MAKERS

06.12.2014 / saturday / 11 am-midnight 260-264 KINGSLAND ROAD / E8 LONDON

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MAKERS “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

This was the famous dictum of William Morris, father of the Victoria era Arts & Crafts movement. I like to think if he were alive today he would enjoy our Makers event, either selling wallpaper down in our Makers Market or doing textile workshops up in the Makers Lounge. To be fair he would probably create his own version, featuring talks on social activism, alongside a legion of skilled artisans. How much technology there would have been is debateable. Morris and his followers mistrusted the technology of the time and its mass production.

The fact is that the modern Makers Movement owes a great deal to technology, whether it be promotion through social media, sales on Etsy, or fundraising on Kickstarter. Moreover for many the Makers Movement is all about tech. Visit a Maker Faire anywhere from San Francisco to South Africa and the big talk will be about 3D printers, laser cutters and open source software.

Our Makers event is about celebrating people who have gained independence through creativity.

Rejecting a mass-produced lifestyle they sew, grow, weld, alter, repair and make things as they see fit for themselves and those around them.

People like The London Cloth Company, who in 2011 opened London’s first micro mill, and produce quality woven cloth on carefully restored looms dating back to the 1870s. Then there’s Ben Spalding who walked away from a seven year career cooking in Michelin starred restaurants to create affordable and accessible multicourse menu’s, preferably served in car parks or warehouses.

Whether it’s personal freedom or the entrepreneurial spirit, the Maker Movement is helping people find power in their lives. This is also an important thing to pass on to our children, to teach them to become an engaged player in the world around them, rather than a consumer of an off-the-shelf readymade life.

We at Fairground have created this Makers event with the wonderful team from Billetto. We’re sure that just like Street Feast and the other events we’re involved in, it will be full of curious, interesting folk looking to learn, share and be inspired.

- Fairground founder Dominic Cools-Lartigue

BOOK TICKETS ON BILLETTO.CO.UK CREDITS: Fairground: Dominic Cools-Lartigue, Hugo Toland, Lucy Werner, Heather Garrett and Adam Terry Billetto: Sophie Holm-Nielsen, Jon McCullough, Amalie Warberg, Linn Sikkeland and Kasper Nordkvist 3

KITCHEN

Photos: Andrew Barber

5 minutes with:

BEN SPALDING I first encountered Ben Spalding at parties I used to throw on Brick Lane, thinking him just another house music enthusiast, living for the weekend. This was before discovering him cooking ‘refined street food’ in a playground off Broadway Market with a couple of squeezy bottles, a blow torch and a Japanese mandolin. Though sounding like the accoutrements of a Tarantino torture scene, Ben used them to fashion a host of inventive dishes, served intimately and with passion.

At just 26 he’d grown disillusioned with what he described at the time as “formal, predictable and tedious cooking,” having worked in Michelin starred restaurants around the world since he was 19. His response was to launch the playground adventure ‘Stripped Back’ which when eventually moved to the mezzanine of the Merchant Yard in Haggerston was one of the best dining experiences in London at the time. A place where you could enjoy course after course of Ben’s creations, whilst watching thousands below indulge in the multi-flavoured wonders of Street Feast.

Barely 18 months later and we’re back in Haggerston. Ben is running Stripped Back and Decade Dinners on the top floor 4

of our Fairground building. I managed to grab 5 minutes with him between a photo shoot and preparation for that evening’s dinner. Despite having not worked in a formal restaurant for two years and turning his back on that environment, I wondered which of those early experiences taught him the most.

“There were probably three places that stick out,” he said “Per Se in New York for finesse and general work ethic in the kitchen. Royal Hospital Road Gordon Ramsey, for sheer drive, determination and being able to put up with being pushed beyond your limits, that most normal people wouldn’t be able to comprehend. Also Bret Graham at Ledbury. I only had a small period there working as a development chef. He’s a wonderful guy, a very very talented chef and a shining example of how to run your restaurant and business.”

Despite the illustrious environments he cut his teeth in, Michelin stars are far from his mind, “I’m not particularly fussed to be cooking for guide books. I’m not going to let it dictate my career or what I’m going to cook for my guests.

Guests are the most important thing. As long as you cook

honestly, keep your personality coming across and keep your guests as number one, success will come.”

