Furtherfield is hosting Future Machine & When the Future Comes, Zantogola and the Drumming School for an Eco Art Residency at the Commons that includes art, music, planting, and conservation activities.
The Commons Residency Project is currently being set up to continue this work as an ongoing project, a collaboration between artists and musicians – Rachel Jacobs, Alexandre Yemaoua Dayo, Dave Kemp and Esi Eshun.
Coming Up This Autumn…
Weekly Drumming School sessions
On Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays at the Commons/Jamboree Hut, more information can be found on the Drumming School website.
When the Autumn Leaves Fall
Saturday 9th November, 2.00pm to 8.00pm
Future Machine appears every year in Finsbury Park in November. This year Future Machine will appear at 2pm at the Commons/Jamboree Hut with Tea and cake. At 4pm we will celebrate the autumn with art, music, dance and ecology. Food and refreshments will be provided for free. The event is FREE.
Creating the Future Workshops
A series of workshops combining arts and crafts with science and ecology to help us imagine positive futures. Starting on Sunday 20th October these workshops take place on the third Sunday of every month (with an additional session on Wednesday 23rd October). More information and information on how to book is on Eventbrite.
The Commons Residency Gardening Project
Saturday 26th October, from 2pm.
Meet up, gardening and preparing for When the Autumn Leaves Fall, jamming and a picnic. FREE
Future Machine and the Rainmakers
As we prepare for Future Machine appearing when the Autumn leaves fall in November 2024, we will continue our experiments with music performances of the weather and developing from our ‘weather jams’ at the commons, as summer turns to autumn.
Raise the Roof: Building for Change Exhibition at the RIBA’s HQ66 Portland Place, London
27 April to 21 September 2024
Esi Eshun has been collaborating with Alexandre Yemaoua Dayo and Dave Kemp on her high profile commission for the Raise the Roof exhibition. Their multidisciplinary response to the architecture of Portland Place integrates sound and the overlay of archival imagery to tell the narratives behind specific features within the Jarvis Mural. For more information about the exhibition visit:https://www.architecture.com/explore-architecture/exhibitions/Raise-the-Roof
What Has Already Happened…
When the Autumn Leaves Fall…
Every year in November, Future Machine appears in Finsbury Park, people meet together to celebrate the autumn and speak to the future. We celebrate with guided walks, music and dance and an annual musical performance of the weather with Future Machine and the Rainmakers. The next Future Machine appearance will be in November 2024, more information to be announced soon.
Finding Common Ground: Touring Finsbury Park with the London Festival of Architecture
Sunday 4th June 2023
https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/event/finding-common-ground-touring-finsbury-park/
A guided walk took place in Finsbury Park, exploring landmark trees, ponds and green spaces to learn about the uniqueness and diversity of this place dubbed “The People’s Park”. While visiting community gardens and park facilities, we experienced how diverse visitor activities coexist, at times uneasily, alongside the natural landscape of this popular park. Stories about the park’s human / nonhuman inhabitation, its distinctions between the cultivated and the “wild” species and the complexity of living together in common were discussed and introduced by the walk’s guides, offering a deep appreciation of the “living history” of Finsbury Park.
On Saturday 1st April 2023 we hosted our first Bell Weather Day at Furtherfield Commons in Finsbury Park
Art, music, ecology, planting, bell ringing and talks, with music from Finsbury Park Drumming School.
The Tree Charter Bell, Tree Planting Ceremony with artist Caroline Locke.
An informal conversation about art, music, ecology and the future.
In the evening we hosted a ‘Future Machine Weather Jam’ led by the Future Machine, The Rainmakers and the When the Future Comes Collective, including special guests.
Monthly Weather Jams at the Commons (Winter/Spring 2023)
Weather Jam
Friday 20th January 2023
The first weather jam started small with just 12 people but had an amazing musical journey with Future Machine and a very cold frosty still night in the park. We played indoors in the warm, whilst Future Machine played the sounds of the weather outside (the weather station was set up outside the back door) and played messages from the past. When we went outside to feel the weather the sky was clear and we could see as many stars as London light pollution let us.
