Paint the Change @ Redchurch Street Fest

This summer, Paint the Change and Rich Mix hosted a couple stalls at Redchurch Street Fest in Shoreditch. Street Fest is a yearly festival curated by OnRedchurch to encourage community spirit between local organisation, residents, landlords and businesses.

In collaboration with Rich Mix, we prepared to create a massive giant community mural to celebrate and welcome back Tower Hamlet’s local communities as we came out of lockdown. We encouraged residents to think about an object that is meaningful to them, that represents their identity and cultural or family heritage.

Halima Khanom, a local heritage expert, brought her knowledge of Tower Hamlet’s cultural history to our stall, sharing archival imagery and objects with the public.

We also partnered with London-based photographer Nigel R Glasgow to take portraits of the fest goers.

The portraits and stories of Tower Hamlets residents were collected by street artist ATMA to use in the design of the Rich Mix community mural, set to go up on the cultural centre’s facade a month later.