Lou Show
2024-09-05 00:00 - 2024-09-21 23:59 (Europe/London) | SET Kensington, 7-17 Ansdell Street, London, United Kingdom
Lou ShowAn exhibition with:@plsthanx@louis_appleby@lulu.bennett@louisjudkins@louiseoates@louisscantlebury@louisthompson1Opening nightThursday, 5th September 2024, 6pm-9pmReading by @louisscantlebury at 7.30pmExhibition openFriday 6th, 1-6Saturday 7th, 1-6Sunday 8th, 1-6Wednesday 11th, 1-6Thursday 12th, 6-9Saturday 14th, 1-6Sunday 15th, 1-6Wednesday 18th, 1-6Thursday 19th, 12-3Special film screenings during SET Kensington’s open studios dayThursday, 12th September, 6pm-10pm

AMPLIFY: Workshop Series
2024-09-04 17:00 - 19:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
AMPLIFY: FROM SCRATCH

“These six unique sessions have been designed for those from the working class/global majority to discover and connect in an encouraging space, to create something incredible.

Join to explore Performance-Making and AMPLIFY your creative skills.

• Participate in games and take part in improv exercises in a playful, risk free environment.

• Build confidence and be creative with others.

• Develop your voice through writing exercises and create your own short scene.

• Explore staging, devising and working with projection.

• End on the 6th session by performing your progress to friends and family.

*With attendees permission, the last session will be filmed and made available for reflection and for you to utilise.*

Workshop for working class people and those from the Global majority aged 18+

No experience in performance is required, just the drive to play with big ideas. Please book a space following link below!

SET X PNFFF: Robot Dreams
2024-08-31 14:00 - 16:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Join us next week for a free screening of the Oscar-nominated animation ‘Robot Dreams’ as part of Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival. Perfect for the whole family! 📅 Sat 31 August⏱ 2pm (These screenings are free and open to everyone, however capacity is limited. We recommend you come earlier to grab a place.) Runtime is 102 minutes.

Therapy Dogs
2024-08-29 19:30 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
A film screening of Therapy Dogs, presented by Double Wonderful Events and Utopia+ Intro by Ethan Eng and Prom Afterparty.Two Canadian high schoolers document their final year before graduation, exposing the cracks in their friendship. Ethan Eng’s debut docu-drama blurs the line between reality and fiction, drawing the viewer into suburban recklessness and the anxiety of an uncertain future.Doors open at 7pm. Film starts at 8pm. Tickets £5/£7 via DICE.

BITE ME: Cinema Mentiré's Anniversary ft. Pure Blood + DJ Benzo
2024-08-08 18:00 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Cinema Mentiré’s first-anniversary screening & party presents:

PURE BLOOD | PURA SANGRE By Luis Ospina, 1982, Colombia, 98min.

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LATIN MIXTAPE PERREO PARTY By DJ Benzo

Doors open 6pm

Pure Blood starts 7pm

DJ til 11pm

Price £9 standard / £6 for SET members / Pay forward £12

One year and one week since the birth of Cinema Mentiré, the Latin American film club want to celebrate in the most traditional Latin American style: a wonderful film followed by sweaty dancing!

Join Cinema Mentiré at SET Social Peckham. Come down for a drink and screening of Luis Ospina’s classic Pure Blood, the first Colombian vampire film seminal to the tropical gothic genre. Released in the 1980s, its (then) commercial failure would give ground to a Latin American cult, whose restored copy in 2K is being shown in the UK for the first time.

A message from Cinema Mentiré:

Pure Blood is a biting satire on vampirism at the heart of capitalism in Colombia, made in the guise of a B-movie and mixing references that go from Citizen Kane to Murnau, George Romero, Howard Hughes, Dracula, and local urban legends. Horror, exploitation, and comedy are blended in this portrait of an old and bedridden sugar tycoon stricken by a rare disease that requires him to undergo an increasing number of blood transfusions, which will be obtained through aberrant stratagems.

Luis Ospina is very close to the hearts of the Cinema Mentiré team and are named after a concept he created: in opposition to cinema verité (truthful cinema), he advocated for a cinema mentiré (lying cinema). For Ospina, cinema is telling a bunch of lies to reveal one truth, playfully disrupting any certainties and making us suspicious of what images offer us.

