SET Centre

SET Ceramics Launch + Free workshop!
2025-05-22 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | SET Ceramics, 35 Crutched Friars, London, EC3N 2AE
SET invites you to celebrate the launch of our new community studio ‘SET Ceramics’.

This is an opportunity to see the space, get a feel for it and register interest in what the studio has to offer, including; Studio Memberships, Throwing, Hand-Building Courses + more.

Join us for drinks and a tile making workshop, everyone welcome.

Viva Cuba! Viva Palestina!
2025-05-22 19:00 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
🇵🇸 🇨🇺 *Viva Cuba! Viva Palestina!*

Thursday 22nd May, 7pm, come down to SET Social for an evening that explores culture, resistance, and the long history of solidarity between the Palestinian and Cuban people.

Featuring speakers from the Cuban Embassy, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and the Black Liberation Alliance, who will help us understand the histories, connections, and shared struggles in their fight for liberation.

Meditation with Isha Foundation @ SET Social
2025-05-25 16:30 - 17:30 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Join us to learn simple yet powerful meditative practises designed by Sadhguru. These practises are proven to bring balance, joy and vibrancy and can be easily practised as part of your daily routine.

QUEER BOOK CLUB
2025-05-28 17:30 - 19:30 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Queer Book Club meets every third Wednesday of each month at SET Social and is open to all. The sessions will discuss the book of the month, as well as provide space to review the book from the previous session. Follow the club’s instagram account for more information and to find out what books they’re reading.

A note from the Queer Book Club:💫We can provide print outs, pdfs and audio recordings of excerpts (when the full text isn’t available) before the event💫Bring a copy of the book if you have it 💫Don’t hesitate to DM us with any questions (from specific access needs to potential discussion topics or suggested future books)

POETRY FOR PALESTINE
2025-06-01 19:00 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Saturday 1 June, 7pmSET Social, 55a Nigel Road, SE15 4NP🎟 Tickets: £5 early bird / £7 generalBook here

Join us for a night of community, solidarity and resistance in support of the PCRF (Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund) and Palestinian families. Poetry for Palestine have arranged an outstanding lineup of poets and a massive poetry sale – all to raise money and awareness for the Palestinian people. 🕊️.

The PCRF (@thepcrf) provides free medical care to thousands of injured and ill children yearly who lack local access to care within the local health care system. The PCRF’s impact also includes establishing two pediatric cancer departments in Palestine, a new PICU and pediatric cardiology department in Ramallah, and many more critical projects to sustainably bolster the region’s healthcare system.

Doors open at 7pm. Performances will be spaced with breaks for drinks, browsing, and conversation.

Follow @slipevents and @louisdoespoetry for updates.

🕊️ Free Palestine.

Explore Cyanotype Printing at Set Social
2025-06-08 14:00 - 16:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Join us for a creative afternoon of cyanotype printing at Set social Peckham. Learn the fascinating art of cyanotype printing in this hands-on workshop. No experience needed – just bring your creativity!

All materials will be provided, so come ready to get stuck in and make some unique prints.

– This in-person event is a great opportunity to meet new people and explore your artistic side.

– You will learn the basics of the cyanotype printing process. We will be able to pick a few fresh leafs/plants before we start our workshop in the beautiful community garden at Set Social.

– You will take home some beautiful prints and enough knowledge to create your own prints.

SET Social's Monthly Market + Community Day - June
2025-06-15 12:00 - 17:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Have stuff to sell? Calling anyone with stuff to shift, from clothes, artwork, second hand goods, ceramics, painting, bric ‘a’ brac, vintage, baled goods, tarot readings + MoreCome and sell at our monthly market and community day!

Stalls range form £4-8 and are bookable via the link below

The market + Community Day are open to everyone with NO ENTRY FEE!

Free workshops TBA!!!!

