The View from Here: Community Art in the RoundhouseDates Exhibition and Workshops open Wednesdays, Saturdays & Sundays, June 4th -15thTime 12.00 – 7.00pmPlease see links below for workshop dates and times About Crouch End Festival The Crouch End Festival, the UK’s largest community arts festival, returns from June 12 to 18, 2025, transforming the heartContinue reading “Workshops @MOP: Crouch End Festival – June 4th – 15th”
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Our Connection with Clay
What is Clay? Clay is a naturally occurring, fine-grained soil made up of tiny particles of rock and minerals, primarily hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates. It’s unique in that it becomes soft and workable when wet, yet hardens when it dries—and even more so when fired in a kiln. Throughout human history, clay has played a vitalContinue reading “Our Connection with Clay”
Cob Building: Sustainable Earth Homes
Cob is a sustainable and natural construction technique using a mix of sand, clay, straw, and water. The natural plasticity of clay is used to bind the sand together, straw adds structural fibres to stabilise and reinforce the material. Cob can be used to build walls and can be moulded into bricks, shaped by handContinue reading “Cob Building: Sustainable Earth Homes”
Meadow Orchard Project 