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A designer and researcher using design as a LANGUAGE to co-create with people.
📍Base London
🥬Project coordinator of @grancomkitchen

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🥄 🌕 🥄 🌕 🥄 🌕 🥄 🌕 🥄 🌕Have you had tangyuan today? Today is the 15th day of the Chinese New Year — the Lantern Festival — when families gather, share tangyuan（汤圆）, the food that represents reunion and wholeness, and welcome the first full moon of the year.Sharing these images from our OO: Ladle Me Workshop feels especially meaningful today.In the workshop, we painted ladles as talismans. Everyday kitchen tools transformed into objects of care, wish, and protection. The ladle, something that serves and nourishes, became a symbol of the hands that feed us, the stories carried through food, and the rituals of gathering.Huge thanks to🏠 @museumofthehome for holding the space📷 @stenlinks for capturing these beautiful moments. ✨Wishing you sweetness, warmth, and togetherness under this full moon.🌕 by @capri_socialdesign

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OO: LADLE ME — Year of the Fire Horse 🔥The ladle didn’t begin in the kitchen.It first fed horses and livestock — a tool of labour, not decoration.This Chinese New Year gathering looks back to that origin. Drawing from Shehuo 社火 (community fire) traditions from Northwest China, the ladle is reworked as a practical object with shared meaning, shaped by labour, food, and time spent together.Participants will make their own ladles while being served fermented rice soup with Tangyuan 汤圆, traditionally eaten during moments of reunion and renewal.Led by Sue Man and Capri Jiang.Making, eating, talking — reflecting on how “home” is built through what we do together.🗓️ Saturday 14 Feb, 2-4pm.📍 Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8EA @museumofthehome 🎟 Book via Ticket Tailor🔗 Link in biohttps://buytickets.at/ooo1/2033228 by @capri_socialdesign

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BRENT BIENNIAL 2025:FIRE RITUAL LAUNCH PROGRAMME🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🫧🫧O: LADLE ME🥄🥄The ladle, often a quiet presence in the domestic sphere, is a vessel of nourishment and care—a simple tool that bridges hands, hearts, and histories. Inspired by the Shehuo 社火 (Community Fire🔥) traditions of Northwest China, this ceremony transforms the ladle into a mask of meaning, a talisman imbued with protection, memory, and connection.Presented by Sue Man and Capri Jiang, artists rooted in hospitality and food heritage, this event explores food as both medium and language in artistic expression. Through their practice, fire, food, and storytelling merge—transforming the simple act of feeding into a shared ritual of remembrance, care, and healing. Through it, we gather to honour what sustains us and to share the warmth of being together, creating a moment where everyday objects and gestures become symbols of community and healing. This event becomes an alchemical exchange, where the act of sharing food evolves into a ritual of protection and transformation. Talismans emerge through storytelling, nourishment, and the shared experience of connection. 📍 @metrolandcultures 📅 FRIDAY 26 SEPT 2025⏰ 13:00-16:00 🎟️ Booking via @metrolandcultures website + our bios.Special thanks to:@grancomkitchen @westonparkfarms ❤️‍🔥🥬🥒🫜❤️‍🔥 by @capri_socialdesign

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🔥 FIRE Ritual launches Friday 26 September!🗓️ Friday 26 September⏰ 11:00am – 8:00pm📍 91 Kilburn Sq, London NW6 6PS🔝 Full info & free tickets: link in bioThe third iteration of Brent Biennial 2025 takes place at Metroland Cultures and in the surrounding streets of Kilburn and Kensal Green. Our Opening Weekend (26–28 Sept) is packed with free workshops + events.🧨 26 SEPT PROGRAMME 🧨🔥 Yarli Allison’s installation ‘In Petri Dishes We Sing’ is on show from 11am – 6pm, 26 Sept – 12 Oct at Metroland Cultures.🔥 11:00am | Join us for a walk to activate Alfredo Jaar’s project ‘I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On’ from Kensal Green Station to Kilburn Square, following an ancient route for traders and pilgrims. ‘I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On’ appears on local billboards from 22 Sept – 5 Oct.🔥 1:00pm | O: LADLE ME with Sue Man & Capri JiangIn this hands-on workshop, participants transform kitchen ladles into protective talismans inspired by Shehuo 社火 (Community Fire) traditions of Northwest China. This ceremony is an alchemical exchange, where the act of sharing food evolves into a ritual of protection and transformation.🔥 4:00pm | Grieving Kilburn with Caren-Wynn OwenFollowing the autumn equinox, we gather to honour grief – personal, collective and of the land. Through simple rituals and a co-created altar, we’ll work with fire as a symbol of transformation – activating release and inviting renewal. Together, we’ll connect with the elements, with one another and with what it means to live through endings and change.🔥 6:00pm | Evening Celebration: Brent Biennial x K2K RadioK2K Radio teams up with Brent Biennial for an evening of rhythms, food and drink to celebrate the launch of FIRE. Step inside the K2K studio for a live show exploring grief, remembrance, and music as medicine. Local DJs will bring the heat. This evening is a special fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support.🔥 FIRE Ritual continues with a weekend of workshops and performances on 27–28 Sept📸1. O: LADLE ME, Sue Man & Capri Jiang2. Grieving Kilburn, Caren Owen3. Still from Yarli Allison, In Petri Dishes We Sing (Moving Image, 4K 28:30), 20254. K2K Radio, photo by Thomas Coles by @capri_socialdesign

