What’s on
Lost Art of a Little Earthling: Exhibition
An exhibition curated by Muddy Mud Larks - A forgotten space pregnant with possibilities, a place for introspection, a place to consider, “What is there here for me to do?”
Extra Second London: DIASPORA
Spoken word, music & dialogue. A monthly themed afternoon of spoken word poetry/debates. This month's theme is: DIASPORA
Tickets: £4
Colours of the Earth - Pigment to Paint
‘Pigment to Paint’ is a unique and immersive workshop where you will have the opportunity to create your own colour palette and take home with you a set of organic and handmade watercolours!
£13 - £19
WORKSHOP: Queer pottery classes with Clay Wild
Participants will be learning hand-building techniques and will be guided through how to personalise their creations.
Tickets: £15 - £30
Lost Art of a Little Earthling: Private View
Come Join Muddy Mudlarks for our exhibition event with performance and music.
Tickets: FREE (booking essential)
Neighbourhood Forum
Join us for this Neighbourhood Forum at the Brady Arts and Community Centre and be part of creating solutions to issues impacting health in your community.
Ayoka Early Bird Sale
We are having a huge clear-out of the Ayoka storerooms and celebrating with an Ayoka Sale & Thrift Party!
Tickets: £3
Henna For Wellbeing
WORKSHOP: Henna For Wellbeing
Mindful workshops teaching the art of henna through community, and the art’s global journey through resistance, history, medicine, and faith.
May 1st | May 22nd | June 12th
Tickets: £12-£15
Ayoka Thrift Party!
We are having a huge clear-out of the Ayoka storerooms and celebrating with an Ayoka Early Bird Sale & Thrift Party!
Tickets: £3
Headdress Workshop
An opportunity to make a stunning, individual headdress at this limited capacity & popular workshop
Tickets: £25
WORKSHOP: Looking at everyday life
A mindful drawing and painting workshop series exploring collaborative art making in response to nature and everyday life
Moving Through Spring - Movement Workshop
Join Sophia in a contemplation and movement practice for Spring and the Wood element this May.
WORKSHOP: Writing to Uncover the Self
Writing can unlock knowledge within us, helping us break free from a period of ‘stuckness’. And self-knowledge can unlock new ways of writing into complexity and realness. Experienced writer and facilitator F. Zeeshan Choudhury hosts this workshop for writers of all experience levels
Tickets: £13 - 22
WORKSHOP: Queer pottery classes with Clay Wild
Participants will be learning hand-building techniques and will be guided through how to personalise their creations.
Tickets: £15 - £30
Queer Social Dreaming Matrix
A free gathering for people who identify as LGBTQAI+ to share dreams and explore their potential as a queer resource.
Be Merged: Art on Collective Consciousness
Back for their third show at St Margaret’s House, Thoughtcast Collective presents ‘Be Merged’ - an evening of joint performances that explore collective thought, from artists across poetry, music, film and more.
Tickets: £5-£12
Exhibition: What We Notice
A collaborative exhibition exploring the shared meaning of nature in our everyday lives
Open Day: What We Notice
Celebrate the opening of the show with us, and have the opportunity to respond to the work on display through a drop-in drawing session.
SMH Book Club
Join the SMH Book Club! We meet once a month & welcome all, from people wanting to start reading for fun to seasoned bookworms.
Creativity and Wellbeing Week -Cranbrook Community Food Garden
St Margaret’s House is proud to take part in Creativity and Wellbeing Week! We are partnering with Cranbrook Community Food Garden, a fantastic and vibrant community garden in Bethnal Green, to offer you the opportunity to take part in a garden volunteer taster session.
Event: Deceleration
Join us this Creativity and Wellbeing Week for ‘Deceleration’, an audio experience through a structured interaction with rhythm and environment.
Tickets: £5-10
WORKSHOP: Exploring Identity: Collage Making
A workshop providing an inclusive space for young people and adults to play and explore their understanding of gender and identity through artistic creation.
Tickets: £5-£15
WORKSHOP: Cut Out Club -ABSTRACT ZINES
Join Assemblage Collective and DeZiners to make zines in this latest Cut Out Club workshop.
Tickets: £10-£15
May Half Term: Crafterschool
Join Crafterschool this May Half Term for three days of engaging arts and crafts sessions.
Tickets: Free, booking is essential.
EVENT: Open Mic Night
Your chance to share your best poetry, music and performances, try out new material, and support local talent!
Tickets: Free
Welcome to the World
Come on an adventure with Little Wild Theatre as Mother Earth’s children, Tide, Ariel and Blaze all take their first steps into the world.
Tickets: £5-9
Closing Party: What We Notice
Celebratory closing event in the chapel with open mic, live music, poetry and performances
Pride Celebration Pompom Headdress workshop!
Turn heads with a beautiful Rainbow Pompom Headdress at Pride celebrations in London, culminating on Pride day on the 29th June!
Tickets:£20
WORKSHOP: Write Like A Grrrl - Ignite London
Whether you want to write prose, plays or poems, Ignite is for you! Whether you’ve written before or are an absolute beginner, you are very welcome. This a five week course running from 27 Jan - 24 Feb.
10.30-12.30
Tickets for 5 week course: From £89.99
WORKSHOP: Queer pottery classes with Clay Wild
Participants will be learning hand-building techniques and will be guided through how to personalise their creations.
Tickets: £15 - £30
Grand Union presents - Can't Chain Up Me Mind
Join us in a spirited multi-cultural evening with musicians from the Grand Union Orchestra as part of St Margaret's House diverse cultural programme.
Tickets: £6-10
WORKSHOP: Repair Cafe
Join us for our Repair Cafe where we'll help you mend and repair a range of items
Tickets: Free
Touching Palms with Grief: Conversations into The Unknown
WORKSHOP: Touching Palms with Grief - Conversation Into The Unknown
Join us for a morning of gentle reflection, exploring all things death, grief, and how these experiences can help us live life to the full.
