Alisa Ruzavina & Artillery

A community project that celebrates the diverse people, stories, and heritage of Walthamstow’s famous street. Based on the interviews with the traders &co-designed together with WF College, WF Twinning Association, The Gleaners, The ELMS &The Mill, these joyous flags share folkloric narratives of hyperlocal relations filled with care and vibrancy.

Alisa Ruzavina is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and facilitator. Her curiosity lies in creating conversations that open possibilities for place-based, intercultural and sustaining ways of relating, making and being that cultivate a sense of wonder and nurture the feeling of ecological and civic belonging within diverse communities.  Her socially engaged practice spans across textiles, costume, sculpture, installation, creative education, public & community art.

Artillery CIC is an arts development organisation based in Walthamstow. From the biennial festival of the E17 Art Trail to Walthamstow Garden Party, from High Street Adventures to Mile Long Street Party, Laura Kerry and Morag McGuire have been mobilising creativity and providing opportunities for communities to make things happen in their neighbourhoods for more than 17 years.

The project is created as part of The Walthamstow Griffin project funded by Untold Stories, part of the Mayor of London’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.

Main Photography by Ariadna Alzuru
Instagram: @Alz.Concept

Photos also by Penny Dampier, Sam Griffiths, Thomas Barden and Carol Pinto.