# Event Details - **Event Name**: HELLO EARTH Launch Party - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 19 Sep, 2026 at 05:00 am – Sat, 19 Sep, 2026 at 09:00 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: A day exploring how we can be mates with our place through art, ecology and community at Thamesmead's Cathedral of Sewage.About this EventHELLO EARTH Launch Party19 September 2026 | 5.00 PM–9.00 PM | Crossness Pumping StationThree Rivers is a free-floating community-led platform for art and research in Bexley that opens the borough to new cultural processes and perspectives.Every three years a new programme takes shape in response to a Critical Question developed over time, and on its own terms, by our community members.We are pleased to announce our 2026-2029 programme HELLO EARTH will respond to the central question, “HOW CAN WE BE MATES WITH OUR PLACE?”It has been inspired by Bexley’s ‘Friends of’ groups - teams of local volunteers who act on behalf of the communities who use and care for places around the borough — many of whom Three Rivers have worked with in our first five years.HELLO EARTH will be shaped by people who live, work and study in Bexley through ongoing research, collaborations and public programmes, with an ambitious showcase planned to take place across the borough in 2029, creating imaginative encounters between art and the public, engaging with the issues shaping Bexley, and connecting local people to their surroundings in a playful, friendly spirit.To begin this process, we are inviting you to join us on 19 September at Crossness Pumping Station, Thamesmead’s Cathedral of Sewage, for a Launch Party where we will listen to your ideas and share some of our early thinking as we start this journey together.Conceived as a collective day of orientation, this event will invite local community groups, to think together with artists, activists, ecologists and storytellers (human and more-than-human) to open lines of inquiry about how creative practices can help us listen to, care for, and be-friend the places we inhabit.The gathering takes place at Crossness Pumping Station, a monumental piece of Victorian sewage infrastructure built on reclaimed marshland and held apart from the River Thames by a thick concrete barrier. The histories embedded within this site will become part of the conversations and reflections that open the HELLO EARTH journey.PROGRAMME5.00–5.30 PM | Arrivals, Encounters & WelcomingsGuests will gather at Crossness Pumping Station, a site where histories of water, infrastructure, labour, and ecology converge. An opening moment to arrive, reconnect, and prepare for an evening of shared listening, conversation, and activation.5.30–6.00 PM | Hello Earth Beginnings with Three RiversThe Three Rivers team will introduce the HELLO EARTH programme, welcoming the artists, researchers, communities, and partners who will shape the years ahead. A moment of acknowledgement and gratitude to the funders and collaborators making this journey possible.6.00–7.00 PM | Earth Talks with artists Youngsook Choi, Rosa Whiteley & curator & Speaker for the Living, Chiara FamengoA collective space for exchange between artists, researchers, and ecological thinkers whose practices will unfold alongside Three Rivers in the coming years. Through provocations, listening sessions, and experimental readings, EARTH TALKS explores the many ways we might listen to, imagine with, and respond to the land. The conversation is hosted by Three Rivers Curator and TBA 21 Speaker for the Living, Chiara Famengo.7.00–7.30 PM | A Monstrous Soup a food activation by artist Barney Pau in collaboration with BakestoneDrawing from the layered histories of Crossness Pumping Station, water infrastructures, and the legacy of Thames Water, Barney Pau and Bake Stone create a shared meal that invites us to gather around questions of nourishment, transformation, and our entanglements with the environments we inhabit.Drinks by Bexley Brewery.7.30–8.30 PM | The Highway of London music by Rowan GathererFolk songs from the Rivers Thames performed by traditional English Song and Dance Man and founding member of Goblin Band, Rowan Gatherer.9.00 PM onwards | After Party at Abbey Arms PubFor those wishing to continue conversations and exchanges, a table will be reserved for the Three Rivers community at Abbey Arms Pub, a short walk from Abbey Wood Station. A final gathering to extend the evening’s encounters beyond the walls of the pumping station.Throughout the day (ongoing)Sludge Power! children’s workshopA space for younger explorers to encounter the hidden worlds that surround and sustain us. Through playful experiments and creative activities, Sludge Power! invites children to get messy and think about what is moveing s through the pipes of the Pumping Station - connecting your toilet to the sea.Film Screenings by The Zoonomic Institute (Rotterdam) and Ed Webb-IngallA curated selection of films exploring the principles of the zoonomic model and its relationship to the landscapes, communities, and ecologies of the Three Rivers initiative at Tump 39. The screening programme offers a space for reflection on more-than-human relationships, inviting audiences to consider alternative ways of living alongside the environments we inhabit.Crossness Pumping Station ToursExplore the building and history of Catherdral of Sewage with the Friends of Crossness Pumping Station.Access / TransportA free shuttle bus is available for ticket holders travelling between Abbey Wood Station and Crossness Pumping Station.Shuttle Bus TimetableAbbey Wood Station → Crossness Pumping StationBuses depart every 30 minutes from 4.30 PM to 7.45 PM.Departure times: 4.30 PM - 5.15 PM - 5.45 PM - 6.15 PM - 6.45 PM - 7.15 PM - 7.45 PMCrossness