Grow Studios together with the Creative Land Trust were pleased to mark the official launch of Alice Billing House on Tuesday 4 June 2024

On May 11 we had our first free workshop for Newham residents where studio holder Faye Gosling facilitated a One-Day Basket Making Workshop in our Project Space .-

An afternoon of planting wildflowers with studio holders

The Project Space at Alice Billing House in Stratford is a self-contained room within the studios which is available to studio holders, local community groups, and individuals of Newham for meetings, community engagement, learning and outreach activities.

Grow Studios moved into Alice Billing House in January 2024 and since then, the main focus has been to fill the studio spaces with artists, with a focus on those who are also residents of Newham.

As part of Alice Billings Connects, University of East London (UEL) students curated a new exhibition - In Out - at Gerry Raffles Square in Stratford from 27 January to 25 February 2024.

As part of a cultural programme along Stratford High Street to reinvigorate interest in Alice Billing House, in December 2023, Hive Creates commissioned Irish artist Andy Mac Manus to design artworks to showcase in the windows at The Westbridge Hotel and XIX Nineteen Cafe.

To celebrate South Asian Heritage month 2023, as part of the Alice Billings Connects programme, Hive Curates teamed up with local Newham based photographer Sylvie Belbouab to capture the stories and images of South Asian women in Newham.

This free workshop, part of Alice Billings Connect, celebrated Black History month in Newham and explored themes of memory, displacement, trauma, belonging and home.

As part of Alice Billings connects, Hive Curates worked with Us.Man.Dere, a collective of young cultural tastemakers, to tell the stories behind the local businesses, provoke conversation around stories in the hopes of unearthing the culture and community that exists in the area.

As part of Hive Curate’s Alice Billings Connects programme, Curmiah Lisette of Tropical Theatre took participants of a poetry walk on a journey through Newhams heritage and history looking at the timeline and development of the local area, focusing on the Windrush 75th anniversary

Artist Lolo Brow was interviewed by Hive Curates ahead of an event organised as part of Alice Billings Connects, which was a cultural programme along Stratford High Street to reinvigorate interest in Alice Billing House.

In 2022, Hive Curates interviewed the Sense Collective, as part of Alice Billings Connects, which was a cultural programme along Stratford High Street to reinvigorate interest in the historic Alice Billing House.

This event was hosted by Hive Curates , part of their cultural programme along Stratford High Street to reinvigorate interest in Alice Billing House. The event followed on from Mental Health Awareness week and promoted positivity and belonging on the high street.