Workshop: creating clay pond creatures with Miyuki Kasahara 

Join artist educator Miyuki Kasahara for a summer garden workshop at the Lakeside Centre to create your own pond creatures made out of clay!  

Once again, we will be opening up the garden at the Lakeside Centre for local families to observe the wild pond growing amongst the planters and to create pond animals that represent those in the local area. 

During the workshop natural materials will be foraged, including pinecones, propellers and twigs to combine with air-dry clay to create our pond creatures. 

You are likely to find animals from amphibians (common frogs, marsh frogs, smooth newts) to invertebrates (dragonflies, damselflies, pond skaters, diving beetles, water boatman) and their larvae, alongside crustaceans (freshwater shrimps) and gastropod mollusks (pond snails and slugs).  

Participants will be able to take their clay creatures home.  

Tools, materials (clay and colouring), natural materials and info about pond creatures will be provided. 

Transport Information

The nearest public transport station is Abbey Wood (National Rail, Elizabeth Line).
You can access the Lakeside Centre by bus routes 117, 229, 401, 472, 601, 301, 602, 669, N1

Access Information

This workshop will take place in the garden at the Lakeside Centre, inside the green gate.

Thamesmead Social Cafe will be open on the day, providing wheelchair accessible toilets and access to baby change facilities. This building does not have access to a hearing loop.

For any additional access information and queries, please email pandp@bowarts.com.

Please note parking is not available. There is a bike shed on site.