FeastFest: Feast Day - Saturday 9 September 2023
FeastFest is Newham’s very own festival dedicated to those who enjoy food, art and life. Join us this September for our Feast Day, a delicious day of performance, food and fun.On Saturday 9 September, join us in Thames Barrier Park for a series of outdoor family-friendly performances and at The Factory for an indoor theatre programme. There will be selected food and craft stalls at the two locations.
11:00 - 17:00 Thames Barrier Park
17:00 - 21:00 The Factory
Tickets: Free - to register and for more information please visit: feastfest.org/
Vertical Farm-to-Fork at The Factory
15 June - 26 June. 12:00 -18:00
As part of the London Festival of Architecture, we will be hosting an installation on-site showcasing the Vertical Farm-to-Fork project at its design stage using XR technology from Spheroid Universe. The design, which was created in metaverse, will be mapping onto the actual site - the Factory where you can experience through your mobile phone. Come join us.
Imagine the future of how we experience food where crops were grown, at scale, then cooked and served all happen right in London under one roof. It’s a concept of farm-to-table like no other.
Traditional farming has been facing challenges: climate change, declining resources (lands, water), labours, decrease in biodiversity. Vertical farming therefore becomes one of the innovative solutions for our food production and food security. It requires less resources while generating 10 times greater yield compared to traditional farming. Moreover, it can be set up in urban areas that will reduce mileage on transportation.
Come for a self guided walk of the project from : Projekt and Spacelab_,
On the 14th June, we will be doing a Guided Walk and Panel talk, for more information and to book your free ticket, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/talk-vertical-farm-to-fork-at-the-factory-tickets-619095991777
Studios available now in Unit D
Affordable new studio spaces in Unit D of the Factory in London E16 are available now. Each studio has a mezzanine, with sizes from 290 sqft to 1600 sqft. For more information or to arrange a visit please email Denisa: info@thefactoryproject.co.uk
Thin Air at The Beams
17th March to 4th June 2023.
Thin Air, a digital technology and large-scale installation is now open at The Beams and runs until June 4th, 2023.
Taking advantage of over 55,000 square feet of vast interconnecting environments, the exhibition brings together works by seven global contemporary artists and collectives and explores the boundaries between art and technology, working with light, atmospherics, sound, and experimental new media.
Featuring work by contemporary artists including 404.zero, James Clar, Robert Henke, Kimchi and Chips with Rosa Menkman, Matthew Schreiber, S E T U P and UCLA Arts Conditional Studio.
For more information and tickets please visit:
https://thebeamslondon.com/thin-air/
Thin Air is supported by Projekt and the Royal Docks.
Dido´s Bar
Friday 23rd September - Saturday 8th October 2022
Let us tempt you to the edge of town for a night of theatre, music and myth at DIDO'S BAR.
Set in a music club teetering on the edge of belonging, DIDO'S BAR is a new immersive theatre production premiering at the Royal Docks. Expect an evening of sumptuous music and electrifying storytelling as divine bar owners, Juno and Venus, welcome world-class artists onto their stage and around their performances, our drama unfolds.
DIDO'S BAR is an epic retelling of Virgil’s Aeneid, a story of migration, love and assimilation. Retold for the 21st century through the eyes of refugees today, the work is inspired by Director Josephine’s encounter with Kurdish Iranian refugee and now Finnish resident Composer, Marouf Majidi. Marouf’s personal and musical contribution, alongside Playwright Hattie Naylor, Josephine, the cast and the Dido’s Bar House Band, is the heartbeat of our tale.
DIDO's BAR is produced by Dash Arts with Impossible Producing, and programmed by the Royal Docks Team
The event will take place at Unit F, The Factory, Factory Rd, Royal Docks, London E16 2HB.
for more information and tickets; https://tinyurl.com/4a2e8j8p
Sew Social Newham
Monthly
Sew Social is a local sewing group for textile creatives in Newham.
If you want to meet other textile creative-minded people, learn a new skill, or work on your own project you can join the Sew Social Newham group. They meet on the first Saturday of the month at The Factory. Sewing machines are available and help is on hand if you need any advice.
Free to attend. Please visit their Instagram for more information and to book your place.
The Queens Platinum Jubilee Community Event.
Friday June 3rd 2022
In June we hosted a special Platinum Jubilee event for the Silvertown and North Woolwich local community inside Unit A of The Factory,. Organised by the North Woolwich and Silvertown Royal British Legion and Royal Docks Learning and Activity Centre (RDLAC) and included performances from the Brick Lane Music Hall.
A big thank you to all of the organisers and to everyone who attended.
Be The Change East London
May 6th 2022, 12- 6pm
Be The Change East London is a new event created by The University of East London, to give the next generation of talent the opportunity to connect and network with people from the creative industries, including creative freelancers, artists, performers, brands from the Royal Docks and the wider London creative sector.
The Royal Docks is becoming the key area of development of the creative sector, with £8billion being invested in the area to make it the only 'Enterprise Zone' in London. The future Royal Docks will be a creative eco-system with studios, makers' yards, co-working spaces, and by attending this event you will be able to network to discover new opportunities for your future career, business or funding.