“The guests are my inspiration. At No Rules we invite up to 12 guests to bring their favourite and least favourite ingredients, so quite often we’re using ingredients we’ve never used before, so they’re almost educating us, and that’s inspiring us to be creative and to be put under pressure to make something good out of it.” Though when I asked him if he considered himself a rebel he thought “a misunderstood confused maverick” was a more fitting mantle.

This focus on guests is a recurring theme and he seems to almost have a guest’s first and food second sort of attitude, revealing something of the nurturing showman about him. A wandering showman at that, because he hasn’t got his heart

set on a return to permanent bricks and mortar like most street food traders I know or other chefs who’ve graduated from supper clubs and pops ups. Ben’s focus is more on process than property, “I just want to champion affordable and accessible cooking, multi course menus, generally made up on the spot, often putting ourselves in as much trouble as we can with service, and just exploring new ideas, and really quashing the theory that you can’t reinvent the wheel, because I believe that’s rubbish. I think we’re doing that every day.”

The music from the kitchen is getting louder with a warm but strong four four beat, the photographer wants to get another shot and there’s food to be cooked, so one last question Ben - Kitchen or Dance Floor? “It’s got to be the dance floor!” he says, and with that he’s off. Words: Dominic Cools-Lartigue

BEN SPALDING’S MAKERS MENUS: Ben Spalding will be at the heart of the Makers food offering creating two bespoke menus for the day and night. In the Makers Lounge he’ll be preparing four dishes as part of the Winter Whisky Pairing Menu. “I’m looking forward to doing some very rich umami meat packed dishes to go with these fantastic whiskies,” is what he had to say about the menu he’s created to go with Woodford Reserve, Gentleman Jack, Tennessee Honey and Old No 7. You get to chose whether to pair your dish with the whisky straight up or as a cocktail.

Up in the Makers Kitchen Ben has created a seasonal menu which is real reflection of his philosophy, “affordable and accessible dishes all under £9. Good hearty sized portions that taste great and cut out any kind of pretension or any kind of restaurant formula to it. Big hearty flavourful soups using tubor squashes, awesome fish & chips, using the very finest fish we can get and the best potatoes from Carrols farm up in Northumberland. Cooking mince pies in lots of golden salty butter, blending them up with a bit of cream, and then putting it through a retro styled aerated gun, so you get a whipped mince pie mousse. Lots of interesting stuff like that which is quirky but most importantly tastes good.”

MAKERS KITCHEN MENU: Tuber Squash soup, seeds & creamed sprouts (V) Salad of preserved peaches, tomato jam & cheddar (V) Plaice and chips, Yukon gold potatoes, lemon mayonnaise Black Hand Pork Belly cooked in Dalston Cola Turkey ramen, noodles, runny egg, cranberries, potatoes 5 seaweed ramen, noodles, runny egg, cranberries, potatoes (V) Whipped Mince pie, Butlers Gin syrup, brandy ice-cream Roasting shed coffee tiramisu

WINTER WHISKEY PAIRING MENU: Dish : Beef Bolognese made from 5 cuts, sour cream, cabbage & tom yum slaw Shot : Jack Daniel’s Old No 7 Cocktail : Manhattan: Old no 7, Italian Vermouth, Bitters Dish : Sticky Quail poached in smoked bourbon syrup, 20 Ingredient salad.

Shot : Woodford Reserve Cocktail : Old Fashioned: Woodford Reserve Bourbon, Bitters, Sugar

Dish : The Black Hand Piggy Belly ramen Shot : Gentleman jack Cocktail : Sazerac: Gentleman jack, Absinthe, Bitters Dish : Whipped mince pie pudding, preserved damson jam, boozy ice-cream Shot : Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey Cocktail : Honey Whisky Fix: Jack Daniels Tennesse Honey, Curacao, Lemon 5

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The tale of the Old Fashioned:

GOLDEN GLASS

The old fashioned has become synonymous with the resurgence of the craft cocktail movement. Which is perhaps ironic in that one man largely responsible for its ubiquity in culture, Don Draper, is himself a man of the 50’s golden cocktail era. Whilst this may have been the time of the 3 o’clock cocktail hour and the ‘three martini lunch’, the old fashioned’s simple form belies its humble, and archaic, beginnings.

The first reference to the ‘Cocktail’ was in 1806, and it involved sugar, water, bitters, and most importantly spirit. This continued until the 1850’s when people started calling for extra additions; maraschino, lemon peel, or what ever was vogue at that point. Initially these were named differently, such as a ‘fancy cocktail’, with the result ultimately being that the ‘cocktail’ became a genre rather than a specific. The result of the increasing tampering with the classic formula was that by the 1890’s that those who wanted their drink in the orginal way, i.e just sugar and bitters etc., would asked for an ‘old fashioned cocktail’ and from there it entered in to common parlance.

