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Great to be part of @sound_camp once again this ye Great to be part of @sound_camp once again this year, with the live stream set up on one of our surrogate habitats on the Channelsea River. The stream is open now for you to listen in, lots of visiting feathered friends including young Egyptian goslings, link to listen in bio. 👂👂👂 The sounds are be part of ‘Reveil’, 24 hour live stream of the dawn chorus as it travels around the world in celebration of #internationaldawnchorusday - listen in now via the @sound_camp bio.
Beautiful day for meeting with Lewis from @theorch Beautiful day for meeting with Lewis from @theorchardproject to start planning the community orchard aspect of the Long Wall Ecology garden. Very exciting to chat about tree varieties, positions, soil condition, the benefits of an open sunny site and all the ways you can be involved! We’ll be keeping you updated with progress here so keep an eye out 👀 And great to see the geese and a cormorant making use of one of the new islands, drying out feathers and sheltering goslings 🪶💚 @mayorofldn @groundworklondon @officialthameswater #GrowBackGreener
Last week we finally floated the Channelsea Commun Last week we finally floated the Channelsea Community Islands! So much thanks to all that contributed to their creation, they are now floating in the river ready to grow and flourish and provide homes for creatures for all kinds! So keep a look out for their evolution as you cycle or walk past on the Greenway, and post your pictures! #peoplepowerproject #newhamcommunityassembly 🏝🏝🏝 You can also sign up to be on the next @newhamlondon Community Assembly working group - your chance to be part of the next round of neighbourhood funding, playing a key role in community work across the ward and meeting great people along the way! Visit - https://newhamco-create.co.uk/en/projects/community-assemblies-working-group to sign up 💚💚💚
It’s the last @newhamlondon community assembly t It’s the last @newhamlondon community assembly tonight! Your chance to hear from the projects funded by your votes last year, and find out how you can get involved in your local working group, help the council to shape the next cycle of assemblies where another £100,000 will be available in our neighbourhood. 6-7pm online via Zoom, link in bio 👆
What a great day we had last weekend building the What a great day we had last weekend building the Channelsea Community Islands! 💚💚💚 Many thanks to all who came down, it was a wonderful way to spend the day together, our seamless heavy lifting team work at the end of the day was a testament to the group cohesion that had occurred over the hours we worked and chatted together! 💪💪💪 After a few hours at the Carpenter and Dockland community centre, planning, chatting, measuring and tying, we had our seven habitats assembled and coir rolls in place! Loading them into the vans we then took the short trip down to the river to crane them onto the boat ready to be floated on the next high tide, realising later that we had in fact traced the original route of the river. 💦💦💦 We’ve been busy since preparing them with chains, ready to go into their final positions next Wednesday 23rd March. If you’re in the area please pass by and watch them being put into place! #peoplepowerproject #newhamcommunityassembly
Final island designs, being put together today! Ke Final island designs, being put together today! Keep an eye on our stories for updates 💚 #peoplepowerproject #newhamcommunityassembly
Lovely sunny day to be preparing for our workshop Lovely sunny day to be preparing for our workshop this Saturday, building three more floating habitats for the Channelsea - there’s still a few places to come and join in! All hands on deck to tie, weave, plant and assemble! 💪🌸💚 And we’ll all get a delicious lunch supplied by @londonscommunitykitchen 😋 #peoplepowerproject #newhamcommunityassemblies
There’s still a few places to join the floating There’s still a few places to join the floating habitat build day on March 12th! All info and sign up via link in bio 💚 Channelsea Community Islands Growing Roots & Floating Habitats DAY 2 💦 Island Building Day 💦March 12th 💦 SIGN UP NOW! We have distilled the many idea’s generated on the first workshop day into three distinctly different Island formations, or archipelago’s, to build, float, observe and learn from. 🏝🏝🏝 Each of these islands will act as 'a liver for the river', improving its health, whilst providing much needed habitat for bugs, birds, plants and fish. 🐟🪲🌿 Expect a hands-on day with something for every level of island building skill. Weaving, tying, assembling, mixing are all part of the experiment we'll be making together. 💚 SIGN UP NOW! Link in bio 💚 #peoplepowerproject #newhamcommunityassemblies
