Arts and culture
In Your View
7th June - 7th July
Photography exhibition, installed at The Foreshore Gallery by Douglas Bousquet, documenting the Docklands in 1984 before the development of Canary Wharf, the local Bengali community and London’s remaining post-war slums. Alongside this, there are photos from the local area taken by local resident Jan Dunning’s husband, of Deptford, Foreshore, during the Queen’s Jubilee visit.
Live Piano Recital
Wednesday 11th June, 7:30 pm (doors 7 pm)
Join us for a live piano recital by Russian pianist Mikhail Shilyaev. He is a piano professor at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire. He started learning piano at the age of six and won several regional piano competitions at a young age. He studied in Russia, Germany and in the UK and performs internationally.
Tickets £5, book here.
Our Patch
Our Patch is a community quilt celebrating the social fabric of our area. We all arrive in Deptford with rich stories and personal histories. Our Patch seeks to honour and explore the interwoven threads that connect our personal and collective experiences on the Deptford Foreshore. You are invited to share your story by contributing a patch of fabric, image, and/or an accompanying story to the community quilt.
In Residence
Arthur Torrington CBE is a Guyanese-born community advocate and historian who is Director and co-founder of the London-based Windrush Foundation, a charity that since 1996 has been working to highlight the contributions to the UK of African and Caribbean peoples. Also in 1996, Torrington set up the Equiano Society, with the main objective of celebrating the life and work of Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797), as well as the literary and cultural legacy in Britain of Equiano's African contemporaries.
