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The main purpose of the Up-cycling workshops is to provide a relaxed social space focused around a positive activity, providing a brief rest from the stresses of homelessness and a providing a feeling of normality which is often hard to find while living on the streets.
Our community co-deliver the largest event of the Cultural Olympiad, the culture festival which comes along the 2012 Olympic Games, alongside The Changing Room, and 7point9. The exhibition commissioned, and brought over the major artists from the Middleeast to create works to give Londoners a taste of what life is like for local people living through The Arab Spring Uprising – and get to hang out with some really cool, down to earth, famous artists
