Current events
Summer of Wellbeing: Speaker Box Street Party
Experience the ultimate fusion of music, dance, and fun with the Speaker Box Street Party crew! Join us in East Ham to celebrate National Play Day as part of the Summer of Wellbeing
Summer of Wellbeing: Speaker Box Street Party
Experience the ultimate fusion of music, dance, and fun with the Speaker Box Street Party crew!
Summer of Wellbeing: Speaker Box Street Party
Experience the ultimate fusion of music, dance, and fun with the Speaker Box Street Party crew! Join us in Canning Town to celebrate National Play Day as part of the Summer of Wellbeing
Summer of Wellbeing: Plashet Park Circus Fun Day
Culture Within Newham in partnership with Applecart Arts is hosting Plashet Park Circus Fun Day this summer.
Urban Gardening Party
Newham residents of all ages are invited to get their hands dirty and try out new creative gardening skills. This session is a celebration bringing together the spring season workshops.
Eastern European Photography Club
A photography club serving as a platform for Eastern European migrants in Newham to tell their unique stories through the art of photography and a safe space to share ideas and experiences.
Urban Gardening Club
Newham residents of all ages are invited to get their hands dirty and try out new creative gardening skills. This week is about making wildflower seed pots.
Eastern European Photography Club
A photography club serving as a platform for Eastern European migrants in Newham to tell their unique stories through the art of photography and a safe space to share ideas and experiences.
Urban Gardening Club
Newham residents of all ages are invited to get their hands dirty and try out new creative gardening skills. This week is about making natural paint brushes.
Eastern European Photography Club
A photography club serving as a platform for Eastern European migrants in Newham to tell their unique stories through the art of photography and a safe space to share ideas and experiences.
Drop in workshop with artist Adam Moore
Join artist Adam Moore to create your own artworks inspired by Beckton and contribute to a brand new public art commission at Beckton Globe Library.
AI, Art and Storytelling
Explore Artificial Intelligence, Art and Storytelling during these Easter holiday drop in workshops open to all members of the community.
Urban Gardening Club
Newham residents of all ages are invited to get their hands dirty and try out new creative gardening skills. This week is about making bug hotels.
Wonderful Women of Newham: Free Drawing Workshop
Get your hands dirty with charcoal at this drawing workshop led by local artist Elena Juzulenaite celebrating women and their stories.
Wonderful Women of Newham: ‘History? Her-story!’ Walking Tour
Join the makers of the Wonderful Women of Newham map for a guided walking tour of Canning Town, highlighting the stories of local women throughout history.
Ideas Lab: Shaped by Community
An opportunity for anyone interested in applying for the Shaped by Community open call to explore how communities might shape their project ideas.
Eastern European Photography Club
A photography club serving as a platform for Eastern European migrants in Newham to tell their unique stories through the art of photography and a safe space to share ideas and experiences.
Newham Community Cinema: The Banshees of Inisherin + Q&A
Join Newham Community Cinema for a St Patrick’s Day celebration screening of Irish Oscar-nomined film ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’. The free screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.
Urban Gardening Club
The Urban Gardening Club happens at St Luke’s community centre most Saturdays in spring, and invites Newham residents of all ages to get their hands dirty and try out new creative gardening skills. This week is about making windowsill propagators.
Eastern European Photography Club
A photography club serving as a platform for Eastern European migrants in Newham to tell their unique stories through the art of photography and a safe space to share ideas and experiences.
Newham Community Cinema: Past Lives + Q&A
Newham Community Cinema is run by The New Black Film Collective and holds film screenings highlighting the experiences of global majority communities. Tonight’s film is the Oscar-nominated ‘Past Lives’.
Eastern European Photography Club
A photography club serving as a platform for Eastern European migrants in Newham to tell their unique stories through the art of photography and a safe space to share ideas and experiences.
Newham Community Cinema: Oppenheimer + Q&A
The gripping story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Newham Public Art Commissions - Information Session
Is your organisation interested in hosting a public artwork? Join the Culture Within Newham team for an online information session.
The Newham Dictionary of Culture: Podcast Launch
What does ‘culture’ mean to young people in Newham? Working with Links Studio and Culture Within Newham, young people developed their own podcast exploring culture – from interviews to artwork.
Writing Great Grant Applications
A two-hour online workshop for anyone connected to Newham who is looking for support with writing great grant applications.
Ideas Lab: Unexpected Partnerships
Join our Ideas Lab, a place to meet potential partners and shape projects for our first ever open call for creative commissions in Newham.
Colours of Newham: Creative Collaging Workshop
Collage created by local community artist
Join artist Lottie McCarthy for our workshop at Applecart Arts to make a photo-collage that shouts Newham!
We are collecting photos of Newham taken by people in our borough to make a collaborative collage full of colours that celebrate and represent Newham, its character, energy, and uniqueness.
This collage will be the first of many artworks made as part of Culture Within Newham, a new borough-wide programme that aims to release the creative potential in Newham and every Newham resident. This community-led programme starts now; with you sharing your Newham. What does our borough look like through your eyes? What do you see that the rest of us walk past? What makes you smile or feel at home? What colour and creativity do you see?
We are holding a creative workshop on 18th March as the final stage of our collection process. Before then, Newham locals can send us their photos featuring colours that they feel are iconic for Newham. Photos can be submitted through this form or via Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by using the hashtag #coloursofnewham.
The photography and collage-making workshop on the 18th of March will use all the photos submitted, as well as photos taken by you during a walk through the neighbourhood, to make a collective Newham collage and to help us decide on an iconic colour palette for Newham. The workshop runs from 2-5pm at Applecart Arts and is led by local artist Lottie McCarthy.
If you'd like to join and be part of making the collage, make sure to book your free ticket now. All ages are welcome. The collage will be exhibited, and will also be used to inform the look, feel, and direction of the "World on our Doorstep" programme.
You have until the 16th of March to submit your photos!