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The Hundred Club is an experimental creative space that uses arts and play for children to explore social justice issues. Free and open to 5-12 year olds and their siblings, parents and carers.
The club was initiated by Ruth Beale and is produced by TACO!
A family club, we ask parents and carers to stay and get involved.
Upcoming sessions:
- Risky Play & Belonging, Sat 4th May, 10-1, TACO!, 2 Cygnet Square, SE2 9FA
"You’re on the edge of a ravine filled with lava. You need to jump across. What are you thinking?”
5-12 year olds and their families are invited to join artist Ruth Beale to think about unstructured play and taking risks - from wobbly logs to swinging high - and how simple objects and structures can enable play. We will create new games, and draw fantastical play structures, inspired by Ruth’s publication Drawing Risky Play, made with children at a democratic school and an adventure playground.
We’ll also use the book Belonging by Jeannie Baker - a picture book for all ages about urban greening - thinking about our own neighbourhoods and who and what they are for.
Book here.
Made possible with the support of William Kendall’s charity.
Breaking News! with The Hundred Club
Sat 18 May, 10am-12pm
Sat 15 June, 10am-12pm
Sat 20 July, 10am-1pm
Abbey Wood Library, Eynsham Dr, Abbey Wood, London SE2 9PT
5-12 year olds and their families are invited to join artist Chloe Cooper for a series of creative workshops breaking down the news stories that matter to you. From zines to animation, collage to DIY publishing, this family session invites you to explore social justice issues and current affairs through art and making. Book here.
18 May: Design your own colouring-in sheet!
Collage together words and pictures from the news, trace over your collage, photocopy it and (hey presto!) you'll have your own colouring-in sheet! Photocopy extra copies for your friends and family to colour in and we'll even leave some for the users of Abbey Wood Library to colour in too!
15 June: What happens next?!
Read news stories and then use junk modelling to create suggestions for what could happen next. Photograph what you've made, print it out and then draw a comic strip to show what you've made in action.
20 July: Sock puppets!
Use fabric, recycled materials and lots of glue to make puppets that you can use to act out news stories from this week. Pull out the key characters from this week's news (whether they be campaigners, politicians, animals or trees)! then make sock puppets inspired by them. Use your puppets to act out what's going on in the world right now. As you'll be the ones writing the script it'll be up to you to decide what happens at the end!
The Hundred Club is an experimental creative space that uses arts and play for children to explore social justice issues.
The Hundred Club is free and open to 5-12 year olds and their siblings, parents and carers.
To register for your family’s place for our weekend & holiday sessions, please fill in this online form - or for more information please email Natasha - nb@taco.org.uk
The club meets monthly in and around Thamesmead, and for extended special workshops in the school holidays. A family club, we ask parents and carers to stay for the sessions and get involved.
We also run a weekly drop-off afterschool club at The Moorings Sociable Club in Thamesmead.
We currently have spaces on term-time Wednesday’s for 9-12 year olds. 5-8 year olds are invited to join the waiting list. For places please click here.
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Members of the club contribute to our own kids-produced newspaper WAAAAH!, as well as taking part in other fun creative activities like designing and speaking to special guests. Children and families are involved in decision-making, and each term we ask the children what the important issues are for them.
Sessions are facilitated by experienced visual artists and designers. Through collaboration and hands-on activities members of the club experiment and play through art and making, using these as an inspiration to imagine a more fair, just and equal society.
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The Hundred Club was initiated in 2021 by artist Ruth Beale and TACO! Ruth Beale is a London-based artist. Their work troubles the structures and systems that shape society, from institutions to social ties to the public realm. Committed to the radical possibilities of working collectively and collaboratively, they use dialogue and exchange to rethink the ways we share resources and ideas about the future. In 2012 they co-founded The Alternative School of Economics with Amy Feneck, which explores economic and political issues in relation to the complexity of lived experience.
Recent commissions include Drawing Risky Play with Turf Projects, Croydon, London and Library as Memorial with Brent Biennial, London. Recent exhibitions include LIKE GODS at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities at The Showroom and a major new installation by The Alternative School of Economics in Economics the Blockbuster: It’s not Business as Usual, The Whitworth, Manchester.
The Hundred Club is supported using funding from Royal Borough of Greenwich.
