This exhibition presents findings from a research project funded by Centre for Cultural Value and jointly led by Fun Palaces and sociologist Dr Katy Pilcher. Together they investigated the correlation between finding your creative voice and your activist voice and how social inequalities might prevent this from happening.
Credit: Chery Nguyen – Creative Creator
The exhibition presents research findings through stories, photographs and objects shared by those who participated in the research project, bringing to life the experiences of Fun Palaces Makers from across the UK and where their Fun Palaces have led.
The exhibition might also include workshops, to be confirmed.
The exhibition opened at The Albany CaffA on 21st August 2024. This event brought together guests, Fun Palace makers and participants who contributed to the research. The event used the objects from the exhibition to create the activities; food using recipes from the Nom Nom cookbook and bubble-making activities. There was also a banner-making workshop, the results of which were displayed as part of the exhibition.
12 February to 15 March 2026
9 AM to 4 PM
Trowbridge Gardens
1 Trowbridge Road, Hackney Wick, E9 5LD
End of Tour Celebration (Closing Event)
Arbeit Studios is the final stop of the Creative Voices, Activist Voices exhibition tour, so we’re also hosting the end of tour event at Trowbridge Gardens, on 4 March, and everyone is welcome. See Event.
About Fun Palaces
Fun Palaces is a year-round campaign funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. On the first weekend of October every year people across the country make Fun Palaces sharing their skills, passions and interests with others. By doing so they put their town, village, city or street on the Fun Palaces map and declare ‘Culture happens here!’
The Fun Palace ‘movement’ began in recognition and acknowledgement of the influential theatre maker Joan Littlewood. In the 1960s, Littlewood wanted to create a space that could be a “laboratory of fun” and “university of the streets” and it is this idea of a space for people to come together to learn, experiment and try different cultural things that led to the development of the present-day Fun Palaces in 2013.