Growing For Peace

Lewisham celebrated Borough of Culture 2022, and thanks to funding from LBL, we held a series of workshops with local schools and the community around the theme ‘Growing for Peace’.

Alongside local author Emily Haworth-Booth, we delivered a number of graphic novel workshops with local schools and the local community, exploring the themes of ‘protest’ and ‘peace’ to illustrate a story about the future we want to create. An exhibition of everyone’s art work was up at the Ringway during December 2022.

Together with Clay at the Ringway project and local artist Lily German, we explored the theme of climate change through art, reading about the Sand Fairy in Edith Nesbit’s story ‘Five Children and It’, and making ceramic sand fairies.

We produced ‘The Wild Rangers’ Guide to Making a Healthy Neighbourhood‘, illustrated by Emily Haworth-Booth, exploring the story of Grove Park’s 50 year campaign to protect its green spaces and community assets.

Astronomy Night

The Ringway Centre and the Woodland behind is designated as a Dark Sky Discovery Site, making it a great place to explore the stars and planets at night. We were joined by from the Royal Observatory for a facinating talk about the moon and planets. Later we went out to explore the planets with telescopes. Unfortunately it was a cloudy day, but we did manage to take a shot of the moon as the clouds cleared a little.

Celebrating National Tree Week 2022

Today we celebrated National Tree Week by planting new trees at the Ringway Woodland, and learnt all about different tree seeds!

Puddock’s Pond with Nan Eshelby

Author Nan Eshelby joined us to read from her book ‘Puddock’s Pond’. Later we explored the wildlife in the pond.