In my enthusiasm for this year's E17 Art Trail, I forgot to mention the subtely important convergence of the Antiscrap Art Exhibition with the wider project.

From 31 August to 6 September Antiscrap are holding their own exhibition at the Changing Room Gallery in LLoyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow. It will be open from 10.00am to 5.00pm.

(On Tuesday the 1st of September from 4 till 7, there will be a 'private view' though this seems to involve everyone who is interested being invited to join them then for a glass of wine and a chat.)

Antiscrap have their own website where they can explain themselves quite adequately. Suffice to say they abhor the cultural wasteland which the council has so nearly managed to create from time to time out of such a vibrant cultural landscape and legacy that we have in Walthamstow. They aspire to a "a one stop shop for resistance to the philistines." It is a campaign by local artists and non artists against the attacks on our culture by the local authority. As such, it does not have an easy relationship with the clique which 'runs' our local authority.

Their exhibition is based on a premise that "Politics and art interconnect with an ever changing world" so these artists make that connection explicit - all the world on a wall.

"All artists work in some way connects with the society they live in, nationally, internationally or locally. The mediums used and the technics employed and the concepts envisaged have their origins in the way we live and what is happening around us. Artists cover their connection with their world in many ways from the decoration to explanation. In this show the artists treat their connection with world as their prime concern with work dealing with social and political relationships, from corruption to Gaza and indifference to pollution, all their concerns are here in surprising and intreging forms."(sic)

On the 13 September they are following the exhibition with a radical walk through Walthamstow.

Guided by Roger Huddle, who I once listed as an "Insprational Local" (there is no prize which goes with the title, so I feel free to bestow it on anyone I choose) the walk is "unashamedly biased towards the radical, the socialist and arty past of Walthamstow - from Industrial Syndicalism to the William Morris Orchestra from the Clarion Cyclists to Art Settlements".

They say that 'if you want to know some of the forgotten history of Walthamsow this is the walk for you'. Assuming that this advertising enticement means that Mr Huddle has some idea what he is talking about, their idea is to meet at St James St Station at 1pm and finnish at the William Morris Gallery at approximately 4pm. The walk is listed as a work of art in the E17 Art trail guide.