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Micro Worlds: A creative making workshop

18 July 2026, 2:30 pm–4:30 pm

A creative making workshop with artist Emma Smith, exploring the hidden species, airborne ecologies and unseen connections that surround us.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Kate Watson – Cultural and Community Engagement

Location

The UP Garden
Eric Close
London
E7 0AY

Join us for Micro Worlds: an intergenerational creative making session with artist Emma Smith, exploring the invisible species and airborne ecologies that connect us. Working with natural materials we will imagine and create forms inspired by unseen life moving through the air around us - from pollen, spores, and seeds to DNA and microscopic organisms.

Hosted in partnership with The UP Garden, an upcycled community hub for growing, gathering and connecting, this relaxed session will reveal the micro worlds and unseen connections in the air through conversation, exploring the garden, and hands-on making.

No experience needed - just curiosity in the unseen life around us. Open to adults, young people, families and anyone interested in creative making and ecology.

This workshop is for people of all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Refreshments provided.

Find out more and book a FREE ticket over on Eventbrite.

Manifold

This workshop forms part of the Manifold project’s seasonal exploration of airborne pathways linking communities between the River Lea and the River Roding, shifting perspective to encounter the multi-species worlds of Newham and Redbridge.

Manifold is an art project by Emma Smith with UCL Multi Lab and local communities, which offers a programme of activities, embedded in Multi Lab research and local knowledge, to unlearn ecological autonomy and deepen understanding of our being part of local and global ecologies.