Safe Space: art for vulnerable adults in lockdown
Safe Space, a new art workshop programme for older or vulnerable adults and carers designed “for lockdown and beyond” is launching in the community around Finsbury Park in North London…
Observations in paint: “What procedures?”
Let’s get this done What procedures? July 7, 2020 Let’s get this done Eyesight test, May 25, 2020 Let’s get this done “I did not…”, May 23, 2020 Let’s get…
Coming : Being : Going. The Michael Clark Company IG Takeover
On 4 and 5 May, the designer Malcolm Garrett was invited to take over the Michael Clark Company Instagram account to present a selection of his record sleeve designs to…
Back to the future: the memory of place
These personal reflections on cultural regeneration, place and memory expand on a presentation Thea made at Design Manchester’s Liveable Cities conference last November, drawing also on her current focus on…
People and heritage
In 2019 – Finsbury Park’s 150th anniversary year – we celebrated with a programme of events including #Everything150, a contemporary archaeology project in partnership with the Museum of London; a…
How the Bauhaus changed the ’80s
The first ever creative collaboration between Kasper de Graaf and Malcolm Garrett – the October 1981 edition of New Sounds New Styles magazine – is featured in an exhibition at…
Exhibition brings People’s Park to life
Between the café and the lake right in the centre of Finsbury Park, 10 large A-frames present a preview exhibition of images and stories from the rich and radical heritage…
A voice, of sorts* – the life and art of Alan Kitching
The sound of Celia Stothard fills the room at 19 Cleaver Street in Kennington, transporting me to years precociously spent in the company, via my parents’ gramophone, of French chansonniers…