There’s so much to discover and take part in at St Margaret's House! Our programme will give you the chance to enjoy the arts and support your wellbeing. You can start something new or continue with something you have always enjoyed. Take your pick from arts workshops, wellbeing sessions, exhibitions, live events and more.
One Sunday a month, 10.30am-12.30pm
A multimedia writing and photography reflective workshop designed to reawaken our connections with nature, creativity and mindfulness
Every Friday, from 6.45pm
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.
In the Mulberry Hall
Thursdays, 6.30-8.30pm | Saturdays, 3.30-5.30pm
Come journal with us! Collage, diary, and fiction writing prompts, amidst soft, community vibes. Materials provided, or bring your journal.
Monday 15th September, 6-8pm
This workshop is a playful and relaxed session using plants, flowers, experimental drawing techniques and colourful inks to create vibrant individual and collaborative nature-inspired artworks.
Every third Monday of the month, 6.30-8.30pm
Join the SMH Book Club! We meet once a month and welcome all, from people wanting to start reading for fun to seasoned bookworms.
In the Anson Room
Wednesdays (five weeks), 7-9pm
If you haven’t written creatively before but always wanted to, or if you haven’t written for some time and want to kick-start your practice, then this low-cost, intensive course is for you.
Saturday 27th September, 10am-1pm
Join us for our Repair Cafe where we'll help you mend and repair a range of items
In the Mulberry Hall
Last Sunday of the month, 2-4pm
Join Assemblage Collective and DeZiners to make zines in this latest Cut Out Club workshop. In these monthly workshops, we explore a variety of themes.
Monday 29th September, 6-8pm
This workshop is a fun and friendly introduction to creating a two-layer reduction linocut print, ideal for beginner and intermediate printmakers with all materials provided.
Monday 6th October, 6-8pm
This workshop is a queer printmaking mixer where you’ll learn linocut carving in a relaxed, creative space while connecting with other LGBTQ+ people, making both prints and new friendships.
In the Cabin
First Monday of the month, 6-8pm
Come along to our new knitting & crochet workshop: Crafting Is Connecting! Surplus materials are provided, but please bring your own knitting/crochet project to work on.
Every second month, 7-9pm
Every other month we choose a book written by a South Asian female author and bring together our community to celebrate these and discuss the wider themes these raise within our communities.
In the Anson Room
Monday 20th October
This workshop is a fun and welcoming introduction to embossing, guiding you step by step to create your own aluminium foil greeting cards and festive decorations, with all materials provided.
In the Cabin
One Sunday a month, 10am-12.30pm
Whether you're completely new to cyanotype or looking to experiment with different materials, this is a chance to learn, create, and take home your own unique cyanotype.
In the Cabin
Mondays, 2-6pm / Fridays, 2-7pm
The multibed clinic allows the treatment of a number of people in the same room while protecting your privacy, dignity, and confidentiality. Furthermore, it also provides the opportunity to offer treatments at an affordable rate.
In The Canvas
Saturdays, 10.30-11.45am
The primary focus of this Pregnancy Yoga class is to support and enhance your pre-natal experience. The aim is to encourage a sense of relaxation and confidence all the way through your pregnancy up to, and including, labour.
In The Canvas
Mondays, 11am-12.30pm
Integral Yoga addresses the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of being: gentle postures followed by breathing practices, deep relaxation and an introduction to meditation.
In The Canvas
Mondays, 6.30-7.30pm
Qayyah's yoga classes are a smooth, continuous, playful flow of different yoga postures. The class is a 'dynamic vinyasa', which means linking movement to your breath.
In The Canvas
Tuesdays, 7.30-8.30am
Yin yoga works deeply into our body with passive, longer-held poses for deep stretching and relaxation that targets the connective tissues of the body
In The Canvas
Tuesdays, 7-8pm
This class is for anyone who wishes to practise gently and relax deeply. We begin with calming meditation and gentle breath-led movement to release physical tension before transitioning into some restorative postures and relaxation infused with the healing energy of sound.
In The Canvas
Wednesdays, 10am-1pm
Community Acupuncture offers gentle, ethical and affordable solutions to pain, stress and illness. Acupuncture can treat a very broad range of conditions, from the physical to the mental-emotional.
