Brockley Max

Brockley Max 2012 is now just a month away and we’ve got a great line-up of events for you to enjoy across the full nine days of the festival. You can download the festival programme here.

We’ll kick things off with the legendary music and performance-based Opening Night beside the murals at Brockley Station from 4.30pm on Friday 1st June.

This year’s Brockley Max includes music and dance workshops, art exhibitions and gigs, poetry readings, comedy and quiz nights and our very own Brockley time capsule project.

On the final day, Saturday 9th June, a host of events take place near the Stone Circle on Hilly Fields. Art in the Park offers workshops for kids of all ages, you can try your hand a pop stardom with a Rock School taster session, browse the craft market, enjoy the bands and dancers, tuck in to the Brockley Max Barbecue or head to the pop-up bar.

And as a community arts event, almost everything can be enjoyed for free.

Download the Program

The Brockley Design Project is building a cardboard city as part of this year’s Brockley Max Festival. It will be taking place from Tuesday 5th June until Saturday 9th June 2012, 11am-4pm (Jubilee Bank Holiday and half-term week) at the Peabody’s Leander Community Centre in the Vanguard estate in Deptford SE8.

The idea of the ‘cardboard city’ is to invite the whole community, especially children and young people, to work together using nothing but old cardboard boxes and their imaginations. Nothing is planned – the city emerges organically over the duration of the event. Some people attend all day, every day, to work on huge constructions or tiny intricate details, while others prefer to come for half an hour just to have a look and add a little detail of their own.

The Brockley Design Project are funding this event as a way to engage the community in design and architecture and generate feedback on architectural possibilities in the local area.

To have a look at the city we made last year in the Meanwhile space in Whitechapel, East London, as well as pictures of cardboard constructions from all over the world, go to http://welovecardboard.tumblr.com.

This year, Brockley Design Project is inviting artists of all disciplines to do a day’s residency at the cardboard city. We hope the artists will inspire participants with their creative approach and experience. We are also looking for a photographer to record the event.

If you would be interested in offering some of your time towards the project, please get in touch with Venice Allan and Ruby Radburn by email or on 07952 91275.

http://welovecardboard.tumblr.com