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*For Global Majority Folks
Free entry - donations welcome
Last Tuesday of the month
6pm to 9pm - Last entry 8.15pm
RSVP to secure your spot
This month Afri-Co-Lab Teamiees Dee & Lills are taking over Sew Social.
For one month only you get not one but two fab Teamiees to look after you. So join Dee, Lills and other wonderful crafters on the last Tuesday of the month to unwind, share ideas, and enjoy some laughs in a friendly, non-judgmental space.
Don’t forget to bring your hand-held crafting projects, and we will remember to bring the tea and biscuits.
We can’t wait to craft with you!
Upcoming dates:
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29th April 2025​
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27th May 2025
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24th June 2024
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GET LIT!:
Discover The Core of Your Creative Ideas
Screenwriter and script developer Alex Kendall will will help you protect your creative ideas at our next GET LIT sesh.
Alex will be leading discussions and exercises to help you identify your core ideas, generate new ones, stretch and grow them.
This workshop is perfect for everyone—professionals, emerging writers, storytelling enthusiasts alike!
Yoga for Every Body!
Yoga For deep Rest And Recovery
with Janice Kate Fisher
Four Week Yoga Courses For Every Body.
Following on from Everybody Yoga Retreats, we are excited to share with you our new four-week Every Body Positive Yoga courses.
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These courses, as always are gentle and restorative; time for your body to rest and recover from the hectic-ness of life.
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£90/ £60 / £45 Concessions
Sundays 11 am - 12:15 pm
Summer Courses
May Block:
Sunday 4th May - Sunday 8th June
June Block:
Sunday 22nd June - Sunday 27th July
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Every Wednesday
Make Afri-Co-Lab your home, work space, chill out lounge and studio for the day!
Whether it's jumping on our WIFI, looking for a different scene to complete a piece of work, maybe using our crafting tools for a project, or a cup of tea and a chit-chat, our doors are open.
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In true Afri-Co-Lab style, light refreshments will be available.
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Free entry - donations welcome
Every other Sunday
1pm to 6pm
No booking required
Dare 2 Repair
Save yourself some pennies and bring your broken textiles to our fortnightly textile repair club. Doesn’t matter if you are a sewing newbie or have made dozens of suits.
The Afri-Co-Lab team will have sewing machines ready and be on hand to offer advice, a cup of tea and maybe a biscuit or two.
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Sunday 6th April
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Sunday 20th April - No Session
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Sunday 4th May
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Sunday 18th May
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£15/ £10/ £5 Concessions
*4 Class Bundle Plan £56/ £36
Mondays
5.30pm - 6.30pm & 7pm - 8pm
Darragh Dance
Dance class for all abilities, advance booking recommended. Get your joy on with movement director and choreographer Darragh O’Leary.
Pop routines to sweat and laugh to!
- 28th April 5.30 pm & 7 pm - Waiting List only!
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*No Class May 5th - Jack In The Green*
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12th May 5.30 pm & 7 pm ​- Afrobeats special with Michael Ogunbiye
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19th May 5.30 pm & 7 pm ​- Afrobeats Special with Michael Ogunbiye
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26th May 5.30 pm & 7 pm
BOOKING ESSENTIAL!
past events
GET LIT!:
Queer Intimacies & Nature
Local poet and musician Remi Graves will be leading a workshop for queer folks and their allies.
Looking to nature for inspiration this workshop is for all writers, readers and curious folk- no experience necessary. Discover Queer writers, hear Remi share their work and perhaps play with creating a piece of your own.
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@Towner Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ
For Hastings and Rother residents
Free entry
Travel subsidy available
Tuesday 8th April, 1.30 - 2.45 pm
It's carnival time!
Join Afri-Co-Lab at the Towner Carnival Masterclass with Notting Hill Carnival legend Ray Mahabir!
In this family-friendly workshop, you'll learn about carnival costume design while enjoying a cuppa and a biscuit. The Afri-Co-Lab team will be there to help you make the most of your experience.
This Free workshop is for Hastings and Rother residents and will feature activities and a cozy reading space for the young-uns.
