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Free part-time course in photography
Open to Tower Hamlets residents aged 14–25 and over 50.
Want to know more about photography and developing your own prints? Into Focus is a free, part-time course exploring film photography. Collaborate with people from across Tower Hamlets to develop camera skills in just 12 weeks.
- Learn about different camera techniques and get the chance to put these into practice in our professional photography studio
- Experiment with printing methods in the Four Corners’ darkroom
- Explore Tower Hamlets through local photography walks
- Showcase your work online and/or at Four Corners’ Gallery (covid-permitting)
Free film school for Tower Hamlets residents.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Apply online by 22nd November 2021.
ZOOM offers one year of professional support for those interested in a career in Film or TV, including:- 6 weeks of practical filmmaking training, including the production of a short film.
- 3 mentoring sessions with a high-caliber industry professional.
- Accreditation (Open College Network credits in Film Production).
- Masterclasses and networking sessions.
- Paid placement and job opportunities.
- Bespoke career guidance and pastoral support.
- Travel and childcare costs.
- Residents of Tower Hamlets
- aged 18+
- from a lower socio-economic background, unemployed, in a low waged role, and/or claiming benefits
- not in full-time education.
Free part-time course in photography
Open to Tower Hamlets residents aged 14–25 and over 50.
Want to know more about photography and developing your own prints? Into Focus is a free, part-time course exploring film photography. Collaborate with people from across Tower Hamlets to develop camera skills in just 12 weeks.
- Learn about different camera techniques and get the chance to put these into practice in our professional photography studio
- Experiment with printing methods in the Four Corners’ darkroom
- Explore Tower Hamlets through local photography walks
- Showcase your work online and/or at Four Corners’ Gallery (covid-permitting)
Exploring the 1978 anti-racist uprising led by East London’s Bengali community.
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point is a major heritage project exploring this history.
With the help of volunteers and original activists, we are creating a vital record of this watershed moment as told by local people.
4 MAY 1978
A young Bengali garment worker is found dead near Brick Lane; yet another racially-motivated attack endured by the Asian population of East London. This time however, things are different. The brutal murder of Altab Ali mobilises the community to take action.
14 MAY 1978
7,000 Bengalis march from Brick Lane to Hyde Park then Downing Street behind Ali’s coffin, in an unprecedented uprising against racist far-right groups. Their actions represent a turning point in resistance against racial discrimination. East London will change for good.
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The project will produce:
- an archive of photographs and oral histories
- a short documentary film
- a touring exhibition
- a free public events programme
- a study pack for schools
- Were you living in the Brick Lane area during the late 1970s?
- Do you remember the anti-racist protests galvanised by the murder of Altab Ali?
- Were you involved in the protests, either as an activist or witness?
It’s the final month The Health Tree, St Margaret’s House programme of wellbeing treatments and activities. You have until the end of March to make the most of the wide range of holistic therapists offering their skills to the local community, from Tai Chi and pilates to contemporary dance.
The Health Tree project started in 2020 in response to the effects of Covid. It offers a holistic programme of activities to help alleviate isolation, loneliness, depression, mental health issues, part of a wider aim of increasing access to ‘social prescribing’ in Tower Hamlets.
Social prescribing is a rapidly expanding field whereby the NHS and GPs can prescribe non-medical support as a way of improving a patient’s chances of recovering from their illness. This can range from gardening to meditation and will typically be offered by local community partners.
The Health Tree activities include meditation, movement, nutrition workshops, yoga, acupuncture, massage, woodwork, local heritage workshop, dance, theatre production, language courses and even legal services. There will also be a regular Covid Café that will offer support to local people who have been affected by Covid-19 and are suffering from Long Covid, loss or anxiety.
As well as these activities, there will a series of talks, discussions and networking opportunities that will build links between social prescribers and local community groups with the aim of increasing the number of social prescribing referrals within the borough.
This one-year project will see a rollout of activities across the borough and will culminate in the Branching Out Festival that will celebrate the work that has been achieved by The Health Tree partners and community members over the course of the project.
This project has been organised by St Margaret’s House and is funded by The National Academy of Social Prescribing, The Thriving Communities Fund, The Arts Council
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