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Deptford X @ Creekside - 26 July - Saturday 26th July 2025
Saturday, 26th July, 10:00-13:00
Creekside is delighted to be continuing our involvement with the Deptford X Festival in 2025.
This year, we will be swinging open our gates over three days, inviting everyone into our Discovery Centre to explore the site, meet the Creekside team and enjoy exhibits and workshops of local artists.
On Saturday the 26th, Creekside staff and volunteers are welcoming people onto the site between 10am and 1pm.
As well as finding out about Creekside, what we do and how you can get involved, we will also have exhibits from the following local artists:
Paul Prestidge - artist (and Creekside conservation volunteer) who has been living in Deptford for over 45 years.
Angela McMahon - artist and trained geologist and hydrogeologist who has exhibited all over, including for Lewisham London Borough of Culture.
Julia Celeste Brunt - artist inspired to produce prints after her Low Tide Walk in Deptford Creek.
To visit the artist's exhibits, you do not need a ticket and can drop in during our opening times above and on Thursday and Friday.
During the morning, we also have an artist group from Goldsmiths delivering a workshop: Tidelines
Saturday 26th July - ticketed activities - see below:
1. TIDELINES 10:00-13:00 - *CANCELLED*
Ages 8+ * all children must be accompanied by an adult
Join creative practitioners Sara Clifford, Natasha Lohan and Alexa Reid for a hands-on, inclusive site-responsive workshop that will employ mark-making, sound-making, and creative writing to unlock the untold stories of Deptford Creek.
This workshop marks the start of a research journey, laying the groundwork for a future site-specific performance. We’re inviting local voices and anyone who is curious to help shape the project from its earliest stages…‘Flint’ is a video and performance lecture narrating 500 million years of the evolution of bone to the flint which lines the banks of the River Thames Estuary. The skeletons of ancient silica-harnessing sea creatures formed the London flint during the Cretaceous Period, 66-100 million years ago. During the modern era, this flint was used as ballast to balance the hulls of the First Fleet, the eleven ships that transported convicts and settler-colonists to Australia in 1788, marking the invasion of Indigenous Lands by the British Empire. Indigenous stone tools made from the London flint were uncovered on the Lands of the Bidjigal and Gadigal people in Warrane/ Sydney in 2016. In 2018, forensic analysis of the stone tools and the London flint revealed the materials to be a chemical match. Flint coalesces deep and current time to tell a story of evolution, extraction, migration and invasion, and the often-traumatic histories of European imperialism and colonialism.
I acknowledge all First Nations people and Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and honour their enduring connection to land, water, culture and community. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
Yasmin Smith (b. 1984, Darug Country/Sydney) is an Australian artist of Anglo-Celtic and Sri Lankan decent currently undertaking a Master of Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University of London. Smith is the recipient of the 2024 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship and is currently working towards her solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, opening in October 2025. Smith is represented by The Commercial, Sydney.
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