Waltham Forest Culture

Waltham Forest was the first-ever Mayor's London Borough of Culture in 2019! Follow us for updates on upcoming events in our incredible borough ✨

[Soho Theatre @sohotheatre]

Calling all #WalthamForest comedy and theatre lovers - fancy coming with us to @edfringe? ✨

Together with @wfcouncil we're offering an all expenses paid trip to the Festival this August, plus a full bursary for a term on our Labs

More info below 🧵👇

https://t.co/sf9WDvmyLu

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

The Waltham Forest Music Society are putting on a free lunchtime recital next Monday 15 April in Highams Park.
🎸 Head to All Saints Church on Church Avenue at 1pm (doors open at 12:30pm) for a 60-minute guitar recital by guitarist Ryan Chan.

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

Apply now for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Experience with @sohotheatre and embark on a journey that could shape your future in the creative industries, and help form the programme at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.

For 18-30s
Deadline: Sunday 14 April, 5pm
https://t.co/U80HQYXmZ1

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

We want to hear your views about culture and creativity in Waltham Forest to help shape a new Cultural Action Plan. Have your say via the survey and be in with a chance of winning a £100 voucher to spend at the William Morris Gallery shop ✨
👉👉👉https://t.co/i39SXECIFZ

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

The team have been busy developing plans for new creative programming in Waltham Forest. Here they are after presenting to @LDN_gov as part of an application for a London Borough of Culture Impact Award 🤞

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

Incoming: Thurs 9 Nov from 6-9pm there will be a charity art auction @FillyBrook - a partnership between Orlando Frames in Leyton and charity Furnishing Futures. Purchases will help create a healing home for women and children escaping domestic abuse.
👉https://t.co/2f0b6vYnhV

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

Are you neurodiverse and want to be part of a group community art project - submit a hand drawn map of places in the borough that make you feel calm. Any medium or format you like, postal submissions only, by 15 November.

Find out more here: https://t.co/ZPbN659RBT

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

A new exhibition is coming soon to Winns Gallery, Lloyd Park. 4 Women in Aquelarre is by four local female artists, Anna Alcock, Linda Green, Kirsten Schmidt and Yanire Sylva Delgado.

📅 16 to 24 Sept
⌚ Weekdays 12-5pm + Weekends 10-5pm
💌 Private View Friday 15 Sept, 5-7pm

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

Join the LGBTQI+ Quilt Makers! They'll be meeting every Thursday evening at @stoneminimarket to make a textile banner. Get together, share stories and learn new skills. Find out more and sign up here: https://t.co/IYIdU8kk7m

[Stone Mini Market @stoneminimarket]

Ohhh yess baby, Leytonstone LGBTQ+ Quilt Makers is here and we finally got the dates for it 🏳️‍🌈🧵🪡 @simonolmetti @connectnlwa @lbwalthamforest @walthamforestecho @waltham.forest.pride @lbwfculture
Book via link bellow:

https://t.co/gs5kVJO6al

[WilliamMorrisGallery @WMGallery]

✨ Less than a week until Dialled In: The Park - 22 July. Live music, DJs, free tours of Ashish: Fall in Love and Be More Tender and:

👕 Slogan T-Shirt Making
💎 Easy Embellishments Pop-Up
✂️ Collective Collage Making
👖 Community Clothes Swap

Book: https://t.co/Ga4s5MBfvd

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

The Waltham Forest Twinning Association invites you to the launch of Telling Our Story: an Anthology. The topics are as diverse as the writers, consisting of memories, conversations overheard, love and ageing.

📅 Fri 14 July, 6:30pm
🏛 Town Hall, E17
https://t.co/xvfs5tJbeD

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

✨ Opening this week! Revel Puck Circus presents The Wing Scuffle Spectacular: A Lion’s Heart✨ at Leyton Jubilee Park from 13 July.

Get £5 tickets 13-14 July only, using code LEYTONPUCK + 15% off evening shows Tuesday-Thursday using code WEEKNIGHT.

🎟 https://t.co/ccYRbSk5wr

[Waltham Forest Culture @LBWFculture]

Waltham Forest Pride is coming soon to @FSQ_E17 and tickets are free!

Continue the celebrations and let @ELOP_LGBT know if you're hosting an after-party, or organising a Pride event in Waltham Forest via the link 👇

➕🎟 https://t.co/QsIBhCJfcC
📅 Sat 29 July

#PrideInLondon

[WilliamMorrisGallery @WMGallery]

Launching the William Morris Community Residency Programme 🎉

Are you a community group, collective or organisation in Waltham Forest looking for resources or activity and meeting space to support your work? We want to hear from you.

Read more: https://t.co/tuX7wRQ1kX

[Chingford Historical Society @ChingfordHist]

Mornington Hall has been a community space for 100 years. Starting out as a school in 1923 and then Headquarters of the Wardens' Service during World War II. It was later used as a British Restaurant and now a home for CADOS. Do you have memories of the Hall? #chingford #history

[WilliamMorrisGallery @WMGallery]

📢 We're looking for volunteers to support our work with schools & families at the Gallery. If you have an approachable manner & commitment and enthusiasm for cultural learning & the arts, then this might be the role for you!

Apply by 7 July 2023

Info:
https://t.co/GjImjXbPP7

[We Are Here @weareherewf]

75 years ago today the British troopship the HMT Empire Windrush sailed into Tilbury. @75Windrush @patrick_vernon @bcaheritage @lbwalthamforest #empirewindrush #windrushgeneration #wearehere #walthamforest Images: Burton, Foster, Gordon, Edmund-Charles & Watson family archives