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Whilst both originally and to this day the Old Fashioned can utilize different spirits in its formula, there is a reason that bourbon has become the liquor of choice. The simple addition of sugar, bitters and water to bourbon complements it comprehensively, with the sugar helping to carry the bourbons caramel sweetness that has been provided by the whiskeys stay in the barrels. The water on the other hand provides dilution that provides control over a drink that is wild, the burn being tempered in a way that you do not take away from the drink. The bitters conversely complements the burn, acting as a seasoning that provides the full stop of the ‘old fashioned’ and fully marks the simple drink as greater than the sum of its parts.

The utilization of balance to harness the elements involved requires an understanding of the fierceness of Bourbon Whiskey, and the ritual of stirring the drink down is perhaps is perhaps so enjoyed as it is seen as an indicator to those beholding that they are in capable hands. But just as important as the modifying factors of the drink and the individual in control of it is the quality of the spirit itself, something that Woodford Reserve provides in abundance. With its high rye content adding an extra spice to the drink, whilst still containing that vanilla and caramel sweetness, you end up with a result that is truly unique and of course, quaffable.

Words: Adam Terry You can find a twist on the Old Fashioned on Floor 2, as a part of the Winter Whisky Meat Pairing Menu.

Mesoamerican Mulled:

AZTEC HOT CHOCOLATE A drink partly inspired by the history of cacao and partly by the wood and bonfires of November and December, our Aztec Hot Chocolate aims to harness flavours that are primal but in a luxury way.

Rudimentary to what chocolate is, cacao brings to mind an organic quality that it is key when looking at its long history.

In the time of the Mesoamerican tribes of South America cacao was utilized in conjunction with chill as both an aphrodisiac and a stimulant and its effects were viewed with such reverence that vaults were filled with not gold but beans. Whilst in keeping with the south american theme this is not the sole reason for the use of mezcal, for smokey indulgent flavour of the spirit both complements the richness of the chocolate and the spice of the chilli creating something that is both naughty and sophisticated.

Photos: Andrew Barber

Whilst this was our orginal journey, the flavour we found hinted at more than the exotic heritage of its parts to something slightly more familiar.

The smokiness hinted at the bonfire season, and chocolate at the decadence of December, so the addition of a festive hint in the form of cinnamon and cloves seemed like natural evolution. The desire became a drink that hinted at both the exotic and the humble, by tantalizing whilst also bringing great memories to the fore.

The end result is a drink whose ingredients and inspiration are eclectic but ultimately harmonize whilst also shifting perceptions of hot chocolate, a drink that is often a child choice. Whilst hot chocolate is often a drink given to a child to include them in the adult practice of drinking tea and coffee, our hot chocolate aims to do the opposite by sparking memories for the adult drinker of youth whilst still remaining a ‘grown up drink’ .

Because of the many flavor element within the drink, we feel that it complements YOLKS dessert menu swimmingly. For full indulgence pair with the Chocolate Brownie or Cake or to be slightly more festive and to complement the cinnamon and cloves go for their amazing Minced pies or delicious poached pears. Regardless of whether you’re pairing with desert or consuming this as one our decadent Aztec Hot Chocolate will leave you titillated, content and hopefully a little reminiscent.

Words: Adam Terry

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MAKERS MARKET Floor 1 / 11 am to 5 pm

London Cloth Company

Dot & Cross

The Cocoa Den

The first micromill to open in the capital, London Cloth Company specialises in quality woven cloth produced on their ever-expanding range of carefully restored shuttle looms dating from the 1870s.

Handmade products for the tweed fan on your list.

With a deep sense of craftsmanship and style, Dot & Cross create beautiful objects for home, work and life. Expect everything from funky notebooks and beeswax candles to gorgeous stoneware and arty totes. If you can’t find it here, you probably don’t need it.

The Cocoa Den is a unique company set up by chocolate fanatic Kate Burton specialising in fun, beautiful and delicious chocolates, cakes, centerpieces and more. Whether a special occasion or an everyday treat, Burton is clear, “No one should be without chocolate in their lives!”

