Organised in collaboration with the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology – UCL Museums and Cultural Programmes, Making, Breaking, Sharing was a two-day workshop and participatory experience developed and hosted by Rochester Square.
Responding to the Museum's temporary display, Broken, Burnt, Buried: Ritual Lives of Objects in Ancient Egypt, the workshop explored ritual practice in ancient Egypt through ceramic-making, intentional breakage, and communal eating.
Participants were guided through traditional ceramic-making techniques to create vessels and tools, before experiencing the performative and social dimensions of intentional breakage, culminating in a shared meal in the garden using the vessels the group had collectively created and transformed.
Through traditional hands-on craft processes, Rochester Square was able to create a contemporary participatory experience parallel to ancient Egyptian ritual acts of making, breaking, transforming, and sharing.
