Stalls and activities at Bankside Open Spaces Festival

Meet local organisations, make something lovely to take home, learn about our changing climate, or pick up a plant, tasty treat, new skincare product or a beautiful handmade accessory to show off!

Local organisations with stalls include: Borough Belles, Bee Urban, The Old Operating Theatre, The Outside Project, Coin Street and, of course, Bankside Open Spaces Trust!

Kids big and small will enjoy arts, performance and craft activities:

  • Mud Gang return with their fun clay workshop

  • Fungi Futures have a fun fungi workshop

  • Our near neighbours M.Y.O are offering a Tile Painting Workshop

  • Unicorn Theatre, come and meet your local award-winning kids’ theatre

  • Avery’s Toy Theatre, puppets and fun on Union Street

  • Coin Street are back with facepainting and more

  • Old Operating Theatre’s Herb Garrett are bringing us historical herb facts and crafts

  • Climate Fresk have a quiz for you

  • Children can spend a few pocket money pennies at Sweet Treasured.

Come and grab handmade accessories or skincare from Hanna Zakka Handcraft Design, The Fox Cub, Lumi Lumlong, Paquita Ruby, Touch Heart Jewellery, Edible Rotherhithe and The Thought Press Project, Handmade Stories, Starest, Dee Rose, and our regular visitors Nina Bows!

Spruce up your home or open space with vintage treasures from Vintage Paradise, Rust and Dust, and Goose Botanicals or pick up a nice (or naughty) treat from Verena's Kitchen (granola and nut butter), Che Sauce (cooking sauces to add spice to your life!), Doreen’s Rum Cakes and The Nature Queen.

Keeping us all refreshed and refuelled are Deuce Hospitality Limited with Caribbean inspired eats, Lungta Oishi with katsu, noodles and wraps and Pinoy Eat offer you tapa to share. Bars will come from Spit n Sawdust and Pink Marmalade again. See you on the streets!