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This is happening tomorrow evening at the Long Wal This is happening tomorrow evening at the Long Wall Ecology garden - the final ‘reading~listening’ group as part of the ‘Spree~Channelsea Radio Group’ who spent a week here in July, and are now on the Spree in Berlin, ecological experiments in transmission between two rivers. You can listen in to some of the Berlin transmissions over on @radiootherwise @archipeldotcommunity and @sound_camp - and join Surge coop Co-directors Stephen & Hannah of @blancsceol tomorrow night to discuss three texts: River rhythmicity: A conceptual means of understanding and leveraging the relational values of rivers found here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pan3.10335 - Erin Robinsong’s poem 'RAIN ON THE INARTICULATE’ found here: https://effects-journal.com/archive/wet-dream - The Cult of Water - David Bramwell & Peter Fowler For copies of the texts and to let us know you’re coming DM us! 📖👂📖
We have a new floating pontoon! One step closer to We have a new floating pontoon! One step closer to being able to tackle some of the pennywort growing on the Channelsea - we’ll be strapping half barrels to the side of the pontoon soon, then we’ll be out on the water pulling the plant into the barrels and emptying into compost bins on land! All part of our on-going learning journey with the river, understanding how we can balance growth to increase biodiversity 🌿💦 You can join in on 1st October in our conservation event as part of @antiuniversitynow - see link in bio for more details! Thanks to Our Space Award for the support @groundworklondon
🌿💦TOMORROW! 💦🌿 Join us at the Long Wal 🌿💦TOMORROW! 💦🌿 Join us at the Long Wall Ecology Garden for the monthly eco gathering, we’ll be watering, litter picking, general tidying and having a chat! 11-1pm, link in bio to let us know you’ll be coming ❤️
Inspiring day on the river today - started out wit Inspiring day on the river today - started out with a walk and talk with @thames21 and @cody_dockers, from Bow Locks to the Channelsea, then down the Lea, identifying conservation opportunities for these tidal rivers. Then back to the Long Wall Ecology Garden for an afternoon of tree care and watering, and discovering one of the vandalised trees from a few weeks ago has sprouted a couple of new leaves, a hopeful sign that it will survive the damage. What do you think @theorchardproject? 🤞💚
This Saturday is our regular monthly eco gathering This Saturday is our regular monthly eco gathering, 11-1pm at the Long Wall Ecology Garden. We’ll be looking after the apple trees, adding some mulch, general tidying, and the usual talking and tea drinking. Come and join us! Wear sturdy shoes and wet weather gear! Link to register in bio, just to let us know you’ll be there.
>>>TODAY<<< Broadcasting live from the Channelsea >>>TODAY<<< Broadcasting live from the Channelsea river from high tide (12.49pm) until high tide on Sunday (1.42pm) - an experiment in ecological radio In collaboration with @sound_camp @radiootherwise @blancsceol. You can come down and visit us to listen live and/or participate, or listen in over the 24 hours from wherever you are - link in our bio. 👂💦👂 Poster by @sam_baraitser_smith Also in partnership with @wavefarmradio NY With support from @aceagrams and @goetheinstitut #culturalbridgefund
Join us next Tuesday for a summer open day of cele Join us next Tuesday for a summer open day of celebration and gathering at the Long Wall Ecology Garden. We'll be toasting the installation of the new welcome archway and our off grid water system for the community orchard, talking about the site and our plans to create a community land trust for the river and listening with the ecologies of the site through the 'Spree~Channelsea Radio Group project'. Tea and cake provided! Drop by anytime, sign up via the link in the bio to let us know you'll be coming. 🌀🌀🌀 The @climaterelay, a celebration of climate action and nature, will also be passing by on the Greenway at 3.15pm! 🌀🌀🌀 'Spree~Channelsea Radio Group' @blancsceol (Surge Coop members @stephen_shiell and @hannah_mary_white) are collaborating with @sound_camp and artists from @radiootherwise and Archipel Stations (Berlin) for a week of activites on and around the Channlesea, exploring ways of using sound and listening to broadcast and transmit the networked ecologies of the river, alongside creating modes and methodologies of exchange with the Spree river in Berlin. 🌀🌀🌀
Come and join us at the eco gathering this Saturda Come and join us at the eco gathering this Saturday! We’ll be litter picking, watering the apple trees, admiring the new welcome archway and planning a small celebration for it in a couple of weeks. Link to let us know you’re coming in the bio 👌
The welcome archway for the Long Wall Ecology Gard The welcome archway for the Long Wall Ecology Garden is now in place! We love how it references both the wild nature of the river and the industrial heritage in the area, and hope you all like it too! We know this area has long been loved by many (including us) and this sign feels to us like a gift back to the space, and an appreciative gesture to all the beings at home there. Many thanks to @leeandjenart for their hard work on co-design and fabrication, and to @newhamlondon #peoplepoweredplaces and @officialthameswater for the support.
