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This summer, TAKING UP SPACE arrives with unapologetic power and presence, in this ground-breaking photography exhibition centring Black and Brown Queer voices, stories, and lived realities. 
Glass Light Opera presents Rossini's La Cenerentola, set in a modern day corporate world.
£15 – £30
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Following our SELL OUT Pride Special, Naked Boys Reading returns to Chats Palace for a VERY special evening with SIX glorious readers, lovingly curated by the Four Quartets Prize winning poet and iconic American Homo Dante Micheaux.
£14 – £20
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Growing up, Joe Newberry and April Verch absorbed traditions of home and hearth – in his Missouri Ozarks and her Ottawa Valley of Canada. Although they are on the road much of the year, the two musicians are fond of saying that they are rarely homesick, because their music means they always have a bit of home with them wherever they go. |
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MARISA ANDERSON channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of American music. |
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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
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East London queer life drawing hosted by Spencer Grimshaw (slpgtattoo), artist and tattoo artist. After moving to London a year ago Spencer found that the life drawing sessions available either didn't feature a diverse range of models, didn't feel like a safe space for queer people or weren't regular enough to create a community so decided to create that space and community of like minded people! |
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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. |
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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
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East London queer life drawing hosted by Spencer Grimshaw (slpgtattoo), artist and tattoo artist. After moving to London a year ago Spencer found that the life drawing sessions available either didn't feature a diverse range of models, didn't feel like a safe space for queer people or weren't regular enough to create a community so decided to create that space and community of like minded people! |
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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
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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. |
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Friends of Chats Palace through the decades... Come along and celebrate its illustrious history through photos, posters, film & live band The Exaggerators (intoxication gumbo of blues, country, surf & swing) + DJs & loads of ‘catch-up’ chat! Bring a Fiver cash (for band etc) Please RSVP with name & numbers to: chats50thparty@gmail.com
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East London queer life drawing hosted by Spencer Grimshaw (slpgtattoo), artist and tattoo artist. After moving to London a year ago Spencer found that the life drawing sessions available either didn't feature a diverse range of models, didn't feel like a safe space for queer people or weren't regular enough to create a community so decided to create that space and community of like minded people! |
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Join us for a deeply relaxing sound journey, using the vibrational power of gongs and instruments to leave you energised and rejuvenated. |
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Welcoming Hugh Webb, one of the U.K's most celebrated harpists into our Masterworkers family, there will be a spooky element running through this concert as we present Caplet's musical depiction of Edgar Allen Poe's Masque of the Red Death, Debussy's Danses Sacred et Profane, and Ravel's demonic hungarian gypsy-style Tzigane. Plus lighter music and some old favourites.
£15 – £21
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The nascent four-piece band play their dizzying guitar songs about the very adult but relatable emotions of anxiety, love, and grief |
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East London queer life drawing hosted by Spencer Grimshaw (slpgtattoo), artist and tattoo artist. After moving to London a year ago Spencer found that the life drawing sessions available either didn't feature a diverse range of models, didn't feel like a safe space for queer people or weren't regular enough to create a community so decided to create that space and community of like minded people! |
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East London queer life drawing hosted by Spencer Grimshaw (slpgtattoo), artist and tattoo artist. After moving to London a year ago Spencer found that the life drawing sessions available either didn't feature a diverse range of models, didn't feel like a safe space for queer people or weren't regular enough to create a community so decided to create that space and community of like minded people! 
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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
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