Born in Cali in 1949 and educated in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, he was a self-styled cinematic punk rocker who blazed a revolutionary trail through Latin American cinema. Founder of the Cali Group and an exponent of independent cinema in Colombia, Ospina is among the central figures of the creative and political upheaval that took over that city and reverberated worldwide in the 1970s, including a film production so intense that the nickname Caliwood was coined. His accurate and humorous vision, reflected in over 30 brazen films made over 50 years, and his fierce commitment to preserving Latin American film heritage, have made the director (who passed away in 2019) a key figure in film history.

The evening follows with the peachy DJ Benzo (made in Brazil, mad in Britain). DJ Benzo has an interest in diverse dance scenes across London, especially the techno queer one, Benzo started to miss their Latin roots and music and decided to become a DJ to express themselves and celebrate the contrasts of the worlds they coexist musically, the electronic and the baile funk.

We are deeply grateful to some people who have been fundamental in making this screening happen: Amanda Garay, from Zona A, the holder of the film’s rights; Lina González, for her unwavering support; and Karen Lamassonne, for her beautiful video introduction.

Also, huge thanks to our friends and audience who have been enjoying Latin American films with us this year. Gracias, obrigada <3

@cinema.mentire

@benz0xx

Fantasia Book Launch
2024-08-01 18:00 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Fantasia launches on Thursday 1st Aug at SET Social.

Hosted by Rachael Allen and Nisha Ramayya, and featuring readings and performances by Bhanu Kapil, Donna Marcus Duke, Tara Fatehi, Sam Warner, and Egg Meat. There will be a book stall hosted by Rye Books, snacks and drinks, and the event is free and open to all. Please RSVP via ticket link at end of text.

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Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. Alice Coltrane’s experiments in jazz and spiritual community guide these poems that hum and glitch, that leap across space-time, landing in and reflecting the discordant music of life on earth.

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Donna Marcus Duke is a writer, performer and organiser based across London and Vilnius. She likes community, nightlife, critical spiritualities, hosting, a little bit of danger and this Octavia Butler quote: “Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.” She hates irony, trans people and, most of all, they/them pronouns. You’ll find their writing in fun places like Sticky Fingers Publishing, the Bittersweet Review, Pilot Press and Sissy Anarchy, or in boring places like Frieze, Vogue, AnOther and Dazed. Unfortunately, they are also working on a debut novel (?)’Cult Trans’. When they’re not writing, they’re organising the trans* reading evening TISSUE, or their queer club night Haute Mess at Dalston Superstore, where she enjoys getting naked in front of scores of adoring fans xoxo.

Bhanu Kapil is the author of six books of poetry and hybrid work, including two new editions of Incubation: a space for monsters, published by Prototype (UK) and Kelsey Street Press in 2023. Currently, she is based in Cambridge, where she is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College. The winner of the TS Eliot prize, a Windham Campbell prize, and a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors, Kapil has written two new books, as yet in manuscript form: The Secret Garden, a novel of the forest, and Promiscuity, an unpublishable work of creative nonfiction. [Photo attached: performance still.]

Nisha Ramayya works across poetry, criticism, and collaborative performance, and teaches creative writing. She’s the author of States of the Body Produced by Love (Ignota, 2019) and a new poetry collection Fantasia, which is coming out with Granta in August 2024.

Tara Fatehi is an artist, performer, writer, researcher. She has sixteen different voices and writes apocalyptic facts, soul-crunching laughs, adult lullabies and theatrical treasures that forefront mistranslation, ambiguity, disjunction, playfulness and unfinishedness. Tara co-creates From the Lips to the Moon music and poetry nights with Pouya Ehsaei. Alongside numerous international performances, exhibitions and published works, her book Mishandled Archive is published by LADA (2020). Tara was the first ever artist in residence at the United Nations Archives in Geneva (2021). www.tarafatehi.com [Photo credit: Jemima Yong]