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✂️ Unravelling Regeneration: Stories of a Community by Capri Jiang (2024–25)Stitch threads, fabric, canvas Supported by Granville Community KitchenAs South Kilburn undergoes decades of redevelopment, artist Capri Jiang maps a landscape of memory, loss, and resistance through stitch. In Unravelling Regeneration, residents’ stories are carefully sewn into fabric — creating a living archive of what once was, and what still matters.This collective artwork becomes a slow, tactile gesture of care and remembrance in a neighbourhood shaped by displacement, uncertainty, and transformation. Who is regeneration for? What gets preserved, and what disappears?Capri’s participatory practice addresses food justice, gentrification, and social equity — using art and design as tools for community-led storytelling.🧵 Stitching as resistance, memory, and care.📍 On view in Jadughar: House of Magic | Until 4 Sept #CapriJiang #UnravellingRegeneration #Jadughar #PaprikaCollective #CommunityArt #StitchingStories #SouthKilburn #RegenerationAndLoss #HouseOfMagic #Museopathy by @capri_socialdesign

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🧶✨ Earlier in the month, we hosted a public weaving workshop outside Swiss Cottage Library, as part of Love Camden South Asian Heritage Month Programme.Led by exhibiting artists Sunju Lee and Capri Jiang, families, children, and passersby were invited to weave with recycled materials between the columns — creating a shared piece that echoed the themes of the exhibition Jadughar: House of Magic: connection, memory, and transformation through touch.The exhibition, open until 4 September at Swiss Cottage Gallery, continues inside. Free and open to all, it brings together works by artists, students, and community members — including installations, films, and archival interventions from Kilburn Museum Lab.If you haven’t yet visited, now’s the time!#Jadughar #HouseOfMagic #Museopathy #SouthAsianHeritageMonth #WeavingWorkshop #PaprikaCollective #SwissCottageGallery #LoveCamden #CommunityArt #ParticipatoryArt #CamdenCulture #KilburnStories by @capri_socialdesign

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🧵✨ PUBLIC WEAVING WORKSHOP ✨🧵Join us this Friday 19th July, from 12–3PM outside Swiss Cottage Library for a joyful drop-in weaving workshop — especially for children and young people!Led by exhibiting artists Sunju Lee and Capri Jiang, this free and family-friendly activity invites participants to create woven patterns using yarn and cardboard. Together, we’ll build a temporary weaving installation around the library entrance — transforming public space through collective care, colour, and imagination.This workshop is part of Jadughar: House of Magic — an exhibition reimagining the museum as a space of emotion, memory, and everyday wonder. Located in the former Map Room of Basil Spence’s Swiss Cottage Library, Jadughar honours South Asian heritage and diasporic traditions of storytelling, through touch, participation, and poetic resistance.🌈 No booking needed🎨 All materials provided🌿 Fully accessible, family friendlySupported by the Camden Community Festival Fund, this event celebrates South Asian Heritage Month through intergenerational art-making and open community participation.📍 Swiss Cottage Library, 88 Avenue Road, NW3 3HA📅 Friday 19 July🕛 12–3PM⠀📸 Top Image: Sunju Lee in her studio.📸 Bottom Image: Capri Jiang, Unravelling Regeneration: Stories of a Community (2023–24), collective textile work#Jadughar #HouseOfMagic #SouthAsianHeritageMonth #PaprikaCollective #WeavingWorkshop #CapriJiang #SunjuLee #SwissCottageLibrary #CamdenFestival2025 #MagicIsAStory #CommunityArt #Kilburn #LoveCamden #UnravellingRegeneration by @capri_socialdesign

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Granville Rec was in full bloom for the 2025 South Kilburn CarniVale - The much loved community green space hosted by @grancomkitchen and curated by official festival artist @capri_socialdesign had a full day of programming which included; horticulture, workshop by @vibes_onlygoodones film screening by @paprika_collective Unsung heroes ceremony There was also an opportunity to learn more about the campaign to save this much loved green space and the Good Food Box and an essential resource for locals to get affordable quality produce. 📸 @photobomb__16 The Granville Community Kitchen was founded by Leslie & Desire @osunschild @southkilburncarnivale was presented by @lin_kam_art with core supporters @okclubkilburn @southkilburntrust @grancomkitchen @brentcouncil Brent Health Matters & Brent Together Towards Zero Climate Action team @peabodyldn Creative Workspaces Partnership & LovellSouth Kilburn CarniVale Artistic Director @linett_kamala 05.07.2025📍 OK Club, Peel Plaza, Granville Road & Granville Rec London, NW6 #southkilburncarnivale #southkilburncarnivale2025 #linkamart #community #southkilburn #kilburn #nw6 #granvillerec by @capri_socialdesign

