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River Me This

08/05/2026

House Mill

Free (booking required)

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House Mill, Three Mills, Lane, London, E3 3DU

An outdoor creative listening workshop to connect, share knowledge, and attend to the River Lea’s needs.

Hosted at House Mill, this outdoor workshop is an invitation to channel the wishes of the River Lea. The workshop includes deep listening and creative activities to tune into the river’s presence and consider what it might ask for - its needs, limits, and possibilities. This session brings together multiple voices to explore river rights, ecology, and collective stewardship.

Taking time to connect, share knowledge, and attend to the river’s needs, the workshop will channel our inner rivers to give voice to what the river wants, creating a collection of wishes in support of its rights and agency. These contributions will form part of the Manifold exhibition at UCL East.

The tidal River Lea at Three Mills: historic mill buildings and trees reflected in calm green water, with cranes and new tower blocks rising behindA workshop participant wearing headphones crouches on the wooden mill floor, reaching towards a metal grate to listen to the water running beneath the buildingA gravel garden beside the river, where two participants look out over a hedge towards a graffiti-covered rail bridge and the Stratford skylineA participant in headphones leans back against a garden hedge listening, beside purple irises and a bird bathA participant bends over the pavement, brush in hand, painting the words 'To dream' onto the stone in waterA participant crouches on the paving to write words in water with a small brush; a bag of paintbrushes lies open nearbyThe words 'The Sea' painted in water on a paving stone, already starting to dry; a hand holds a folded slip of handwritten notes at the edge of the frame