Sam Warner is London based Trumpet/Flugelhorn player who has become a mainstream on the UK Jazz scene playing for the likes of Ariwo, Valia Calda, Riot Jazz, Alfa Mist, Tom Misch and Nubiyan Twist. Having decided to pursue a career in music after winning the music for youth competition in the jazz category as a teenager, he went on to study at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He now performs regularly at venues such as Ronnie Scott’s as well as touring extensively around the UK and abroad. On the commercial side he has played or recorded for the likes of Hak Baker, Kojey Radical, Tom Misch, Loyle Carner, Peter Andre, Plan B and Katy B. Egg Meat is the horrible produce of Tooth Rust aka Laurel Uziell and Georgie McVicar, featuring the vocal folds resonating inside the throat of the poet Danny Hayward. The source of such compressions and rarefactions does not mean that some relation of identity can be drawn between the speaker, the sounds, and their segmentation into words. Maybe the words are spoken, but they do not speak: chopped and screwed and slopped and crude, worms writhing themselves through the loam, at times surfacing as meaningful utterances, at others buried under dense sonic matter. In Philip Sherburne’s review of the self-titled Egg Meat EP, he described these vocal experiments as “unintelligible phrases [that] appear as though from the depths of a fever dream; single words surface, like rotted logs in a flood tide, and slip back beneath the murk.” The cassette also received coverage from The Wire, The Quietus, Ransom Note, ATTN, and DJ Mag. [Photo credit: Sophie Hoyle]

The Sound of the Oud
2024-07-27 15:00 - 17:00 | SET Kensington, 7-17 Ansdell Street, London, United Kingdom
As part of the exhibition Affinities, artist Katherine Waters curates a series of performances in the exhibition space. On Saturday 27th July, 3pm, join artists to listen to the sound of the Oud: A short performance followed by a talk sharing the journey of making this instrument.

Exhibition Visit and Workshop: Migration & The Making of the NHS
2024-07-27 12:00 - 17:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Open Invitation! 𝗦𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟳 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 with @vachina2021

Exhibition visit to 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 12-1pm

Workshop at 𝗦𝗘𝗧 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 13-5pm

@vachina2021 invites participants to day of exploring stories of migrant workers in NHS and making zines/badges to reflect our own NHS experience!🌟

The group will visit the exhibition: ‘Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS’. as an opportunity to learn about the experiences of marginalised groups in the healthcare system and the hidden history of NHS.

After lunch, the group heads to SET Social at Peckham to make zines and badges. Our experienced facilitators will guide you make zines & badges that inspired by the exhibition and to reflect our own NHS experiences as migrants, women and LGBTQ+…

Please contact 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵@𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺 for more information.

Greenhouse
2024-07-26 18:00 - 2024-08-14 21:00 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
Greenhouse, a group exhibition curated by Ben Raz and Jean Watt, will open on Friday 26th July at SET Woolwich. Responding to the unique characteristics of the Woolwich space, the artworks speak to the interplay between the artificial and nature. Featuring work by Gillies Adamson Semple, Coco Crampton, Oscar Crabb, Kirin Crooks, Tarzan Kingofthejungle, Maya Levy, Natalya Marconini Falconer, Annie Metzger, Lucy Neish, Antonio Parker-Rees, Raphaella Pester, Enzo Randolfi, Ben Raz, Bo Sun and Emily Webb.

PV: Friday 26th July, 6-9pmOpening Times: 27th July – 14 August. By appointment.

Contact @jeanwatt or @benr.az.~ jean@jeanwatt.com or benraz95@gmail.com

Design: @distant_traffic.

Empathy & Eternity: Screening
2024-07-25 19:30 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Come down to SET Social for a screening of Empathy & Eternity, a volunteer-led docufiction short filmed in Shropshire tracing the moving story of George Evans, a child evacuated to the area from Liverpool during WWII.

The film examines his traumatising departure from Liverpool in 1939 and the incredible stories of discovery and nature in the local places he stayed and people he stayed with. It also retells the dramas that played out between his adoptive family and mother at home, the wider local historical environment in which this drama unfolded, and the passing of the torch across generations as his son embarks on a pilgrimage in his footsteps a decade after his death.

A directorial debut from north west creative Cameron Evans, the research for and production of the film was supported by many members of local communities, and the event promises to be a powerful celebration of family, community and local identity following other screenings across the UK this summer.

