Name: Make your own talisman
Start: 2025-11-15T15:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-15T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Allens Gardens

Join us for a workshop in the art of lost wax jewellery making and learn the history and techniques of this ancient approach.
About this Event

Come to beautiful Allen's Community Garden for a 3 hour workshop in the art of lost wax jewellery making, where participants will learn the history and techniques of this ancient approach.

Holding a creative space for processing feelings around grief and pride. in trans remembrance, we will each craft a talisman which evokes something of significance to the maker, be it protection, queer celebration, solidarity or other things held. I will then cast and finish the pieces into semi precious metal to last for generations.

To mark Transgender Awareness Week , we're hosting workshops exploring queerness in nature through poetry, movement, and craft, connecting identity and ecology.

Thanks to the support of Hackney Council's Pride 365 funding, we can offer 5 free spaces to trans/non binary people to join the workshop. There are also 5 paid places for FLINTA.

Allens Community Garden

Allens Community Garden is a community garden in Stoke Newington that provides affordable and accessible ways for people to engage with the land. We value food and land justice, diverse communities and ecologies and care about being connected to the area around us.

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Directions

Allens Community Garden is a community garden inside Allen's Gardens park in Stoke Newington. The postcode is N16 5BD. The entrance to the park is on Bethune road, near Manor road, and the garden is on the right when you enter the park through a wooden door, which will be clearly marked. Do make sure you don't go to the Allens Gardens in Shoreditch

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Accessibility

Allens Community Garden has no steps but is uneven and can be slippery in wet weather. The toilet is accessible by a ramp that has unfortunately broken, so includes a slope upwards and downwards. The main paths are wheelchair accessible but the spaces between beds can be too narrow at points for a wheelchair to pass.

We have some accessible tools and knee pads, but not all the tools we'd like. We can provide waterproofs and warmer clothes if needed. The site has running water and lots of seating. There is an unfenced pond, so small children need supervision. We actively seek to accommodate sensory needs.