EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Expect community and cultural activities and events hosting in the indoor project space and outdoor spaces of Alice Billing House, Stratford.
Since spring 2024, we’ve hosted several workshops for Newham communities ranging from including basket, apron and zine making to a movement workshop. Find out more about these events on our blog and sign up below to be kept updated on future events.
Community Planting Day at the Historic Alice Billing House in Stratford
Join us on 2nd of April to plant up our newly built planters at one of Stratford's most Historic buildings, Alice Billing House. This former fireman’s accommodation opened as artist studios in 2024, and with the help of the community, we are looking to improve the entrance courtyard to provide a space for the artists and visitors to enjoy.
Family-Friendly Metal Bashing & Sculpture Workshop
Morning Session: 10 am -12.30 pm
Afternoon Session 1.30 pm - 4.00 pm
Make a community-created aluminium sculpture for the courtyard of this historic building in Stratford!
Together, we will construct a hose, which is a nod to the building's fire-fighting history, by using silver strips and cable which will come together to create a sculptural piece of art.
(PAST) Celebration of Alice Billing House’s Supper Cloth & 1st Birthday
Join us to celebrate the completed and framed community stitched art project, The Supper Cloth,
(PAST) Floral Embroidery Patch Making
Stitch a floral patch to embellish a garment, frame as a wall piece of gift to a friend. Stitch together and discover the benefits of embroidery as relaxation, mindfulness and creativity.
(PAST) Speculative ReMemory // Audio and Visual // DJs
Join us at Grow in Hackney Wick for an evening exploring experimental project - Speculative ReMemory - which includes audio and visual work made as part of an engagement project at Alice Billing House in Stratford.
These cumulative creative contributions have emerged from a network of artists and local communities, and draws upon non-traditional methodologies, indigenous practices of storytelling and the collation of stories to create a body of work that utilises experimental formats of archival and artistic outcomes. Rooted in feminist and anti-colonial epistemologies, the intention has been to unearth the rhizomatic connective tissues between past, present and future.
Expect excerpts from the digital archive, physical representations on Grow’s Mezzanine Gallery and a chance to meet artists involved in the project.
The archive project is led by artist and programme facilitator, Sandra Falase, part of an engagement programme run by Grow Studios at Alice Billing House in Stratford, supported by the Creative Land Trust and Heritage Lottery Fund.
(PAST) Willow Wreath-Making Workshop
Learn how to twist and wrap willow to create your own wreath and then decorate with plants and other decorations.
(PAST) Willow Star Decoration Making Workshop
Learn how to use a simple flat weave technique to make star decorations out of willow. A perfect Christmas decoration made from natural materials.
(PAST) The Supper Cloth x LCF After Dark: Collective Care
Alice Billing House’s The Supper Cloth taking its final outing to London College Fashion’s event “LCF After Dark: Collective Care”
(PAST) Threads of Connection - Mapping our lived experience through Art
Join Multi-Disciplinary artist Marilyn Fontaine, an East London-based mixed-media artist who creates work with subversive and mystical overtones, for this two-hour workshop exploring our personal and collective connection to Newham and share stories of how our communities contributed to our sense of belonging and identity.
(PAST) Designing Loving Worlds with Yaa Addae
We are excited to welcome the founder of Open heart Clinic, Yaa Addae (she/they) a writer, researcher, and participatory curator whose practice is concerned with architecture, both social and physical to facilitate workshops in response to themes surrounding the ongoing speculative archive project.
(PAST) Care Futures Reading Group with Yaa Addae
We are excited to welcome the founder of Open heart Clinic, Yaa Addae (she/they) a writer, researcher, and participatory curator whose practice is concerned with architecture, both social and physical to facilitate workshops in response to themes surrounding the ongoing speculative archive project.
(PAST) The Supper Cloth at The Stratford Centre
We are taking our community stitch art project, The Supper Cloth, to The Stratford Centre. We’re inviting the passing public to sit down, slow down, and feed their creativity through stitching and co-creating a communal piece of embroidered art!
(PAST) The Supper Cloth at Stratford Library
We are taking our community stitch art project, The Supper Cloth, to Stratford Library. We’re inviting Library users to sit down, slow down, and feed their creativity through stitching and co-creating a communal piece of embroidered art!
(PAST) Open Studios and Community Stitch Art Workshop
Join us for our first Open Studios. Explore the private studios, meet the artists and learn about the building's history.
(PAST) The Supper Cloth at Abbey Gardens
We are taking our community stitch art project, The Supper Cloth, to Abbey Gardens. We’re inviting community garden users to sit down, slow down, and feed their creativity through stitching and co-creating a communal piece of embroidered art!
(PAST) The Supper Cloth; Community Stitch Art Project at the Creative Industry Festival
Kicking off our community stitch art project - The Supper Cloth, this event will be at Creative Day, St John Church, part of ULE’s Creative Industry Festival and Invites future creatives to sit down, slow down, and feed their creativity through stitching and co-creating a communal piece of embroidered art!
(PAST) Andy Mac Manus Windows at The Creative Industry Festival
Come visit and behold the punchy art in the windows and click on the QR code for more information about Andy Mac Manus, the History of Alice Billing House, and the exciting plans for its renovations
(PAST) Somatic Workshop with Ayebainemi Abieyuwa
This somatic workshop will explore how our identities can displace us from our local surroundings and communities and how we can create tools of resistance that help us transmute that loss and grief.
(PAST) Poetic Movement workshop exploring queer identity
The workshop will be movement and writing-focused, utilising methods of somatic breath work and sound meditation, to explore themes surrounding queer identity and the intersection of location by honouring prominent queer voices that also have roots in Newham.
(PAST) Make an artist apron out of an old shirt
Join us at Alice Billing House in Stratford to reuse a worn-out or unloved man's shirt and turn it into a stylish and practical apron!
(PAST) Cut 'N' Paste Zine Workshop
Join us at Alice Billing House in Stratford to learn the basic skills of this lost art form in a two-hour workshop which explores the theme of heritage and archives through zine making.
(PAST) After the Firefighters - Creating Alice Billing House
The After the Firemen - a friendly informative tour describing the unique history of Alice Billing House, and the plans for its future.
(PAST) Places, Spaces and Faces Workshop
Join us at Alice Billing House in Stratford to a make a digital self-portrait workshop at historic Alice Billing House
(PAST) After the Firefighters - Creating Alice Billing House
The After the Firemen - a friendly informative tour describing the unique history of Alice Billing House, and the plans for its future.
(PAST) PLACES, SPACES & FACES WORKSHOP
Join us at Alice Billing House in Stratford to a make a digital self-portrait workshop at historic Alice Billing House
(PAST) One-day Basketry Making Workshop for Beginners
Join us at Alice Billing House in Stratford to learn how to make a small, round basket from willow. These handle-less baskets are perfect for bread, fruit and general storage! Free for residents of Newham
(PAST) ALICE BILLING ARTS & MAKERS FAIR
A FREE community event featuring live music performances, dance and creative workshops along with locals selling art, food and artisan goods, part of the Alice Billings Connects programme, organised by Hive Curates.