Festival of Industry

We are delighted to be a partner in the Festival of Industry, an exciting cultural programme celebrating Enfield’s industrial heritage and exploring its future industrial identity. The Festival of Industry is being delivered by Enfield Council and is funded by the Arts Council’s Place Partnership initiative. The programme kicked off in July 2023 and runs until 31st March 2024, with a wide range of activities taking place across the North London borough.

So far, as part of our festival commission we:

• Hosted a Colours & Industry creative conversation at Bloqs - an epic open-access maker space and community in Edmonton N18 - in a yellow shipping container that is the residency space for the Canal & River Trust’s Hinterlands project. The conversation took place on a special special open weekend at Bloqs – a triple celebration of the Festival of Industry, Open House Festival and London Design Festival. 

• Facilitated a creative Exploring Colour workshop at the beautiful Forty Hall - a Jacobean manor with extensive green grounds in the north of the borough. After an interactive colour talk, participants got hands-on creating colourful artworks in a variety of available mediums, reflecting on their own links to colour and industry.

• Participated in the Festival’s Showcase event at the Dugdale Arts Centre in the heart of Enfield Town. We ran a hands-on session, inviting colour stories to be shared creatively.

• Are actively conducting research into how colour relates to the borough’s industrial heritage, present and future.