@londoncloth londoncloth.com

@dotandcrosslife dotandcross.co.uk

@thecocoaden thecocoaden.co.uk

Wool And The Gang

At the core of Wool and the Gang is a global knitwork of makers, artisans and hobbyists alike who care about the quality and sustainability of the clothing they buy. Drop by to stock up on ethically sourced winter warmers, or find out how you can become a Gangsta. @woolandthegang woolandthegang.com

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Oywah

No Brow

Takae Mizutani And Sons

A lover of interiors, stationary and hand made products, Oywah is bringing to life her playful vision using vibrant colours and quirky themes. Truly one of a kind mini purses, illustrations, home furnishings and more.

An independent graphic arts publishing company based in Shoreditch, Nobrow inspire by bringing beautiful books to life with original creative content and production. They’ve made small runs of hand printed books and art print editions with renowned graphic artists.

Since launching in 2007, Takae Mizutani and Sons have worked with a singular aim: to bring a smile to your face. From their “sweet home snail cake plates” to a “sloth tea helper”, it looks like they’re well on their way. Imaginative creations kick start childhood nostalgia and an appreciation for playful naiveté.

@oywahtweets oywah.com

nobrow.net @nobrowpress

@takae_mizutani takaemizutani.com

Makers Market by day on Level One will feature 15 cherry-picked stallholders representing the best independent talent from around the capital. London’s only micro mill, London Cloth Company, will be on hand with unique handmade tweed products. Hackney Hamper creates a bespoke local deli featuring hand crafted produce from across the borough. And leading London illustrative shop Nobrow brings books, prints and other collectables from an array of talented artists. Meet them all at the Makers Market.

Hackney Hamper

Lorma Boyle

Ruff and Huddle

Hackney Hamper is a contemporary slice of culinary life and a reflection of the passion and entrepreneurial spirit that comes from all corners of the community. Their charming hamper collections give you access to carefully selected combinations of small producers from across the borough.

A graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Lorna is currently based in London where she designs and makes her own jewellery. Using unconventional techniques, her works are often less traditional jewellery, more wearable art. Must see.

Bright bold graphics, lush fabrics and spaced out prints. Discover the latest kids streetwear fashion with Ruff and Huddle. The London based brand use throwback style and collaborations with artists from around the world to make cool clothes for boys and girls between 2-11.

@hackneyhamper1 hackneyhamper.com

@lorna_porna lormaboyle.carbonmade.com

@ruff_and_huddle ruffandhuddle.co.uk

Ida Jewellery

Gabriela Larios

Lizzie King

After years of working as a stylist and visual merchandiser for large brand names in the UK, Renee Johnson launched Ida Jewellery to combine her passion for healing crystals with her eye for creative design. Her roots and inspiration stem from India, with gypset and bohemian styling at the core of each piece.

London based designer Gabriela Larios creates pattern designs and illustrations for a range of products and international clients including fashion accessories, fabric and wallpaper, amongst others. With great imagination Gabriela celebrates a deep love of nature and themes from her childhood in El Salvador.

Prop maker, artist, tie-dye enthusiast, knitter, jewellery designer. Lizzie King is an East London renaissance woman. She is a lover of pastels, tropical vibes and gold, and an aficionado of all things 90s, citing the title sequence of ‘Saved by the Bell’ as a key influence.

@idajewellery ida.bigcartel.com

@GabrielaLarios1 gabrielalarios.com

@lizzie_kingdom lizziekingdom.co.uk

The Naturalista

London Jewellery

Xochi Balfour is a natural living and wellness blogger training in Naturopathic Nutrition. She is passionate about embracing a natural, chemical-free life and her homemade skin food cosmetics combine intelligent wholefood ingredients with delicious fragrances for beauty and healing.

This innovative shop offers unique course opportunities for the jewellery fanatic in you, recently even launching a selfcertified six month diploma course. Visit them at Makers for a handpicked selection from their workshop in the heart of Shoreditch.

@xochibalfour thenaturalista.co.uk

@LJWJewellery londonjewelleryworkshop.co.uk

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RUFF AND HUDDLE Makers Market Floor 1 11 AM TO 6 PM - FREE ENTRY

Ruff & Huddle

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uccess stories come in all shapes and sizes. The story of children’s clothing brand Ruff and Huddle is one of the smaller ones – in the literal sense, of course.

Having only just launched the brand’s third collection, their popularity is already of monstrous dimensions. Founders James and Lucy saw the clothes get picked up by Selfridge’s months ago and they have worked on collaborations with, among others, furry beasts illustrator Kevin Lyons.

