Photo by Ilyas Ayub
Price: Free
On Saturday 27 September, Crafty Creature Club will be popping up at Royal Docks Market: Originals Edition for a playful and engaging drop-in event by artist jdwoof.
Crafty Creature Club is a project commissioned by Culture Within Newham and delivered by jdwoof which was previously based at Manor Park Community Garden. Sessions are designed to encourage children to explore the nature, learn about plants, wildlife, and ongoing activities, and participate in creative art-making.
Artist: jdwoof
jdwoof (aka Jo Wood, she/her) is a self-taught visual artist, whose work is focused on connection to herself, people and creatures, and the environment around her, as a support for self-expression and wellbeing. She is freed by the idea that you can’t get art wrong, everything is an invitation, we work from where we are and it doesn’t need to make sense. She loves using found/discarded objects as well as natural materials.
Manor Park Community Garden
Manor Park Community Garden was first established by residents in 2012. It was transformed into its current incarnation in 2020 when a group of locals successfully bid for a Community Assembly Grant to re-invigorate the garden and by so doing give it a new lease of life by creating an inclusive beautiful outdoor space in which people can feel safe, explore and discover nature and encourage people to mix outside their immediate friendship circles.
About Royal Docks Originals
Royal Docks Originals is a series of over 50 free festival events from 15 September to 4 October 2025. Expect show-stopping art, dazzling installations, and world-premieres responding to the theme of Metamorphosis: a celebration of transformation and journeys. All of the Royal Docks Originals events will take place in Newham. Discover the full programme here.
Royal Docks Originals brings together local artists, organisations and communities to co-create a festival rooted in place. The festival is produced by the Royal Docks Team, a partnership between the Mayor of London and the Mayor of Newham.
The Royal Docks team are a supporter of Culture Within Newham’s work with communities.
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