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40 years of Chisenhale: Interview with founding member and painter Vincent Milne

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THIS SATURDAY -> Join us on 7th December for a Wi

THIS SATURDAY ->

Join us on 7th December for a Winter Forum with local residents, supporters, and friends to help shape the future of Chisenhale Art Place (CAP) in Tower Hamlets.

This afternoon forum will include creative discussions about CAP’s programs and the issues that matter most to those who currently engage with us—as well as those who wish to engage more.

Senior staff from across CAP will be present to hear your ideas and share insights, and together we will begin to explore our long-term vision for securing a sustainable future in the borough.

Light refreshments will be provided on the day, alongside art activities for children inspired by Bruno Zhu’s new exhibition, License to Live, at Chisenhale Gallery.

Book a free ticket through Eventbrite through our link in bio!

Chisenhale Art Place comprises three neighbouring organisations that share one building on Chisenhale Road, E3 - Chisenhale Studios, Chisenhale Gallery and Chisenhale Dance Space.

📅 Date & Time: 7th December, 2-4pm
📍 Location: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, E3 5DZ

Join us on 7th December for a Winter Forum with lo

Join us on 7th December for a Winter Forum with local residents, supporters, and friends to help shape the future of Chisenhale Art Place (CAP) in Tower Hamlets.

This afternoon forum will include creative discussions about CAP’s programs and the issues that matter most to those who currently engage with us—as well as those who wish to engage more.

Senior staff from across CAP will be present to hear your ideas and share insights, and together we will begin to explore our long-term vision for securing a sustainable future in the borough.

Light refreshments will be provided on the day, alongside art activities for children inspired by Bruno Zhu’s new exhibition, License to Live, at Chisenhale Gallery.

Chisenhale Art Place comprises three neighbouring organisations that share a single building on Chisenhale Road, E3: Chisenhale Studios, Chisenhale Gallery, and Chisenhale Dance Space.

📅 Date & Time: 7th December, 2-4pm
📍 Location: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, E3 5DZ

🌟 What an incredible day! Thank you to everyone

🌟 What an incredible day! Thank you to everyone that joined us for our Street Party on Chisenhale Road 🌟

On Saturday we brought together friends, neighbours, and new faces from across the community to celebrate creativity, culture, and art. 🎨🎶

A few highlights from the day:

- The beautiful Classical Indian Dance performance 'Empathy' from Mukul and Ghetto Tigers @noeldatta
- An energizing Caribbean Dance workshop with the amazing @shebamontserrat.
- A buzzing mix of live music and DJ sets bringing the vibes
- Inspiring art workshops led by @sara.heywood and Shree Desai where we got to explore cyanotype printing, rangoli painting, and block printing.
- The famous pet show and raffle
- Our new friends @wearebardbooks with their flash fiction competition.
- The Chisenhale Gallery exhibition by @simnikiwebuhlungu
- And, of course, our communal picnic where everyone was welcome to bring food and share stories.

A huge thank you to everyone who participated and performed. Special thanks to our wonderful producer @sophiethompsonsemple for bringing the vision to life, and to Action for Bow and the Driffield Conservation Area Residents Association for their vital support in making this day possible.

📸 @brianbett photography

At Chisenhale Art Place, we’re committed to creating more opportunities like this to bring our community together through the arts. Sign up to our newsletter to stay in the loop.

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@chisenhaledance

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THAT'S A WRAP! 🎬 A huge thank you to everyone

THAT'S A WRAP! 🎬

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for Open House Festival on Sunday!

We hope you enjoyed exploring the studios, meeting our member artists and learning about the rich history of Chisenhale Art Place.

@opencity_uk
#OpenHouseFestival

We are honoured to host ‘The Linkup’ by @openc

We are honoured to host ‘The Linkup’ by @opencity_uk at Chisenhale Art Place this Saturday 21st September.

“The Linkup is a space where young POC and those from working-class communities can connect, create and speak your truth. At The Linkup, we'll dive into real conversations and create a collaborative mural that captures our experiences, our cultures and our vision for the future in London. This is your space to express, explore and inspire.”

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Saturday 21 September, 2-5pm
🔑 Tickets are free via our link in bio.
Food and drink provided on the day.

COMING UP >> Street Party 2024 🎉 WHEN: 1 - 7pm

COMING UP >> Street Party 2024 🎉

WHEN: 1 - 7pm, Saturday 28th September
WHERE: Chisenhale Road
WHAT: An afternoon of fun, creativity, performances and community!

All activities are free to attend and available on a drop-in basis, just turn up on the day to take part. Check the Eventbrite page in our link in bio to see the full line-up and timings.

Thank you to Action for Bow for making this event possible, and to Driffield Conservation Area Residents Association for partnering up with us to deliver this event.

🔗 Please visit our link in bio for our Eventbrite page
📍 Chisenhale Art Place, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd E3 5QZ

📸 @brunabalodisphotography

@chisenhalestudios
@chisenhaledance
@chisenhalegallery

REMINDER: OPEN HOUSE 2024--> This Weekend: Sunday,

REMINDER: OPEN HOUSE 2024-->
This Weekend: Sunday, 15th September
12-5pm

On Sunday 15th September, our building will open its doors to offer an insight into the history of the building as part of Open House Festival 2024.