Ruff and Huddle’s clothes are for children, but they are not childish. They are like adults clothes, but more fun. James and Lucy’s inspirations are from unpretentious American street culture and more classic British men’s wear attire - add one of Lyons watercolour monsters or a scary Bigfoot and you get a winning combination. Hard to believe now, Ruff and Huddle’s story starts out at a market and they’ll be returning for Makers.

You started out selling Ruff And Huddle at London markets and from there it took off - but you’re still coming back to the markets once in a while, is that right?

Yes, we sell to a bunch of department stores, but we love meeting people and telling them first hand about our brand.

Selling clothes is brilliant wherever you do it.

I’m looking at the clothes on your website and it looks like it must be much more fun designing clothes for children than for adults?

It’s so much fun designing for kids and we love having a nostalgic look back at our childhood in the late 80’s and 90’s, and taking inspiration from London and working with different

artists to create our collections.

What has the most unexpected thing been on the Ruff & Huddle journey?

It’s all pretty unexpected - life is one big road with a lot of signs, signs, signs and more signs.

You recently did a collaboration with Kevin Lyons. Are kids and fluffy monsters the ideal combination?

Kevin has been a massive inspiration to us way before Ruff and Huddle was created - he was the creative director at Stussy in the early 00’s, when Stussy was all we wanted to wear. He did Nike collaborations when all we cared about was Nike collaborations. His more recent watercolour painting and involvement with the store Colette in Paris really spurred us on to build our collection together - there will be more coming in the future too.

What items will be available at the Makers Market in December? Good Christmas present material?

We’re about to launch a knitwear collection - there are some super Christmassy jumpers, and beanies, I think they’ll be popular. Our parkas will keep the kids warm and are a great price. Interview: Sophie Holm-Nielsen

Find Ruff & Huddle at Makers Market on Floor 1 ruffandhuddle.co.uk 11

welcome WHAT’S ON? VINYL ME PLEASE : vinyl and cocktail pairing listening station. The U.S. based vinyl members clubs will debut in London at the Makers event to showcase how you should be listening to your music.

KIDS ZONE 12 - 6PM Kids are natural Makers. Our kids zone will feature a host of workshops for kids to drop in to and get involved. No booking necessary.

● MAKERS LOUNGE - 12 - 6PM 12 different workshops ranging from innovative papers crafts to getting green fingered creating your very own indoor terrarium.

Check page 16-17 for full info and listings. ● MEAT RAFFLE - 7pm A whole platter of meat related prizes with the top prize being a whole pig. We’ll send you a different part of the pig each week with a recipe. ● WHISKY MASTER CLASSES 6pm - Midnight We’ve got some serious whisky connoisseurs to sample and chat all things whisky.

● MAKERS MARKET - 11-5 PM / FREE ENTRY There will be 15 cherry-picked stallholders that represent the best in handcrafted talented across the capital. Check page 8-9 for full info ● THEO PARRISH 3 HOUR SET - 6pm MIDNIGHT / TICKETS £10 Our exclusive music showcase will be in the hands of Theo Parrish, His special three hour set will no doubt fuse techno, house, disco, jazz and afro beat into stunning live interpretations.

Check out page 20 for more info.

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TO makers FOOD & DRINK BEN SPALDING’S SEASONAL MENU Ben Spalding has created a menu full of affordable and accessible dishes all under £9. Good hearty sized portions, some a little quirky, but that most importantly taste great.

COCKTAIL BAR The Fairground cocktail bar featuring some tasty new offerings for this event including a Venetian Spritz: Gin, Aperol, Peach & Prosecco (long). Then there’s the Devils Share: Woodford Reserve, Ginger, Maple, Orange (Rocks).

WINTER WHISKY PAIRING MENU We’ve got four great whiskies and four great dishes all paired up and ready for you to enjoy. Ben Spalding has put the food menu together saying, “I’m looking forward to doing some very rich umami meat packed dishes to go with these four fantastic whiskies,” You can chose to drink each whisky either straight up or in a cocktail. Check out the full menu on page 5.

For those with a sweet tooth this is the floor for you. Hot Buttered rum and Aztec Hot Chocolate are just two of the winter warming drinks you’ll be able to find at our hot cocktail bar which is conveniently located right next to Yolk’s tempting dessert bar with a menu that includes rich chocolate brownies with warm salted caramel sauce and poached pears with spiced chocolate sauce.

