29 Oct 7pm– Passing: A writing workshop with Fieldnotes Join us for 'Passing', a writing workshop exploring identity, displacement and the travelling fragment. This workshop will consider slippages in meaning as generative sites of poetic potential, and a way of engaging with questions of performativity and non-belonging in all its permutations. Taking cues from Evelyn Taocheng Wang’s exhibition, as
22 Jul 6pm– Trans+ Pride Sign Making Ahead of London Trans+ Pride 2026 on Saturday 25 July, we are providing a space for our community to make signs showing support and love for our trans siblings.
21 Feb–22 Feb 12pm– You’re a real brick Drop in and join Mark for a weekend of brick making. Smash through your screens with a light hearted object heavy with meaning. Using recycled paper, card, and some watered down PVA glue - make a seemingly simple form - and learn or rediscover papier-mâché!
24 Jul 6pm– Trans+ Pride Banner Making Workshop Ahead of London Trans+ Pride 2025 on Sat 26 Jul, we are hosting a banner making workshop; in celebration of Pride's roots in protest and to bring together and provide space for our community, as well as show support and love for our trans siblings.
26 Jul 12pm– Archive Fictioning This event by CCA Resident Silkworm Collective will use local archival material to build fictional characters. Responding to written prompts, participants will discuss, draw and write to create their character. Together we will reflect on the spaces we inhabit and the hidden histories behind them, envisioning whose footsteps we follow and how the
29 Jul 6pm– Social Dream Drawing Join CCA Resident group Silkworm Collective to explore dreams and memory through a collaborative drawing exercise. Thinking about the importance of dreams as a form of internal storytelling, this event will offer time and space to reflect, play and engage with your own dreams through the visual language of drawing.
22 Jul 6.30pm– Angry Women, Wild Bodies This workshop invites participants to share honest and real experiences of what it is to be woman in 2025. Led by visual artist Annie Frost Nicholson, you are asked to bring an object to the workshop that tells a story about your experience in this world. This could be a story that is, as yet, untold, one that may break a taboo or invoke shame or
05 Apr 11am– Collaborative Storytelling with Artbox Join artists Violet and Mark for a workshop on collaborative storytelling. During the session we will explore Galli’s extensive drawing practice and joyously cut into sketchbooks, to create collaborative comic books using shape, colour and image. As a group, we will respond to motifs within Galli’s work as a starting point to tell our own
06 Mar 7pm– Reading Galli: Dance Psychotherapy with artist Grace Schwindt Join artist Grace Schwindt in a reading of Galli's work through the framework of dance psychotherapy. The event will use the choreographic quality of Galli's large-scale paintings as a starting point for movements that connect with the memories stored in our bodies. Schwindt's research has led her to explore movement therapy techniques as tools
17 Dec 11am– Stay and Play Join us for our Winter Holiday Stay and Play session as part of the Karrabing Film Collective exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA. For this workshop, children will be provided with materials to create miniature festive trees, which they will then be able to decorate. Parents and Carers will be given a tour of Karrabing Film Collective's exhibition,
11 Jan 6.30pm– With Ends in Mind Death and dying are ever-present. We live through an era of mass extinction, reverberating with grief of colonial violence, capitalist extraction, environmental destruction and climate catastrophe. How can we learn from holistic palliative care practices to bring our personal experiences of loss to planetary care?
22 Nov 6pm– Come Closer; Now Go Away A writing workshop by Labeja Kodua and Lara Haworth exploring narrative and emotional positioning in relation to architecture, memory and the works of Esteban Jefferson.
14 Jan 12pm– Footnotes on a Timeline: Feminist Duration Reading Group x Karrabing Film Collective PLEASE NOTE THE DATE FOR THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED TO SUN 14 JAN.
28 Jan 2pm– Ruggeri X Germ Join a textiles workshop at CCA that explores methods of customising vintage clothing to create pieces that express individual identity, and as a sustainable fashion choice. Bring your own item of clothing for customisation with hand embroidery. The workshop is led by Mary Ciach, founder of the Germ label; a textile design led brand focusing on
30 Jul 2pm– Steph Huang: Food Walk in Deptford Market Join artist Steph Huang and sociologist Alex Rhys-Taylor on a walk and workshop exploring the food and commerce of South East London. The walk will connect Goldsmiths CCA to Deptford Market, a centuries-old street market. Participants will be given a set of tasks related to food, and will be asked to find as many of the items on the list as
10 Apr 1pm– Life Drawing Workshop ‘Sez’re’s Becoming’: Floor Five Collective CCA residents Floor Five Collective is inviting you to join the Life Drawing workshop entitled, Sez’re’s Becoming, this Sunday, 10 April, curated in collaboration with artist Florent Venet (they/them).Florent Venet is a French artist and costume designer based in London. They studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, where they received the
13 Feb 12.30am– All Spice: Collaborative Cook Book! Workshop/Session 1 The Floor Five collective, residents at Goldsmiths CCA, cordially invite you to attend a collaborative workshop this Sunday, February 13th, from 12:30-2:30pm. This workshop is intended as the first in a series of sessions which involve working collaboratively to contribute to a continuously growing cookbook archive entitled 'All Spice'.
23 Sep 6.30pm– Olivia Sterling: Life Drawing with Precious Opera and Lydia Petit Join Olivia Sterling, Precious Opera and Lydia Petit for an evening of life drawing and conversation exploring narratives around female bodies in the context of Sterling’s exhibition Really Rough Scrubbing Brush.
13 Jun 2pm– Family Workshop: Watch Me Flower Watch Me Flower is a free workshop for families inspired by Mohamed Bourouissa’s artwork Brutal Family Roots.
24 Jun 6pm– Tension Film: Online Writing Workshop This online workshop responds to Nabokov’s notion of the tension film of “the now”, an idea which evokes the fragility of the present moment and our susceptibility to the seductive past, and brings it into conversation with Elizabeth Freeman’s work on queer temporalities. Participants will be invited to experiment with writing on the
06 Apr 2pm– A Curriculum for the Non-Unified Self PARTICIPANTS: Zinzi Minott (Dancer / Artist), Stevphen Shukaitis (Cultural Theorist & Publisher), Fiona James (Artist)
23 Mar 3pm– Red Mustard and Yellow Lipstick: A Making Workshop for Families Artist, animator and cartoonist Ben Connors explored the collaborative drawing game, Exquisite Corpse. Working on different sections of the body, children were invited to make a life-size Plexiglas figure, responding to the bold, weird and wonderful world of the Chicago Imagists.
16 Sep 3pm– Atchooo! Foley Workshop for Families Sound artist, composer and arts broadcaster Fari Bradley (Resonance FM) explored the art of foley by drawing on Mika Rottenberg’s masterful use of foley sound effects throughout her films. The interactive session introduced children and adults to producing sound effects through manipulating objects.
