Turning Earth Ceramics Fair

Hoxton Square Market launches; will bring farmers and makers together in a weekly celebration of slow-living

Launches Saturday 2nd June, 10am – 3pm

What: Hoxton Square Farmers and Makers Market

When: Every Saturday, 10am – 3pm

Where: St Monica’s School, Hoxton Square

Hoxton Square Market is a new weekly market launching on June 2nd that will feature farmers and food producers alongside high quality locally-made crafts and ceramics from East London’s trendsetting Turning Earthstudios.

Pop-up craft markets are growing in popularity across London. Witnessing the sell-out success of Turning Earth’s quarterly maker markets and a resurgence of interest in hand-making generally, Rollo Millership and Edmund May, community entrepreneurs behind Hoxton Square Market, saw the time had come for a regular weekly selling event. Adding stalls from a range of contemporary making disciplines to more conventional market fare, they are taking the farmers market concept—already an important community hub for people that want to buy and sell ethical, locally-sourced products—to the next level.

The new ‘farmers and makers’ market will bring makers together in a collective celebration of ‘slow living’, an umbrella concept that draws together artisanally-produced food with handcrafts and popular ‘mindful’ activities like yoga and community gardening.

To launch the market, fifteen different Turning Earth ceramicists will set up shop each week over the summer, alongside makers working in other craft disciplines, produce stalls, microbreweries, fermenters, street food vendors and entertainers.

Founders Rollo and Edmund are also collaborating with local artists and performers excited to trade their skills for fresh produce. Free classes and performances will be put on throughout the day with a range of activities on the bill specifically for kids. On launch day on June 2nd activities will include donation-based yoga, drama workshops for children, live music, and ceramics demos from artists at Turning Earth. Activities planned for following weeks include terrarium-making, live opera, gardening, puppet shows and community-building ‘Tea with Strangers’.

About Turning Earth

Turning Earth is a pioneering open-access ceramics studio that is revolutionising participation in ceramics in the UK. Established in 2013, it now caters to 700 makers each month, all at various stages in their making journey. Thousands of people travel from across the country to attend Turning Earth’s quarterly maker markets. The most recent event at the Barbican Conservatory in March attracted an hour long queue throughout the day; a feat that took even its hosts by surprise.

Turning Earth founder, Tallie Maughan says: “The mushrooming of interest in our makers markets reflects the superstar status of some of our artists on platforms like Instagram, and the resurgence of interest in buying one of a kind products directly from the person that made them. In an age where you can easily buy almost anything, people care more and more about the world they live in and the impact of their purchasing decisions. We are increasingly interested in making things ourselves, and meeting people that have created objects we love can be an inspiring first step.”

About the market’s founders

Rollo Millership and Edmund May are passionate about quality produce and have between them run farmers markets across the capital for over 20 years. Existing projects include popular London Fields and Stroud Green Markets.

Produce offerings at their markets are of the highest standard to be found anywhere in London and include top quality and responsibly-sourced meat, fish from small inshore boats, biodynamic salad, Kentish fruit and vegetables, aged cheeses, ferments and pickles, unpasteurized milk and organic butter, sourdough bread, raw chocolate and gluten-free and vegan food. Each grower, butcher and fisherman, not to mention cheesemonger, baker, brewer, pickler and winemaker is selected based on the quality of their produce and the passion they consistently demonstrate toward quality, sustainability and ethical practice.

Community entrepreneur Rollo Millership says, “We are excited to launch Hoxton Square Market with an exciting collaboration with Turning Earth. This is just the beginning; we have further pop-ups and festivals lined up throughout the year that will make the market an inspiring destination for craft lovers as well as an ethical and fun place to do your weekly produce shop. We are keen to encourage stronger ties within the community by using this weekly ‘farmers and makers’ market to bring people together. We want to do our bit to put human relationships back at the centre of making and selling.”

Rollo Millership, Hoxton Square Market: rollomillership@gmail.com 07414630571

Tallie Maughan, Turning Earth: tallie@turningearthceramics.co.uk 07840481728

Press images (please credit Artur Rummel): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Gi_1AbW6xFcbznPdTNs_6MdpdFpANZqM 

Produce

Alpages (exclusive Swiss mountain cheeses)
Nyborg’s (handmade rye bread)
Giggly Pig (popular breakfast rolls and proper bacon and sausages)
Wild Country Organics (top-rated organic salads and exotic summer stuff like aubergines and peppers)
Perry Court Farm (best Kentish fruit and vegetables)
P.A.O Pickles & Kimchi
Brewheadz craft beer (Tottenham)
Luke’s first batch hand made cider
Mixology Brothers cocktails
Freshest fish and seafood from Wells next the sea, Norfolk
Pie Station traditional home made pies, puddings & tarts
Craft Kombucha
Floris Bakery gluten free doughnuts and cakes
Mokaya brownies (single origin chocolate)
Dreamers Farm (high welfare unpasteurized & organic jersey milk & dairy)

Hot food

Poke Me (traditional Hawaiian poke fish salad)
Carcass Concept (prime meat butchered on site and flame grilled to order)
Hot Cheese (best toasties)
The Frenchie (duck confit burger and duck fat chips)
Palm Greens (all plant-based salad bar using organic local greens)
London Paella school (based in Hoxton)
Pomobasilico (vegan burgers and other vegan street food)
Mad about Crepes