What’s On
Ignite: Female Dance Company
Join an all-new, all-female dance company for young people aged 15-19. Members will work together to explore a range of dance styles through performance, devising and research. Over a year-long, online course you’ll have the chance to create a multimedia performance mixing both online and face-to-face elements.
Online Open Studios
SAT 26TH & SUN 27TH
Enter an online world of colour, texture and form as Camberwell artists open their studios online as well as in person. From painters to printers, ceramicists to sculptors, this is an opportunity to explore the eclectic world of Camberwell’s diverse local arts scene.
Inside Out Online Film Night
FROM 7PM
Join us for an evening of online films, responding to this year’s Camberwell Arts Festival theme. This includes a commissioned companion piece for Marble’s lockdown short, Outside In, and Piedad Seiquer’s Grief for a Time That Once Was.
Drapery Life Drawing with Francesca Cluney
7PM – 8.30PM
Art in the Park presents this online life drawing class, with 5, 10, and 15 minute poses by experienced life model Francesca. There will be experienced artists available to answer questions and provide ideas and instructions for how to draw each pose should you want any help.
Rap X Gilbert and Sullivan
7-8PM / EVERY WEDS FROM 9TH JUNE – 15TH JULY
Join rapper John Akinde, aka OSOM, and opera singer Themba Mvula for this exciting new collaboration between Theatre Peckham and English Touring Opera. Through five online workshops, and one live event, you’ll learn about rap and the operatic form of Gilbert & Sullivan.
Camberwell Life Drawing
FROM 7PM
Join this online life drawing class for everyone who wants to spend a chilled Wednesday evening creating art in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Blue Elephant Writing Group
7.15PM
If you’re interested in playwriting - whether you’re aiming to have your work performed or not – then this is the group for you. Actors and critics are also welcome too. Sessions are held fortnightly, via Zoom, and mix writing activities with readings from each other’s work.
Virtual Open Gardens Day 2.0
FROM MIDDAY
The Camberwell Society’s virtual Open Gardens Day is back, with members sharing online videos and photographs of some of the wonderful gardens and green spaces that Camberwell has to offer.
Sleeping Beauty Art Workshop
11AM – MIDDAY
Imagine your own version of Sleeping Beauty in this unique online art class with Art in the Park for young people aged 5+. Through a combination of storytelling, drawing, collaboration and prop-making, you’ll discover things you might not know about this well-known fairy tale.
Digital Arts Market
FROM 9AM
For those of you who can’t make it to Camberwell Green, we’re also launching a Digital Art Market on our opening day. Explore an affordable, curated selection of work by some of our favourite local artists and traders – and all from the comfort of your own home.
Miniature Worlds by Amy Corcoran
Miniature Worlds focuses on the smallest natural entities in order to celebrate their otherworldiness and intricacies, and encourage the viewer to take notice of the natural world and appreciate the complexity of our planet's ecosystems. Presented as a newspaper, Miniature Worlds invites local residents to download this online newspaper and transform their front windows into interactive gallery spaces.
Playing Up
Get playful with these pre-recorded drama workshops you can join at any time. Designed for children aged 1-3, and their adults, they use drama, singing, music, moving and props to explore creative play in the comfort of your own home.
Housebound Diaries by Agustin Coll
In collaboration with the London Festival of Architecture, enter the surreal world of illustrator Agustin Coll’s witty architectural characters in this visual diary of the first few months of the Covid pandemic.