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Photos: Andrew Barber

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Indytute

MODEST MAKERS

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rom creating neon art to building your own biosphere, the Indytute is home to some of the most interesting courses around. In fact, a handful of the workshops at Makers were put together with the help of this busy bunch. Here’s Indytute on London’s makers movement and the artists behind their amazing workshops.

There have always been makers, but a while ago you would have been hard pressed to find them. They seemed to lead a rather rarefied life, closeted behind the walls of art colleges or hidden in studios with limited contact to the outside world.

In the last couple of years they have been let out of the box, and they have never been happier. It is safe to say that without the artists and creatives there would no Indytute. Their talent and charm is evident every time we run a workshop. I have always been a girl to run to a workshop. I love the fact that you can immerse yourself for an hour or two, learning something that is totally out of the ordinary.

Richard Wheater is coming down from Yorkshire in a couple of weeks time to run a neon sign making class and the brilliant Christopher Jarratt has changed the autumn winds for me by showing me how to create an Indian Fighting Kite.

Our makers are a modest bunch and they don’t shout their talents from the rooftops, but at The Indytute we try to do that for them. I rather shy away from the word ‘craft’. It has very dismal connotations. But ‘Maker’ sounds as it should – someone who has honed their skills. And whether it’s filing a wooden spoon or filling a glass jar with micro plants, they definitely brings a certain sexiness to a lesson.

There’s something special about watching someone with talent quietly demonstrating their skill while you’re mastering a new one. Words: Clare Hastings

Not every artist can be a teacher, of course. Some makers would really rather never have contact with the public. It does take a certain skill to run a class, but like that great teacher you had in school, a great workshop tutor will have a group of people eating out of their hand. Makers are sometimes surprised at how satisfying leading a class can be. They may be nervous to start off, but let them perform once and they will be begging to do it again.

London is the centre for the maker artist, and it is a constant source of delight to me, especially when I come across a new talent. I love Zack McLaughlin, who runs a wire bird making lesson, and Jennie Webber, who organises a class where you can draw wild animals (I had a go at a huge snake last week).

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MAKERS LOUNGE Floor 2 / 11 am to 6 pm - Book the workshops on billetto.co.uk

Honest Brew

Animaux Circus

Nomadic People

Craft Beer Workshop: A workshop for beer explorers and board game fans alike. Working your way from 1 to 100 with dice and glass at the ready, let the Honest Brew team guide you through a discovery of what some of the UK’s leading breweries are crafting up for your tasting pleasure.

Seven tasters are included (roughly 1 and a bit pints). Snakes and ladders may or may not be involved.

Sign Writing Workshop: Enter the enchanted world of sign painting with London-based design studio Animaux Circus in one of their three Makers workshop sessions. Paint and decorate your very own custom wood cut animal silhouette. The perfect Xmas opportunity for all ages.

Leather Wallets Workshop: Nomadic People infuse international flavour and a wide range of cultural touchstones to create a unique range of leather pieces from their Peckham base. Join founders Tobi and Juliu for a hands on workshop where you’ll learn basic to intermediate leather working and take home your own personalised leather cardholder.

Cost: £8 @honestbrew honestbrew.co.uk

Cost: £7.50 @Nomadic_People nomadic-people.com

Eloise Art

Alexander Berchert

Crafternoon Cabaret

Character Creation Workshop: Freelance artist and designer Eloise Dorr is here to kickstart your creativity! Construct a world of experiences, environments, and personality in this 2 hour workshop as she guides you through the key aspects of developing a fictional character all your own. Sketchbooks and pens provided.

Box Making Workshop: Sculptor and fine woodwork aficionado Alexander Berchert is known for his vibrant and engaging kinetic sculptures. In this two hour workshop, learn how to join, sand, stain and wax your own wooden chest to a superb finish. All supplies and tools provided.

Drinks Charms Workshop: Show your liquor some love with Crafternoon Cabaret Club’s workshop on creating unique hand crafted drinks charms. Grab a seat, get stitching and before you know it you’ll have a worthy of gifting this Christmas (or keeping for yourself... we won’t tell).