After months of hard work our solar powered water After months of hard work our solar powered water system is up and running! Just in time for the apple trees who‘ve been surviving well despite the heat. Coop member Al designed and built this brilliant system, which pulls water from the river at high tide, filters it and stores it in the tanks ready for us to use when we need it. Many thanks to @officialthameswater and @mayorofldn ‘Grow Back Greener’ fund for the support. 💦💦💦
CORRECTION - this is not happening today!! It’s CORRECTION - this is not happening today!! It’s in July 🫣🫠🌀 more details coming soon…..! The @climaterelay baton will be passing the Long Wall Ecology Garden on its way to Big Ben🌿🌿🌿 Here’s @queen.ether1 with the bouquet of wild flowers we gathered at last Saturday’s ‘Channelsea Conservation’ event with Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre 💜 We had a film crew down at the event capturing footage for the @climaterelay - a climate action awareness campaign happening now, with thousands of people involved in carrying a baton from Ben Nevis to Big Ben. 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️ Whilst we at Surge are understanding the need to go slower and do less in order to learn more, this campaign chooses the speed and action of human sporting achievements to highlight the need to act decisively in honour of the earths ecosystems! And anything campaigning for that is a good thing. We need to find all the diverse ways we can in order to use our human skills and resources to work within these systems for the benefit of all living things. 🌍🌍🌍
More to share from this morning’s informative wa More to share from this morning’s informative walk around the Long Wall Ecology Garden meeting some of the wild plants growing there….
Fascinating and inspiring morning with conservatio Fascinating and inspiring morning with conservationist Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre walking around the Long Wall Ecology Garden meeting some of the wild plants choosing to root themselves there. As Nick says although most urban land has suffered traumas of upheaval and concrete this site has had some years to regenerate so there are a lot of wild plants on the site. We learnt about the importance of observing before doing, getting to know the personalities of the species you find, observing their behaviours throughout the seasons and across the years to make informed choices about how to use your human hands to balance the growth through cutting back and removing thus allowing less forceful species to grow through and diversify the habitat. 🌿🌀🌿 The event was in celebration of @thames21 #londonriversweek2023 - check out the other events on across the catchment via their bio. With gratitude to ‘Our Space Award’ and @groundworklondon for the support.
Celebrating the Channelsea today and every day! Lo Celebrating the Channelsea today and every day! Loads more events from @thames21 #londonriversweek2023 coming over the next few days, we’ll be on the riverbank tomorrow with Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre - sadly our event is sold out but check back here for pics of the plants we’ll be meeting, and check out @thames21 for other events around the London rivers near you!
It’s exciting to see the welcome archway for the It’s exciting to see the welcome archway for the Long Wall Ecology Garden coming to life! After consulting with participants at our Spring workshops and amongst coop members the design has been finalised and fabricated by @leeandjenart ready for installing in the next couple of weeks! Keep an eye out for it next time you’re along the Greenway and let us know what you think! Thanks to @newhamlondon #peoplepoweredplaces for the support to make it happen.
It’s not always good news on here - the thing ab It’s not always good news on here - the thing about working within a public space with 24 hour access where everything is for all to enjoy, is that sometimes people take that a bit too far, and someone has walked off with four trees from our modest apple orchard! These will have to be replaced next year. It adds to the complexity of stories good, bad and in between when working with diverse ecologies, human and otherwise. It would be great to hear from other groups with similar or different experiences. 🌱💙
Today Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre Today Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre came down to the Long Wall Ecology Garden to start surveying the plants, and support us with a conservation strategy for the area. 🌿🌿🌿 He’ll be back on Saturday 3rd June to lead us all around the site - join us for a morning of identifying and learning about the variety of wild flora that thrives in and on the unique inter-tidal habitat of the Channelsea river, meet the wild plants that make their home here and get involved in our conservation composting project. FREE for all - sign up link in the bio! 🌿🌿🌿 This event is part of 'Channelsea Community Composting', a new project that will give us invaluable support and guidance from Nick over the coming year to identify the species in the area that will benefit from careful management to ensure a biodiverse eco-system can thrive. 🌿🌿🌿 This event is part of @thames21 ‘s 'London River's Week', a week-long annual campaign inspiring the public to celebrate all of London’s rivers and the many projects taking place to protect them. 🌿🌿🌿 This year’s theme focuses on climate resilient rivers and how river restoration can reduce the impact of the climate emergency for both people and wildlife, through restoring habitats and reducing the impacts of drought and flood. 🌿🌿🌿 With thanks to the 'Our Space Award' and @groundworklondon for the support.
