Dear Friends,
We’re feeling a renewed sense of energy at Round Chapel HQ that can only be explained by the arrival of spring. Read on for our latest events that are sure to put a spring in your step...
Psychedelic Gong Bath
Monday 22 April 2019
7:45PM - 9:45PM
‘A psychedelic experience without psychedelics'.
Allow the vibrations of gongs, Himalayan singing bowls and overtone singing to weave a tapestry of sound, leaving you with a feeling of being 'bathed' or carried away into space. GET TICKETS
Gergovie Wines & Tutto Wines
Spring Tasting 2019
Sunday 28 April 2019 11AM - 5PM
The tasting runs from 11am to 5pm (last entry at 4pm)
Folk of the World celebrates the beauty, richness and diversity of music from refugee cultures and raises awareness of the challenges refugees and asylum seekers face in the UK. Native Sun is a London based band consisting of bilingual rapper and refugee Mohammed Yahya, born in Mozambique and singer-song writer Sarina Leah born in London with Caribbean roots. Music Action International's programme Everyday People supports young people newly arrived from conflict areas in partnership with the British Red Cross.
An afternoon of fun trad dance for all the family and all ages. There will be dances for very small ones (3-5), slightly larger ones (6-8), and dances for little ones to do with their parents too.... for tiny ones there will be a soft play corner and bubbles for everyone!
Folk Dance, but not as we know it… Fusing the vibes of a New Orleans marching band with the highland fling. The Brass Band Ceilidh mixes traditional Scottish reels, funky dance moves and a 10 piece brass band. Probably the world's first Brass Band Ceilidh, get it while it's hot! Music from Brasstermind and Dance Callers from Cut A Shine.
We've been watchingSky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2019. The semi-final was filmed here at Round Chapel and contestants were tasked with painting legendary jazz musician Courtney Pine, CBE.
What's on at St. Augustine's Tower...
Hackney's Oldest Building has a website! Yes, it took a while for our sister venue to join the digital age but she's finally here and what a corker of a website it is.
There are so many events taking place at St. Augustine's Tower this year, make sure to check out the new website and let us know what you think!
Hollow Objects by Mhairi Vari is a sculptural installation with sound that contemplates elements of the internal architecture of St. Augustine's Tower. The work will resound around the stony solidity of the building, touching on concepts of time, immanence and ephemerality while occupying a blink in the lengthy history of the tower. There will be a text by Oscar Nearly to accompany the installation.
Entry to this exhibition is Free. In partnership with Domobaal.
Find out more about the artist here
#mhairivari
Image: Hollow Objects (detail) 2019
Sock balls, cling film, mica
Talks at the Tower 2019
Hackney Historic Buildings Trust's annual programme of community talks and events begins on Tuesday 14 May. All events in the Talks at the Tower Series are free to attend. Doors open at 7pm with talks or performances starting at 7:30pm. Registration is essential as places fill up very quickly...
Tues 14 May
Talks at the Tower
Neil Martinson: Another Time, Another Place
Neil Martinson has been taking pictures in Hackney since he was a pupil at Hackney Downs in the early 1970s. He will discuss the themes in his exhibition 'Another Time, Another Place: Hackney in the 70s and 80s' currently on display at Hackney Museum. The exhibition depicts Hackney's working lives, protests, children and young people, homelessness, Jewish life, street markets and street scenes. He says that he has aimed to record 'a whole history of working class people that has never been talked about or recorded, that was important'. REGISTER TO ATTEND
Tues 21 May
Talks at the Tower
Embers: Storytelling Evening
The EmbersCollectiveare a storytelling and live-music group, telling age-old stories with a modern twist. They adapt world mythology, weaving stories and songs into a live evolving musical soundscape. Come and enjoy an evening of grown up storytelling staged in our amazing atmospheric seven-hundred-year-old medieval tower. REGISTER TO ATTEND