Cathrin Hoffmann - Probably Outside.
March 9 — 19, 2022
Public Gallery is pleased to present Probably Outside, an offsite exhibition of new painting and sculpture by German-Iranian artist Cathrin Hoffmann. In these stylised, distorted depictions, the artist imagines the body as an interface between the interior and exterior, examining the conflict between our inner and outer selves.
Open to visitors Tuesday to Saturday, 11am - 6pm until March 19 at The Factory.
London Living Wage Foundation Launch Event
15th November 2021
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan joined the community alliance Citizens UK and poverty charity Trust for London at an event to launch the London Living Wage project at The Factory.
VC x Herald Beginners´ Moto School
Monthly
VC has been running monthly events and workshops at The Factory to get womxn into motorcycles by providing supportive, friendly, spaces to give riding a go and to learn about motorcycles.
The VC X HeraldBeginners' Moto School exists to create a space where womxn can give riding geared motorcycles a try before taking the dive and getting their CBT around a bunch of like-minded people.
For more information please visit:
https://www.vclondon.co.uk/vc-x-herald-beginners-moto-school/
Newham Sparks at London Tech Week
22nd September 2021
Join us for Newham Sparks, a major data and digital anchor event hosted by the London Borough of Newham, as part of London Tech Week 2021 at The Factory E16.
Combining thought-provoking talks and panel debates with leading voices from across the data and digital sector, Newham Sparks will cover an array of topics including technology and data for public good; education, skills and jobs of the future; sustainability and the green economy - including a keynote by Professor Emeritus Sugata Mitra from NIIT University, India.
The Factory Project
October 9th - 22nd, 2021
We are very pleased to be hosting and supporting one of the largest curated art events taking place during London´s Frieze week.
Conceived by curators Thorp Stavri, it features 10 exhibitions and 110 artists and takes place across various spaces in The Factory site and will include performances, talks and tours.
Tickets are free but you must book in advance, for more information please visit:
https://www.insidethefactoryproject.com/
Jonny's 1960'S Sing-a-Long and Tea Dance
30th October 2021
Jonny Wooster celebrates the closure of the development of his play Silvertown with this piano sing-a-long and tea dance in The Factory on Factory Road, Silvertown. Jonny invites pianist and singer Rudi Douglas and singers Fi McCluskey and Kevin Farrah Davies to join him in this afternoon celebration of the music of the 1960's, the decade in which his play is set.
It's a fun afternoon of music and dance and a chance to meet and chat with Jonny and other members of the production and share stories from years past and present.
This event is supported by Arts Council England and is part of The Royal Docks Original Festival.
Silvertown: a new play By Jonny Wooster
28th & 29th October, 2021
Jonny Wooster (aka drag artist, Jonny Woo) presents work-in-progress readings of his play in an annex of the The Factory in Silvertown, re-purposed as a performance space. The play was inspired by a memory of Gay Liberation Front activist Stuart Feather about The Kent Arms, a North Woolwich pub frequented by gay men, sailors and locals in the 1960s. Jonny created the characters after talking to residents who remember the area in the 60s and senior gay men.
The staged readings of this two-act play will be presented by a full cast directed by Jo Tyabji and will be followed by a Q&A session with Jonny and contributors.
Co-commissioned by Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Royal Docks Team.
This event is supported by the Arts Council of England Lottery Fund
Neighbourhood Skate Club: Halloween Jam
30th October 2021
Founded by skateboarder Lyndsay McLaren, Neighbourhood Skate Club aims to create more opportunities for women in the UK to skate, connect and community-build. So often women and queer people have to fight for space and equality, specifically in the world of skateboarding. We are here to create a supportive and collaborative environment, encouraging our community to get on boards, take up space, use their voice and feel good.
Neighbourhood hosts regular community events and workshops in London, including a Halloween Jam at The Factory in October.
For more information and future events please visit: https://www.neighbourhoodskateclub.com/
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Brickfield Newham
March 2021
A collaboration between Projekt, the V & A, the University of East London, which was part of Newham Heritage Month.
Space was given for free for the month of May, where Communities from across the borough came together to make bricks from local industrial waste materials and make performances from local histories of housing and brick making.
The clay came from a housing project in the Royal Docks. Dug straight from the ground, the clay took many stages to process until it was ready for brick making. Here ceramics students from CityLit
helped to break down the clay. Rosanna Martin, founder of Cornwall's Brickfield, brought her expertise in brick making to East London
Workshop participants also watched a new theatre performance crafted by BA Acting students from the University of East London about housing in the borough.
Royal Docks Activity and Learning Centre's afterschool club joined us for a special brickmaking workshop, led by Brickfield support artists Zenna Tagney and Bobi MacFadzean.
We also hosted a very special week for a group of individuals passionate about brick, ceramics and housing activism in collaboration with Newham Council's Youth Empowerment Team.
As the kiln fired bricks made by the local community, UEL MA Performing Arts students shared their newly devised performances about histories of brick and housing in Newham.
Stratford's Building Crafts College provided two days of training to Oluwadamilola Nogzi Oluwatobi Akinyosade for her performance.