And finally - a wonderful ending session with Beck And finally - a wonderful ending session with Becky Lyon @elastic_fiction - taking us through contemplative moments to consider the water in our lives, bodies, surroundings, the meaning of ‘waste’ and how it’s a human-created concept without parallels in other ecologies, and the entanglement of our inter-connectedness… thanks so much to @compost_mentis_coop for bringing in collaborators to the garden space over the last few months, as we think together about the space and the coming compost toilet! The build will begin soon with plenty more opportunities for all to be involved, keep an eye out here!
Continuing on from the last reel about the final ‘Creative Ecologies’ at the Long Wall Ecology Garden on the banks of the Channelsea - as part of our ‘Welcome to the Channelsea’ series in collaboration with @compost_mentis_coop supported by @newhamlondon #communityassembly. @pond_dipper Micahel Holland gave us creatures and stories from the waters - the Cadis fly weaving together it’s home with silk, the lesser boatman with a loud and engaging mating ritual, and the leeches swimming like tiny sea snakes. 💦💦💦
Beautiful day on Saturday with @compost_mentis_coo Beautiful day on Saturday with @compost_mentis_coop for the last in our ‘Welcome to the Channelsea’ workshops supported by @newhamlondon’s #communityassembly. Great to meet Compost Mentis member Olly who guided us into the soil ecologies of the site. We explored the site taking soil samples from different areas to look at later under the microscope. We identified plants too, discovering the jumbo dandelions amongst other beauties! More from the day in the next two reels - @pond_dipper taking us into the watery ecologies and @elastic_fiction leading us into thoughtful and engaging conversations and sensings… 💚💚💚
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This is happening tomorrow evening at the Long Wal This is happening tomorrow evening at the Long Wall Ecology garden - the final ‘reading~listening’ group as part of the ‘Spree~Channelsea Radio Group’ who spent a week here in July, and are now on the Spree in Berlin, ecological experiments in transmission between two rivers. You can listen in to some of the Berlin transmissions over on @radiootherwise @archipeldotcommunity and @sound_camp - and join Surge coop Co-directors Stephen & Hannah of @blancsceol tomorrow night to discuss three texts: River rhythmicity: A conceptual means of understanding and leveraging the relational values of rivers found here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pan3.10335 - Erin Robinsong’s poem 'RAIN ON THE INARTICULATE’ found here: https://effects-journal.com/archive/wet-dream - The Cult of Water - David Bramwell & Peter Fowler For copies of the texts and to let us know you’re coming DM us! 📖👂📖
We have a new floating pontoon! One step closer to We have a new floating pontoon! One step closer to being able to tackle some of the pennywort growing on the Channelsea - we’ll be strapping half barrels to the side of the pontoon soon, then we’ll be out on the water pulling the plant into the barrels and emptying into compost bins on land! All part of our on-going learning journey with the river, understanding how we can balance growth to increase biodiversity 🌿💦 You can join in on 1st October in our conservation event as part of @antiuniversitynow - see link in bio for more details! Thanks to Our Space Award for the support @groundworklondon
🌿💦TOMORROW! 💦🌿 Join us at the Long Wal 🌿💦TOMORROW! 💦🌿 Join us at the Long Wall Ecology Garden for the monthly eco gathering, we’ll be watering, litter picking, general tidying and having a chat! 11-1pm, link in bio to let us know you’ll be coming ❤️
Inspiring day on the river today - started out wit Inspiring day on the river today - started out with a walk and talk with @thames21 and @cody_dockers, from Bow Locks to the Channelsea, then down the Lea, identifying conservation opportunities for these tidal rivers. Then back to the Long Wall Ecology Garden for an afternoon of tree care and watering, and discovering one of the vandalised trees from a few weeks ago has sprouted a couple of new leaves, a hopeful sign that it will survive the damage. What do you think @theorchardproject? 🤞💚
This Saturday is our regular monthly eco gathering This Saturday is our regular monthly eco gathering, 11-1pm at the Long Wall Ecology Garden. We’ll be looking after the apple trees, adding some mulch, general tidying, and the usual talking and tea drinking. Come and join us! Wear sturdy shoes and wet weather gear! Link to register in bio, just to let us know you’ll be there.
