Here at Round Chapel HQ we like a bit of variety in our event listings. From vintage thrifting to some Grammy nominated Renaissance music - we've got you covered...
ELCAF 2019
8th East London Comic + Arts Festival
7, 8, 9 June
12PM - 7PM
ELCAF, London’s biggest annual festival dedicated to showcasing the best in comics, illustration, sequential art, and storytelling. ELCAF 2019 will be celebrating its eighth edition with its largest programme of talks, workshops, screenings, and masterclasses, carefully curated and delivered by a host of national and international artists, writers and illustrators. GET TICKETS ELCAF WEBSITE
Psychedelic Gong Bath
Monday 10 June
7:45PM - 9:45PM
‘A psychedelic experience without psychedelics'.
As you lie on a mat on the floor, gongs, Himalayan singing bowls, ritual musical instruments and overtone singing are used to weave a tapestry of sound. The vibrations create a feeling of being 'bathed' or carried away into space, with participants variously reporting subtle or powerful bodily sensations, a deep meditative state often accompanied by rich imagery and visions, or feelings of timeless nothingness and bliss. GET TICKETS
Stile Antico Foundation present
Songs of Longing and Exile
Sunday 23 June
5PM
Admission is Free, all are welcome
#refugeeweek2019
Inspired by Dowland’s melancholic song Flow my tears, and the heart-breaking stories of refugees which are never far from the news, Grammy nominated vocal ensemble Stile Antico and Dartington Arts, commissioned poet Peter Oswald to create texts for Dowland’s instrumental Lachrimae pavans.
Based on testimonies from today’s refugees and migrants, these new poems about displacement and exile present a contemporary and deeply moving counterpoint to this exquisite music; Dowland was himself no stranger to uncertainty and misfortune during his own, self-imposed exile.
Between the pavans, London-based Syrian musician Rihab Azar intersperses partly improvised music for oud. The programme also includes a new work by Giles Swayne written especially for the group, and performances by Woven Gold, a remarkable choir of refugees and asylum seekers.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
Preloved Kilo
Retro & Vintage Clothing @ £15 P/Kilo
Sunday 7 July
10AM - 5PM Preloved Kilo are back! Stocked and run by Preloved Vintage Wholesale.
Come straight to the wholesaler for bargain prices. 6 tonnes of Preloved, Retro and Vintage clothing @ £15 per kilo. MORE INFO GET TICKETS
We're listening to...
James Bay - Bad (LIVE at the Round Chapel)
We got a bit teary eyed when this one was being recorded. Who hurt you James?
St. Augustine's Tower News
UNVOICED
Pedro Miguel Baeta I Rachel Campbell I Fabienne Jenny Jacquet I Anna Kenneally I Rosielea I Jennifer Smith I Noriko Watanabe I Chloe Young
Unvoiced is a group exhibition featuring emerging UK-based and international visual artists. The show gives a platform to creative individuals who are still marginalised or under-represented in the art world because of their sexual orientation, gender, age or background.
Entry to this exhibition is Free.
Curated by TaintedGlory art blog. Find out more about Tainted Glory here
Image: Bliss, Rachel Campbell
Talks at the Tower 2019
We hope that you've been enjoying Talks at the Tower so far!
There are 4 more talks for you to choose from, with our final talk of 2019 taking place on Tuesday 2nd July.
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 11 June
Talks at the Tower
Laurie Elks: 50 years of the Lee Valley Regional Park, triumph, disaster or somewhere in between?
The Lee Valley Regional Park was the brainchild of the former Hackney Mayor Lou Sherman. His concept of a smartened up Lee Valley with “jazzy waterside cafes” metastasised into a vast Regional Park with a project to provide leisure facilities to serve the whole of London and beyond. 50 years after the Park Authority produced its first Master Plan, Laurie Elks, long-time critic of the Park Authority, reflects on its achievements and missed opportunities.
Talks at the Tower: Alan Ruston, The Gravel Pit Chapel
Hackney was a leading centre for nonconformity from the 17th century and a major congregation was the Gravel Pit Chapel opened in 1716. It came to national prominence in the 1780s when Dr Richard Price, radical and passionate supporter of the French Revolution, became its minister. Alongside Newington Green chapel, it was at the heart of radical theology. A secretive walled off burial ground survives on the site of the Chapel behind Mead Place near the Morningside Estate. Alan Ruston tells the history of this extraordinary congregation and its larger than life leading figures. REGISTER TO ATTEND
Tues 25 June
Talks at the Tower: Angry Sam & Friends, Performance Poetry
Angry Sam is a performer, poet, blogger, author and trenchant political and social critic. Join Sam and friends for an evening of performance poetry in Hackney's oldest building. There will be a performance from Dizraeli; rapper, multi-instrumentalist and sometime singer taking hiphop to new terrains and a sing-along from the rooftop as the sun sets, led by Ed Hicks. REGISTER TO ATTEND
Tues 2 July
Talks at the Tower: Richard Hill, Nonconformists in Hackney
This talk tells the story of the famous Newington Green chapel as prosperous families from Highbury and Newington became increasingly influential in the congregation. It is a story of more hymns and prayers, clubs, Sunday schools and charitable work – and less radical theology. Richard will describe these changes and will illustrate the social world of middle-class Islington and Hackney that was centred on the Chapel. REGISTER TO ATTEND
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