Channelsea Community Islands Growing Roots & Float Channelsea Community Islands Growing Roots & Floating Habitats DAY 2 💦 Island Building Day 💦March 12th 💦 SIGN UP NOW! We have distilled the many idea’s generated on the first workshop day into three distinctly different Island formations, or archipelago’s, to build, float, observe and learn from. 🏝🏝🏝 Each of these islands will act as 'a liver for the river', improving its health, whilst providing much needed habitat for bugs, birds, plants and fish. 🐟🪲🌿 Expect a hands-on day with something for every level of island building skill. Weaving, tying, assembling, mixing are all part of the experiment we'll be making together. 💚 SIGN UP NOW! Link in bio 💚 #peoplepowerproject #newhamcommunityassemblies
Here’s a few of the amazing island designs creat Here’s a few of the amazing island designs created at last month’s workshop! We’re busy refining them now and ordering materials ready for the community build day on March 12th, sign up link coming soon! 🌊🌀💚
What a brilliant day we had last Saturday for the What a brilliant day we had last Saturday for the first ‘Channelsea Community Islands’ workshop! We got up close with some Channelsea mud with Kate Spencer from @qmulgeography and learned so much about tidal ecosystems. Then a beautiful walk down the river to the House Mill for Simon Read’s ( @middlesexuniversity ) talk about his remediation endeavours with tidal habitats in Suffolk, his beautiful drawings giving us inspiration for the afternoon’s session sharing ideas and design thoughts for the three floating habitats we’ll be building in March! 💦💦💦 Thanks to all who came, @mzwhite_ and @zimo.hk for volunteering help, and @newhamlondon mayor @rokhsana_fiaz for coming down too! And all the support from the #newhamcommunityassemblies and working group members #peoplepowerproject 💪👏 Hope to see you all in March for the build day! Watch this space for more details….
Join us next Saturday for the first workshop of ou Join us next Saturday for the first workshop of our Channelsea Community Islands project! Still a few places left, it’s going to be a brilliant day getting to know the river and planning the floating habitats… thanks @printbarno for the flyers! Link to sign up in bio 💚 #newhamcommunityassemblies @newhamlondon @clhlondon @thames21
💦💦 UPCOMING WORKSHOP - SATURDAY 29th JAN - F 💦💦 UPCOMING WORKSHOP - SATURDAY 29th JAN - FREE TO ALL 💦💦 Come and join us to learn more about how inter-tidal ecologies function, and how they are threatened, their importance to the wider eco system, and how human-made floating habitats can have a positive local ecological impact. 🌿🌿🌿 With guest speakers Kate Spencer (Queen Mary’s University), getting up close with some mud samples, talking about tidal environments, pollution and restoration possibilities. and Simon Read (Middlesex University), telling us about his experience of working on the salt-marshes in Kent, and leading a conversation around the future of these kinds of environments and the difference we can make. 🌿🌿🌿 More info and sign up link in bio! 💪💚 The project is part of @newhamlondon community assemblies program #newhamcommunityassemblies SAVE THE DATE: March 12th - when we will come back together to build the floating habitats!
We’d like to wish you all a restful break over S We’d like to wish you all a restful break over Solstice, Christmas and into the New Year. Despite the difficulties we're all living through, Surge are celebrating another year of our intertwining activities on the Channelsea River, with all the trials and tribulations; ebbs and flows, eels, herons, seals, snails, mud larks and litter picks, and all manner of exciting projects that have keep us active, past, present, and on the timeless horizon. We’d like to send a massive thank-you to each and every-one of you for supporting us so far, joining and sharing your enthusiasm for our projects and the natural world along the way. We’re excited to see you again, and hope to re-connect for more riverside learning and loving in 2022!
💧💧💧TONIGHT💧💧💧 Join us online for 💧💧💧TONIGHT💧💧💧 Join us online for the @newhamlondon Community Assembly to hear how projects, including our ‘Channelsea Community Islands’ are progressing and how you can be involved! Link to register in bio 👆 #newhamcommunityassemblies Join your local online Community Assembly to hear which projects were voted in to receive a portion of the £100,000 available in your neighbourhood. This is your chance to hear early feedback on how the projects are progressing directly from local groups. You can also have your say on how you think the assembly and online process has gone so far.
