All welcome to a swap shop and screening on Saturday 14 January, the first event Flatness have planned as part of our residency at FormaHQ.
Do you have items you no longer need? Give what you can, take what you need at the swap shop at FormaHQ from 10am-1pm.
And in the afternoon we’re very pleased to be hosting a screening by Tomás Fernandez Vértiz entitled ‘El Sentir de las Montañas’ [The Feel of the Mountains].
“El Sentir de las Montañas” (The Feel of the Mountains, 2022) by Tomás Fernandez Vértiz is a work made with members of the Latin American community in London.
The film is divided in 3 chapters, through which we meet different people. Trying to understand more about some of the different situations that Latin American people have experienced or are experiencing in London, the film is an exploration of arrival, community and healing.
We hear the story of an arrest, we meet a volleyball playing community in New Cross and take a look at an alternative therapy. While all the stories are different, they are linked together through conversations of time and memory.
Tomás Fernández Vértiz (b. 1994, Mexico City) is a London based artist who works with photography and moving image. Tomás uses the documentary form to explore landscape, community and migration and the circumstances in which they co-exist.
“Through [moving] image, my intention is to immerse the viewer in a sensorial space, in which I invite the audience to question the political reality in which we live.”
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FormaHQ (downstairs from Peveril Gardens due to rainy weather)
Saturday 14th January, 10am – 4pm
10am – 1pm
Bring your Clothes (if possible with hangers), Homeware, Books, Kids’ Clothes & Toys, Plants & Seeds, Art materials, Skills and Knowledge to Swap or Donate.
Swap, barter, take away for free. No cash needed!
During the swap shop we will be holding knowledge swaps with Southwark Notes and gardener Jack Jeans.
Southwark Notes invites you to an informal chat around the question of what do we mean when we say ‘Community’?
Working from some of our recent involvement in housing struggles across North Southwark, we can look together at how even though any community is made up of multiple experiences and histories there remains at the core a desire to defend what’s seen as ‘ours’. We can think about how the fight to defend our Council estates, local shopping centres, open and green spaces etc connects deeply to other larger ideas of solidarity, care and a belief in something better for all.
We will bring some materials from all the recent struggles! Bring your own desires. See you there.
Jack Jeans is a teacher at Walworth Garden and volunteers on a variety of community growing initiatives as well as experimenting and developing new regenerative growing methods, closing waste stream loops and building healthy soil.
Jack enjoys building ecosystems and bringing regenerative growing practices into horticulture through learning and exchange. For the swap shop there will be bee homes and pollinating seed bombs to distribute through the garden and local area to provide refuge, food and forage for solitary bees.
Join us for food and Mexican Hot Chocolate at 1pm.
2pm – 4pm
Screening of ‘El Sentir de las Montañas’ [The Feel of the Mountains, 2022] by Tomás Fernandez Vértiz in which we meet three Latin American Londoners and explore the different situations that Latin American people have experienced or are experiencing in the UK.
Film starts at 2pm, followed by a Q&A with the director.
FormaHQ
Peveril Gardens
140 Great Dover Street
London, SE1 4GW
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ACCESS INFORMATION
Peveril Gardens is on the first floor above FormaHQ, a lift is available but needs to be requested in advance. Please email info@forma.org.uk or text/call 07595368744.
A wheelchair-accessible toilet is located on the ground floor. Seating will be available during the Swap Shop and Film Screening. The Film Screening will be captioned.
Presse books & café on the ground floor of FormaHQ will be open until 3pm.
Kids welcome! Bring friends 🙂
Design by Design Print Bind.
Thanks to Carolina Ongaro for your pics.
