MEET THE MAKERS DAY - Saturday 26th May
Join us this Saturday 26th of May for 'Meet the Makers Day' and celebrate the Dock Garden Festival in collaboration with Chelsea Fringe. What better reason to stroll up to Portobello Dock and enjoy the sunshine on the banks of the Grand Union Canal. You can view the 'Floating Forest' installation by NIPPaysage, all the way from Canada, join us for lunch at the Dock Kitchen or tea and cakes at Tart.
From 10am you can watch the makers bring their crafts to life including Ponkk crafting an outdoor fireplace, Nic Webb wittle a new spoon, Thomas Smith Trug's demonstrate the original hand-crafting of sussex trugs and Johnathan Garratt demonstrating his pottery skills.
Volunteers from Fine Cell Work will also be on hand to discuss their social initiative which offer prisoners the possibility of employment whilst developing new skills through needlepoint, whilst the ladies from Sort of Coal have joined us all the way from Copenhagen to talk about benefits of white charcoal as an ancient technique for purifying. Sort of Coal will be teaming up with Tart to offer a tasting of charcoal in food, which offers not only adds a visual element but is also good for you.
Steven Benbow from The London Honey Company will be joining us from 2pm onwards to talk about his urban bee keeping initiatives as well as give a honey tasting, whilst Rachael from Urban Allotments will be at her pop-up edible plant market stall where you can not only buy plants, but get some great advice on how to grow edibles in confined urban spaces. Tom Moggach will be teaming with Stevie Parle from Dock Kitchen to present Kitchen Confidential at (check times below) however tickets are required.
Finally what better way to salute the late spring sun by sipping a specially created Chelsea Fringe cocktail at the Kitchenette from 6pm.
Dock Kitchen put together a menu of fabulous wild things. Sea succulents, elder and borage flowers, wild garlic, nettles and more find their way into dishes from Lebanon to Scotland recommended by their trusted network of foragers and farmers.
Wild Spring Menu - Lunch and Dinner
Urban Allotments believes that everyone and anyone can grow their own in whatever space they have available without compromising their indoor or outdoor living space. Bringing a up a pop-up market each Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the festival, Rachael from Urban Allotments can advise on edible plants to suit any plot, from window sill to terrace garden.
Kitchen Confidential led by Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, with culinary inspiration from chef Stevie Parle. Tom will show how to grow and cook with fantastic, unusual, yet easy-to-grow ingredients such as Japanese shiso, Thai basil, mustards, mouse melons and off-beat salads. We will share tastings and recipes, including expert tips from Stevie.
Kitchen Confidential Market stall on the bridge: 10.00AM - 16.00PM
Tom Moggach ticketed classes: 11.00AM. 15,00PM. 17.00PM
Jonathan Garratt makes wood fired pots using local clay from the edge of Cranborne Chase in Dorset. An incorrigible gardener, he plays with new designs for garden pots in terracotta and distinctive slipware forms for the table.
Pottery demonstrations and meet the maker: 10.00AM - 18.00PM
Nic Webb, a London based artist-maker, makes one-off hand crafted spoons from foraged green timbers, using traditional spoon-whittling tools and techniques. Each spoon is completely individual and given form from the intrinsic grains and textures of the found timber.
Watch a spoon being born and meet the maker: 10.00AM - 18.00PM
Ponkk introduces outdoor fireplaces beautifully handmade by the German designer Marcus Exner. Each fireplace is made from reclaimed steel, iron & wood and other salvaged materials.
Live fireplace building: 10.00AM - 18.00PM
Thomas Smith’s Trugs inspired by an ancient 'trog' dating back to Anglo Saxons - Thomas Smith created the first Sussex Trug in the 1820s. Thomas Smith’s Trugs are still handmade in Sussex today using traditional techniques which will be demonstrated at the Dock Garden Festival.
Trug Making Demonstration: 11.00AM - 18.00PM
Fine Cell Work, the charity which teaches prisoners how to stitch, return to The Dock, launching their new Jubilee Collection of cushions alongside selected pieces featuring typical British vegetables. Volunteers are on hand to talk through initiatives and designs.
Talk to volunteers: 12.00PM - 16.00PM
CEO Katy Emck discusses Fine Cell Work's initiatives: 12.00PM
Sort of Coal handcrafted in Japan & Korea using ancient skills, white charcoal is used to maximize purification of water. Sort of Coal will be teaming up with Tart to produce black snacks made with edible Kuro powder.
Meet the makers Pernille & Louise: 12.00PM - 17.00PM
Black Food Baking by Tart using Kuro Powder: 12.00PM - 15.00PM
Pernille giving talk on Sort of Coal: 15.00PM
Tart, the Anglo-Irish Bakery, deliver a daily counter-full of fresh salads, sweet and savoury tarts, soda breads, scones. Lunches to be enjoyed in-house or taken away Monday – Saturday.
Black Food Baking by Tart using Kuro Powder: 12.00PM - 15.00PM
London Honey Company run by ‘The Urban Bee Keeper’ Steven Benbow, brings local honeys to The Dock showcasing and selling a variety of honeys and holding a tasting at our Meet The Makers Day. The London Honey Company produces honey for Harrods, Harvey Nichols and The Savoy, tending to beehives at the Tate and National Portrait Gallery. As well as producing honey, Steven also provides training in beekeeping and manages beehives in central London and across the UK.
Honey tasting with the London Honey Man: 14.00PM - 18.00PM
Floating Forest by NIPPaysage is a series of 1,000 floating slices of tree trunks, creating a semi-submerged forest across the still waters of the Grand Union Canal. This landscape architecture installation is sponsored by the Montreal Tourist Board, and references the storied history of the Québec forest and the century-old trade links between Québec and the United Kingdom.
Patterson’s Spade Mill present an installation of beautifully crafted spades from the last working water-driven spade mill in the Ireland. A limited edition of 50 spades will be exclusively available to order through Tom Dixon Shop.
Cocktail Bar: Special Festival Cocktails: 18:00PM - Midnight
The Dock Garden Festival
19 May – 10 June
Portobello Dock
Wharf Building, 344 Ladbroke Grove
London
W10 5BU
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