Freshening up the White House Garden (not THAT White Housel
3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Barking and Dagenham
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Wednesday 16th September
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The White House is a creative community centre in Dagenham near Chadwell Heath Station. Originally an 18th century farm house, Create London now run the space providing an inclusive and affordable arts progeamme for the local community - their Garden playing host to many gatherings.
After GoodGym B&D's successful first session in the The White House's back garden in August, we were invited back to help freshen up the front garden.
GoodGymers Peter, Lukas and Mason quickly got to work, cutting back, raking and bagging up weeds before litter picking and mowing the lawn.
Host Michaela was thrilled witn the results and another invitation is in the pipeline!
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The White House, was set up in 2016 on Dagenham’s Becontree estate by Create London. We invite artists to live and work in the house, exploring new ways to collaborate with the local community, by becoming their neighbours. We host a public programme led by residents that ranges from poetry to painting to gardening. Our programme acts as a tool to address social, political and culturally relevant issues to our site and community, adopting approaches that challenge traditional hierarchies and aim to democratise decision-making across programming and how we run the house.
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