Cost: £10 finmakesthings.tumblr.com

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Cost: £15 @AnimauxCircus animauxcircus.co.uk

Cost: £30 alexanderberchert.com

Cost: £7 @CrafternoonClub crafternooncabaretclub.com

Makers Lounge will present a series of 18 inventive workshops running throughout the day. Create innovative paper crafts with paper ninja Poppy Chancellor, Get Rich or Tie-Dying in a brand new workshop from Lizzie King, or get green-fingered creating your very own indoor terrarium or plant biosphere with Botanic Boutique. Book your place now on Billetto: billetto.co.uk/makers

Poppy’s Papercuts

Lizzie King

Use It Up

Christmas Decorations Workshop: Featured in the likes of Vogue and Elle, illustrator and papercut artist Florrie Thomas creates personlised paper masterpieces on commision and has worked with everyone from Adidas to Hobbs. At Makers she’ll be joining forces with The Indytute to lead on this brilliantly inspired lesson in DIY Christmas decoration.

Get Rich Or Tie Dying Workshop: Prop maker, artist, tie-dye enthusiast, knitter, jewellery designer. Lizzie King is an East London renaissance woman. Join her workshop at Makers to learn how you too can turn clothes into multi-colored retro joy just in time for Xmas.

Kitschmas Hairband Workshop: Use It Up. Wear It Out are on a mission to make fashion inclusive, accessible and fun. Featured in TimeOut, Metro and Elle, the duo are fueled by a passion for DIY quirkiness. Explore customisation techniques and be guided through the creative process with this festive twist on their popular Dress Your Head workshops.

Cost: £15 @PoppyChancellor poppyspapercuts.com

Cost: £12 @lizzie_king lizzie-king.com

Cost: £12 @useupwearout useitupwearitout.com

Good Empire

Botanique

Kirsty Kirkpatrick

Quirky Knicker Workshop: Join The Indytute and embellish your knickers in this quirky workshop lead by prop makers and decoration pros Good Empire. Upgrade your underwear to outerwear or jazz up your knickers for the Christmas season. Sparkles provided.

Artisan Terrarium Workshop: As expressive as paintings and as engaging as antiques, Botanique creates hand-crafted, artisan terrariums for an injection of lowmaintenance natural beauty to any space. Founder Alyson Mowat will walk you through every step of bringing to life your very own miniature biosphere; slugs, bad weather and hard labour not included.

Vintage Jewellery Workshop: V&A jewellery designer Kirsty Kirkpatrick shows you how to give new life to your vintage jewellery. With an imaginative approach, Kirkpatrick seeks to transform waste into something covetable and unique. In this two hour workshop you’ll learn simple ways to turn an old necklace into a refreshed and one of a kind pair of earrings or bracelet.

Cost: £25 @GOOD_EMPIRE goodempire.com

Cost: £40 @BotaniqueTweets botanique-boutique.com

Cost: £30 @U_B_R_A uncommonlybeautiful.com

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Photos: Simon Martner

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Vinyl Me, Please

Photos: Brad & Jen

MUSIC THAT TAKES TIME

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e’ve all had those moments with music. The ones which give us goosebumps and stop us in our tracks. The ones when we hear someone playing everything we haven’t found a way to say. They’re powerful, aren’t they?

It’s easy to think of the more obvious times: after a breakup, the death of a friend, or finding love. Those are important moments, and deserve the memorials we build for them, but they also touch on something deeper. They speak to our humanity, to the core of who we are while also shaping that core. In that same way music, in its essence, is a fundamental piece of what makes us human; it’s a union of our selfexpression and self-exploration. To play on David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen’s argument on fiction, it’s a way out of our loneliness and, perhaps, also a way back into it. A maturation of our personal solitude, growth, and reflection.

background at a bar or party or coffee shop – and make a decision. That isn’t to say that all music is deserving of your undivided attention. The purpose of this quick snippet isn’t to overwhelm or condemn, but to encourage.

In the music that may now be a background fixture, or still undiscovered by you, lies a new depth for you. New ideas, perspectives, and manifestations of the thoughts and feelings that soundtrack your daily mental (and actual) rat race. And to remind all of us that anything worthwhile requires ritual and focus to experience and understand. Said another way, important things take time. Words: Tyler Barstow

For those reasons, and many others that I don’t have the space to include here, I believe it’s vital that each of us give music the respect and affection that it deserves. That we spend time with it, and let it speak not only to us, but into us, and let it learn us. Because, in some mysterious way, music has a special ability to introduce us to ourselves. To explain us to, well, us.

Whenever someone tells me they don’t like an artist, my first question is always how much of that artist’s work they’ve listened to. Not because it’s wrong to dislike someone’s music, we all have our particular tastes, but because of the way in which so many musical opinions seem to be formed these days. We hear a song on the radio a few times – or in the

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he idea of a single three hour DJ set representing music at this Makers event could certainly be held up for scrutiny. However when that DJ is Theo Parrish the preparation, process, skill and innovation that goes into crafting that set is what marks this out as a fitting way to bring our Makers event to a close.