Social Mapping with Oscar Murillo as part of SET Social's Community Day & Market
2025-06-15 12:00 - 17:00 | set social, London
We are excited to be collaborating with Oscar Murillo, inviting you to take part in free drawing sessions as part of of an international collaborative artwork for the 36th São Paulo Biennial. These sessions are part of an ongoing project, titled ‘social mapping’, that are a celebration of collective spirit anchored by the exercise of drawing and mark-making.

You will be free to draw and doodle on blank canvas with pens, pencils, crayons and biros. The resulting canvases will be sent to São Paulo, where they will be installed on scaffolding structures in the city’s Ibirapuera Park. Biennial visitors will then be invited to paint atop these marked canvases, creating an evolving, collective artwork.

Drop by 12-5pm to doodle and draw!

SET Social 55a Nigel Road, SE15 4NP

Oscar Murillo, Social Mapping, Av. Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil, 2025

Photo by Georgia Guirguis, courtesy the artist. Copyright ©️ Oscar Murillo.

The Plane Crashed But I Survived
2025-06-20 00:00 - 2025-06-30 23:59 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
PV Friday 20 June 6-9PMA group exhibition featuring work by:

Alicia Jalloul @alicia.jalloul.94Amilia Graham @no___bullyCharlie Burtenshaw @charlieburtenshawElliot Bottle @elliot_bottleJacob Blackaller @jblackallerJorge Martinez Blanco @j.martinezblancoMillie Earthy @mil_earthyOberon Parry-Laidler @lordladleÖzge Eroğlu @ozge.eroglu_Robbie Campbell @campbellrobbieRosie Kennedy @not_ro_kSean Pearl @yes._.123456789Siân Newlove-Drew @snewlovedrewWilly Nabi @_______nabi_willyGonzalo Seises @_muygonzaloRSVP via email to: aliciajalloul@gmail.com and/or ozge.s.eroglu6@gmail.com Instagram: @alicia.jalloul.94 and/or @ozge.eroglu_

Book Launch: Migraine by Sam Fisher
2025-07-03 19:30 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Migraine: Book and Zine LaunchThursday 3 July 20257.30pmSET Social, 55A Nigel Road, SE15 4NPFree – please RSVP here

Join us for the launch of Migraine, the new novel by Samuel Fisher, alongside a zine published by Burley Fisher Community Riso Press.

The evening will feature readings from contributors and a special performance by Vida Vojić of music by Hildegard von Bingen.

Contributors:Amber HusainAntony HurleyECM CheungEnya EttershankHazel FullerRachael AllenRose RuaneSarah Castleton

About the book:In a London ravaged by climate change, where the few survivors suffer from an epidemic of chronic pain, accompanied by haptic and visual hallucinations known as ‘migraine aura’, Ellis wakes from his first bout of the illness in a ruined bookshop. Accompanied by the bookshop’s former owner Sam, he embarks on a psychogeographic quest through the city in search of his ex-girlfriend Luna. Fisher’s third novel Migraine (Corsair) confronts vital issues of environmental collapse, and asks what kind of society might survive in the face of it.

Books and zines will be available on the night. Drinks at the bar.Follow @set.social.peckham and @peninsulapress for updates.

Sewing Seeds: Part 1, Papermaking & Collage Workshop
2025-07-06 14:00 - 17:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Rewilding London – Imagining a Green Utopia.

For all past, present and future papermakers and collage-ers. We’ll be making paper with recycled pulp, found seeds and petals, etc. and experimenting with collage to envisage a rewilded London.

All abilities, ages and hairstyles welcome.

Summer Camp!
2025-07-06 18:00 - 21:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Beat the London heat and join backronym films as they look camp right in the eye for their next double bill — Summer Camp! From blaxpotation parody “Black Dynamite” to queer drag-omedy “To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar”, this programme highlights the playfully exaggerated and visually defining style of camp films!

Tickets are £3/£8 and are available here

SET Ceramics: Hand Building: Surface & Substance - 8 week course with Artist Francisco Zhan
2025-07-07 20:00 - 22:30 | SET Ceramics, 35 Crutched Friars, London, UK Mainland, EC3N 2AE
Join artist Francisco Zhan in this 8-week Hand Building course at SET Ceramics.

