BELONGING

BELONGING

Launch event: Thursday 25 June 2026 3pm-7pm

Responding to the London Festival of Architecture 2026 theme, Belonging celebrates the culmination of our current National Lottery Heritage Fund three-year programme, as well as showcasing the impact of our public engagement in east London and northeast England over the last decade and a half. Outputs include a large chandelier made with Sixth Form students in Newcastle, Lego constructions co-created with residents of Poplar from street installations by New York based artist Jaye Moon and contemporary responses to Victorian photographic processes led by Jonathan Turner and Adam French. Outcomes featured are the educational foundation that came out of the Tommy Flowers community pub, cited at the House of Lords as "a new model of creative community engagement" and the long-empty Post Office next door that we developed into Making Space, that acted as a springboard for testing out new ideas, including two works that travelled to Venice for the Art Biennale and Film Festival 2022. After six years utilising spaces on the Aberfeldy estate, meanwhile, we returned to Trinity Buoy Wharf, where we had run an artists' residency programme from 2011-17, now being given access to use SS Robin and its supporting Pontoon for events, exhibitions and experimentation, including visual and sonic works. An early intervention revisited here is a large pinhole image of the Post Office Tower, created within a former advertising agency in Fitzrovia, the neighbourhood where our CIC was founded, and continues to engage with local residents, working from the historic TJ Boulting building on Riding House Street, right opposite the Middlesex Hospital site where we did our first public engagement in 2008.

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Host or Publisher Fitzrovia Noir Community Interest Company