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Spaces are limited - so make sure you book to secure your free space!​​
We were thrilled to have Symoné as our very first artist in residence and have enjoyed opening the Lab to new energies, creative processes and ideas. If you want to know more about what Symoné has been up to, check out their blog post HERE.
Symoné is a Guinness World Record-holding cabaret/circus performer, theatre maker, and interdisciplinary artist merging circus, digital art and game design.
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Shop Front Gallery
8th - 16th March 10am -Midnight
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FREE
Join our Community
Advisory Group!
​We want to work with you to get better at what we do in our community! We know many areas of local life could be better with more creative solutions, and we believe that Afri-Co-Lab can help in making these happen.
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But we need your help!
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We need you to join our monthly Advisory Group supper club. During these gatherings, we will share a meal, discuss what is happening in our neighbourhoods, and explore how we can work together to develop creative interventions to support our fellow Teamiees!​
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£15/ £10 / 5 Concessions
Thursday 20th February
6.30 pm - 9 pm
GET LIT!
With Richard Phoenix
& Jess Mabel Jones:
DO YOUR OWN THING
Building on the legacy of our fabulous author talks with @WhatSarahReadNext, we bring to you our brand new literary offer - GET LIT!
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We are kicking off GET LIT! with local interdisciplinary artist and disability activist Jess Mabel Jones talking to ANOTHER FAB local artist, activist, musician, and writer, Richard Phoenix, about his book Do Your Own Thing.
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Together, they are going to get into disability history, share an intro to arts company Heart N Soul, reflect on their vast inclusive practices, have open conversations about DIY work practices, and, of course, dig into Richard’s book DO YOUR OWN THING.
Get LIT! Our monthly literary offer
@De La Warr Pavilion
Saturday 1st February 2025
Join us for an afternoon of rest and restoration using artistic practices, all curated to offer a space to breathe, dream and open your imagination as an act of community care for Black & Global Majority people who hold space for others- whether in their professional life; as an artist, creative, an organiser, activist, therapist, carer, facilitator etc or in their personal life.
There are no expectations, no specific outcomes, no specific experience or practices needed- just intentionally held space for you to explore. We are thrilled to announce we will be joined by artist and facilitator Birungi Kawooya. YAY!
We’ll do the planning, holding, organising all you need to do is book and we will take care of the rest.
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Please read all our FAQs and book your FREE spot.​​
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For LGBTQI+ artists, makers & creators
To Apply click below
​Artist January Take Over!
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We are handing over the Lab for 2 weeks from January 12th 2025, to an artist, maker or creator to be in residence at Afri-Co-Lab.
There is a £500 artist support fee, £200 materials budget & support from the ACL team.
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Click below to find out more and apply.
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Deadline: Sunday 1st December 12am
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When we reach 100 applications
Artist In Residence
@Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Friday 25th October
5pm - 12:30pm
Freedom Bus: Warrior Square to Shoreditch Town Hall
Freedom Bus:
Warrior Square to Shoreditch Town Hall​
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Jump on the BLACK 2 HASTINGS Freedom Bus and get ready for a fantastic trip to London! We’re off to Shoreditch Town Hall for 'I've been looking for things that last' an evening of performances curated by acclaimed artist and choreographer SERAFINE1369.
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In this community outing with a difference,
Afri-Co-Lab will take you on a free coach trip to the historic Victorian auditorium at Shoreditch Town Hall, which will be transformed into a soil-covered performance space for a one-of-a-kind Performance Salon featuring four performances from UK and international artists.
This event is part of Home Live Art’s 25th anniversary celebrations.​
Afri-Co-Lab is a community interest company based in
St Leonards-On-Sea, East Sussex, headed up by fashion designer makers Anna & Lilly.
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Combining their Ugandan cultural heritage, British seaside home and sustainability to create workshops, educational programmes, creative events and artistic interventions for seasoned and newbie creatives alike!
Hattie Spice shop front takeover. January 2021
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facilitating creative exploration.
discovering your inner maker.
Making Things Happen
identity
creativity
Never too young to create.
Mini-Makers.
Making
Uganglish Style.