There are 6 spaces available for this course, this is to ensure there is sufficient space to work in the studio and that students get the out the most from both the course and the tutor. e conventional to the novel at SET Ceramics.

To find out further details and book your place head to the link below.

The Queer Child
2025-07-10 00:00 - 2025-07-25 23:59 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
The Queer Child Exhibition @ SET Woolwich4th floor exhibition space, West building

Private View 10th July 6-9pm

Please book a free PV ticket, link in @growing.sideways bio

Open 12th -25th July(see @growing.sideways for specific times/days)

20 FLINTA artists (+a queer choir!) come together at SET Woolwich to bring you ‘The Queer Child’

The concept of ‘the Queer Child’ and ‘Growing Sideways’ derived from Katheryn Bond Stockton’s 20th century study on subliminal queerness in children. Stockton’s work explains how a queer child grows in non-linear paths towards non-conventional futures. The Queer Child is a space for FLINTA artists to exhibit the work of their inner queer child, platforming queer stories within an artistic and political climate which does not prioritise us.

Moving forwards, Growing Sideways Projects hope to form a valuable community of FLINTA creatives, engaging in continuous action and providing support for all queer artists.

Please come along to the Private View to mark the beginning of the Growing Sideways community!Allies welcome 🙂

Artists:Judy Maxwell-McNicol @weemoodyjudyLucinda Purkis @kingkingstringball442Alice Bunny North @alicebunnynorthBee Jones @motionmothTom Perks @tomperkksBeth Carriaga @bethcnieMarf Summers @marfsummersFio Brooks @fiobrx.studioElise Tyson @elize___greenFederica Giare @fede.ph__Laura Xinyue Zhou @lauraaaxinyueCharlotte Young @charlotte_louiseyoungPhoebe Rayner @phoeberayner_Jingshan Ding @shanshanshan_333_333Flavia Daniel @flaviaaartJingyi Li @1999jingyiliKate Williams Parry @dyslexix_ariesClaire McMichael @achillmicecreamCat Needs @catneeds__Jessé Bürgel @jessenothoughtsNancy Costello, Tomislav Latinovic + choir (Voicing 1 project) @nancyr0isin @tomizlav

Curated by Cat Needs and Jessé Bürgel@catneeds__ @jessenothoughts

Meditation with Isha Foundation
2025-07-13 16:30 - 17:30 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
learn simple yet powerful meditative practises designed by Sadhguru. These practises are proven to bring balance, joy and vibrancy and can be easily practised as part of your daily routine.

CRAFTING CARE: Workshop Series
2025-07-18 16:30 - 18:30 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Crafting Care is a workshop series that brings people together over craft practices like crochet, weaving and embroidery. It is a space to learn and share skills, to foster a sense of community and together explore the radical potential of craft as a politically engaged, collective practice.

This summer CC will be coming to SET Social every Friday from 4:30pm to collectively create a large floral tapestry using a combination of craft techniques like crochet, embroidery, and more.

Free and open to all, from absolute beginners to experienced crafters. All materials provided.

If you want to find out more, please join our WhatsApp group via the link in bio. Come craft, connect and care with us!

London Permacomputing Club presents: Computer Movies
2025-07-19 16:00 - 18:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Join our regular Permacomputing Club for an hour of fun and experimental computer art films! The screening will consist of short films by pioneering computer artists (Lillian Schwartz, Michael Snow, Steina and Woody Vasulka) and films by members of the Permacomputing Club.

This event is free and unticketed.

Still fro ‘UFOs’ (Lillian Schwartz, 1971).

SET Social x Raze Collective July Market and Community Day
2025-07-20 12:00 - 17:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
SET Social Spring Community Day + Market

On the 20th July, 12pm-5pm SET Social is hosting our monthly community day and market as part of RAZE Collectives second Scratch Sunday at SET Social !!!1

The market and community day are free to attend, there will be workshops and activities, stalls, food and more!

