As part of London College of Communication’s ongoing support to our cultural neighbours, we’re featuring a weekly round-up of some of the online activities and content provided by the fantastic museums, galleries and cultural venues in our local area.
From Instagram drawing clubs to virtual exhibitions, artist profiles, video demonstrations, film screenings, performances and more, here’s our guide to what you can get involved in with our Southwark and Lambeth friends and partners – all from the comfort of your own home.
Week starting: 13 July 2020
Southwark Rooms: Fat Studio
Southwark Rooms is a free, online art project for Southwark residents who have been staying at home during Covid-19. It is an opportunity to create something special and share it with your neighbours. We’re aiming to bring together artworks from people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities and exhibit them side by side in our virtual gallery.
Send your artwork before 18 July
Find out more about Southwark Rooms projects
Virtually Walworth: Walworth Society
As part of our Virtually Walworth project, we are organising a series of events and activities to look at the story of shopping on the Walworth Road – how it is used now and how it is used in the past. To contribute to this please head over to our website to complete a short survey. Three sets of prize vouchers for Arments pie and mash are also up for grabs.
Complete before 24 July
Find out more about Walworth Society
Introduction to Trust for London's Poverty Profile: Community Southwark
Join us for an introduction to Trust for London's relaunched Poverty Profile to gain evidence & insight into poverty & inequality in London. Manny Hothi, Director of Policy at Trust for London, will be joining so we can all learn more about and better understand poverty and inequality in our capital.
Monday 13 July 10-11.30am
Find out more about Community Southwark
Let’s Grow at Home: Southwark Park Galleries
For the last ten years, Southwark Park Galleries has run a popular gardening project for pre-schoolers and their families. With these sessions ground to a halt, we have put together fun and engaging ideas to grow at home and to create some nature-inspired craft activities. The activities in this pack are suitable for all ages and for growing in window boxes, window ledges, balconies or gardens.
Download the Let's Grow at Home activity book
Rock Paper Scissors – Drawing Buildings: The Drawing Room
In this week’s activity sheet Anne Harild asks children to think about the shape of the building they live in to inspire large scale drawings. How do all the rooms, floors and doors connect? What’s upstairs, downstairs or next door? Send us your drawings to projects@drawingroom.org.uk and we will include them in our online exhibition.
Get involved with Drawing BuildingsPizza & Pitches Lockdown Edition: The Albany
You pick and vote for your favourite, and some lucky attendees will get free pizza!
We are a community-orientated arts organisation, so are putting our money where our mouth is and committing £600 to whichever project is voted for by YOU at our FREE Pitches and Pizza Party. This time the projects will all be things that can happen right now, even with lockdown and social distancing measures in place.
Wednesday 15 July 7-9pm
To suggest an online activity organised by a venue local to LCC for inclusion in this weekly Canvas feature, please email:
Gill Henderson, Cultural and Communities Partnerships Manager: g.m.henderson@lcc.arts.ac.uk.
Related links
- Learn more about our local area in Elephant & Castle
- Find out about LCC's Short Courses
- Follow LCC on Instagram to see behind the scenes at LCC