The evening will feature an introduction to the film by the director and a screening, followed by a Q&A, and time to have a drink and socialise afterwards, as well as to explore an exhibition that Cameron will be bringing. It would be fantastic to see you there for what promises to be an inspiring evening!

Affinities Performance: Ice In July
2024-07-25 18:00 - 21:00 | SET Kensington, 7-17 Ansdell Street, London, United Kingdom
Ice in July: Yelena Zhelezov presents a performance on note taking.

Thursday 25th 7-9pmSET Kensington, Asa Briggs Hall, 7-17 Ansdell, London, W8 5BN

“How does it feel to write and draw while living with the knowledge that centuries of text and images have been digested by machines attempting to mimic the mind? What is neither replicable nor serializable? And what about things that are too painful to dress in words?”

Points of Discussion:– Walking in the world, afloat in non-verbal waves of emotions– Drawing as writing, writing as drawing, making then unmaking

This performance takes place within “Affinities,” an exhibition featuring Brishty Alam and Katherine Waters.

SET Summer Community Market
2024-07-21 14:00 - 17:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Calling all makers, creators, hustlers & hoarders – we need you!

We are looking for market traders and stall holders for our community market. We welcome all types of traders and goods including but not limited to:Second hand clothesBric ‘a’ BracHandmade clothingVintage waresBaked Goods**CeramicsZinesShoesCandlesBooksHome Bakers**Bread Makers** Prints & PaintingsArt WorkRecords Pokemon cardsCollectablesPsychic ReadingsShoes& more!Click here to book a stall and for more info.

Saigon Experimental Film Festival: Special Screening, 'Me, Myself and I'
2024-07-18 19:00 - 22:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
A special showcase of experimental film shorts from Saigon, Vietnam, and beyond.

This screening features works from past editions of Saigon Experimental, alongside films distributed and circulated on the internet. Emphasising a DIY approach to filmmaking, the films employ a wide range of visual techniques, including 3D animation, green screen effects, and Amazon image products. Utilising surreal characters and fantastical costumes, they offer varying levels of humour while providing moments of introspection and critical examinations of memory and identity.

Saigon Experimental Film Festival is a Ho Chi Minh City-based initiative launched in 2019 by two emerging artists and filmmakers, which has since expanded to a larger team. Each year, SEFF curates a 1-2 day event showcasing a selection of short films that are experimental in narration, editing, or visual content, carefully chosen from an international pool of online submissions.

Tickets for this special screening are available here: £6 for SET Members, £8 General Admission.

Curated by Pham Nguyen Anh Tú.

Woolwich Community Festival
2024-07-18 13:00 - 17:00 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
An invitation to Set Woolwich Community Festival, an afternoon of festivities to celebrate and fundraise for our community cafe and garden.

⭐️ The cafe and garden from 1-5pm there will be FREE and donation based GARDENING and CLAY workshops ~ courtesy of our gorgeous gardener @clostoegoessolo and Communal Clay

⭐️ Free and donation based food and drink (including wood-fired and garden-foraged goods)

⭐️ An exhibition on display of local artist Annabella Pamela Cameron, curated by Woolwich Community Cafe and the fantastic @chloee__maugile__

The day event is open to all Woolwich residents, and will be a family friendly affair!

After the community cafe festival there will be further opportunity to see the exhibition (up till 9pm) and an opportunity to sign up for a further evening workshop (6:30pm) with Communal Clay.

CAP'CHA
2024-07-18 00:00 - 2024-08-04 23:59 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
CAP’CHA: ᶜᵒᵐᵖˡᵉᵗᵉˡʸ ᴬᵘᵗᵒᵐᵃᵗᵉᵈ ᴾᵘᵇˡⁱᶜ ᵀᵉˢᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᶜᵃⁿⁿᵒᵗ ᴴᵃᵛᵉ ᵁˢ ᴬᵖᵃʳᵗ is a multimedia group exhibition curated by 何伊凡 Yifan He, exploring the trust and mistrust we place in technology and the history and networks that support its functionality. It is supported by SET, and generously funded by the National Lottery and Arts Council England.

