Peckham Chess Club
SET Social 55a Nigel Road, London, United KingdomPeckham Chess Club offers free weekly chess sessions suitable for all levels and abilities. Come along for advice, new skills, and casual games. Every Wednesday 6-late.
Peckham Chess Club offers free weekly chess sessions suitable for all levels and abilities. Come along for advice, new skills, and casual games. Every Wednesday 6-late.
Join the 2025 SET Film Festival on 27 November at SET Social for Alain Kassanda’s Coconut Head Generation, exploring youth activism, campus life, and Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement. Doors open 6:45 pm.
Shop unique gifts at the free Pearly Makers Market at SET Social on Sunday 30 November 2-6pm. A safe, fabulous space showcasing queer makers, independent artists, and a mix of veterans and new talent. Free entry.
An informal space to share spontaneous work in any medium, receive honest feedback and connect with a supportive community exploring causal and chance depictions of people.
A Coral Reef brings together drawing, painting, and sculpture by Aidan Quinn and Hallam Wood, focusing on fragility, connection, and the relationships formed between images, materials, and everyday life.
Join us at SET Social on 7 December for our Christmas Community Day and Market, featuring local makers, workshops, food by Peckham Soup Kitchen, and a live set from Peckham Elvis. Part of a wider festive weekend across Peckham including Pexmas and the Bussey Building Open Studios.
Open to players of all levels, this tournament guarantees five games for each participant, with prizes awarded to winners across all skill levels.
An evening of warmth, flavour, and cinema. Paratha Club transforms SET Social with incense, chai, sizzling parathas, and a screening of Joyland.
Illuminations is a group exhibition of artist-made lights at SET 91, bringing together 33 artists to mark the Winter Solstice and raise funds for The Sameer Project, supporting displaced families in Gaza.
F*Choir, a 70-strong queer-led ensemble, invites audiences to an intimate, end-of-year gig at SET Social Peckham. Enjoy beloved classics and sparkling new songs in an evening of collective joy, embodied singing, and festive celebration.
An end-of-year celebration for the creative community (who have no office party to attend). F.A.T. Studio will be launching issue 2 of Neighbours Zine and organising a handful of readings, performances and a live Xmas band to keep the night sweet and rolling.
A free and festive indoor market at SET Social with local traders, handmade goods, and food and drink available throughout the event.
The World Shakes Out Her Sheets brings together four artists whose works imagine worlds just beyond our own. Seen through panes of engraved glass etched with a commissioned text, the artworks shift with light and shadow, inviting viewers to navigate unfamiliar terrain through both image and language.
An immersive exhibition by Tia Tshabola exploring joy as a form of learning, resilience, and collective imagination within Black British youth culture.
This three-hour lino print workshop at SET Social introduces the basics of lino cut printmaking in a supportive, practical setting. Open to beginners, with all materials provided.
A weekly writers’ collective open to all writers of words, meeting every Monday evening for writing, sharing, and collaboration.
A relaxed, hands-on clay workshop at SET Social led by Tristan Brokenshire and community organisation, Communal Clay, focused on hand-building decorative ceramic wall sconces.
A relaxed weekly mahjong club open to beginners and experienced players alike. Free to attend, with no booking required.
Celebrate Burns Night with a live folk ceilidh at SET Social, led by Folk Of The Round Table. No experience needed, just bring your dancing shoes.
The Anticolonial Reading Group returns to explore the connections between colonial histories and ecological crisis, through Malcolm Ferdinand’s Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World.