The Chisenhale Works building — now Chisenhale Art Place — was bought by Tower Hamlets Council in 1972 and leased to a group of artists. The derelict remains of Chisenhale Works provided unconventional hope for the founding artists and dancers who were evicted from their former studios at Butlers Wharf in 1980. The artists refurbished the building themselves over a period of 2 years, using cinder blocks to build studio walls.

For Open House Festival, CAP will be presenting an exhibition of its archive, with photographs, floor-plans , documentation and publicity from the last 40 years, as well as opening its doors to a selection of its artists studios.

🔗 Please see the link in bio for more information about the history of the building, the event and accessibility.
📍 Chisenhale Art Place, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, E3 5QZ

@opencity_uk
#OpenHouseFestival

Street Party 2024 🎉 Chisenhale Art Place invit

Street Party 2024 🎉

Chisenhale Art Place invites you to join our Street Party, taking place on Chisenhale Road for an afternoon of fun, creativity, performances and community.

Street Party activities include:

- Classical Indian Dance performance ‘Empathy’ with live music from Mukul and Ghetto Tigers
- Caribbean Dance workshop with Sheba Montserrat @shebamontserrat
- Live music and DJ sets
- Art workshops including cyanotype workshops with @sara.heywood
- Rangoli painting and block printing with Shree Desai
- Pet Show and Raffle
- Free exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery by artist Simnikiwe Buhlungu
- Community stalls
- Communal picnic - bring your own food and drink to take part.

To Attend:

All activities are free to attend and available on a drop-in basis, just turn up on the day to take part. Check the Eventbrite page in our link in bio to see the full line-up and timings.

We would also like to say a huge thank you to Action for Bow for making this event possible, and to Driffield Conservation Area Residents Association for partnering up with us to deliver this event.

🔗 Please visit our link in bio for our Eventbrite page
📍 Chisenhale Art Place, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd E3 5QZ

Chisenhale Art Place is home to three distinct initiatives; Chisenhale Dance Space, Chisenhale Gallery and Chisenhale Studios – with each operating unique programmes that enable emerging and established artists and dancers to develop, experiment and make exceptional work

@chisenhalestudios
@chisenhaledance
@chisenhalegallery

OPEN HOUSE 2024--> Next Sunday, 15th September 12-

OPEN HOUSE 2024-->
Next Sunday, 15th September
12-5pm

On Sunday 15th September, our building will open its doors to offer an insight into the history of the building. We are enormously grateful to Open House for including us in in this years festival.

Chisenhale Art Place (CAP) was founded in 1980 when a group of artists were evicted from their studios at Butlers Wharf, and has since became a multi-disciplinary arts organisation consisting of 40 artist studios, a renowned art gallery and an artist-led dance space.

On the day, CAP will be presenting an exhibition of its archive, with photographs, floor-plans , documentation and publicity from the last 40 years, as well as opening its doors to a selection of its artists studios.

🔗 Please see the link in bio for more information about the history of the building, the event and accessibility.
📍 Chisenhale Art Place, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, E3 5QZ

@opencity_uk
#OpenHouseFestival

Chisenhale Studios has been working in conjunction

Chisenhale Studios has been working in conjunction with Tower Hamlets Youth League @towerhamletsnow to deliver a Summer Academy as part of our Future Artists programme, inviting young people to take part in creative activities across 5 days over the last month.

The fifth and final session saw Chisenhale Art Place deliver a introductory photography workshop led by @gabulaurent, inviting young people to take and work into self portraits taken using polaroid photography. The students were then invited to engage in a dance workshop at @chisenhaledance.

A huge thank you to the artists and facilitators for making these events possible, and to Action for Bow for supporting this project.

📸 Sophie Thompson-Semple
📍 Chisenhale Art Place, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd E3 5QZ

Chisenhale Studios has been working in conjunction

Chisenhale Studios has been working in conjunction with Tower Hamlets Youth League @towerhamletsnow to deliver a Summer Academy as part of our Future Artists programme, inviting young people to take part in creative activities across 5 days over the last month.

The third session saw Chisenhale Studios deliver a curators tour of @whitechapelgallery 's latest exhibitions, followed by a t-shirt making workshop led by Chisenhale Studios artists @kirsty_harris_art.

The fourth session invited young people to engage with a painting workshop at on Victoria Park, just over the road from @allpointseastuk, led by Chisenhale Studios artist @diana_taylor_studio.

A huge thank you to the artists and facilitators for making these events possible, and to Action for Bow for supporting this project.

📸 Sophie Thompson-Semple
📍 Chisenhale Art Place, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd E3 5QZ

Chisenhale Studios has been working in conjunction

Chisenhale Studios has been working in conjunction with Tower Hamlets Youth League @towerhamletsnow to deliver a Summer Academy as part of our Future Artists programme, inviting young people to take part in creative activities across 5 days over the last month.

The first session saw Chisenhale Art Place deliver an introductory making session at @bromley_by_bow_centre at their Summer Festival of Wellbeing. A massive thanks to BBB for hosting us on the day!

