Come and join Joseph Ijoyemi as we create coloured origami boats, adding your personal messages around themes of belonging, migration, integration, and what it means to live in east London. Open to children and families of all ages.
Get ready for a day of fun and excitement at BowFest 2025! As we celebrate Bow Arts’ 30th anniversary, join artist Madi Acharya-Baskerville to create your own 3D carnivalesque mask using accessible discarded materials and bringing your imagination to life. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.
Introducing Groupwork: our interdisciplinary peer-to-peer sharing space for artists, curators, critics, gallerists, and other creative practitioners to present ideas and works in progress for feedback in an informal, low-stakes, and discussion-based environment.
Come and join Madi Acharya-Baskerville as we connect with nature through mixed media collages and discover the beauty of the natural world in the summer season. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.
Join East London Art Prize shortlisted artist Kuda Mushangi and Marianne Shillingford, Creative Director at Dulux, for a talk on how they interpret colour differently, followed by a workshop where you can experiment with a spectrum of new colours & create your own bespoke colour palette.
Give new life to urban treasures! Come and join Madi Acharya-Baskerville as we transform locally-sourced wooden panel from our urban neighborhood into vibrant works of art. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.
Join us at the LLDC's Good Growth Hub for a sharing and social session with East London Art Prize shortlisted artist Kuda Mushangi in conversation with Vyonne Mirara, Shared Training and Employment Programme (STEP) trainee and Gallery Assistant at the Nunnery Gallery. Kuda will be on hand to provide an insight into his experience of the Prize and what it is like working and practicing as an artist and architect in east London.
Come along for a guided walk along part of The Line's public art trail at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park with Gusty Ferro, followed by a hands-on and collaborative workshop that explores the relationship between urban infrastructure, public space, and the body.
Come and join artist Madi Acharya-Baskerville as we connect through making clay vessels and bring your bold designs to life through pinching and molding. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.
Come and meet the British Council Collection and Visual Arts Programme team. The team will give a short tour of a small selection of artworks from the British Council Collection. They will speak about their work with artists in the Collection and discuss the opportunities for artists to engage with Collections after their works are acquired.
A week-long pop-up open studio with artist Darcey Fleming presenting a series of woven ‘wearable’ sculptures made from discarded baling twine. A special late opening featuring a live performance by artist duo dmstfctn on their interactive simulation-based work, Waluigi’s Purgatory, (2024) that tells the story of an AI that finds itself in a purgatory for AIs that cheated during training.
Get to know some of this year’s East London Art Prize shortlisted artists as they take over Whitechapel Gallery in an after-hours programme featuring a host of music, performances, workshops and screenings. Featuring live performances by Gusty Ferro, Joseph Ijoyemi and Lydia Newman, workshops by Darcey Fleming and Liang-Jung Chen, an immersive talk by dmstfctn and films by Laisul Hoque, Eugene Macki and Yang Zou.