The live stream has now made its journey to the Ri The live stream has now made its journey to the River Roding and is open and ready for listening! Beautiful variations of white noise from the reeds and the road punctuated with bird song and water swills…. You can listen anytime at this address - locus.creacast.com:9001/river_roding.mp3 - or tune in to the Acoustic Commons page via the link in our bio between 4&5pm tomorrow, Sunday 7th, for the communal listening session and interactive chat with us, @riverrodingtrust and @sound_camp 💧From the Channelsea to the Roding 💧 We’re excited to be collaborating with @riverrodingtrust this weekend for @sound_camp’s ‘AIR’ radio, live from Glasgow’s @civichouse_ for the duration of @cop26uk and dedicated to experimenting with ideas and practices of ecological radio and acts of listening. 🌎🌎🌎 A live stream moving between two London rivers, where boater communities are responding directly to river pollution, by benevolently occupying, in order to live with, listen with and act with these vital living systems, finding new ways to directly tackle problems of neglect and misuse, whilst navigating ancient acts of parliament and institutional backwaters to fight for the protection of these waterways. Each live stream will be open for 24 hours across the weekend, with our members on the Channelsea river, and members of the River Roding Trust, joining together for two remote listening sessions, interacting via the live chat on the ‘AIR’ platform, plus a live on air discussion about the rivers and our work. Join us at any of these times below to join the discussion! 💚 Fri 5th November 5-6pm: Online communal Channelsea listening session and interactive chat discussion 💚 Sun 7th November 4-5pm: Online communal Roding listening session and interactive chat discussion 💚 Mon 8th November @ 6-7pm: Live on air discussion with Surge + River Roding Trust LINK TO LISTEN AND JOIN IN BIO 👂👆 Please note: interactive chat won’t work on Chrome browser, please use Firefox or Safari
💧From the Channelsea to the Roding 💧 We’re 💧From the Channelsea to the Roding 💧 We’re excited to be collaborating with @riverrodingtrust this weekend for @sound_camp’s ‘AIR’ radio, live from Glasgow’s @civichouse_ for the duration of @cop26uk and dedicated to experimenting with ideas and practices of ecological radio and acts of listening. 🌎🌎🌎 A live stream moving between two London rivers, where boater communities are responding directly to river pollution, by benevolently occupying, in order to live with, listen with and act with these vital living systems, finding new ways to directly tackle problems of neglect and misuse, whilst navigating ancient acts of parliament and institutional backwaters to fight for the protection of these waterways. Each live stream will be open for 24 hours across the weekend, with our members on the Channelsea river, and members of the River Roding Trust, joining together for two remote listening sessions, interacting via the live chat on the ‘AIR’ platform, plus a live on air discussion about the rivers and our work. Join us at any of these times below to join the discussion! 💚 Fri 5th November 5-6pm: Online communal Channelsea listening session and interactive chat discussion 💚 Sun 7th November 4-5pm: Online communal Roding listening session and interactive chat discussion 💚 Mon 8th November @ 6-7pm: Live on air discussion with Surge + River Roding Trust LINK TO LISTEN AND JOIN IN BIO 👂👆 Please note: interactive chat won’t work on Chrome browser, please use Firefox or Safari
We had such a great day walking, talking, litter p We had such a great day walking, talking, litter picking and drawing with an amazing group of people, from near, far and wide! We talked about seeds and islands and water flow and ecosystems and left things much cleaner than we found them 🌿🌀💦 Many more exciting events happening for #londonriversweek2021 check out @thames21 for all the info!
SATURDAY 23rd OCTOBER, 1pm - 4pm In celebration of SATURDAY 23rd OCTOBER, 1pm - 4pm In celebration of London’s Rivers Week 2021 join us at @surge_coop for an afternoon of slowing down to connect, taking care and observing our environment, experiencing how our time in place can be a way of evolving and enriching our collective selves. We will meet at Three Mills Park, then walk along the Channelsea river together, discussing the nature of islands and their place on waterways, a meandering chat as we litter pick along the river, gathering detritus and good feelings from restoring a sense of balance to this place so many species call home. The walk will end with a collective drawing session at the Long Wall Path site where we are planning an ecology garden, on the banks of the Channelsea next to Abbey Mills pumping station. We will focus on Surge’s first floating island that sits in the Channelsea, an enlivening ecosystem, a ‘liver for the river’ which, with funding from @newhamlondon’s Community Assembly, will be joined by three more in Spring 2022, co-created with residents of Newham. Link to sign up in @surge_coop bio. #londonriversweek is organised by the wonderful @thames21 and supported by @officialthameswater. There’s lots of other great events and activities to get involved in across the week, check it out!
Great first day of @theorchardproject ‘Resilient Great first day of @theorchardproject ‘Resilient and Healthy orchards’ course today at @kentishtowncityfarm getting under the earth and acquainted with all the beings keeping the soil healthy, so many treasures under there! All feeding into our plans for a community orchard as part of the Long Wall Path ecology garden…. 🌿💚 And don’t forget to join us on site next Saturday for ‘River Walk • River Talk • River Draw’ link in bio… ☝️ Thanks @officialthameswater and @clhlondon for the support 🙏🏻
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