Summer of Sustainability: Crafty Creature Club
Overview
Part of the Summer of Sustainability, Crafty Creature Club is a series of playful and engaging events by artist jdwoof at Manor Park Community Garden and online. The sessions are designed to encourage children to explore the garden, learn about its plants, wildlife, and ongoing activities, and participate in creative art-making sessions.
Visit Crafty Creature Club event page (session 1)
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.
Summer of Sustainability
Culture Within Newham have commissioned a ‘Summer of Sustainability’ to celebrate creativity and sustainability, with residents across Newham in August 2025.The Summer of Sustainability is a series of free events aimed at bringing creative sustainability to everyone in Newham.
Learn more about the other projects commissioned for the ‘Summer of Sustainability’.
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