Community Ecologies - 'Future Archaeology' by Oliver Wallace

2.00pm – 3.30pm
Sat 11 July 2026

Join Oliver Wallace for a collaborative storytelling workshop set in a hopeful vision of 2056.

Participants will handle artefacts sent back from a community-focused, climate-resilient future - objects, messages and story fragments from a world that found its way through. Together we will weave a collective story about how it unfolded and reflect on how we can begin to orientate towards it today. Come as you are.

  • Date & Time: Saturday 11th July 2026, 2pm - 3:30pm 
  • Location: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Middleton Street, E2 9RR 
  • Cost: Free, no booking required 
  • Meeting Point: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve entrance on Middleton Street

Please note: places are limited to 15 per session. Early arrival is recommended.

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve has been cared for by local residents and volunteers since 1977. Originally a WWII bomb-site, it now supports a thriving ecosystem of plants, bats, birds, fungi and more - including people.

Hosted by Oliver Wallace Oliver Wallace is a storyteller, forest school leader and artist. For more than 15 years he has been making spaces of play and imagination that help us get closer to the more-than-human world and to one another.

Instagram: @oliverwallacestories

©2026 Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust

Pumpkin grown on on the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Ecology Garden