>>>TODAY<<< Broadcasting live from the Channelsea >>>TODAY<<< Broadcasting live from the Channelsea river from high tide (12.49pm) until high tide on Sunday (1.42pm) - an experiment in ecological radio In collaboration with @sound_camp @radiootherwise @blancsceol. You can come down and visit us to listen live and/or participate, or listen in over the 24 hours from wherever you are - link in our bio. 👂💦👂 Poster by @sam_baraitser_smith Also in partnership with @wavefarmradio NY With support from @aceagrams and @goetheinstitut #culturalbridgefund
Join us next Tuesday for a summer open day of cele Join us next Tuesday for a summer open day of celebration and gathering at the Long Wall Ecology Garden. We'll be toasting the installation of the new welcome archway and our off grid water system for the community orchard, talking about the site and our plans to create a community land trust for the river and listening with the ecologies of the site through the 'Spree~Channelsea Radio Group project'. Tea and cake provided! Drop by anytime, sign up via the link in the bio to let us know you'll be coming. 🌀🌀🌀 The @climaterelay, a celebration of climate action and nature, will also be passing by on the Greenway at 3.15pm! 🌀🌀🌀 'Spree~Channelsea Radio Group' @blancsceol (Surge Coop members @stephen_shiell and @hannah_mary_white) are collaborating with @sound_camp and artists from @radiootherwise and Archipel Stations (Berlin) for a week of activites on and around the Channlesea, exploring ways of using sound and listening to broadcast and transmit the networked ecologies of the river, alongside creating modes and methodologies of exchange with the Spree river in Berlin. 🌀🌀🌀
Come and join us at the eco gathering this Saturda Come and join us at the eco gathering this Saturday! We’ll be litter picking, watering the apple trees, admiring the new welcome archway and planning a small celebration for it in a couple of weeks. Link to let us know you’re coming in the bio 👌
The welcome archway for the Long Wall Ecology Gard The welcome archway for the Long Wall Ecology Garden is now in place! We love how it references both the wild nature of the river and the industrial heritage in the area, and hope you all like it too! We know this area has long been loved by many (including us) and this sign feels to us like a gift back to the space, and an appreciative gesture to all the beings at home there. Many thanks to @leeandjenart for their hard work on co-design and fabrication, and to @newhamlondon #peoplepoweredplaces and @officialthameswater for the support.
After months of hard work our solar powered water After months of hard work our solar powered water system is up and running! Just in time for the apple trees who‘ve been surviving well despite the heat. Coop member Al designed and built this brilliant system, which pulls water from the river at high tide, filters it and stores it in the tanks ready for us to use when we need it. Many thanks to @officialthameswater and @mayorofldn ‘Grow Back Greener’ fund for the support. 💦💦💦
CORRECTION - this is not happening today!! It’s CORRECTION - this is not happening today!! It’s in July 🫣🫠🌀 more details coming soon…..! The @climaterelay baton will be passing the Long Wall Ecology Garden on its way to Big Ben🌿🌿🌿 Here’s @queen.ether1 with the bouquet of wild flowers we gathered at last Saturday’s ‘Channelsea Conservation’ event with Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre 💜 We had a film crew down at the event capturing footage for the @climaterelay - a climate action awareness campaign happening now, with thousands of people involved in carrying a baton from Ben Nevis to Big Ben. 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️ Whilst we at Surge are understanding the need to go slower and do less in order to learn more, this campaign chooses the speed and action of human sporting achievements to highlight the need to act decisively in honour of the earths ecosystems! And anything campaigning for that is a good thing. We need to find all the diverse ways we can in order to use our human skills and resources to work within these systems for the benefit of all living things. 🌍🌍🌍
More to share from this morning’s informative wa More to share from this morning’s informative walk around the Long Wall Ecology Garden meeting some of the wild plants growing there….