Though born in Washington in 1972, he grew up in Chicago and the young Theo was first switched on by the sounds of Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, George Gershwin and Bob Marley. Eventually local radio DJs and House music legends like Frankie Knuckles and Larry Heard inspired him to start DJing and producing his own music by the age of just 13.

He would eventually end up in Detroit where he established himself as one of the leaders of the so called ‘Third Wave’.

Helping evolve the city’s dance music legacy that began with Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and the emergence of techno. It was here that in 1997 he started his understated but essential record label Sound Signature, which last year released the wonderful ‘Flowers’ EP from London boy Andrew Ashong.

Theo holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute with a concentration in Sound Sculpture, a form of orchestration using live instruments, looped recordings, the human voice, and numerous other sound generating devices. This idea of sound sculptures underpins his DJing style, and if pushed is how he would describe his music rather than the standard genre labels like house, techno, disco, jazz

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and afro beat which he rejects. However it’s all of these aforementioned sounds and styles that you can expect to hear in one of his sets.

For Theo the whole process starts with digging. Searching for sounds and hunting for inspiration in record stores all over the world. “You pick out as many different things that are natural to you, are organic to you, that draw you in, then you refine that process through listening, and then you present it to other people,” as stated in his 2012 interview with Slices. What sets Theo apart, what makes his sets so legendary is how he presents that music to people when he plays. The way he works the EQ hard to transform often well-known tracks into stunning live interpretations.

The special three hour set he’s due to play at Makers is a unique opportunity to experience his work in a different environment.

Though DJing in an abandoned block in Hackney is nothing new, this is no all-night warehouse party with 1000s of ravers. He’ll be playing an intimate set to a room of just a few hundred, with the other rooms not populated by more DJs but by chefs, artists, carpenters, brewers, jewellers, bakers and other makers. This will provide an opportunity for his talent to be opened up to a different audience and for seasoned fans to appreciate his skills as a master craftsmen from a new perspective.

Words: Dominic Cools-Lartigue

Theo Parrish will be DJing on Floor 1 to close out our Makers Night event. Tickets £10

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ackney Hamper is a new approach to the traditional hamper; an array of high quality products made in Hackney by

small producers, presented in a bespoke recycled case. Hackney Hamper is a contemporary slice of culinary life and

a reflection of the passion and entrepreneurial spirit that comes from all corners of the community. It’s this spirit that makes the borough one of the most thriving, energetic and diverse areas of London. Neatly lined up is a Best of 2014, a showcase of produce from a food savvy borough. Words: Ally Scott 1. Beavertown Beers. Gamma Ray American Pale Ale, a juicy tropical beer and Neck Oil Session IPA, an easy-drinking, light, crisp go to beer.

2. Beetroot crackers from PaMa raw food.

Delicious raw vegan products produced by hand using old production methods and local fresh ingredients.

3. Joe’s Early Grey Tea. Organic Ceylon black tea spruced up with oil of bergamot.

4. Minor Figures Cold Press Coffee. A fullflavoured, lightly sweetened specialty coffee.

5. Soffles Pitta Chips. Truly delicious oven roasted pitta with olive oil, garlic and chilies.

6. Niko B Organic Chocolates. Fruit and

nut chocolate mix or salted caramel.

7. Gregors Dressing. An exceptionally tasty artisan dressing showcasing the savory ‘fifth taste’ of Umami.

8. Sodas from Square Root London. All made with fresh, locally sourced, seasonal ingredients and juiced or infuse by hand.

9. Homemade Shito from Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen. A hot chili sauce with shrimp and fish. This recipe is adapted from a family favourite made by Aunty Evelyn.

10. Jam from Love Jam. The preserves are made in the traditional way - in a small home kitchen in batches of no more than 25 jars.

11. Caramelized nuts with cranberries: a special Christmas edition from Soffles. 12.

Roasting Shed Coffee. An urban cottage enterprise using superior fair trade beans which are hand roasted to perfection.

13. Candles. Slow burning beeswax tapers from Hackney’s family run Candle Factory.

14. Butlers Gin. Inspired by a Victorian recipe.

15. Pork from Black Hand Food. Dry cured hams produced from free range rare breed pigs, sourced from sustainable farms who have a genuine interest in the well being of their animals.

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