Exhibitions
Colin O’Brien Retrospective
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United KingdomColin was a Patron of Chats Palace Arts Centre from 2015 to 2016 and collaborated with us on this exhibition, choosing images from across the span of his career to form a very personal retrospective. He had an undoubted affinity with Hackney and so we make no apology for the exhibition’s strong east London bias, framing as it does the nature of a very special friendship.
Gillian Hyland: a photographic retrospective
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United KingdomFINAL WEEKS: ENDS SAT 25 JAN 2020 Gillian Hyland creates supernatural staged images, presented as film stills or dramatic moments. Her narrative photographs are psychologically evocative - at once sublimely theatrical yet poignant. Frozen in time, solitary and vulnerable moments are presented in glorious technicolour and on timeless sets.
Chats Palace Christmas Makers Market
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United KingdomOur Makers Markets are an exciting, direct way to get up-close-and-personal with some of East London’s most exciting artisan businesses.
Still, Here
An audio exhibition across Hackney exploring learning disabled life in lockdown and beyond. Discover a new side to Hackney's streets in Access All Areas’ walking audio exhibition, Still, Here, launching on the day they would have opened and celebrated Hackney Carnival.
Open House 2021
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United KingdomOpen House London is the world’s largest architecture festival, giving free public access to 800+ buildings, walks, talks and tours over one weekend in September each year. This year we are delighted that for the 3rd successive year Chats Palace is part of the official Open House programme.
Limited Edition Print – Reykjavik Mural: If Change Is All You Require
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom14 Dec update: 15% sold already! Angry Dan's remarkable Reykjavik Mural: If Change Is All You Require is now on sale as a Limited Edition print run, raising funds for Chats Palace.
In My Block – Welshpool House Photo Project
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United KingdomNew Summer 2022 exhibition. In My Block – Welshpool House Photo Project is a unqiue collection of lockdown photos by Hackney photographer, Justine Roland-Cal
Left in The Dark
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United KingdomA selection both colour and black and white images from Kazakhstan to Hackney Downs and from Belfast to Camber Sands. All were printed in Photochats darkrooms over the last couple of decades.
Christmas Makers Market
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United KingdomAfter the success of our last Makers Market back in 2019 (due to COVID-19), Chats Palace is again bringing the opportunity to the community to discover, support, and celebrate Hackney’s wonderful produce, from both established and emerging small businesses and independent sellers alike. Let’s get to know each other!
THE FEMALE GAZE: Women in Theatre
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United KingdomNew Exhibition. THE FEMALE GAZE: Women in Theatre. Two decades of analogue Theatre Photography by Sheila Burnett.
The Female Gaze: a discussion on the changing landscape for women in theatre
Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United KingdomInspired by our current photographic exhibition, Sheila Burnett’s The Female Gaze, a retrospective look at the trail-blazing female-led theatre companies of the 1980’s in Britain, this event will ask what it means to be a woman making theatre, both then and now.
women talking – muscle: a question of power
Castle Cinema 64-66 Brooksby's Walk, LondonLondon premiere screening: a new short film made by filmmaker Kilian Waters in partnership with theatre artist and writer Anna Furse. this engrossing , challenging film is structured round the personal journeys of six women who work professionally with their muscularity.