Drawing Things Together Community Day – Tastes of our neighbourhood Tasting local ingredients, drawing and writing to create a sensory map of the area 20 September 2025, 12pm to 3pm Back Drop in Bermondsey Community Fair 2025 - Instagram post portrait (1) Location Blue Market Square, 30 Market Pl, London SE16 3UQ Opening times 12pm to 3pm Join us at the Big Local Works Community Fair to explore the different tastes, smells and textures our neighbourhood has to offer! Expect – tasting harvest from the nearby allotments and orchard, things from local shops, chats about tastes and flavours associated with your neighbourhood, writing and drawing activities! All ages welcome, no experience necessary. Ideas generated during this project will inform the next steps in collectively making and sharing a condiment in the upcoming weeks! This workshop is part of an ongoing project with Drawing Room and Kneed: Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham. More info about the project: Throughout Autumn and Winter, Kneed will be working with Drawing Room, Big Local Works, The Blue Market, Lynton Road Allotments, the local orchard and community groups in Bermondsey, to make and share a condiment together. This condiment – might be a sauce, a vinegar, a chutney, a jam or something else – is a way to share stories and have conversations around what grows in the area, what is surplus, local economies, histories and futures, trade and processes of making and working together. Drawing on Bermondsey’s local industrial history; a place of making – from leather to jam, breweries to biscuit factories, our community condiment continues that tradition, asking: What brings us together? How do we sustain each other? How can communities be sustained despite rapid redevelopment and gentrification? Through market stalls, a community press sharing local news and stories, food growing, harvesting and cooking – the Bermondsey based condiment will be circulated across the area – join us as we develop a taste, texture and smell which speaks to this area. About Kneed: Kneed is a collaborative practice formed by artists Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham. We explore themes of structural violence, hostile bureaucracy, collective histories, informal economies of care and our relationships with the more than human within British landscapes and institutions. Through film, performance, workshops, writing, collage, conversations, walking and chance encounters, we engage with care workers, educators, artists, migrants and more – communities we are also part of. We seek to probe at power dynamics held in language, image production, observation and documentation, and play with rehearsing new social formations. Having worked collaboratively for over five years, we believe in the transformational potential of collective artmaking. Our focus is on amplifying and nurturing systems of care and support, particularly in contexts where external pressures strain available resources. Constantly adapting our processes within changing contexts and our collaborators, we create spaces for identifying and addressing shared needs.