MASLAB AUTUMN EVENTS

MAS Lab
Sep 8
4 min read

Welcome back! ...and with that you're ready for the autumn season rearing its head with new events in the community. I’m particularly excited about how JHAC is now a

creative hub where different energies, artists, and ideas are constantly flowing through events within the factory walls. It is now transformed into shared evolving workspaces becoming a wellspring of insights into art as a tool for building community futures.

A CREATIVE SANCTUARY.

Jelleyman’s Heritage Arts Charity – Newsletter Update

JelleyFest 4 – A Steampunk Success!

Our fourth annual JelleyFest was a resounding success, bringing a vibrant steampunk extravaganza to life. Visitors enjoyed craft stalls, delicious food carts, and bake sales in support of Macmillan Cancer Research. The evening sparkled with a cocktail bar hosted by Canapés & Fiz, and live music filled the air thanks to Steve Carrigan and Load Street Studios.

JelleyFest continues to grow year after year, and we are thrilled by the community’s enthusiasm and support.

Save the Date – JelleyFest 5

We are delighted to announce that JelleyFest 5 is planned for December, with a magical Victorian Christmas theme. Expect all the festive favourites: a bustling craft fair, seasonal cocktails, mulled wine, and classic frankfurters to keep spirits high. Load Street Studios will once again provide live music across a two-day celebration.

Community Arts & Activities

Art & Ceramics Classes return this September, giving people of all abilities a space to create and connect.
We are celebrating 12 months of Brew Monday, our free drop-in coffee and natter morning, which has become a much-loved social fixture.
The Crafty-Jelley continues to thrive, offering gentle, therapeutic creative sessions for those seeking comfort and company.

Community Garden Project

Our Community Garden is entering an exciting new phase under the guidance of our dedicated volunteer project manager, Oz. With fresh ideas and new energy, the garden will continue to blossom as a space for everyone to enjoy.

Growing Our Team

We warmly welcome new volunteers Willow, Oz, and Deb Taylor MBE to our fundraising team. Together, they bring passion, expertise, and enthusiasm to help us achieve even more in the months ahead.

Looking Ahead

This autumn, we are developing exciting new projects in collaboration with a London-based charity. These initiatives will focus on promoting education and film in schools, broadening our reach and inspiring the next generation through creativity.

Thank you to all our supporters, volunteers, and friends who make our work possible. Together, we continue to build a thriving community where creativity, heritage, and compassion flourish.

A VIEW FROM MASLAB

In the news Dave Shuck engages with our collaborators on human rights and the

Arts.

One of the most fulfilling aspects of working with MASLab is interfacing with our incredible collaborators. Whilst some have fallen by the wayside others have sparkled and shone; here’s an update on some of them.

Anti Racism: The primary anti-apartheid group with strong links to Islington was the Islington Anti-Apartheid Group, a local campaign that supported the broader Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) through boycotts and fundraising. This group's activities, including boycotting Shell and removing South African goods from supermarkets, are now documented at the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre in Penton Street, Islington, the former headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC) which my wife conscientiously supported in the seventies and eighties with monthly donations she could barely afford and a stubborn refusal to purchase South African goods whilst I steadfastly complained to her about Peter Haine interrupting the serious business of Test Match Cricket and Rugby by successfully preventing sporting tours.

Anti Knife Crime: I’ve been lucky enough to actively support the Tutu UK Foundations Round Tables and sink a few glasses of wine with their soon to retire CEO Clive Conway Clive Conway Productions who has ‘Never Given Up’ on raising money to fund the Round Tables Ubuntu Round Tables Project | Tutu Foundation UK and network with all those dedicated to improving relations between the police and disadvantaged young people in London.

Rehabilitation: The success of Peace Education Programmes globally can’t be overstated and is best fully-appreciated by spending some time on here. Peace Education Program - Offer the Workshops - TPRF.org

Personal Peace; finding a simple gateway to the self and walking through it was an important early personal goal for me and not easily accomplished. So, when tuned in to Home - Intelligent Existence I immediately recognised how much easier my personal journey might have been with this in my tool box; although I can’t

deny having a lifetime of joy up to now.

Transformation; when it comes to breaking the shackles of addiction, criminal behavour, mental instability and any consequences of abuse those with ‘Lived Experience’ are often best placed break down the barriers to transformation and it’s been a privilege to witness the results achieved by those masters of that art, such as (5) Errol McGlashan | LinkedIn, (5) Tony Cealy | LinkedIn, (4) Billa Nanra | LinkedIn all of whom

make a real and lasting difference to those they seek to support.

Celebrating Life; some incredibly talented and inspiring people with a website full of deliciously tasty tit bits, nay meals, nay banquets, that I visit daily in order to feed my good wolf About Celebrate Life Events.

Avvagudden Y’all and feel free to check it all out.

Dave Shuck

KEVYN GAMMOND - ON-SITE PROJECTS

As part of Kev Gammond's MASLab performance series drawing from the Migrant X Stories evolving body of work. I now want to encourage more artists to draw on their expertise to affect real change in the grief and instability that loom over mixed status; undocumented families, tougher migration rules, and more people risking their lives to be together. Artists becoming Active Agents in this recovery. Use Art as a way to approach and understand things; ask is it enough to document a life, what about saving one?

MASLab serves as a continuing and expanding network confirming as well as producing a community of progressive thinkers - creators connecting for the greater good of our communities.

AN EVENING WITH MARTIN WALL

Castle Book Shop Ludlow

Wednesday 17/9/25 - 6pm

Admission £8.50

Don’t miss talk and book signing with Martin Wall Author- Speaker - Educator.

Enjoy a welcoming and inclusive creative session with this best selling author.