Our latest news plus blogs from staff, artists and more.
Browse our latest news and blog posts below. Our blog posts come from a wide range of contributors, some of them are about our work – events, partnerships or projects – some of them are about stuff happening in the arts or our local area.
We hope you’ll find something to interest you and we love comments and conversation so feel free to post them on the blog pages or get in touch on email or social media. We’d also like to hear from you if you have an idea for a blog or you’ve written something you’d like to appear here.
Top image from a performance of NoFit State Circus and Motionhouse’s BLOCK in Fordham Park. Photo by @TheSnapshotCafe.
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Looking back at 2020 – the highs and lows
Thu 11 Feb 2021
For most people 2020 was a difficult year, and it was no different for us. Following the cancellation of all our events and closure of our building from March 2020 onwards in order to stop the spread of coronavirus, we were determined to keep going and hatched ways to carry
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Meet your Artists of Change
Wed 27 Jan 2021
As part of our biggest commitment yet to handing decision-making over to local people, we’re excited to be working with actor, writer and theatre maker Angela Clerkin award-winning cross arts collective Initiative.dkf and actor, writer and theatre director Ryan Calais Cameron. All residents of South East London, each were recruited
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Visions as Our Exile – meet the artists
Mon 25 Jan 2021
You can watch Visions As Our Exile here at 6pm on Friday 29 January. This Friday (29 January), Visions as Our Exile launches – a free exhibition of work produced by emerging audio-visual artists for one evening. The new works are products of Open Source Collaborations, a virtual arts
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Meet Angela Wereko-Anderson and find out more about SceneMakers
Fri 22 Jan 2021
We’re interested to find out more on SceneMakers. What is the project and who is it for? SceneMakers is an initiative set to stimulate and engage filmmakers from South East London who are passionate about their creative expression and their local community. The aim is to combine the two elements
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Meet Kieron Morris and find out more about REZON8
Fri 15 Jan 2021
What made you want to start REZON8? As a member of the Alchemy project at Goldsmiths I realised that for a lot of the kids there, that was their only option for recording sessions and to make music in general for free. A lot of them are ambitious and motivated
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Our opening times and safety procedures – December 2020
Wed 2 Dec 2020
From Saturday 5 December, the Café is open to all ticket holders half an hour before and after all family performances of The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin. Additionally, the Café and building will be open on Wednesday 9 – Friday 11 and Tuesday 15 to Friday