Featuring works by Axe Binondo, Mac Andre Arboleda & Rollyna Domingo, Mark A. Hernandez Motaghy, Johnny Henson, and Jasmine Zhang 張夢嬌, CAP’CHA intends to create an autonomous space for defining and building technology and trust, thereby fostering possibilities for coexistence and collaborative tool development. The selected works examine surveillance in the wild, diasporic translocal servers and food serving, arbitrary colour accuracy and landscape photography, caring for a newborn AI, abstracting a digital pet, and tasting unconfigured flavours together. These diverse entry points are presented through video, video essays, video games installation, and photographic propositions.

The opening event on 18 July, 2024 (6 PM – 9 PM) includes a participatory food performance by Nitesh Tailor and a panel talk by the research duo Identity 2.0.

📍SET Lewisham Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, Loampit Vale, London SE13 7RZEntrance coordinates: 51°27’52.9”N 0°00’57.6”W

Exhibition opens: 18 July, (6 PM – 9 PM) book here: CAP’CHA PV/Opening Event

Exhibition on view Thursday – Sunday ⏱︎ 11 July – 4 August (1 PM – 7 PM)

Freshly Squeezed Market
2024-07-13 12:00 - 17:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
The FRESHLY SQUEEZED MARKET is coming to SET Social.

A summertime artist market with workshops, food and 30+ stalls, it’ll be a grand day of celebrating local makers and creatives of all kinds.

Hosted Saturday, July 13th from 12 – 6 PM at SET Social @set.social.peckham , 55 Nigel Road, SE15 4RN. Trouble Maker Markets presents a lineup filled with vintage, jewellery, custom clothing, prints, ceramics, zines, candles and more.

Presenting activities and workshops with nails by @imanicured 💅, candle fun from @hopeworld.wax 🕯, live portraits from @deathbycatboy 🎨, an up cycling workshops from @uiiba.club ✂️, patch making from @skornshop 🪡, and tarot from @earth2gianna_ 🔮

And to fill your bellies we’ve got focaccia sandos from @teos.pizza 🥪, sweets from @faeri.fruits 🧁 and ice cream from @clingy__wrap 🍦

Affinities
2024-07-11 12:00 - 2024-07-28 17:00 | SET Kensington, 7-17 Ansdell Street, London, United Kingdom
PV: Thursday 11 July 6-9pm

Open: Wednesdays > Sundays 12-5pm

Brishty Alam’s works are invested with a magical, shape-shifting quality. They adapt to, resist and converse with their environments, and when brought together, they unfold their many aspects in gregarious and often surprising ways. Born in London, Brishty lives and works in Vienna.

Katherine Waters explores the shaping qualities of space, gravity, time, relation and inclination. Informed by contemporary dance practices, in considering the membranes and transitions between internal and external states, Katherine complicates simple transmission, seeking to open up a space of grace.

Affinities brings Brishty and Katherine’s work together for the first time. Though their practices and processes differ, they share common concerns with materiality, movement, distance, value and fluid states. Separated by geography, and connected by years of friendship and conversation, the exhibition creates a place for their works to speak with each other while remaining distinct.

THINK BIG, READ CLOSING PARTY AND FUNDRAISER FOR OISÍN
2024-06-27 18:30 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Come say goodbye to the Think Big space and raising money for gender-affirming surgery for Oisín – the masc [man], the spiritual dude[myth], the librarian[legend] behind setting up the Think Big, Read Community Library!

Incomparable +++ magnetic +++ BOG-brained Donna The First – AKA 1/2 of Tissue AKA Donna Marcus Duke will host us through the evening. There will be readings from actual stars on the scene Hesse K., Carl Gent, Alba Schloessingk, D. Mortimer and Donna Marcus Duke. There will also be a raffle! Second-hand book stall! And Think Big, Read merch! Lastly and sadly, this will be your last chance to say goodbye and return your books to the library before it packs up and makes its move to Scotland.