Pumping Station → Abbey Wood StationReturn buses depart at: 7.00 PM - 7.30 PM - 8.00 PM - 8.30 PM - 9.15 PMPick-up PointThe shuttle bus pick-up point is directly outside Abbey Wood Station, near Stop C on the Harrow Manorway flyover.Please wait on the main station concourse, by the Crossness Pumping Station sign. A bus conductor will meet passengers and guide you to the shuttle bus.BiographiesThree Rivers is a community-led arts and ecology programme in Bexley, Greater London and the UK's first Zoöp.Barney Pau is aLondon-based culinary creative, artist, and writer. His practice explores food futures, queering consumption, and using foraging and fermentation as forms of social resistance.Bakestone is a craft caterer run by chef Hannah Thomas transorming seasonal ingredients into memeorable feasts.Chaiara Famengo is a curator, archivist and researcher working at the intersection of art and ecology, mostly outside of gallery spaces and exhibition formats. They are Curator at Three Rivers and Speaker for the Living at TBA21.Youngsook Choi is an artist and researcher with a PhD in human geography, whose socially engaged practice is often site-specific and explores intimate aesthetics of solidarity. Taking on ecological grief as life dedication and developing eco-literacy for interspecies solace in active witnessing, her practice instigates collective grief as climate interrogation scrutinising structural conditions that intersect human tragedy and environmental loss.Rosa Whiteley is an artist, designer and researcher with a background in architecture. Her practice explores the ecological and political conditions of water, land, atmosphere and infrastructure, with a particular focus on chalk aquifers, wetlands, food systems and material ecologies and more-than-human forms of maintenance.Rowan Gatherer is a traditional English Song and Dance Man in London and Sussex. He is a founding member of the Goblin Band, playing the hurdy-gurdy and recorders while weaving together themes of social history, early music, and radical politics.Ed Webb-Ingall is a filmmaker and researcher working with archival materials and methodologies drawn from community video. He collaborates with groups to explore under-represented historical moments and their relationship to contemporary life, developing modes of self-representation specific to the subject or the experiences of the participants. He is a co-founder of The London Community Video Archive.The Zoönomic Institute (Stichting het Zoönomisch Instituut) is a Dutch foundation based in Rotterdam that drives the global Zoöp movement. It helps organizations formally embed the interests of non-human life—such as plants, animals, fungi, and ecosystems—into their operational and decision-making structures.Crossness Pumping Station is a unique example of Victorian engineering and an important part of London’s industrial heritage. Managed by the Crossness Engines Trust, a registered charity, the site is conserved by a dedicated team of staff and volunteers. Through open days, tours, education and community activities, the Trust shares Crossness’s history and explores the environmental impact of wastewater and water services. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/hello-earth-launch-party/100001998365867103 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, Entertainment, Music, Exhibitions, Nonprofit, Workshops, fine-arts, food-drinks, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Crossness Pumping Station - **lat**: 51.5088713 - **long**: 0.1381978 - **full address**: Crossness Pumping Station, Bazalgette Way, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: HELLO EARTH Launch Party - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/809b589d26d548ae22f631990cc9faa7c5dd89556da27e9c678dae63f57a9622-rimg-w1024-h1545-dc182808-gmir.jpg?v=1787409975 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is HELLO EARTH Launch Party being held? - **A:** HELLO EARTH Launch Party takes place on Sat, 19 Sep, 2026 at 05:00 am to Sat, 19 Sep, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Crossness Pumping Station, Bazalgette Way, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing HELLO EARTH Launch Party? - **A:** HELLO EARTH Launch Party is organized by Three Rivers Bexley. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "HELLO EARTH Launch Party", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/809b589d26d548ae22f631990cc9faa7c5dd89556da27e9c678dae63f57a9622-rimg-w1024-h1545-dc182808-gmir.jpg?v=1787409975", "startDate": "2026-09-19T05:00:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-09-19T21:00:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/hello-earth-launch-party/100001998365867103", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Crossness Pumping Station", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Bazalgette Way", "postalCode": "SE2 9AQ", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.5088713", "longitude": "0.1381978" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "A day exploring how we can be mates with our place through art, ecology and community at Thamesmead's Cathedral of Sewage.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-08-22", "availabilityEnds": "2026-09-19T21:00:00+01:00", "validFrom": "2026-08-22", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/hello-earth-launch-party/100001998365867103" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-08-22", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-08-22", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/hello-earth-launch-party/100001998365867103", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Three Rivers Bexley", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/three-rivers-bexley/21923007" } ] } ] ```