Forest club open session

Event Information

Join the Forest Club at The Clearing in Lesnes Abbey Woods, from 10 am - 2 pm, on Thursday, 14th May. Engage with a range of ancient rural crafts and ways of supporting woodland management and biodiversity. Become familiar with sawing, cutting and splitting wood; using knives and axes; mastering the use of shave horses, spoon mules and pole lathes; learning to weave, cast metal and make furniture; making natural dyes, and more! All in relationship with and surrounded by the ancient woodlands, under a canopy with an open fire.

The Forest Club is a volunteering group finding ways to collectively be in the woodland throughout the year, meeting up every Thursday at The Clearing, our woodland site. We believe in the importance of mutually beneficial exchange based on the principles of reciprocity and care, as opposed to extractive, one-way relationships with each other and the earth. Being a part of the Urban Tree Festival would be a chance for anyone to come and join in with the types of crafts and woodland activities that the volunteers are engaged in weekly, and to find out ways to get involved in the wider Creative Nature project.

Contributors

Creative Nature HQ

Creative Nature HQ, a not-for-profit creative organisation based in southeast London, connects people with nature and ancient rural crafts. Creative Nature is a not-for-profit creative organisation based in southeast London, connecting people with nature and ancient woodland crafts. We work from two sites - our woodland workshop space at The Clearing in Lesnes Abbey Woods, and our studio space, Creative Nature HQ, at Thames-Side Studios in Woolwich.

Social Media

@ourcreativenature

Location of event

Location: The Clearing, Lesnes Abbey Woods, Belvedere, SE2 0AX

What3words: super.scope.school

Maximum number of participants: 30

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