75 years ago today the British troopship the HMT Empire Windrush sailed into Tilbury. @75Windrush Patrick Vernon BCA LBWalthamForest #empirewindrush #windrushgeneration #wearehere #walthamforest Images: Burton, Foster, Gordon, Edmund-Charles & Watson family archives

📢 We're looking for volunteers to support our work with schools & families at the Gallery. If you have an approachable manner & commitment and enthusiasm for cultural learning & the arts, then this might be the role for you! Apply by 7 July 2023 Info: bit.ly/3r81DlC

Mornington Hall has been a community space for 100 years. Starting out as a school in 1923 and then Headquarters of the Wardens' Service during World War II. It was later used as a British Restaurant and now a home for CADOS. Do you have memories of the Hall? #chingford #history

Launching the William Morris Community Residency Programme 🎉 Are you a community group, collective or organisation in Waltham Forest looking for resources or activity and meeting space to support your work? We want to hear from you. Read more: bit.ly/43ZN4ix

Waltham Forest Pride is coming soon to Fellowship Square, E17 and tickets are free! Continue the celebrations and let 🏳️‍🌈elop LGBT mental health and wellbeing know if you're hosting an after-party, or organising a Pride event in Waltham Forest via the link 👇 ➕🎟 bit.ly/3rrRX5i 📅 Sat 29 July #PrideInLondon

✨ Opening this week! Revel Puck Circus presents The Wing Scuffle Spectacular: A Lion’s Heart✨ at Leyton Jubilee Park from 13 July. Get £5 tickets 13-14 July only, using code LEYTONPUCK + 15% off evening shows Tuesday-Thursday using code WEEKNIGHT. 🎟 bit.ly/3O43fFY

The Waltham Forest Twinning Association invites you to the launch of Telling Our Story: an Anthology. The topics are as diverse as the writers, consisting of memories, conversations overheard, love and ageing. 📅 Fri 14 July, 6:30pm 🏛 Town Hall, E17 eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-…

✨ Less than a week until Dialled In: The Park - 22 July. Live music, DJs, free tours of Ashish: Fall in Love and Be More Tender and: 👕 Slogan T-Shirt Making 💎 Easy Embellishments Pop-Up ✂️ Collective Collage Making 👖 Community Clothes Swap Book: bit.ly/42zHdid

Join the LGBTQI+ Quilt Makers! They'll be meeting every Thursday evening at Stone Mini Market to make a textile banner. Get together, share stories and learn new skills. Find out more and sign up here: bit.ly/3Z44JUD

A new exhibition is coming soon to Winns Gallery, Lloyd Park. 4 Women in Aquelarre is by four local female artists, Anna Alcock, Linda Green, Kirsten Schmidt and Yanire Sylva Delgado. 📅 16 to 24 Sept ⌚ Weekdays 12-5pm + Weekends 10-5pm 💌 Private View Friday 15 Sept, 5-7pm

Are you neurodiverse and want to be part of a group community art project - submit a hand drawn map of places in the borough that make you feel calm. Any medium or format you like, postal submissions only, by 15 November. Find out more here: quietmapproject.info

Incoming: Thurs 9 Nov from 6-9pm there will be a charity art auction @FillyBrook - a partnership between Orlando Frames in Leyton and charity Furnishing Futures. Purchases will help create a healing home for women and children escaping domestic abuse. 👉orlandoframes.co.uk/events-1

The team have been busy developing plans for new creative programming in Waltham Forest. Here they are after presenting to London Gov as part of an application for a London Borough of Culture Impact Award 🤞

We want to hear your views about culture and creativity in Waltham Forest to help shape a new Cultural Action Plan. Have your say via the survey and be in with a chance of winning a £100 voucher to spend at the William Morris Gallery shop ✨ 👉👉👉bit.ly/48kyJi1

Apply now for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Experience with Soho Theatre and embark on a journey that could shape your future in the creative industries, and help form the programme at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. For 18-30s Deadline: Sunday 14 April, 5pm bit.ly/3U3EDjB

The Waltham Forest Music Society are putting on a free lunchtime recital next Monday 15 April in Highams Park. 🎸 Head to All Saints Church on Church Avenue at 1pm (doors open at 12:30pm) for a 60-minute guitar recital by guitarist Ryan Chan.

Calling all #WalthamForest comedy and theatre lovers - fancy coming with us to Edinburgh Festival Fringe? ✨ Together with Waltham Forest Council we're offering an all expenses paid trip to the Festival this August, plus a full bursary for a term on our Labs More info below 🧵👇 walthamforestjobs.org/creative-core/…