Tickets here. All proceeds will go into the fundraiser! Absolutely no library-lover will be turned away if they do not have the money for a ticket. Message @oisin.roberts on Instagram and your ticket will be taken care of no questions asked. We want you all to be there <3

Fossil Free Pride: Banner Making Workshop
2024-06-22 14:00 - 17:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Come down to SET Social for a FREE banner making workshop and social with Fossil Free Pride London. Materials will be provided but please bring your own if you can so the group can share around!

Palimpsest Bodies: Movement and Drawing Workshop
2024-06-15 14:00 - 15:30 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
This workshop explores the intersection of performance and drawing practices, providing practitioners and visual creatives with an opportunity to explore their somatic dialogue through the methodology of the palimpsest.

Participants will be invited to excavate their body memory—movements and postures anchored in our bodies through physiological experiences or practices that lead to adaptation.

This process allows us to connect with our senses and initiate the palimpsest conversation, which we transcribe and reproduce through various techniques such as marking, body mapping, collage, and drawing.

Led by Chloé Neves. Tickets are £5 on the door, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Open Call: SET Summer Food!
2024-06-15 08:00 - 17:00
Saturdays + Sundays 2-8pm we are offering a free space to sell your food! SET does not take commission on any sales.

Equipment is limited, we can provide water supply, a large BBQ, and seating.

Food prep will need to happen off-site as e do not have the facilities for this.

Requirements:

Vegan – Vegetarian – Experience in cooking – Experience in selling – Affordability – Connection to Peckham / South East London

To apply: Please send an e-mail to tabitha@setspace.uk with BBQ in the subject line and a short statement about your interest in the opportunity.

This is an ongoing Open Call.

RELATIVE SHAPES
2024-06-14 00:00 - 2024-06-23 23:59 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
Exhibition opens: Thursday 13 June 6-9 pm. Opening times: Wednesday – Sunday, 12-6pmAn exhibition of artwork created in collaboration with family members. Come along to see drawings, film and textiles, listen to sounds and read comics! Join us next Thursday for the opening with drinks and a live performance. Come hang out with your friends and family!

Artists:@nima.shafiani, Shahrokh Shafiani, @till_tools and Sarah Till, @greezblack and Alex ClaytonnBlack, @ojillings and @clairejillingsart, @kingkingstringball442 and @nicpicpurk, Ricardo Guimarães, Miquelina Dos Anjos and Manuel Pereira, @pesoneto_ and Isobel Lwena Turner-Kerr, @emilymurayama and Yoshihiro Murayama with Fumi Murayama, @fredsorrell and Rafael Sorrel, @hallamtwood and @florence.madeleine

Writers for Palestine
2024-06-13 19:30 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
ESEA Publishing Network, Tilted Axis Press & Fitzcarraldo Editions present an evening of readings fundraising for direct aid to Palestinian writers and artists displaced in Egypt, in association with PalFest.

The event will feature short readings from a range of writers – full line-up TBA – and a presentation on solidarity from ESEA Sisters, the collective creating space for women, trans*, non-binary & genderqueer folks of East and Southeast Asian heritage, that draws upon recent ESEA-Palestine solidarity teach-in events.

Tickets are £11.55 and are available to purchase here. All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards direct aid.

Communal Clay Ceramic Inlay Workshop
2024-06-11 18:30 - 20:30 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Join Communal Clay at SET Social for a special ceramic inlay workshop! Using clay as a base material you will translate the process of drawing onto clay to make a 3D sculptural drawing, which can then be hung on a wall. We will be using different coloured clay bodies, and inlay as a technique to draw and make shape and pattern within the clay.Tickets £10/£15/£20 available here.

bad art auction
2024-06-06 19:00 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
AN ANTI ‘HIGH’ ART AUCTION IN SUPPORT OF HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS IN PALESTINE.

HAVE YOU GOT ANY BAD ART LYING AROUND YOUR STUDIO THAT SHOULD NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY? ANY OLD AND UNSOLD WORK? PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS? FAILED PROJECTS? A SPARE PRINT? SELL THEM OFF FOR A GOOD CAUSE!

