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We are a Tower Hamlets-based theatre company and charity that focuses on projects which explore innovative and meaningful ways to bring together arts professionals and community members. It is is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales and a registered charity. Registered address: 106 Wilmot Street, London E2 0BT. Company No: 07313013. Charity No: 1161754. It is also a member of the Independent Theatre Council (ITC).If you can, please help us by making a donation.
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Tag Archives: Tower Hamlets
Back the Bid!
We’re backing the bid – in fact, as mentioned previously, we’ve even contributed to the consultation process. So please join us! If Tower Hamlets won the title of London Borough of Culture for a year it would be brilliant for … Continue reading
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Tagged London Borough of Culture, Tower Hamlets
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Rehearsing for East
Here are some photos from rehearsals for East’s next performance, an evening of songs and stories from people living, working or otherwise connected to East London. It’s going to be a lovely night and we hope to see you there! … Continue reading
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Tagged BSK, community, East, Season of Bangla Drama, storytelling, Tower Hamlets
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London Borough of Culture (fingers crossed)
Tower Hamlets is bidding to be London Borough of Culture in 2019 or 2020. This is really exciting. It’d be amazing if we get it but, even if we don’t, the work going into the bid will still be beneficial. … Continue reading
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Tagged community, London Borough of Culture, Tower Hamlets
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Silk River – official photos
Here’s a great pic of the band by Mike Johnston from Day 2 the Silk River event a couple of weeks ago. You can see the rest of his excellent photos from the day here.
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Tagged Kinetika, Silk River, The Black Smock Band, Tower Hamlets
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A Report on Silk River
As Kinetika’s incredible Silk River project moves on to Greenwich, here’s a blog about yesterday’s events, for which we advised on music and facilitated the involvement of The Black Smock Band. The band supported young people from A Team Arts in … Continue reading
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Tagged A Team Arts, community, Kinetika, LBTH, Silk River, The Black Smock Band, Tower Hamlets
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Silk River
We’re excited to be part of Kinetica’s Silk River Project, linking the Thames with the Hooghly River in India in an international celebration of the silk trade. We’ll working with our regular collaborators The Black Smock Band to support young … Continue reading
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Tagged A Team Arts, community, Kinetika, LBTH, Silk River, The Black Smock Band, Tower Hamlets
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A Great Day Out, indeed
We had a very successful day running an East storytelling tent at Great Day Out in Victoria Park. Here are some lovely photos by Rehan Jami of tellers Alia Alzougbi and Sef Townsend in action. SaveSave
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Tagged Alia Alzougbi, Great Day Out, Sef Townsend, storytelling, Tower Hamlets, Victoria Park
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A Great Day Out
We’re back in Victoria Park again this Sat… Specifically, we’re proud to present, in conjunction with BSK, storytelling this Sat, with two amazing tellers: Sef Townsend and Alia Alzougbi. It’s part of LBTH’s A Great Day Out, and of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alia Alzougbi, BSK, community, East, Sef Townsend, storytelling, Tower Hamlets
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Storytelling for Eid-al-Fitr
We’re absolutely delighted to be part of this year’s Eid-al-Fitr celebrations in Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets. As part of our East storytelling project, organised in collaboration with Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, we’ll be running a storytelling tent with amazing tale-spinners Shamim Azad … Continue reading
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Tagged BSK, community, East, Eid, Paul Burgess, Sef Townsend, Shamim Azad, Tower Hamlets, Victoria Park
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Numbi Festival 2017
We’ve been talking to the inspiring Kinsi Abdulleh about adding some Somali storytelling to the East Archive, and she invited us to the launch event of this year’s Numbi Festival. Numbi is “a platform for collaborative cross-cultural exchange for artists … Continue reading
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Tagged East, East Archive, Numbi, Somali culture, Somali literature, storytelling, Tower Hamlets
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