The second session invited young people to engage with a dance workshop at @chisenhaledance led by Astha Desai through @pagravdanceco, before moving on to a weaving workshop led by @cecilylj and @renrrnren at Chisenhale Studios. Thank you to our fantastic facilitators for making this happen and providing a nourishing experience for all of the young people attending.

A huge thank you to Action for Bow for supporting this project.

📸 Sophie Thompson-Semple
📍 Chisenhale Art Place, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd E3 5QZ

COMING UP > Kate Hardy Understanding Colour Weekl

COMING UP > Kate Hardy
Understanding Colour
Weekly painting workshops

We are excited to announce that Chisenhale Studios artist @katehardystudio will be once again hosting a 10 week painting course at Chisenhale.

When: Wednesdays 7.15 - 9.15pm starting September 25th 2024
Where: Chisenhale Studios, London and Online
Course Fee: £200 (half term option available starting October 30th)

Please contact kate@chisenhale.co.uk to ask any questions or book your place.

Image: Kate Hardy

Chisenhale Studios would like to say a huge thank

Chisenhale Studios would like to say a huge thank you to @chromatic.agency for their fascinating contribution to the legacy of our building during their residency in Studio 4.

Chromatic Agency is a collaborative project between architectural designer Sandy Rompotiyoke and artist nnull that focuses on decolonising space and reclaiming agency. Their work investigates how political structures and value systems inform how we engage with material cultures, landscapes and ecology. They are primarily positioned against economic issues of capitalism, colonialism and neoliberalism and structural issues of modernism.

During their residency at Chisenhale Art Place, Chromatic Agency has been exploring these themes through material investigations based around Tower Hamlets Cemetary Park.

"Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a well-loved 31-acre nature reserve nestled in the heart of East London and is one of its ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries. The cemetery park is an important space for the heritage of working class communities and people of colour. This is because of its proximity to notable sites such as the Docklands, the Bow Road Workhouse and the long-forgotten Chinatown that once existed in Limehouse. Whilst the population of those buried in the cemetery is as diverse as the history of migration in London, only the graves of long deceased wealthy white anglicans are currently visible as they are made of stone. A majority of the burials for working class and global majority people were marked with wooden markers meaning that their histories degraded and became less visible over time. As a result of the varying biodegradability of burial markers in the cemetery, certain communities are not as visibly documented in the rich history of the cemetery."

Please follow @chromatic.agency to keep up to date with their upcoming projects informed by their time at Chisenhale Studios.

📍Chisenhale Art Place, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, E35QZ
📷 Chromatic Agency, 2024

Studio 4 Residency 🪟 @sara.heywood is a mixed

Studio 4 Residency 🪟

@sara.heywood is a mixed media artist, based in East London. Intrinsic to her practice is a collaborative dialogue between people and place and the point where natural and manmade environments and materials converge or impact one another.

For Chisenhale Studio 4 Summer Residency 2024, Sara plans to explore the boundaries of experimental analogue photographic developing processes using locally sourced natural and found materials. The residency will also research and take inspiration from the work of the late photographer and collagist Nigel Henderson, who lived at 46 Chisenhale Road in the 1940s and 50s.

Images: courtesy the artist @sara.heywood
Find out more about Sara's work www.saraheywood.net

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From May to September 2024, Chisenhale Studios will be hosting 3 exceptional artists in its residency space in Studio 4. Please use the links in bio to find out more information about each artist and how they will be engaging with Chisenhale Studios and the surrounding community.

Chisenhale Art Place would like to say a huge than

Chisenhale Art Place would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came to our Family Day back in May 🎉

Part of our Future Artists initiative, the Family Day was an incredibly important day for us. It aimed to bring members of our community together, in the immediate area and beyond, to celebrate creativity in all forms. We achieved this vision, as record numbers of families and visitors were welcomed to our building to engage in various events across the building, such as a community picnic, dance and art workshops, open studios and guided tours.

We would also like to say a special thanks to all who helped to enrich the experience of visitors: @orlandaotley who ran creative dance workshops at Chisenhale Dance Space, Deshi Shad who provided samosas for our community lunch, @sara.heywood who led guided SEN tours around Chisenhale Studios, @cecilylj and @renrrnren who led a fantastic textile and casting workshop and Richard Layzell for running performative tours of the Studios.

We would also like to say a huge thank you to @towerhamletsnow and Action for Bow for making this event possible.

📸 @brunabalodisphotography
📍 Chisenhale Art Place, 64-84 Chisenhale Rd E3 5QZ

Chisenhale Art Place is home to three distinct initiatives; Chisenhale Dance Space, Chisenhale Gallery and Chisenhale Studios – with each operating unique programmes that enable emerging and established artists and dancers to develop, experiment and make exceptional work

@chisenhalestudiosartists
@chisenhaledance
@chisenhalegallery

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Chisenhale Studios
at Chisenhale Art Place
64-84 Chisenhale Rd
London
E3 5QZ
Tel: 020 8981 1916

Chisenhale Studios is managed and operated by Chisenhale Art Place – Charity no. 285125

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