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Join us at Orleans House Gallery and along the River Thames for an immersive experience with speculative writer, artist and pleasure activist Ama Josephine Budge exploring the memories, rituals and myths of this ancient waterway. As part of Orleans House Gallery’s Cultural Reforesting Project, partnered with St Mary’s University, Ama has been walking beside the river, gathering its debris and repurposing it into an “anti-monument” which together we will gift back to the river. The walk will be followed by refreshments, a film screening and talk in the Gallery.
Throughout the afternoon we will consider the river as a site of history, folklore and possibility through which to remember stories of those that arrived upon its shores filled with dreams, those that arrived by force, and those for whom Father Thames is still a sacred passage between past, present and future.
Cultural Reforesting is a programme led by Orleans House Gallery / Richmond Arts Service exploring our relationship with nature.
Image credit: Bodies in the Trent II, ©Ama Josephine Budge (2022)