
- 16 March (Friday), 19.00 - 21.30
About the workshops
Current debates about migration often focus on the divide between those with and those without a right to belong in the UK. It is easy to forget the hearts we have in common. Moving Hearts invites you to participate in an art and research project that raises questions about belonging.
From Sunday 25 February to Saturday 17 March, free workshops will be held on weekdays, weeknights and weekends. Each workshop takes 2.5 hours where you will get to share your own thinking and feelings about the right to belong while making clay human hearts. Each heart is unique, although artist Penny Ryan will take you through six basic steps to make a heart (no prior art experience is needed). Workshops will be held in venues across London. Children over 8 (with an accompanying adult) can participate. For more information and to discuss access needs, please email the artist directly: penny.ryan@iinet.net.au
About Moving Hearts
Moving Hearts is a collaboration between Australian artist Penny Ryan and Professor Anna Reading and Dr James Bjork from King's College London. Moving Hearts builds on Penny's Connecting Hearts Project, which has involved 1000s of people in Sydney reflecting on their connection with people seeking asylum, particularly those in detention.
Moving Hearts links King's College London with the Migration Museum at the Workshop and their current exhibition - No Turning Back, Seven Migration Moments That Changed Britain. Clay Time is supporting Moving Hearts by providing clay and firing the hearts.
Moving Hearts is funded through an international social justice grant from the PLuS Alliance. This project has ethics approval from King's College London- MR/17/18-207
Photos from Penny Ryan's Connecting Hearts Project in Sydney, Australia
