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Workshops
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| Date and times | Saturday 28 March 2026 | 11am-1.30pm |
| Prices | Free |
Medicine, Myth, Water and Spirit is a three-part workshop series exploring the migration of African Diasporic spiritual traditions by responding to the collections of the National Maritime Museum and Queen’s House.
We will discover how spiritual knowledge and objects have migrated across the Atlantic through the African Diaspora, how folk stories have kept memory alive and how spiritual folk medicine knowledge has remained important.
Each workshop combines storytelling and an opportunity to get creative, and can be booked together or separately if you only want to attend one.
Workshop 3 – Water and Spirit (28 March)
In this final workshop, we will learn about shared water myths and deities such as Iemanjá, Osun, and River Mumma, figures that appear across continents under different names and forms.
Discover how water holds memory and how rivers and oceans carried both trauma and survival while learning how spiritual traditions adapted across forced migration.
The creative component will be a painting session inspired by African vernacular forms, allowing participants to respond intuitively to water as a living spirit.
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About Love Hannington
Love Hannington is a London-based artist, artist facilitator and a spiritual practitioner of African Diasporic and Celtic traditions.
Her visual practice draws on folk herbalism, ancient cosmologies and ritual, creating work that is both vibrant and connected to natural ways of being. Her work has been shown at the National Maritime Museum, Trafalgar Square, and the Trade Union Congress.
Through workshops, artworks, and research-led projects, Love creates spaces where people can reconnect with creativity and spiritual knowledge that has often been marginalised or is at risk of erasure.
Medicine, Myth, Water and Spirit forms part of her ongoing research into African spiritual traditions across the Atlantic.
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