11:00am - 12:30pm
Join record breaking henna artist Samina Hussain for a morning of natural henna tattoos. Henna is a dye prepared from the plant Lawsonia inermis, also known as the henna tree. The henna leaves are crushed into a powder and mixed with other natural ingredients such as water, lemon juice, sugar, rose water, and (sometimes) essential oil to create the henna paste. This is applied to the skin to create a temporary stain (tattoo) which can last up to 2-3 weeks if you look after the tattoo properly.
This is a free drop-in session.
The Croydon Clocktower is a 2-minute walk from Come As You Really Are at the Hobby Cave, Grants, and is fully accessible. Find out more here.
12pm - 1:30pm
Join us for an engaging artist talk on mini pottery with Wode Ceramics. This event features a live demonstration and an insightful discussion about the art of wheel throwing small and tiny wares with porcelain on the "Wheelie" – a small, portable, and powerful pottery wheel designed by Wode Ceramics. Learn about the work of Wode Ceramics to make pottery more accessible to people around the world.
The Croydon Clocktower is a 2-minute walk from Come As You Really Are at the Hobby Cave, Grants, and is fully accessible. Find out more here.
2pm - 3:30pm
Quilling is the art of Paper Filigree where paper strips are rolled, looped, twisted, curled and otherwise manipulated to create decoration for cards, boxes, eggs, plaques, and to make models, jewellery, miniatures, etc. At this workshop learn the basic techniques seen on antiques and used as the basis of most modern quilling, which is more varied and advanced than ever before. Make up to three delightful little quilled greetings cards while learning techniques in their simplest forms. Paper strips, PVA glue and blank greetings cards will be provided.
The Croydon Clocktower is a 2-minute walk from Come As You Really Are at the Hobby Cave, Grants, and is fully accessible. Find out more here.
10:00am - 11:30am
Come along and make your own Superhero mask! Snip, colour and stick your own unique mask in this fun and creative workshop from Happythought. This is a free drop-in session and no booking is required.
Materials will be provided. This workshop is for children aged 5+. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
The Croydon Clocktower is a 2-minute walk from Come As You Really Are at the Hobby Cave, Grants, and is fully accessible. Find out more here.
11:30am - 1:30am
Bee Daws is a fabulous puppeteer and puppet maker and will be hosting an event to make paper puppets. Come along to make your own puppet!
This is a free drop-in session and no booking is required.
Materials will be provided. This workshop is for children aged 5+. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
The Croydon Clocktower is a 2-minute walk from Come As You Really Are at the Hobby Cave, Grants, and is fully accessible. Find out more here.
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Join Comic book and Warhammer enthusiast Naser Rasool for an afternoon of Warhammer painting.
Materials will be provided. This event is for individuals aged 16+.
The Croydon Clocktower is a 2-minute walk from Come As You Really Are at the Hobby Cave, Grants, and is fully accessible. Find out more here.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Join Cosplayers Mariam Rashid and Tabatha Barton for an introduction on diversity in cosplay followed by a pattern drafting workshop for adapting cosplay costumes to all types of bodies. Materials will be provided.
This event is for individuals aged 16+.
The Croydon Clocktower is a 2-minute walk from Come As You Really Are at the Hobby Cave, Grants, and is fully accessible. Find out more here.
His films, sculptures, live performances, paintings and photographs have been shown worldwide in galleries, theatres and on iconic public screens at sites including Piccadilly Circus, London, and Times Square, New York. His works have been presented at the Venice Biennale, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and in London at Tate Modern and Sadler’s Wells.
Patel's work uses choreography, text and popular culture to explore identity and freedom, appearing in multiple formats and media to reach the widest possible audience. His online video and performance work, which includes his 2013 TED talk of titled, ‘Who Am I? Think Again’, has been watched over 50 million times.
Patel is represented by Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, and is a supported artist at Copperfield, London, a Patron of QUAD, Derby, and a trustee of the Liverpool Biennial. He is the winner of the Film London Jarman Award, 2019, and Kino Der Kunst Festival’s Best International Film 2020, and was selected for British Art Show 9, 2021/22. In 2021 Patel received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist Award, a Henry Moore Foundation Award, declined a British Empire Medal and was a judge on the Sky Arts television series, Landmark.
Patel's works are in public and private collections in the UK and internationally, including Tate, British Council, Arts Council England, Government Art Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, M+ Museum Hong Kong, KNMA New Delhi, and Fondazione In Between Art Film, Rome.