In The Canvas
Wednesdays, 2-2.30pm
Join a friendly group practising Qigong movements together with Truus every Wednesday. Qigong improves health, and to calm and heal the mind, body and spirit.
In The Canvas
Thursdays, 12.15-1pm (until 11 Sept)
The perfect midday pick-me-up to leave you feeling energised and refreshed, our 45 minute Thursday Foundations Flow will connect your breath and movement through a creative sequence of poses.
In Victoria Park
Monthly on Thursdays, 6-7pm
This workshop is a supportive space for women to process grief through gentle movement, breathwork, sound, meditation and a restorative sound bath to release emotions, reconnect with the body and find healing calm.
In The Canvas
Fridays, 10am-1pm
The Massage Shala is inspired by the informal massage rooms of South East Asia. They enjoy working in a shared space as it creates a safe and open atmosphere, welcoming all and providing a container that establishes community, connection, and healing.
In The Canvas
Monthly on Thursdays, 6-9pm
This women-only workshop offers a safe and supportive space to explore grief in all its forms through reflection, movement, breathwork, sound and meditation, guiding a gentle journey from loss towards healing and love.
In The Canvas
Last Thursday of the month, 7.30-9pm
Experience the immersive rejuvenating frequencies of a Sound Bath bringing you into a state of relaxation. Through the use of Himalayan Singing Bowls, Gong and Percussion, Dan produces sounds as an enabler to help you feel more enriched, connected and in harmony with yourself.
In the Chapel
Sunday 28th September, 3.30-5.30pm
This workshop is a calming afternoon of yin yoga, gentle movement and yoga nidra designed to support the seasonal transition into autumn by encouraging rest, inner reflection and renewed balance of body and mind.
in The Canvas
Sunday 9th November, 3.30-5.30pm
This workshop is a nourishing afternoon of gentle yoga, restorative poses, breathwork and yoga nidra designed to release tension, calm the nervous system and support deep rest, renewal and inner stillness.
in The Canvas
Sunday 14th December, 3.30-5.30pm
This workshop is a soothing afternoon of gentle movement, restorative yoga and yoga nidra to release tension, replenish energy and find deep rest and inner calm as we move towards the winter solstice.
in The Canvas
Exhibition: Tuesday 22nd July - Monday 8th September, 8.30am-5pm
Our Summer Open Exhibition exploring the contrasts between illumination and shadow, not just in a physical sense but also in emotion, symbolism and storytelling.
Exhibition: Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th September, 10am-6pm
Opening Event: Friday 5th September, 6.30-8.30pm
Join us for this exhibition by Alvaro Samuel Castro and Honey Mounce where they respond to the opaque, spiritual and literal histories of St Margaret’s Chapel and what surrounds a place of worship. Through various mediums they traverse and meditate on the ethereal edges and structures of the space.
In the Chapel
Exhibition: Tuesday 9th September - Monday 6th October, 8.30am-5pm
An exhibition of paintings by local artist, Aristedes Georgiou; his first solo show, inspired by the natural world – its beauty and inspiration through resilience, constant growth and search for the light.
Thursday 11th September, 6.30-8.30pm
Join us as Aristedes Georgiou is ‘In Conversation’ to explore the deeper meanings behind his work and how his practice supports his wellbeing as he cares for his mum who lives with dementia.
Exhibition: Saturday 13th - Sunday 14th September, 12noon-6pm
Opening Event: Friday 12th September, 6.30-8.30pm
A photographic series exploring how dancers confront mental health and identity through the transformative act of movement. Join us for this exhibition by Hayley Benoit.
In the Chapel
Exhibition: Saturday 27th September, 10am-6pm and Sunday 28th September, 11am-4pm
Celebrating repair as resistance and why mending matters. This audio-visual exhibition by Breaks & Joins is part of Second-Hand September and captures the people and stories behind the act of repair.
In the Chapel
Opening Event: Wednesday 1st October 6:30-8:30pm
Exhibition: Thursday 2nd - Sunday 5th October, 10am-6pm
Photographic Night Walk: Friday 3rd October, 5:45-9pm
Join Urban Lens for multiple events that celebrate the start of PhotoMonth Photography Festival
In the Chapel
Exhibition: Tuesday 7th October - Monday 17th November, 8:30am-5pm
Opening Event: Wednesday 8th October, 6:30-8:30pm
Home is both anchor and question. This exhibition shares personal stories of migration, intimacy, and landscape and fantasy, asking what home means when it is always moving, remembered, and remade.