The Hundred Club is an experimental creative space that uses arts and play for children to explore social justice issues. Free and open to 5-12 year olds and their siblings, parents and carers.
The club was initiated by Ruth Beale and is produced by TACO!
A family club, we ask parents and carers to stay and get involved.
Upcoming sessions:
- Risky Play & Belonging, Sat 4th May, 10-1, TACO!, 2 Cygnet Square, SE2 9FA
"You’re on the edge of a ravine filled with lava. You need to jump across. What are you thinking?”
5-12 year olds and their families are invited to join artist Ruth Beale to think about unstructured play and taking risks - from wobbly logs to swinging high - and how simple objects and structures can enable play. We will create new games, and draw fantastical play structures, inspired by Ruth’s publication Drawing Risky Play, made with children at a democratic school and an adventure playground.
We’ll also use the book Belonging by Jeannie Baker - a picture book for all ages about urban greening - thinking about our own neighbourhoods and who and what they are for.
Book here.
Made possible with the support of William Kendall’s charity.
Breaking News! with The Hundred Club
Sat 18 May, 10am-12pm
Sat 15 June, 10am-12pm
Sat 20 July, 10am-1pm
Abbey Wood Library, Eynsham Dr, Abbey Wood, London SE2 9PT
5-12 year olds and their families are invited to join artist Chloe Cooper for a series of creative workshops breaking down the news stories that matter to you. From zines to animation, collage to DIY publishing, this family session invites you to explore social justice issues and current affairs through art and making. Book here.
18 May: Design your own colouring-in sheet!
Collage together words and pictures from the news, trace over your collage, photocopy it and (hey presto!) you'll have your own colouring-in sheet! Photocopy extra copies for your friends and family to colour in and we'll even leave some for the users of Abbey Wood Library to colour in too!
15 June: What happens next?!
Read news stories and then use junk modelling to create suggestions for what could happen next. Photograph what you've made, print it out and then draw a comic strip to show what you've made in action.
20 July: Sock puppets!
Use fabric, recycled materials and lots of glue to make puppets that you can use to act out news stories from this week. Pull out the key characters from this week's news (whether they be campaigners, politicians, animals or trees)! then make sock puppets inspired by them. Use your puppets to act out what's going on in the world right now. As you'll be the ones writing the script it'll be up to you to decide what happens at the end!
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The Hundred Club is an experimental creative space that uses arts and play for children to explore social justice issues.
The Hundred Club is free and open to 5-12 year olds and their siblings, parents and carers.
To register for your family’s place for our weekend & holiday sessions, please fill in this online form - or for more information please email Natasha - nb@taco.org.uk
The club meets monthly in and around Thamesmead, and for extended special workshops in the school holidays. A family club, we ask parents and carers to stay for the sessions and get involved.
§
We also run a weekly drop-off afterschool club at The Moorings Sociable Club in Thamesmead.
We currently have spaces on term-time Wednesday’s for 9-12 year olds. 5-8 year olds are invited to join the waiting list. For places please click here.
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Members of the club contribute to our own kids-produced newspaper WAAAAH!, as well as taking part in other fun creative activities like designing and speaking to special guests. Children and families are involved in decision-making, and each term we ask the children what the important issues are for them.
Sessions are facilitated by experienced visual artists and designers. Through collaboration and hands-on activities members of the club experiment and play through art and making, using these as an inspiration to imagine a more fair, just and equal society.
§
The Hundred Club was initiated in 2021 by artist Ruth Beale and TACO! Ruth Beale is a London-based artist. Their work troubles the structures and systems that shape society, from institutions to social ties to the public realm. Committed to the radical possibilities of working collectively and collaboratively, they use dialogue and exchange to rethink the ways we share resources and ideas about the future. In 2012 they co-founded The Alternative School of Economics with Amy Feneck, which explores economic and political issues in relation to the complexity of lived experience.
Recent commissions include Drawing Risky Play with Turf Projects, Croydon, London and Library as Memorial with Brent Biennial, London. Recent exhibitions include LIKE GODS at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities at The Showroom and a major new installation by The Alternative School of Economics in Economics the Blockbuster: It’s not Business as Usual, The Whitworth, Manchester.
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The Hundred Club Afterschool is made possible by The Peabody Community Fund. The Hundred Club is supported using funding from Royal Borough of Greenwich.
