MEND 🧵 various locations, all week

London Repair Week

This week is London Repair Week, so loads of free events & workshops are taking place across the city to help Londoners learn how to repair everyday items like bikes, laptops & clothes.

WELLBEING 🧘 K’s Cross, until Sun

The Zen Project

An old American school bus parked at Lewis Cubitt Square has been converted into a mobile “zen den” for everyone to enjoy this week - sign up for various free wellbeing events here.

ARTS & CRAFTS 🎨 Dalston, 7-9pm

Collage Café

Fancy doing some mindful collaging with friends &/or new acquaintances? We love the sound of The Lazy Susans’ inclusive & free monthly collage workshops (book ASAP).

EXHIBIT 🖼️ St. Paul’s, Mon-Sun

“We live with it too”

This week only, you can check out a powerful pop-up exhibition by Dementia UK. It will explore how young people can also be affected by dementia via artwork created by children.

TALK 🗣️ Chalk Farm, 7-9pm

How to career-juggle

We have 10 free tickets to give away to the Roundhouse’s event on building multi-hyphenate creative careers (with DJ & Social Fixt founder Mercedes Benson). First come first served.

SHOW 💃 Ldn Bridge, 4pm-late

Burlesque & cabaret

Have a night to remember at this 18+ evening of exceptional cabaret & tantalising burlesque performances (held within a 17th century church that’s just a stone’s throw from The Shard!).

Competition time! 🎸🎹🎷

Fancy doing something that we’re pretty confident you’ve never done before? We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away for a Metaxa tasting session where you’ll learn about the unique amber liqueur that’s been loved by Greeks since 1888.

The tasting is being held at The Ministry in Borough this Friday as part of What Does Not RAW - a night of real & uncensored storytelling, plus art, music & other creative expressions.

To enter the draw, simply reply to this email! We’ll then pick a name at random by Wednesday. Good luck! 🤞

LATE 🦾 South Ken, 6-9pm

An artificial future

Explore the ways that AI will affect our future through talks, demonstrations & artistic workshops (ft. an AI-powered silent disco & AI-proof facepaint) at Imperial Lates this Thurs eve.

FASHION 🛍️ Peckham, Thurs-Sun

Lucy and Yak for less

Copeland Park has teamed up with clothing brand Lucy and Yak to host an (Im)perfect Yaks sale. You’ll find discounted L&Y items with minor issues/defects which are still totally wearable.

NIGHT OUT 🎤 S’ditch, 6pm-late

Hip Hop Paddy’Oke

Head to Boxpark Shoreditch for Hip Hop Paddy’Oke - a special St Patrick’s Day edition of the UK’s original Hip Hop Karaoke night (definitely an experience to cross off the bucket-list).

EXHIBIT 🖼️ Lewisham, until May

Feeling like a stranger

It’s the launch of the Migration Museum’s Nowhere to Go but Anywhere, a new multimedia solo exhibition that invites audiences to delve into the many layers of what “home” means.

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FESTIVAL 📚 Deptford, Sat 10-9pm

Deptford Literature Fest

Sat is the Deptford Literature Festival - a free event celebrating the creativity & diversity of the area through words, stories & performance. Check out the packed programme here.

CREATE 💚 Bethnal Green, 12-3pm

Paint It Green

Celebrate Global Recycling Day at St Margaret’s House this Sunday. Paint It Green is a day of family-friendly activities all using reclaimed paint (including the creation of a community mural).