HELLO EARTH Launch Party
19 September 2026 | 5.00 PM–9.00 PM | Crossness Pumping Station
Event description:
HELLO EARTH will be shaped by people who live, work and study in Bexley through ongoing research, collaborations and public programmes, with an ambitious showcase planned to take place across the borough in 2028, creating imaginative encounters between art and the public, engaging with the issues shaping Bexley, and connecting local people to their surroundings in a playful, friendly spirit.
To begin this process, we are inviting you to join us on 19 September at Crossness Pumping Station, Thamesmead’s Cathedral of Sewage, for a Launch Party where we will listen to your ideas and share some of our early thinking as we start this journey together.
Conceived as a collective day of orientation, this event will invite local community groups to think together with artists, activists, ecologists and storytellers (human and more-than-human) to open lines of inquiry about how creative practices can help us listen to, care for, and be-friend the places we inhabit.
The gathering takes place at Crossness Pumping Station, a monumental piece of Victorian sewage infrastructure built on reclaimed marshland and held apart from the River Thames by a thick concrete barrier. The histories embedded within this site will become part of the conversations and reflections that open the HELLO EARTH journey.