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  • Big Queer After Party

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    As it’s the 5th year of the BQP - we thought we’d celebrate with a silly, campy birthday party at the lovely Chats Palace - with games, socialising, then as it gets dark we have DJs Scarba and King Praun playing all your favourite slaggy queer bangers, a mix of pop and R&B. We’ll have a missed connections box to help you find all the hot people you saw sunning themselves earlier in the day, a temporary tattoo station and expect more fun announcements to come as we celebrate the FIFTH year of the big queer picnic.

    £15

  • From the First Hackney Marsh Fun Festival to the last Hackney Carnival: An Exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Chats Palace

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    Chats Palace will be showing unseen images from the first Hackney Marsh Fun Festival from 1974 alongside images from the last ever Hackney Carnival in 2024. Separated by fifty years the photographs have been taken by Hackney photographer Neil Martinson.  The Hackney Marsh Fun Festival led to the creation of Chats Palace because the festival grew so large that its organisers desperately needed a permanent, year-round headquarters. In 1974, the old, Grade II-listed Homerton Library closed down when a newer library opened nearby. Rather than letting the building fall into disrepair or corporate hands, community activists and festival organisers marched on and occupied the building in 1976. They reclaimed it to ensure it stayed "for the betterment of East Londoners". By 1977, they officially named it Chats Palace. Once established, Chats Palace became the engine room for the festival, housing its carnival committee, building floats, hosting local pensioner clubs, and providing a legendary local stage for community theatre and music.  The exhibition will be showing September and October 2026. For the duration of its stay, the Exhibition will be on display on Wednesdays, Thursday, Fridays, & Sundays from 11am-3pm.

  • Squatting in Hackney with Tom Hunter, Mark Wilson and Leah Gordon

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    To celebrate the 50th birthday of Chats Palace, Photographer Tom Hunter will talk with Mark Wilson, lead singer of The Mob, and Leah Gordon author of ‘Common People: A Folk History of Land Rights, Enclosure and Resistance’ about the squatting communities in Hackney in the 1980’s and 1990’s and alternative ways of living in Hackney and beyond. Tom Hunter squatted on the East side on London Fields with a community of over 100 fellow squatters and did his first photography course at Chats Palace before making an international career in the art world documenting his community. Mark Wilson squatted in Brougham Road, played with The Mob at Chats Palace for a Advisory Service for Squatters benefit gig, and helped set up the Brougham Rd Housing co-op. He and many others from this community later went on the road alongside the Peace Convoy (that had roots in the old Hackney Bus Garage) and that ultimately ended its run a few years later at the Battle of the Beanfield whilst trying to reach the Stonehenge free festival. Leah squatted in many places in Central London in the 1980s, including Marylebone and Bloomsbury before settling in a Hackney housing co-operative house and finally […]

    £5.75 – £10.85

  • Fringe! x Zhuzh the Yog Presents: Straight From the Yard

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    Zhuzh the Yog and Fringe! collaborate on a special fundraiser celebrating Queer Gypsy, Roma and Traveller storytelling through film and live performance. Straight from the Yard brings together stories of resilience, creativity and self-determination. All proceeds go to Traveller Pride.

    Free – £10

  • The Hackney Folk Club – Mishra

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    Mishra are a global folk band from the UK gathering international recognition, who draw together roots in UK traditional music with continent-spanning musical textures into a breathtaking 5 piece performance. Performing finely crafted songs with stunning vocals and exhilarating instrumentals, Mishra span eclectic moods; from meditative raag inspired improvisations to high-energy celtic dance tunes underpinned by unstoppable percussive grooves.

  • FLETCHR FLETCHR

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    The nascent four-piece band play their dizzying guitar songs about the very adult but relatable emotions of anxiety, love, and grief

  • Art Chat – The Bayeux Tapestry

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    To celebrate the opening of the exhibition at the British Museum: Jo Cottrell and Michael Lewis ‘In Conversation’ on the Bayeux Tapestry

  • Hackney Folk Club: Pearl Fish

    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    Pearl Fish is from SE London, lives itinerantly on the UK’s historically woven waterways. Intimate and warm her sound shifts with a transient scape of musicians and projects. Songs fuelled by murmurings of melancholia, hope and wit backed with sometimes spoken, sometimes soaring vocals.

  • Join us at the Chats (Fun) Palace!

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    We'll be a part of the nationwide Fun Palaces weekend on Saturday 3rd October! Just turn up and get creative with us, or hang out in our Library bar with friends and family.

    Free

  • The Each One Teach One Cabaret

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    Day 2 of the Each One Teach One weekend is a cabaret show featuring dancers, musicians and performance artists at Chats Palace in Homerton.

    £5 – £15

  • 1000 Rabbits present RABBITFÊTE

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    Chats Palace Arts Centre 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, United Kingdom

    1000 Rabbits present RABBITFÊTE. 1000 Rabbits is an off-kilter art-pop picnic who tell stories through human sounds, both intimate and extroverted. RABBITFÊTE is a celebration of music from the band and some of our dearest and most talented friends…