This exhibition is a part of the PhotoMonth Photography Festival.
Exhibition: Saturday 11th - Sunday 12th October, 10am-6pm
Opening Event: Friday 10th October, 6.30-8.30pm
This exhibition is artist Hoagy Houghton’s first solo show, inviting audiences to reflect on our shifting cultural and spiritual relationship with the moon at a time when its exploitation for resources is becoming increasingly imminent.
In the Chapel
Exhibition: Friday 17th - Monday 20th October, 10am-6pm
Opening Event: Thursday 16th October, 6.30-8.30pm
This exhibition showcases the work of four East London artists connected through printmaking and a lockdown-formed online group, with additional contributions from a fifth member, Filippa Dobson, exploring the shared theme of impressions through print, mixed media, paint and collage.
In the Chapel
Second Tuesday of the month, 6-8pm
Join us for our monthly free art cafe of collaborative drawing in The Gallery Cafe.
Saturday 20th September, 11am-3.45pm
St Margaret’s House opens up behind the scenes for visitors to the Open House Festival. Guided tours on the hour every hour from 11am to 3pm. Enjoy a tour and a small exhibition.
Throughout St Margaret’s House
Sunday 21st September, 2-5pm
The Community Collective 2.0 is our second official event, bringing together various stall holders, partners and friends alike to raise awareness of the importance of global community and solidarity.
In the Mulberry Hall
Last Thursday of the month, from 6.30pm
Join us for our friendly monthly Open Mic night in The Gallery Cafe.
Friday 26th September, 7-9pm
South Asian Sisters Speak (SASS) invites you to our storytelling event exploring the theme of food, as a part of the Power of Food Festival.
Last Saturday of the month, from 6.30pm
A cosy poetry, spoken word, music and discussion night on the last Saturday of every month. Open mic followed by discussion.
In the Chapel
Sunday 28th September, 12noon-4pm
Celebrate International Cyanotype Day with Marina Longo, analogue photographer and cyanotype artist.
In the Mulberry Hall
Mondays, 3.45-5pm and 5-6.15pm
Afterschool sessions exploring making people laugh, including creating sketches and stand up material and clowning.
3.45pm: Children in School Years 3-6
5pm: Young people in School Years 7-9
In the Chapel & the Mulberry Hall
Tuesdays, 3.30-4.30pm
Afterschool sessions for children to take part in a variety of games, from active drama, to board and card games.
Children in School Years 1-5
In The Canvas
Wednesdays, 3.45-5.15pm
Afterschool arts and crafting sessions for children to have fun, learn skills and be mindful.
Children in Reception to School Year 4
Saturdays, 9.45-10.45am and 11am-12noon
Saturday morning sessions for children to learn circus skills, developing communication and creative thinking.
9.45am: Children in School Years 1-3 (younger children can attend, accompanied by an adult)
11am: Children in School Years 4-6
In the Mulberry Hall
Join us for a day of free activities for all the family.
Saturday 4th October, 10am-4pm
In the Mulberry Hall
This opportunity is for emerging writers looking to take risks, try something new and potentially see their writing performed for the very first time. Submit a 10 min short play or extract of a longer piece with a maximum of two actors.
Thursday 18th September, 4-7pm
Join us for a monthly gardening meetup to support your wellbeing, connect with your local community and help us with the upkeep of the SMH Garden.
In the SMH Garden
Various times and dates
St Margaret’s House have hosted the Tower Hamlets u3a for many years. The u3a is a friendly group for people in their ‘Third Age’, no longer in full time work who love to learn, have fun and meet others.
Throughout St Margaret’s House
Third Thursday of the month, 7-9pm
St Margaret’s House have hosted the East End WI for many years for their monthly lively and friendly talks. The EEWI welcomes women of all ages, from all communities and all walks of life.
In the Mulberry Hall
Saturdays, 3-5pm
St Margaret’s House have hosted Bender Defenders for many years for their weekly martial arts sessions. Join them at SMH for Muay Thai beginner and intermediate level sessions.
In the Mulberry Hall
