TrainingProject

Mon 1 January 2024 – Sun 31 January 2027

Camera-works

Camera-works is a series of FREE part-time photography courses for Tower Hamlets residents aged under 25.

Project

Thu 1 February 2024 – Sun 1 March 2026

The People's Gallery

Exploring the history of socially-engaged photography and film in East London. 

TalkTrainingProject

Thu 1 May 2025 – Tue 31 March 2026

A Story of Squatters

A Story of Squatters explores the stories of people who saved their homes from demolition to create the Grand Union Housing Cooperative. It is inspired by photographs taken by Joyce Edwards in the 1970s and 1980s.

ExhibitionTalkFilm screening

Fri 13 February 2026 – Sat 21 March 2026

Joyce Edwards: A Story of Squatters

Our new exhibition reveals a remarkable body of work by the late photographer Joyce Edwards, and tells the story of an extraordinary East End squatting movement. 

Film screening

Wed 25 February 2026 | 18:30

Reclaiming Space: Queer Space

A film programme accompanying A Story of Squatters exhibition.

Kicking off our mini-series, this jam-packed evening of four shorts investigates the importance of exclusively Queer, Black and Asian spaces in the 1980s and 90s

Film screening

Thu 26 February 2026 | 18:30

Reclaiming Space: Refuge

A film programme accompanying A Story of Squatters exhibition. 

This evening of films examines the notion of finding refuge and community in different spaces.

Film screening

Fri 27 February 2026 | 18:30

Reclaiming Space: Rebel Dykes

A film programme accompanying A Story of Squatters exhibition. 

Join us for a rip-roaring motorbike ride through this documentary, that follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at Greenham Common peace camp and went on to become artists, performers, musicians and activists in London. 

Film screening

Wed 4 March 2026 – Thu 19 March 2026

LONG TAKE: Workers Film a Century Apart

LONG TAKE is a series of three screenings and discussions at Four Corners, The LUX and Mayday Rooms, which brings together films by the 1930s Workers’ Film & Photo League with contemporary activist films to explore themes of housing, empire and work.