Tickets: £5-£10
WORKSHOP: Shag Pile - Weekly Swing Dance
Dive into the world of Collegiate Shag - the swift footed swing dance that set the 1920s on fire! Learn to dance fast without losing your cool with our expert teaching team and friendly regulars.
Weekly: Fridays from 7pm
Tickets: from £5
Mini Cape/Party Poncho Workshop!
Fix-Up, Look Sharp! Workshops invites you to create a fabulous & stylish shoulder cape to bring glamour to any occasion!
Tickets: £20
Sound Bath with Sekrit
Experience the immersive rejuvenating frequencies of a Sound Bath bringing you into a state of relaxation.
Tickets: £10-15
Event: Alex Akal & the Wolves
Join us for a night of live tribal trance music merging contemporary sounds with traditional instruments from all over the world
Tickets: £8
Touching Palms with Grief: Social Screening & Celebration
EVENT: Touching Palms with Grief - Social Screening & Celebration
Join us for a short informal talk and screening of Floating on Blue followed by an evening of celebration with a bar and DJ.
Tickets are FREE but booking is essential.
Cut Out Club – Zine Party!
Join us for Cut Out Club's first birthday with collaborative activities, celebration-themed zine-making, refreshments, goodie bags, and good vibes!
Tickets: From £11.55
Touching Palms with Grief : Private view, screening and panel discussion
Touching Palms with Grief is an exhibition and event programme exploring the complex and nuanced ways we cope with loss and how working with creativity can allow us to untangle our experiences and gently connect with our feelings.
Lost in the Foxglove Presents: Poetry Launch
Launch event for Lauren Bulla’s first self-published collection. A poetry workshop will start us off, followed by performances from three other poets, to be rounded off by musical talent.
Tickets: £5
Hilarity Academy
Join us over the Easter holidays for Hilarity Academy - a free, fun space for young people to learn and engage in the skill of making people laugh
Free
WORKSHOP: Looking at everyday life
A mindful drawing and painting workshop series exploring collaborative art making in response to nature and everyday life
Urban Foraging: Exhibition & PV
“Urban Foraging” is an exhibition by Hoxton Collective that explores foraging as a bioevolutionary behavior.
EVENT: Du Iz Tak
A tiny tale told by tiny creatures about BIG ideas. Du Iz Tak? is an enchanting, unusual and magical theatre show for families
Tickets: £5-9
WORKSHOP: Shag Pile - Weekly Swing Dance
Dive into the world of Collegiate Shag - the swift footed swing dance that set the 1920s on fire! Learn to dance fast without losing your cool with our expert teaching team and friendly regulars.
Weekly: Fridays from 7pm
Tickets: from £5
Artizine UK: Zine-making exhibition and workshop
BIG ZINE PARTY! Join us in celebrating the transformative power of zine-making in communities.
Tickets: Pay what you can, suggestion donation £5
WORKSHOP: Forever Playground
PLAY OUT-LOUD! Join our new series of workshops and experiment with different art-making techniques in a friendly community setting.
Tickets: from £13.70
Extra Second London: PLANTING SEEDS
Spoken word, music & dialogue. A monthly themed spoken word poetry/debates night. This month's theme is: PLANTING SEEDS
Tickets: £4
EVENT: Regular Poetry Club: Lost in the Foxglove
This bi-monthly workshop series will focus on your poetic development and creating meaningful connections across backgrounds/disciplines in an interactive, low-pressure environment.
Tickets: £5
WORKSHOP: Shag Pile - Weekly Swing Dance
Dive into the world of Collegiate Shag - the swift footed swing dance that set the 1920s on fire! Learn to dance fast without losing your cool with our expert teaching team and friendly regulars.
Weekly: Fridays from 7pm
Tickets: from £5
Open Mic Night
A special edition of our monthly open mic is a takeover by Lost in the Foxglove & Lauren Bulla!
Tickets: Free
SMH x Cut Out Club: Art Supply Swap!
Buy new art supplies in this economy?! We'll do you one better. Join us at The Create Place & bag yourself a whole stash of new art supplies!
Tickets: £2
Women’s Wellbeing Sessions
Join us on Tuesday mornings in the Tramshed for our Women’s Wellbeing sessions
Tickets: Free
WORKSHOP: Looking at everyday life
A mindful drawing and painting workshop series exploring collaborative art making in response to nature and everyday life
WORKSHOP: Shag Pile - Weekly Swing Dance
Dive into the world of Collegiate Shag - the swift footed swing dance that set the 1920s on fire! Learn to dance fast without losing your cool with our expert teaching team and friendly regulars.
Weekly: Fridays from 7pm
Tickets: from £5
Culture and Social Prescribing in Newham
To celebrate Social Prescribing Day we invite you to take part in a morning exploring Culture and Social Prescribing in Newham with a range of partners. This event is designed to support organisations delivering social prescribing in Newham, as well as organisations looking to upskill their delivery in Newham.
EVENT: Regency Duo
Celebrate the coming of spring with stunning music for violin and guitar, performed by Regency Duo and Cerys MacAllister
Tickets: £10
WORKSHOP: Writing to Uncover the Self
A series of writing workshops to help you refine your writing practice
March’s theme: Aphorism
Tickets: £12 - 20
WORKSHOP: Live Eco
Be more Eco! Be more ECOnomical & ECO-friendly. A series of practical workshops to help save you money and reduce our impact on the planet.
Tickets: Free
Mad Women: Community Play and Q&A
Witty, fierce and fearless. Mad Women is a play inspired by three outstanding Latin American women artists who struggled with bipolar disorder.