Roadside Magic:
Folk-making workshop with Libby Bove
Roadside Magic: Folk-making workshop with Libby Bove
Entry
Free entry, booking required
Date
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Time
6–7.30pm
Location
Foyle Rooms
Turner Contemporary
This hands-on workshop and talk, led by Artist Libby Bove, will focus on her creative practice and the continuing journey of mythmaking and collaboration with The Museum of Roadside Magic.
Stretching out over a nebulous historical timeline, drawing on documentary and archival presentation, Roadside Magic sits in a place between fact and fiction; imagining another Albion, where plant knowledge, ritual and mechanics work as one.
Artist Libby Bove will talk about her creative practice and the continuing journey of mythmaking and collaboration, with The Museum of Roadside Magic. The talk will be followed by a hands-on workshop, with plenty of time for questions and discussion.
Come along and make your very own roadside clay figure - Using raw clay, wildflower seeds & foraged foliage.
This event is part of Open School East's 2026 Associates Programme, Towards the Edges. Find more events at openschooleast.org/public-programme-2026.
Organised by OSE Associate Milly Aburrow and Imogen Naomi Herd.
About Libby Bove
Libby Bove is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and folklorist. Her work is centred around ideas which reposition folk custom and magical practice back at the forefront of daily life. Drawing on archival methodologies and documentary, her work slips between fact and fiction. By employing traditional craft processes, plausibility is woven into constructed myths; transposing ideas of ancient customs, traditions and rituals into incongruous contemporary settings, non-existent pasts, and speculative future landscapes.
About Open School East
Open School East is a free, independent art school in Margate that focuses on collective learning through the arts for adults, young people and children. Each year the current cohort of Associate Artists develop and deliver a public programme of events. Their public events, activities and short courses invite interactions between the artistic community, the local neighbourhood and the broader public. They include skills-based workshops, talks, seminars, reading groups, walks, performances, concerts, screenings and social gatherings. They are organised by, and in dialogue with OSE alumni and staff, guest practitioners, and local and regional partner organisations.
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