Scratch Sunday: Soca Dance Workshop
2025-07-20 14:45 - 16:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Join us for a soca dance workshop like no other! Led by Sheba Montserrat, whether you’re a seasoned dancer or just here for the vibes, expect Caribbean rhythms, feel-good sweat, and a class that leaves you smiling from start to finish.

No experience needed—just bring your energy and get ready to move

Raze Presents: Scratch Night @ SET
2025-07-20 17:00 - 19:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
What better way to round off our queer creative community day Scratch Sunday than with a scratch night!

A low-key scratch / works in progress mo for creative queers to test new material – spoken word/poetry, drag & comedy. Low stakes, informal in a warm friendly supportive space to listen to new work and have your work heard and seen.Hosted by the talented Oduenyi, a core organiser at Tribe, a community space with art at its centre where Trans, Queer, Black people, and People of Colour take centre stage.

FEATURED PERFORMERS

✨ HEAVADNY ✨

✨ Ishmael Kirby ✨

✨ Medusa✨

SCRATCH SUNDAY'S SCRATCH SHOWCASE SIGN UP
2025-07-20 17:00 - 19:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Are you a queer spoken word artist, poet, comedian or drag artist with new material to test? Sign up to our Scratch Showcase to bagsy a 5-10 minute open-mic slot to get your new piece of work heard!! Very limited spaces, so sign up below to get a slot.

This scratch night will be hosted by the very talented Oduenyi with exciting featured performers

Please note: the tech set up in minimal vibes – mic and playback (if you’re using a backing track please bring a USB on the day)

Breakfast Club: Global Majority Cop Watch
2025-07-26 10:30 - 12:30 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Breakfast club followed by creative activities for local kids. GMCW are organising regular breakfast club meetings for locals in the face of rising living costs, where many are unable to access food. They will use this space to share skills and knowledge, and political education about community building with a focus on abolition.

Inner Vision Collage Workshop
2025-07-26 14:00 - 16:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Inner Vision Collage is a creative, mindful workshop that invites participants to connect with themselves through the intuitive process of making a collage tarot card, followed by a personal tarot-style reading. Equal parts playful and introspective, the immersive session blends visual storytelling, mindfulness and shared connection.

Join us at SET Social on Saturday 26 July 2-4pm to create meaningful artwork, connect inwardly, and uncover what your intuition wants to say.

SET Ceramics: Hand-Building 8 week course with ceramicist Lauren McNicoll
2025-07-27 10:00 - 12:30 | SET Ceramics, 35 Crutched Friars, London, UK Mainland, EC3N 2AE
Join ceramicist Lauren McNicoll for this new Hand Building 8-Week Course: Exploring making techniques from the conventional to the novel at SET Ceramics.

There are 6 spaces available for this course, this is to ensure there is sufficient space to work in the studio and that students get the out the most from both the course and the tutor.

To find out further details and book your place head to the link below.

GET Creative at SET Social: Nature and Textiles with Molly Bonnell
2025-07-28 11:00 - 12:30 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Who: For Southwark residents living with dementia and their companions

When: Mondays at 11am – 12:30pm, 28th July – 29th September

Where: SET Social,55a Nigel Road, Peckham, SE15 4NP.

What: Join us for a brand new 10-week collage and drawing programme in Peckham with the fantastic visual artist Molly Bonnell. This programme is designed for people living in Southwark who have early-stage dementia or mild cognitive impairment and their companions.In these sessions, you will learn a number of different art practices, including scrap weaving, cyanotype print making, patch-making and even creating your own natural dyes from the community garden. Come and enjoy something new and creative. No previous experience is needed, it’s all about having fun and giving it a go!

