Building on the work of UCL’s Cultural and Community Engagement team, this series of knowledge exchange and co-creation labs will bring together artists, researchers, and local communities to contemplate the future of our cities and explore imaginaries, ideas, and speculative futures.
Fugazzi Fusion presents a 4-course dinner experience. Come join us at Bow Arts' Nunnery Café for an evening...
Join us at The Lab for the official book launch of Charlotte Baldwins latest poetry book. See guest poet Emma Simon and live art by Zahra Quadri.
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.
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.
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.
Bask in an evening celebrating the publication of Needle Around her Neck - a collection of poems penned by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi that takes its cues from the multiplicity of experiences shared during the Traces: Stories of Migration project, weaving more recent migrant stories into the history of the East End rag trade. Expect poetry readings from the collection, a late-night viewing of the exhibition, and a chance to get your copy signed by Nathalie herself.
Come along to an exclusive curator’s tour of Traces: Stories of Migration with curator and researcher Camilla Palestra (CSF Curatorial Associate) to discover the diverse migration histories and stories woven into the landscape of east London through textile-related practices. The tour will end with a Q&A where you can put any questions you have to Camilla.
Small, friendly festival celebrating the 1888 Matchwomen’s strike, and all who try to make the world a better place today.
Stay grounded, be earthbound. Join us for Second Nature, a focused week of events on sustainable practices, reparative habits, and imagining climate futures.
Hear from multidisciplinary artist Gayle Chong Kwan, and delve an immersive sensory eating experience exploring art-making and commoning the knowledge systems around food.
Join writer and artist Khairani Barokka to chart the long and intertwined histories of environmental crises and political borders.
