The best sweetshop ever? Pop in to find out…

The Knowledge Emporium is a sweetshop with one big difference: it doesn’t take money. It trades sweets for knowledge – your knowledge, your stories, your recipes or anecdotes or beliefs for sweets.
Write something in the Big Book of Everything We Know and help yourself to sweets.

The Emporium sat, in its first outing, on Tavistock Place, off Portobello Market for two weeks in July 2010. Manned by the performers Oliver Senton and Suzanne Ahmet, over a 1000 people made entries in the Big Book of Everything We Know. At the end of the fortnight a reading of the material collected was presented to audiences. Since then The Emporium has travelled around the country to differing communities, collecting knowledge and performing readings of what people know. The Emporium has collected knowledge from Portobello Market, Norwich, Corby, Doncaster, Edinburgh, the South Bank, Watford, Greenwich, Cardiff, Stockton, Ipswich, Hammersmith, Bramley (Leeds) and Hull.

Appetites says: from the 12-16 August pop in and exchange some local knowledge or stories about your life for sweeties! Winner