May 2024

May 2024 News

May 02, 2024

May ‘24

Hello 😊

Did you know, we now have 11 artists physically working from Firepit 🤯 here we all are, in order of when we arrived:

Marcus, Ernesto, Shumaiya, Pragya, José, Nelly, Lana, Nicola, Betty, Baki & Octavia. Artist websites are on our linktree page.

Just a reminder, in May, the gallery is open Tuesday to Friday 10-5pm & Saturday 11-5pm. Come and visit, feel free to bring a laptop or sketch pad and work from here. Dogs with well behaved humans are also welcome.

Throughout May our current exhibition, ‘Wake Up and Smell the Roses’, continues. Free entry, tickets are not needed. There is a huge range of work that we have here for sale and for viewing, from both Firepit and guest artists.

Workshops and Events

May

Saturday 11th: Colour Me Blind with Nelly K. Reserve your spot and be quick, this has almost sold out. We have donation based tickets left only.

Wednesday 15th: Our Firepit Meditation Class, Run by Cara. Reserve your Spot

Sunday 19th: The Urban Village Fete is coming to North Greenwich. In Firepit we will have drop in badge making and face painting. The badge making theme is to create a new mascot for Firepit. Main event details are here.

Wednesday May 22nd: Firepit Sound Bath – Alchemy Crystal Bowls Reserve your spot

Wednesday 29th: Firepit Tales open mic. We are looking forward to the next instalment of Firepit Tales. Free performers tickets and 10 free early bird audience tickets. Tickets

Also we have planned but haven’t finalised dates or start time yet, the following:Om Meditation, regular free Monday Daytime Meditation class

Tai Chi Classes

Kirtan Class. This is looking likely to be on a Friday night

If any of these are of interest, message with the event you are interested in and we can send you a link as soon as the event goes liveWe have rescheduled our Indian Food Supper Club with Wine pairing. Also will have live drawing with Nelly K at the event. We will have a full breakdown of this event in the next newsletter. There are a very small amount of early bird tickets, so grab them before they go. Tickets

And you must keep the evening of Thursday June 20th free. It is the opening of, ‘Art of Being’ our summer exhibition, not to be missed. Tickets for the opening will be released in a couple of weeks. Message if you’d like us to send you a link when they live.

To keep up to date with what workshops and events we have coming up, it is worth following us on our eventbrite page. We will be creating an extensive program this year. All events will be listed here: Events and Workshops

Other News

All three Firepit artists; Ernesto Romano, Marcus Jake & Shumaiya Khan, sold their donated work at the Terrance Higgins Trust Charity auction last month. It was an epic evening at Christie’s Auction House.

We are raising money. We have many, many, plans, ideas and goals. They cost money - Shocker. To help us sustainably continue to raise money, we need to get the alcohol licence sorted, so we can fundraise from the bar at events. This also means an upgrade in our insurance. We are currently creating a program of workshops & events for the summer and beyond, we are keen on having a diverse selection to keep it interesting and fun. Now, to keep this accessible as possible, we need to raise money to subsidise the tickets. Plus a hundred other things!Please consider a donation - your money will be put to great use and will benefit all. Click to Donate

We have Betty & Baki working on our website. It is nothing short of a miracle. We are still planning and tweaking a creative writing course. Our next exhibition, ‘Art of Being’ opens June 20th, it runs for approximately 3 months, alongside it, we are planning events and workshops that tie in to the subject matter of the exhibition. “Art of Being' is a joyous celebration of the unyielding spirit of the human heart and a heartfelt tribute to the courageous souls who dare to embark on the transformative journey through the shadows, emerging stronger, wiser, and more resilient than before.” Sip & Paint. Wine, Prosecco, Paint, DJ Scotty, is in the planning. We are installing an outside sculpture, likely in June. We still want to yarn bomb some stuff. We are talking to a few other charities and organisations about some short and longer term collaborations.

Come and chat to us, what do you want to do? Do you live in the Greenwich borough? Then we really want to talk with you about community events and workshops.

A small picture (or two) of what happened in April…