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.
News
We’ve pledged to sign the Dementia Friendly Venue Charter
Tue 18 May 2021
We’re pleased to share that we have pledged to sign the Dementia Friendly Venue Charter, launched by The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to ensure that every Londoner with dementia and their carers has a dementia friendly cultural venue on their doorstep. It aims to transform cultural venues for
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Meet the talented musician Romarna Campbell
Thu 6 May 2021
Hello Romarna! We want to find out how you got into music. Also, what do you love about performing? Music is what got me into music! I grew up listening to an intensely wide range of music whilst I was growing up and I just loved it. I wanted
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Hello! Please tell us a little bit about How To Save A Rock? How To Save a Rock is a bike-powered climate comedy for families, which is completely carbon-neutral. Set in 2026, the show follows the journey of Frankie, who receives a letter from the last
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Meet the new faces in our Creative Team
Fri 23 Apr 2021
We warmly welcome two new Associate Directors – Sud Basu and Vicki Amedume, who will help us shape the programme for Borough of Culture 2022 in partnership with Lewisham Council. Sud is an Independent Creative Director and Consultant with wide-ranging experience in cross-artform projects at both a local and national
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The Albany to become food distribution hub in support of local artists and community centres
Thu 18 Mar 2021
As part of the Albany’s ongoing response to support our community in response to the pandemic, we are proud to announce that next week we will become a food distribution hub – a project spearheaded by local creative and marketing professional, Holly Adomah Thompson. Thompson and
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Meet Indie Max of ORBIT
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Hello Indie! Please tell us what you do and a little about yourself. I am a multidisciplinary creative who explodes the mind and emotions through music and theatre. I have been playing and making music since I was a child. I began with classical instrumental training