This free creative workshop, led by artist Alaa Alsaraji, follows on from Studio Gil’s session on 18 February. Join us for a fun and engaging event to imagine, create and design the green spaces around Redbridge. Build your own unique paper models and add them to our big Utopian map of the Ilford Multiverse.

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Alaa Alsaraji is a visual artist, designer, and creative facilitator. Her creative practice is centred around the themes of belonging and re-imagine space and community.

She is the arts editor of Khidr Collective, has received the SPACE Artist Award, and has been selected as the Artist in Residence for the Museum of the Home and P21’s reAct programme, and as Artist Mentor for Awan x Iraq’s creative exchange programme.

She has worked with various organisations to deliver collaborative projects with young people and community groups, in collaboration with Museum of London, Museum of the Home, and other organisations.