Party in Your Pants with Studio 9294 🩲

It’s another week packed with exciting events in Hackney Wick! From partying in your pants at Studio 9294, to connecting with your neighbours (fully clothed) at the Hackney Wick Town Hall, helping create an accessible compost toilet with Surge Cooperative, and an enriching workshop led by Abigail Yentis at Ælfred, the range is endless. Get involved!

🖼️ Get ready to dive into a world of unsettling connections and uneasy harmonies at Discomfort in Resonance, encapsulating both the depth of emotion and the lasting impact of anger within female and queer experience. Opening night 2 is Saturday June 1st, Indra Gallery.

🎂 Head over to Fabwick this Sunday, 2nd June from 4-8pm for Benja’s Birthday Jam. All musicians, poets and dancers welcome. Expect live music and a paint jam session by Maryam Sandjari Hashemi.

🐛 Join Surge Cooperative on the continuation of their journey with Compost Mentis cooperative to create an accessible compost toilet for the Long Wall Ecology Garden. On the day there'll be plenty to do for all skill levels, digging, plotting, carpentry, processing materials and lots more. Saturday June 1st, 11-5pm

🎨 Ælfred are thrilled to present an enriching workshop led by the talented artist and educator, Abigail Yentis. Embark on a creative exploration of interior drawing as we delve into the captivating history of this art form. While receiving an introduction to the history and importance of interior drawings provided by the team at Ælfred, immerse yourself in the charm of Ælfred's showroom as you capture the essence of their stunning mid-century pieces and the captivating ambience of their interior space in a two-hour drawing workshop. Fuel your creativity with delightful coffees and sweet treats, curated to complement your artistic journey. All materials will be provided, ensuring a seamless experience for all participants. Saturday June 1st, 1-3pm.

🧵 Meet Rachel, the vibrant artisan who brings vintage fabrics back to life with her expertise in embroidery and upcycling. Eccentric, creative and fun-loving, Rachel loves learning and teaching and she's a social person with a great sense of style. Her workshops are not only about learning a skill, but also about connecting with others and promoting sustainability through mending. Take a look at her upcoming workshops and get involved!

💻 Interested in a career in digital tech? Head over to Plexal on June 10th for Power to create your own pathway. Learn from inspiring role models about their routes into digital tech. Hear from expert panellists about how we’re tackling barriers. Visit the Jobs and Skills Marketplace to connect with employers and educators. Explore options and opportunities and discover which pathway is right for you, regardless of your background or experience.

🪩 Colour Factory resident TAAHLIAH has gathered her Ultimate Angels for a trilogy of iconic parties. Peak-time euphoria guaranteed and it's wall-to-wall trans excellence for the third instalment instalment, tomorrow, May 31st. If a B2B with NYC internet nymph GOTH JAFAR wasn't enough, T4T LUV NRG-affiliated queen INTROSPEKT and hardstyle misfit MISS CABBAGE round off the heavy-duty lineup. Don’t miss out on this one.

🎶 Deep dive into the wilderness this Saturday, June 1st. Embrace the beginning of the summer at HWK and join us for a 9 hours daytime set until Midnight. Expect tribal, hypnotic sounds in the beating heart of Hackney.

🩲 Party In Your Pants is a place you can call home. Expect SEVEN hours of silly, arty, messy fun, banging tunes, friendly people - be topless or not, we don't care, only respect and pants are compulsory. There will be pants. There will be paint. There will be holi powder, glitter, splatter and goop. Friday May 31st, at Studio 9294

📢 Head over to Trowbridge Gardens for a lively conversation with your neighbours at the next Hackney Wick Town Hall. An opportunity to get together to work through things that concern us. A chance to discuss, to listen, to be heard, and to maybe make some plans. When we’re connected, great things can happen. May 29th, 6-8pm, register to attend.

🚶‍♂️ Looking for change but not finding the solutions you need? Prefer moving to being stuck behind a desk? Inner Hero, an East London coaching company, are expanding and have formed an extension to focus purely on coaching on the move called East London Walking Coaching. They use the power of coaching in nature to unlock creative solutions to the most pressing challenges in people's lives. If you feel called to or want to learn more, contact Joe on 07834612086, or [email protected]. 

📢 Applications for the second round of Evo Fashion are now OPEN! The free, fully-funded Evo Fashion programme is designed exclusively for fashion tech businesses. Featuring workshops, peer-to-peer sessions and 1:1s with industry experts over a 5-month period later this year. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity! Deadline is the 3rd June. Apply today!

👚 Caramel Rock is partnering with Hackney Learning Trust to introduce a captivating year-long project aimed at enhancing skills and exploring the boundless potential of the fashion world. Find out more about the courses available.

🎓 Loughborough University London and UCL East are joining forces to offer a combined personal and professional development workshop package for interested recent graduates.  The aim of the Inspiring Success initiative is to encourage people to test drive the experience of studying at UCL or Loughborough London, while also boosting their personal and professional development. The deadline for sign ups is June 4^th 2024.

🏠 If you're a creative business, you know the importance of impactful first impressions - both for you and your clients. From your branding and online image to your people. It all tells a story. And so should your workspace, from your interiors to your location. The BCorp Certified Trampery on the Gantry studios echo the creativity of the businesses who call it home. Want to join them? Contact our super friendly team to book a tour!

🏆 The Mick Bateman Memorial Award is a new award set up with specific intention to support and encourage emerging artists working in metal. Each award offers: Two years of financial support towards the whole cost of a professional artist studio at Bow Arts. The award is up to a maximum of £2,000 in any one year, and; up to £1,000 (equivalent to 8 days) access to courses and/or workshop time in the London Sculpture Workshop. Applications are welcome from all artists until 12:00pm, Monday 3rd June.

💵 Celebrating their home on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the Loughborough University London Open Fund is only available to organisations working in Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest. Up to £7,500 is available for community groups. You can apply for a maximum of £1000. Bidding for all three finds opens on Monday 13 May and can be accessed here.  The closing date for applications is Friday 7 June 2024, 5pm.

💃 Studio Wayne McGregor is looking for a brilliant and motivated Archivist, to manage and oversee our dynamic archive with over 30 years’ worth of materials. The right candidate will make a significant contribution to the Studio’s history and current activity, raising the profile of McGregor’s work as well as acquiring and disseminating materials to appropriate stakeholders internally and externally. Deadline to apply June 26th.