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Second Life Club


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Second Life Club is a programme I co-conceptualised at F.A.T. Studio when I co-founded the Old Kent Road (OKR) Arts Club. Second Life Club ran from July 2021 - 2022 and consisted of a weekly programme of volunteer-led sustainable making skill-shares, open to any adults who live in the Old Kent Road area. The workshops de-privelidged outcome, and focused instead on learning and sharing space together. Spaces were free and booked up within two minutes of opening. I co-ordinated the workshops and lightly facilitated each session.

As part of this work, I initiated 'Postcards from Today' - an inclusivity tool within a shifting co-created space. At the end of a session, each person was invited to make a postcard from ‘whatever’s left on the table’ to someone coming to a future session. A start of a subsequent session, everyone randomly selected a postcard from the archive and shared with the group their talismanic guiding card.

Second Life Club is one of three programmes at OKR Arts Club, alongside Community Platform and Young Artists Club. I co-wrote and edited 'OKR Arts Club: A Year in Objects' 2022 publication, which documents this year at OKR Arts Club - and is now stocked across the UK including at Good Press, Glasgow and The ICA, London. This first year of programming was funded by The Mayor of London and a Crowdfunder. More on OKR Arts Club here.





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Images: Teo Della Torre


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Exerpts from 'OKR Arts Club: A Year in Objects' 2022 publication.