Mixed media collective Loose Associations are kicking off the new year with a range of zines, prints, paintings, and general affordable brain-candy in our tenth Nunnery Cafe Exhibition!
We are starting 2023 with a new exhibition from artists Imrana Tanveer and Lisa-Marie Price! Concerned with the relationship between human beings and the natural world, this collaboration is a thought-provoking presentation of changing world views in a climate crisis.
Lucy Orta Traces: Stories of Migration offers insight into the migration histories woven into the landscape of east London.
Learn the building blocks of crochet to open up a whole new world of needlecraft! Join us after hours at the Nunnery Café with Alise Popila to get your hooks into crafting stylish yarn creations.
You are invited to an intimate, sensorial one-to-one tarot reading with performance artist Noemi Gunea as she interprets her newly created custom major arcana deck, interweaving stories of resistance and revolution with divination, magical imagination, and Eastern European fashion stories.
This June, Common Distributions welcomes our local community into an empty retail space facing Pump House Square to...
Join us for our annual open studios event celebrating the thriving community of artists at Bow Road Studios.
Lots of cultures use textiles and clothing to document important memories and pass on stories. At this year's BowFest: Open Studios, come along and design your own mini clothing templates and textile experiments, using fabric paint and markers to decorate your designs and show off the memories and things that matter to you.
Come along to a tour of Traces: Stories of Migration with professor and lead artist Lucy Orta, to discover the diverse migration histories and stories woven into the landscape of east London through textile-related practices. There will be three tours taking place across the whole day from 11am-12pm, 2-3pm, and 5.30-6.30pm.
Learn how to screen print in the classroom cheaply and effectively with DIY screens
Join us at the LLDC’s Good Growth Hub to get clued up on the all the fab opportunities, grants, and programmes they have on offer for artists in east London, as well as getting to know some of the innovative young creatives operating out of the Hub.
To mark Refugee Week, the Decolonising Fashion and Textiles team from London College of Fashion (LCF) are taking over our Bow Road site with a dazzling showcase of textile autobiographies hand-stitched by London-based refugees and a selection of drop-in activities, exploring storytelling, community mapping, and imagining a more compassionate future. Open to children, families, and visitors of all ages!