Project Description
Elephant and Castle Maypole. Image credit: The Peoples Bureau.
People’s Bureau were invited to be part of Moose on the Loose festival 2015 for a week-long artist residency. They installed their skills exchange cart to the Ground Floor space at London College of Communication, holding workshops and events. The residency culminated in a Maypole dance and ceremonial return of the cart to its home in the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre.
In advance of this ritual, the Cuming Cabinet of Curiosity workshop invited participants to create their own objects inspired by the Cuming Museum collection. Messages about the area were added to a seasonal Maypole installed in the LCC forecourt, danced around and brought along the walk back to the shopping centre for another round.
The project was conceived and developed in partnership with Petra Cox, Education Officer at the Cuming Museum.