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✨ Jadughar: House of Magic — part of Museopathy: A Moving Museum — opens soon at Swiss Cottage Gallery!This participatory exhibition explores touch, memory, and imagination. Inspired by South Asian storytelling, it invites you to handle, dream, and reflect. Rather than a static display, it becomes a living, collective space — where everyday things shimmer with unexpected magic.🗓 Exhibition Dates: 16 July – 4 September 2025📍 Swiss Cottage Gallery, London🎉 Opening Reception: 16 July, 18:00–20:00🌿 Special event:Public weaving workshop for children & young people19 July, 12–3pm, outside Swiss Cottage Library. Drop in, free!✨ Featuring works by:🎥 Khandakar Ohida — Dream Your Museum (film)🎥 Anna Bowman — Everyday Magic: Creative Kilburn in 10 Books (film & reading installation). An essay film weaving together Kilburn’s layered histories, books, exhibitions, and community voices — inviting us to discover local magic through literature and lived experience.🧵 Sunju Lee — Yarns on Yarns (installation)🌀 Capri Jiang — Unravelling Regeneration: Stories of a Community (participatory installation)📚 Kilburn Grange School — co-created works from Activate & Animate artist-led workshops in collaboration with Lecturer Elena Besussi and her students from UCL Plan Making and Strategic Planning at The Bartlett School of Planning, supported by Camden Libraries🗺 Kilburn Museum Lab — archive-based participatory installations co-created with the Kilburn community, supported by Camden Local Studies and Archives. The project is funded by The British Academy and is a collaboration between Dr. Francesca Murialdo (Director of Interior Architecture and Design at Middlesex University), Kilburn Camden Library, Camden Local Studies and Archive and PAPRIKA Collective, with contributions from Middlesex University architecture and interior design students.Join us in celebrating stories, community memory, and playful magic! 💫#Museopathy #Jadughar #HouseOfMagic #CommunityArt #SouthAsianHeritageMonth #SwissCottageGallery #PaprikaCollective #LondonArt #ParticipatoryArt #WeavingMagic #KilburnStories #BritishAcademy #MiddlesexUniversity by @capri_socialdesign

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GCK is hosting our second film and food night of the year..The Ants & The GrasshopperDirector: Raj Patel & Zak Piper13th June6pm - Food7pm Film StartsFree entryThe Salvation Army (Kilburn), 55 Chichester Road, NW6 5QWBook a place through the link in our Bio. Contact: info@granvillecommunitykitchen.org.uk for more info.About the Film:Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together. by @capri_socialdesign

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We're excited to announce our Food Workshops + Trainings for 2025!Sign up now! Links in BioFood growing workshops 🌶 // Food Processing workshops ⚖ // Level 1 Award in Practical Horticulture Skills 🌾 // Cookery workshops 🥘 //Food + Film nights 📽First workshops start at the end of April 🌱🌻TICKET INFO + BOOKINGFor each workshop series/training there are a number of free places for people on low-incomes, and also paid places. This approach is based on learnings from the community research we did in 2024.The programmes are all not-for-profit and the paid places help to cover the costs of running them. Email rob@granvillecommunitykitchen if you have any questions.> If you are booking a paid place follow the relevant link below or in our Bio to the Ticket Tailor page where you can sign up.> If you are interested in a free place please contact: rob@granvillecommunitykitchen.org.uk.FOOD GROWING WORKSHOPSStart: Sunday 27th April 2-4pmEvery Sunday for 4 sessionsBOOK TICKETS>> https://buytickets.at/granvillecommunitykitchen/1607365FOOD PROCESSING + PRESERVING WORKSHOPSStart: Thursday 8th May 6-8pmEvery Thursday for 4 sessionsBOOK TICKETS>> https://buytickets.at/granvillecommunitykitchen/1605155LEVEL 1 AWARD IN PRACTICAL HORTICULTURAL SKILLSStart: Friday 13th June 10am-5pmEvery Friday for 11 sessions (Holiday week off on 1st August)BOOK TICKETS>> https://buytickets.at/granvillecommunitykitchen/1607378COOKING WORKSHOPSStart: Thursday 25th September 6-8pmEvery Thursday for 5 sessionsBOOK TICKETS>> https://buytickets.at/granvillecommunitykitchen/1607404 by @capri_socialdesign

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✨✨Huge thanks to The American School in London @asinlondon for inviting me to share the stories of the South Kilburn community and GCK @grancomkitchen - their resilience, collective actions, and fight against the Master Regeneration Programme with young students.It was an absolute honor to meet and host so many friends who are passionate about community building and the fact of gentrification, making for a truly warm and inspiring Thursday night. 💛I’m especially grateful to the incredible teachers at ASL, who recognise that community contributions and protests should be part of young people’s education, helping them understand what’s happening around them. ASL has been a supportive partner, collaborating with GCK and the South Kilburn community for the past eight years. 🙌Regeneration Programmes continue to affect community spirit and squeeze communal spaces across London’s boroughs. This exhibition is on tour. If you know of a space open to showcasing South Kilburn’s real stories and the resilience of its people, PLEASE REACH OUT! 🔥🔥🔥Let’s keep these voices heard. 📢📢📢 by @capri_socialdesign

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