Anne:Seed | LION x House of Annetta Workshops & Events ✨
Anne:Seed | LION x House of Annetta
Workshops & Events
August has been a busy month for the LION team with the BPOC Growers Grants and the Garden at House of Annetta. We've built decking, cleared weeds and rubbish, planted our flowers and herbs, and created a series of events. It's been really beautiful welcoming in our wider ecosystem to such a central location in London. There are so few spaces in Central London where you can meet with others for free and it feels really special to be able to shape a space so that anti-racism and reparations are at the heart of this house.
House of Annetta
Over the past 40 years 25 Princelet St has been home to Annetta Pedretti, who used the space to create a powerful collection of theoretical, architectural and artistic projects. Assemble Collective have been in residence onsite at House of Annetta onsite helping to grow and develop the House of Annetta centring housing justice and land justice. They reached out to LION to get our thoughts on how the building could be developed to support our work. In the end we talked enthusiastically about the outdoor space and envisioned how we could use it as a refuge and place of skill sharing. Assemble was able to secure funding to enable us to develop the garden and curate a series of events across August and September.
UPCOMING ANNE:SEED EVENTS
Seasonal Herbalism Workshop | Wednesday 15th September | 5:30pm - 7:30pm
In this workshop facilitated by herbalists Randa Toko & Kirstin Wu, we will be working with herbal allies to support us in the seasonal change going into the autumn and winter. We will be having a tea tasting, mixing teas and making a herbal balm. This event is BPOC centred, but it is also open to white allies. Book your tickets here.
The Street Documentary Film Screening | Wednesday 15th September | 8pm - 10pm
LION are screening the critically acclaimed and unfunded 2019 documentary, The Street made by Zed Nelson. For several years he interviewed people who lived and worked on Hoxton Street, a shopping street in the East End of London, and traced its rapid gentrification. Hoxton Street is just one mile away from House of Annetta, and this film can inform us on the related changes that Brick Lane is also experiencing.
No booking necessary, we will open the doors for anyone to come to watch the screening but once the space is at capacity we will shut the front doors.
CW: Racism
Bird Feeder & Seed Bomb Making Workshop | Saturday 18th September | 2pm - 5pm
Join us for an afternoon of family-friendly DIY activities! We will be making bird feeders from old water bottles and seed bombs to support biodiversity. Facilitated by LION's Sam Siva and youth-worker and community activist Kieran Kirkwood, drop in from 2pm to join the activities.
We don't ask, we take: housing justice & the squatting movement | House of Shango & Sister Woman Vegan | Thursday 23rd September | 7pm
House of Shango will be hosting a BPOC-only conversation circle sharing knowledge on housing discrimination in the UK, how this relates to the squatting movement, and how we can fight to achieve housing justice. We will look at the history of squatting in Brick Lane within Bangladeshi communities, as well as how other African and Asian diasporic groups have used squatting as a form of resistance, and continue to do so.
This is relevant to today’s struggles against gentrification in Brick Lane and other Black and Brown majority areas. As Black squatters, House of Shango can offer insight and knowledge on these topics and facilitate a radical and inspiring collective discussion.
This conversation circle will include a buffet meal of plant-based African and Caribbean influenced food by Sister Woman Vegan.
We will share booking information closer to the time of event.