Fascinating and inspiring morning with conservatio Fascinating and inspiring morning with conservationist Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre walking around the Long Wall Ecology Garden meeting some of the wild plants choosing to root themselves there. As Nick says although most urban land has suffered traumas of upheaval and concrete this site has had some years to regenerate so there are a lot of wild plants on the site. We learnt about the importance of observing before doing, getting to know the personalities of the species you find, observing their behaviours throughout the seasons and across the years to make informed choices about how to use your human hands to balance the growth through cutting back and removing thus allowing less forceful species to grow through and diversify the habitat. 🌿🌀🌿 The event was in celebration of @thames21 #londonriversweek2023 - check out the other events on across the catchment via their bio. With gratitude to ‘Our Space Award’ and @groundworklondon for the support.
Celebrating the Channelsea today and every day! Lo Celebrating the Channelsea today and every day! Loads more events from @thames21 #londonriversweek2023 coming over the next few days, we’ll be on the riverbank tomorrow with Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre - sadly our event is sold out but check back here for pics of the plants we’ll be meeting, and check out @thames21 for other events around the London rivers near you!
It’s exciting to see the welcome archway for the It’s exciting to see the welcome archway for the Long Wall Ecology Garden coming to life! After consulting with participants at our Spring workshops and amongst coop members the design has been finalised and fabricated by @leeandjenart ready for installing in the next couple of weeks! Keep an eye out for it next time you’re along the Greenway and let us know what you think! Thanks to @newhamlondon #peoplepoweredplaces for the support to make it happen.
It’s not always good news on here - the thing ab It’s not always good news on here - the thing about working within a public space with 24 hour access where everything is for all to enjoy, is that sometimes people take that a bit too far, and someone has walked off with four trees from our modest apple orchard! These will have to be replaced next year. It adds to the complexity of stories good, bad and in between when working with diverse ecologies, human and otherwise. It would be great to hear from other groups with similar or different experiences. 🌱💙
Today Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre Today Nick Bertrand from @creeksidediscoverycentre came down to the Long Wall Ecology Garden to start surveying the plants, and support us with a conservation strategy for the area. 🌿🌿🌿 He’ll be back on Saturday 3rd June to lead us all around the site - join us for a morning of identifying and learning about the variety of wild flora that thrives in and on the unique inter-tidal habitat of the Channelsea river, meet the wild plants that make their home here and get involved in our conservation composting project. FREE for all - sign up link in the bio! 🌿🌿🌿 This event is part of 'Channelsea Community Composting', a new project that will give us invaluable support and guidance from Nick over the coming year to identify the species in the area that will benefit from careful management to ensure a biodiverse eco-system can thrive. 🌿🌿🌿 This event is part of @thames21 ‘s 'London River's Week', a week-long annual campaign inspiring the public to celebrate all of London’s rivers and the many projects taking place to protect them. 🌿🌿🌿 This year’s theme focuses on climate resilient rivers and how river restoration can reduce the impact of the climate emergency for both people and wildlife, through restoring habitats and reducing the impacts of drought and flood. 🌿🌿🌿 With thanks to the 'Our Space Award' and @groundworklondon for the support.
And finally - a wonderful ending session with Beck And finally - a wonderful ending session with Becky Lyon @elastic_fiction - taking us through contemplative moments to consider the water in our lives, bodies, surroundings, the meaning of ‘waste’ and how it’s a human-created concept without parallels in other ecologies, and the entanglement of our inter-connectedness… thanks so much to @compost_mentis_coop for bringing in collaborators to the garden space over the last few months, as we think together about the space and the coming compost toilet! The build will begin soon with plenty more opportunities for all to be involved, keep an eye out here!
Continuing on from the last reel about the final ‘Creative Ecologies’ at the Long Wall Ecology Garden on the banks of the Channelsea - as part of our ‘Welcome to the Channelsea’ series in collaboration with @compost_mentis_coop supported by @newhamlondon #communityassembly. @pond_dipper Micahel Holland gave us creatures and stories from the waters - the Cadis fly weaving together it’s home with silk, the lesser boatman with a loud and engaging mating ritual, and the leeches swimming like tiny sea snakes. 💦💦💦
Beautiful day on Saturday with @compost_mentis_coo Beautiful day on Saturday with @compost_mentis_coop for the last in our ‘Welcome to the Channelsea’ workshops supported by @newhamlondon’s #communityassembly. Great to meet Compost Mentis member Olly who guided us into the soil ecologies of the site. We explored the site taking soil samples from different areas to look at later under the microscope. We identified plants too, discovering the jumbo dandelions amongst other beauties! More from the day in the next two reels - @pond_dipper taking us into the watery ecologies and @elastic_fiction leading us into thoughtful and engaging conversations and sensings… 💚💚💚
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