2024 is the 100th anniversary of St Pancras Housing association, the local social housing project at the heart of the area. Arguably, today social housing in Somers Town is itself a radical act – and that is at the heart of our ‘A Space for us?‘ initiative.
Here’s our programme of events and activities which are featured on Open House London Festival.
Centenary programme 2024
- Theatrical event Saturday September 14th Archival film projection Event & archival films Workshop at St Mary’s church Book here
- ‘Ossulston Estate: Echoes of Karl Marx Hof’ Guided Walk Tue 17 Sep Guided walk around the 1930s Grade II listed Ossulston Estate by Danny Bee of Radical Walks and local resident Diana Foster of the museum. 1 hour-1 hour 30 mins
- Walking tours as part of Open House Festival 2024 Events
- This Uncanny Zone’: Gothic Psychogeography Mini-Walk Wed 18 Sep Join our lunchtime mini-walk around Somers Town’s literary and occult connections
- ‘Art in Everyday Life’ Guided Walk Sat 21 Sep 14:00–15:00 Join our guided walk around St Pancras to see Gilbert Bayes’ ceramic works on social housing estates, inspired by fairy tales.
- More on Open House Festival here
- NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM – Outdoor Film in Oakshott Court about Peter Tabori White Flats with Levitt Bernstein
MURAL PAINTING Saturdays in June 11- 2pm Outside Story Garden Ossulston St NW1 1DF A London Festival of Architecture event
’ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE ‘ Heritage Trail with architects editcollective installing physical artworks on Phoenix Road with virtual AR stories content, with CSM and stories. This will raise awareness of the loss of this important working class heritage, and Untold Stories is co-created with people who live here today. An accompanying book on Bangladeshi Folk tales / stories includes new voices in the place we live. We are saving our art!
Irene Barclay UK’s 1st female surveyor got a Blue Plaque
PANEL DISCUSSION WITH JOHN BOUGHTON and Elizabeth Darling
A London Festival of Architecture event
Talks discussions on HOUSING IS NOT ENOUGH/ NOT ENOUGH HOUSING – draws together thinkers on St Pancras Housing as a radical act, and in the context of wider contemporary social housing issues, and Somers Town as a changing area, at risk urban working class community facing major development – With accompanying publication