‘The Waterwoman of Greenwich Peninsula’, artist Jo Roberts, invites you to an intriguing presentation of her findings about water in the area.  This is not your usual Water Survey with statistics etc, but a personal exploration, from the issue of  tap versus bottled, to rowing boats in the gasholder, to beautiful stop cocks in Mauritius Road…

Come to the steps at Enderby’s Wharf, one of the last remnants of the old waterfront, to meet the artist and contribute to her cross section of opinions about the future of water.

Jo will be giving a performance, on the hour and half hour from 11am to 3.30pm, following the receding tide.

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Collaborate with artist Eleanor Margolies to build molecular sculptures of some of the chemical compounds found in the soil of the Greenwich Peninsula as a result of past industrial activity.  While these constructions will resemble the classical ‘ball-and-stick’ models familiar from chemistry classrooms, they will in fact be made with biodegradable materials such as willow rods and straw.

At the day’s end, the models will be sown with the seeds of plants known to decontaminate soil, such as sunflowers, alpine pennycress, Indian mustard and ragweed.  Over the following weeks, these molecular sculptures will gradually sink into the ground and disappear as the plants germinate and cover them in greenery.

Join artist Jan Hendrickse for an audio walk on the Greenwich Peninsula, and record ‘hidden’ sounds from railings, bridges and other architectural structures. These fences and barriers control the way we move around space and are so common that we often don’t notice them, yet in this project they become vast unintentional musical instruments.

Using digital recorders and contact microphones you will record new sounds and contribute to an original musical composition made from the collected recordings.

The walk will start at Rothbury Hall on Mauritius Road.

Booking is essential for this project: please call 020 8858 2825 for further details and to book a place.

Artist Melissa Bliss invites you to join her beach-combing on the foreshore of the Thames as the tide goes out. Looking for things of value in the mud and the sand, you may find man-made objects such as clay pipes, pottery or plastic containers or natural items like shells or plants. Some will be recent and some hundreds of years old.

These collections of lost and discarded objects will be arranged and displayed along the shore, then washed away during the evening and into the night as the tide flows back in and the water reclaims them.

Please note, Melissa will run this project from 12 noon, the point of high tide, till approximately 6.30pm.