How to register: Numbers are restricted, so if you are interested in joining us, please email christina@artsfordementia.org or call 020 36339954

Monthly Photo Zine Challenge
2025-08-02 14:00 - 17:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
A peer-led, collaborative photography workshop where participants explore image sequencing, storytelling, and layout to create personal or collective zines. The session encourages sharing, reflection, and growth in photography through hands-on zine making.

SET Woolwich Closing Party
2025-08-08 18:00 - 2025-08-09 06:00 | SET Vault, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
After four unforgettable years, we’ll be saying goodbye to SET Woolwich.

And to mark the closing, we’re hosting one final big blowout –– a 12-hour programme of live music, performances, film screenings, DJ sets, and more, all led by the wonderful artists, musicians, residents, and friends who called this space home, alongside some new comers from the wider SET Community.

The event will take place across the building, inside and out.

Happy hour will be running from 6–8pm, with food by Plateful Cafe served from 6–10pm. Plateful Cafe is a charity based in Southeast London, celebrating world flavours through the talents of refugee chefs! Line-up to be announced soon. Follow us on instagram at @setsetsetsetsetset @set.vault for updates.

***Tickets only available via Resident Advisor at: https://ra.co/events/2216427 Early admission (pre-9pm) is £12, general admission (anytime) £15. Tickets are limited, so be sure to grab yours before they sell out.

P.s. With an inclusive ethos always, everyone’s welcome. Dress to impress, come as you are. Let’s celebrate everything we’ve built together!! Much love, The SET Team x

A note on neighbourness: In the spirit of community that has always defined SET, we ask you to be mindful of your voices and actions when arriving, leaving, and enjoying the garden. Your care helps us keep the energy joyful for everyone, including our neighbours.

Sunday Stretch Yoga
2025-08-10 16:15 - 17:30 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Welcome to Community Yoga at SET Social, Peckham!

A restorative yoga session on Sunday August 10, 4.30 – 5.30pm. Expect a dynamic vinyasa flow, followed by slower more restorative poses and ending in meditation and breathwork, all to a vibey soundtrack. A beautiful way to end your weekend.

This class is open to all levels, please remember to BYOM (bring your own mat).

Doors will open from 4.15pm, so you can settle into the space.

Ordinary Ornamentation: Ceramic Tile Workshop with Alice Aldis at SET Social
2025-08-17 14:00 - 17:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Designer Alice Aldis invites participants to explore overlooked everyday textures through clay.In this hands-on workshop, you’ll create a decorative tile or coaster using air-dry clay and found patterns. Bring your own textured objects, or choose from a selection provided. Together, you’ll experiment with the often unnoticed surfaces that surround us, pressing them into clay to form subtle impressions and decorative forms.

About the Designer

Alice Aldis is a multidisciplinary designer working across ceramics, ornamentation and process-led practice. Her recent project, Ordinary Ornamentation, exhibited at Copeland Park in Peckham, explores a shift away from traditional ideas of ornament. From embossed toilet paper to the patterns inside security envelopes, Alice’s work draws attention to quiet, functional details—and how they can shape new ways of thinking about decoration.

This workshop builds on those discoveries, inviting a closer look at the textures of everyday life.

Tickets are completely free. Book now via Outsavvy.

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Banana's Art Club Week 1: Collage Workshop
2025-08-17 17:30 - 18:30
Banana’s Art Club launches with its first session, a collage workshop that invites attendees to create with recycled and scrap materials. This relaxed, low-pressure class is designed for anyone who wants to make art for the joy of it, without the formality of a traditional art class.

Each week will feature a different theme, with mixed media as a constant element. Participants are welcome to bring their own work or follow the theme of the week. This week’s focus is collage, and all materials will be provided. You are also welcome to bring old magazines, stickers, newspapers or any other items you would like to incorporate.

Banana’s Art Club is an inclusive space that encourages experimentation and celebrates the creative process. It is a chance to meet other artistic people, let your inner child be free and enjoy making something new from unloved materials.

No previous art experience is required.

Tickets

Tickets are pay what you can, from £1 to £6, and are available via OutSavvy or on the door.

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