PLEASE SEND AN IMAGE OF YOUR WORK TO BADARTAUCTION2024@GMAIL.COM WITH YOUR NAME BY THE 27TH OF MAY.YOU MUST BE ABLE TO DROP-OFF YOUR WORK TO SET SOCIAL, 55A NIGEL ROAD, SE15 4NP BETWEEN 03-05/06WEBSITE HERE

Community Supper Club x Communal Clay @ SET Social
2024-06-02 14:00 - 19:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Join us for the first COMMUNITY SUPPER CLUB at SET Social!

Their first event is a collaboration with Communal Clay, including a pottery workshop + a 3 course meal:

– 2PM: 2-hour pottery workshop led by Communal Clay. The workshop will involve making decorative ceramic tiles which will be fired and glazed by Communal Clay after the event. They’ll be used to decorate the upcoming vegetable garden being built at Set Social this June.

– 4:30PM: Three course meal served in the garden, prepared by the CSC team and volunteers. The meal is a set menu designed by us to make the most of available seasonal food, including surplus and locally-grown produce. Food will be served to share across tables so expect to be seated with other people!

The event will wrap up around 7pm.

MENU + DIETARY REQUIREMENTS:

Below is the planned menu for the event, although we may make a few last-minute tweaks depending on available seasonal + surplus produce. The sharing menu is designed to cater for vegetarian and vegan guests, but unfortunately we’re unable to offer gluten-free alternatives. Please let us know of any dietary requirements at checkout, just to help us plan quantities etc, thank you!

STARTERS: Sourdough Flatbreads, tomato salad with pickled wild garlic flowers, lacto-fermented pickles, spicy aubergine dip and a herby-lemony infused oil.

MAIN: Whole BBQ fish, charred cabbage, smashed roast potatoes with labneh, and a broad+butter bean salad.

DESSERT: Fruit upside-down cake with infused cream

TICKET PRICING:

All Community Supper Club events are priced based on a sliding scale model meaning guests only pay what they can afford. We believe the joys of communal eating should be accessible to all, and that food systems should be built on solidarity rather than exclusivity, and the pay-what-you-can model helps us achieve that. There are 5 ticket options to choose from depending on your ability to pay, with a recommended ticket price at £20 as a guide, and a pay-it-forward option for those who can afford to, which helps us cover the costs for cheaper tickets.

Our events are 100% non-profit, and the recommended price is set to help us cover the cost of food and the workshop. Any money made on top of that will go towards funding future events.Tickets available via outsavvy here.

Oh Precious Cargo - Free Zine Workshop
2024-06-01 14:00 - 16:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
A free zine workshop for pregnant people, parents and carers. All materials provided. Children and babies welcome!

Mend in Public
2024-06-01 14:00 - 16:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Saturday 1st June at SET Social 🧵

Bring an item of clothing in need of repair! This is a two hour open session for repairing, skill-sharing and hanging out at SET Social.

𝟮-𝟰𝗽𝗺. Needles, threads, buttons and more will be provided!

GRUB CLUB
2024-05-26 18:00 - 23:59 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Come down for a hot-n-fresh dinner from 6:30PM or join us later for DJs ’til midnight!

To join for the dinner, simply donate upwards from £25, if you are able to donate more please do, every little helps!

To join after the meal, from 8PM, suggested donation is £7 and upwards.

Please donate with your full name. The organiser will get an e-mail confirmation of your donation and your name will be put on the door! To donate, follow this link. Don’t forget to e-mail your dietry requirements to verytmonroe@gmail.com if you have special requests.

This event features a very special artists tuck-shop, where ceramics, clothes, drawings and more have been donated with all funds going towards MSF. Come down and have a wade through irresistible objects followed by a dance to some incredible sounds!

Dinner served at 6:30PM, doors open from 6PM.

Music 8:00PM-Midnight!

Nail Art Workshops with Ashton Forster
2024-05-23 17:00 - 20:00 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
‘As a celebrity and editorial Nail Artist, Nail Art has been my passion for over 20 years and I cannot wait to show you all the tips and tricks to create incredible designs to show off your inner creative!

Our 3 hour session which will include:

An intro to basic colour theory

Different types of polish and recommended high street and indie brands

Teaching Nail Art skills including dots, lines, gradient and some free hand swirls!

Tea, coffee and some giggles!

All the skills I will teach you can use again and again at home if you want a quick DIY manicure on a budget!’
