Limehouse Town Hall Since 2001, Limehouse Town Hall has been an independent centre for cultural production and the arts.

interior photos 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 [ photo above by David Coppins ]

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Group contacts

• Boxing Club: email: boxingclub@twenteenthcentury.com / t: +44(0)20 7987 0655 (ext 8) / f: +44(0)20 7517 2362
• Primal Pictures: email: primalpictures@totalise.co.uk / t: +44(0)20 7531 5866 / f: +44(0)20 7517 2362
• Twenteenth Century: email: info@twenteenthcentury.com / t: +44(0)20 7987 0655 (ext. 8)
• Stitches in Time: email: mail@stitchesintime.org.uk / t: +44(0)20 7987 6164
• Create 24/7: email: create247L@aol.com

Boxing Club is an umbrella group of artists, film makers, writers, activists and educators including Twenteenth Century (http://www.twenteenthcentury.com), The Space Hijackers (http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk), Primal Pictures, and 8 resident artists. Primal Pictures is a film production company, specialising in community based film projects, education, training, and working with black and minority ethnic groups. Stitches in Time is a charity and community arts project which aims to get people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds working together through the arts. Create 24:7 is the largest free newspaper for the creative community.

• Monthly meetings of the Tower Hamlets Wheelers (local Loncon Cycling Campaign group)
• CIDA Showcase for regeneration and sustainable community development in the East End.
• 'Symbolic vs. Real' - A two day conference on socially engaged art organised by Goldsmiths college.

Digital media workshops / show cases:

• Dorkbotlondon - a monthly demonstration of art and technology projects to a live audience. (part of an international network of dorkbots, see: http://www.dorkbot.org)
• Skillz Unix workshops - weekly workshops enouraging and facilitating the use of Free Software (as part of the University of Openness: http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com)
• Consume Clinics, regular meetings of the consume project which aims to create free local wireless networks (see http://www.consume.net).

Film projects/events

• Collaboration with Hi8us and a Bow youth club installing a music studio and running drama and dance rehearsals, web journalism and music for film workshops.
• Rehearsals for the production of "Bollywood Queen", a feature premiered in Cannes in 2002.

Stitches in Time

• Textile Trails - a series of programmes that are textile-lead and is made up of three women.s groups working on participatory commissioned textile hangings. The aim of this programme is to enable the groups of women to explore business and enterprise possibilities in association with account 3 expertise and Stitches in Time support facilities.

Studio visits, facilitation and art education

• Studio visits as part of the Whitechapel gallery residency and gallery education events with young people and recent art graduates at the ICA.
• Lectures for students from Central St Martins college of art.
• Provision of affordable studio space and facilities for temporary art projects and film production.
• Workspace and assistance for banner making (Globalised Resistance)

Exhibitions

• "Twenteenth Century Split" a month long exhibition, including a one day festival of art related activities in and around the Town Hall.
• Limehouse Christmas Fete - artists, stall holders, University of Openness fresher's fair