Art Exhibition: Family and Community Life

[AFG_gallery id=’14’] Children are taking out their utensils to show us how it’s done. Expecting a rainbow of color on the theme ‘Family and Community Life’ to brighten up our workshop. They have just another week to finish up their masterpieces and hand them over to a critical jury, the […] more »

Break dance Workshop

Keir Philip has been teaching and performing break dancing for a couple of years; starting as a weekly instructor in Bristol before taking his moves around the world with him. Whether delivering workshops from townships in South Africa (as part of the White Ribbon Alliance – protecting women’s rights), to […] more »

BLC – Hackney 2012

‘Tackling interviews’ workshops for unemployed people at Workshop44. These free workshops encourage participants to improve presentation, confidence and practical techniques needed when undertaking interviews. Incorporating video projection, intensive and fully interactive workshops are facilitated using techniques in drama, video and sound to stimulate and engage participants to develop their practical […] more »

Bikeworks

Bikeworks Bikeworks is a social enterprise that uses bicycle programs to engage with troubled communities and tackle social and environmental problems at a local level. For just one day, our workshop got turned into a bike repairing shop as Bikeworks showed up with their tools, rolled up their sleeves and […] more »

Neighborhood clean-up poster drawing

[AFG_gallery id=’17’] Keeping the neighborhood clean from litter and dog fouling is one of those ever recurring themes in Resident Association meetings on the Regents Estate. Picking up on this queue from the locals, we decided to apply a new strategy and get the children involved. As always, Tom, the […] more »

Screening of ‘La Haine’

[AFG_gallery id=’16’] The Other Cinema, from the creators of Secret Cinema, returns this May for its second edition and global launch with one of the most provocative, truthful and relevant films made about urban youth,’La Haine’, with a live score by Asian Dub Foundation. Screenings will be taking part in […] more »

Journalism Workshop

Poached Creative, a company specializing in writing and design for charities and the social sector, is running its six week training program at Workshop 44. The first session, ‘Introduction to communications’ started with a presentation showing how communication works, the barriers, the different forms of communication and how to identify […] more »

Shutter Graffiti

We were very happy to have Art Against Knives graffiti our shutters! Together we organised a weekend long drawing, painting and doing graffiti workshop alongside Dan from Sweet Combination who provided us with an energetic musical background. Many young people from the area helped to create and paint a unique […] more »