It’s getting hotter – and we’re looking for memories of Summers in Somers Town. Help us build a visual archive of Somers Town or Camden that tells us about London’s experience of heat from 1945 to today. We had a day of events at Climate Action Day on June 20th. We’re creating an exhibition in… Continue reading Summer in the city!
Category: Projects
2025: A Year in Review
2025 was a major year for A Space for us as we launched two public realm artworks in Somers Town. Poetry in Lights We ended the year on high launching Poetry in Lights with artist Robert Montgomery. Here is a short film of the launch party with a walk in Chalton Street led by Robert… Continue reading 2025: A Year in Review
Youth Work Experience
We’re running a Half Term Youth Work experience this October from 2th-31st where you can create your own zine on burning issues, and get a day on a stall at a famous market. With help from professionals and archival research, it has expert input, with real-world tasks. Participants exercise their creativity, project work, time management… Continue reading Youth Work Experience
Great Festival!
Saturday’s Somers Town Festival proved grounds up initiatives can survive. Lover’s Rock Janet Kay headlined; and we saw old faces and new from the communities. The Museum held an open air exhibition of its community co-curated health work – with themes of housing and health; childhood and motherhood and wellbeing. A Youth Work experience group… Continue reading Great Festival!
2024 in Review
In 2024, the People’s Museum continued to preserve overlooked heritage and giving a voice to locals in a working class social housing area the midst of huge urban development. We ended with a commitment to work towards a conservation area on the basis of social housing – a theme in this election year. HOUSING IS… Continue reading 2024 in Review
We’re featured by GLA!
With a grant from the Mayor of London’s Untold Stories programme, Art in Everyday Life preserves and re-imagines working class heritage whilst uplifting voices of the community at risk of being forgotten. GLA Diversity in the Public Realm Our project to preserve important working class artworks has been selected for the GLA news Untold Stories,… Continue reading We’re featured by GLA!
PROGRAMME 100 Years: St Pancras Housing: HOUSING IS NOT ENOUGH/ NOT ENOUGH HOUSING
Programme for 2024 as the 100th anniversary of St Pancras Housing association, the local social housing project.
Bringing to life lost art
We’re bringing to life in 3D form the ‘lost art’ of St Pancras Housing.
New art for Somers Town
Untold Stories is a new artwork for Somers Town will ‘re-create’ aspect of its social housing history its missing heritage: beautiful ceramics by Gilbert Bayes, now many are lost.
Untold Stories Grant win for Somers Town!
We win a grant to restore working class heritage to Somers Town -Untold Stories