Jammin' the System

✨ Save this for the first Sunday of the year! ✨

What if learning wasn’t about improvement, but about being together, differently?

Jan 4, Kentish Town, Let’s Jam the System 🪄

You are invited to this one-day workshop festival where artists, facilitators, and participants come together to experiment with how meaning, care, belonging, and agency are created.

You can think with your hands, body, voice and imagination, through role-play, collage, movement, drawing, sculpture, writing, sound and conversation.

Three spaces. Parallel workshops. Across the day, you might drift between quiet focus and collective action, You choose your rhythm.

✨ Depending on what you join, you might:

🫧 Put pressure outside your body

🖌️ Take home creative tools you can reuse

🥾 Feel agency through doing

🩹 Practice care, together

This is an invitation to enter a living system — one that can be tested, bent, rewritten and reassembled.

Learning here is shared, embodied and experimental.

You may leave with objects you’ve made (posters, zines, mascots, bookmarks, drawings, sculptures), shared language, embodied memories — and a new sense of how systems can be reshaped from within.🍀

Looking forward to what's gonna emerge from our encounter!

🎟General Day Pass: £16 Spend the day drifting between spaces! Join up to three workshops across the day

🎟Solidarity Day Pass: £26 Thank you for supporting our growing community🫶

Single workshop: £9 try out 1 session

♿ Accessibility

Step-free venue · No experience needed · Flexible participation & pacing · Quiet / rest space available all day

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Info: Drawing from Queer & Feminist perspectives, “Rebellion! Deconstruct to Reconstruct - A Collage Workshop for Rewriting Social Narratives” aims to deconstruct oppressive social norms. To identify and externalise sources of societal anxiety, reclaiming agency through art, and transforming passive compliance into active creation. Participants will create a critical or liberating "Rebellion Poster" or Zine page, experiencing a release from societal pressure through creative expression. No artistic experience is needed.

Info: What happens when inner pressure meets a structure that must stand on its own?
This workshop invites participants to explore how internal states, bodily responses, and everyday pressures can be understood as spatial structures rather than personal narratives. Through guided observation, participants will move through the space to notice repeating patterns, tensions, and points of support that resonate with their inner landscape. These spatial impressions are then translated into a paper sculpture, an “inner architecture”, that visualises how one adapts, holds, or gives way under pressure.
Participants will also compose short visual poems in response to these structures, allowing language to follow form, rhythm, and silence. The workshop centres on shared observation and material thinking, offering a reflective space to explore structure, pressure, and adaptation without requiring personal disclosure.
No prior experience required. All materials provided.

Info: From Bean to Beat explores the relationship between sound and the moving body, inspired by the movement and sound research developed for the performance Uproar by the Rieckhof–Silva collective, and extended through participatory exercises using props made of pallares (Lima beans). Participants create collective soundscapes with shakers crafted from Lima beans—a nod to Peruvian traditions—and develop both individual and group movement sequences, embodying resistance, solidarity, and joy.
The session is led by movement thinker Moyra Cecilia Silva Rodriguez (Uproar’s director), weaving ancestral and experimental sound practices. Participants move from individual sound-making to collective rhythms, culminating in a group singing experience inspired by Sikuris and the protest songs featured in Uproar. Designed for intergenerational audiences, the workshop fosters connection, collective presence, and shared creativity.

Info: Inspired by the idea of mascots and Spirit Animals. This workshop aims to create a safe/ motivating space for participants to reflect on their new year goals and aspirations and what kind of personal attributes they want to have to achieve these. These reflections will be translated to help create a unique character representing the person you want to be. participants will leave with knowledge about mascots/ character culture and a personal character keychain created using felt I hope will act as a reminder and supportive guide to keep working hard to accomplish your goals.

Info: How do we belong? How can we be seen?
We will begin by engaging in a brief and improvised performance, where we will share our personal experiences — no actors in the room, just a group of curious neighbours from all over London.
Prepare yourself for a collaborative storytelling and collage board!
(All materials provided)

Info: Written for Her: Written in Transit is a practice-based workshop introducing Nüshu, the women-only script developed in southern China, as an embodied and migratory language. Through guided Nüshu teaching, participants will experiment with writing as gesture, trace, and memory rather than fixed text. The workshop combines bookmark-making as a portable archive of personal inscription with movement practices using a shared “secret fan” as an extension of the body. Writing unfolds across paper, object, and motion, exploring how female knowledge travels through hands, bodies, and collective presence. Participants are invited to work intuitively, generating forms of writing that remain fluid, intimate, and in transit.

Info: Why talk about grief during this festive season?
We need to talk about grief exactly because of this festive season.
We might be going through grief for different reasons – the passing of a loved one, a friendship ending, a family member’s illness. Grief doesn’t stop for the holidays, contrary to what capitalism wants.
By coming together and thinking about how we would like to be supported through grief, and how we could support each other in grief, this workshop aims to build a sense of collective care for grief. To have the capacity for grief is to have the capacity for love and support that will uphold a nurturing community.
We will be going through a series of games and journaling to understand how grief moves through the body and how we can show up collectively to individual suffering.
By doing so, we take one of many first steps towards collective care.

Info: The purpose of this workshop is to provide you with the tools necessary for co-creating your reality. Together, we will explore the concept of character and the impact it has on the narratives we end up playing out. We will explore the feedback loop created by our conscious and subconscious, to understand the bigger picture of our human experience.

Info: This workshop focuses on life drawing and sketching as a way of seeing and making decisions in real time, rather than producing finished images. Through a series of timed drawing exercises, participants are encouraged to respond intuitively, work with limitations, and let go of perfection. The workshop is suitable for all levels and does not require prior drawing experience. Participants will explore observation, rhythm, and attention through drawing, and reflect on how these processes relate to creative thinking more broadly.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Hypha Gallery Kentish Town, 2 Prince of Wales Road, London, United Kingdom

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