WHAT'S HAPPENING AT
AFRI-CO-LAB
Every Body Yoga
Sundays 11:00 am to 12:15 pm
6-Week courses starting 13th September
Give yourself permission to slow down. Every Body Yoga is a gentle, welcoming space to rest, breathe and reconnect — no experience needed, no pressure to get it "right."
Over six weeks, in small, friendly groups of no more than 8, you'll ease into simple poses, mindful breathing and moments of stillness, all at your own pace. Whether you're brand new to yoga, coming back after a break, or just craving a softer practice.
This course is for every body — including fat, queer, trans, Black and Brown, older and disabled bodies.
Come as you are, and let yourself rest.
Creative Chill:
Care in Repair:
Visible Mending
Saturday, 19th September
1.30pm until 4.30pm
Join local artist and clothing lover, Elaine Mullings for this visible mending workshop. It's open to all!
Elaine will introduce you to the wonders of visible repair. Learn about visible mending traditions from across the Globe. Learn some simple hand stitches and techniques to transform your loved and damaged clothing into wearable pieces of history that shine with your personality.
Super bold or calm and subtle whatever your flavour - mend your favourite pieces and breathe new life into your well loved and worn clothing!​
Shopfront Gallery Presents:
Dr Felix Ford's
'Casting Off KNITSONIK'
Thursday 3rd September - Sunday 4th October
24 Hours
Our Shopfront Gallery is back with a warm autumnal hug. Take your time to see the threads of each knitted work.
Track her creative process as she turns the interesting objects, buildings and things she meets into complex beautiful, colourful knitted pieces. From inspiration to image to colour to chart to knitted piece to sound.
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Casting Off of KNITSONIK mourns an artform that is no longer available to Felix. Come and see her final celebratory casting off.
— head down to our shopfront gallery at 3 Marine Court, TN38 ODX.
The Naulettes Community Choir
Thursdays 7 pm - 8.30 pm
Starting from Thursday 24th September
Led by local musical talent Deanne Naula, The Naulettes is Afri-Co- community choir is ready for new voices to join. Join us every Thursday for community, connection and lots of joyful singing.
We're working towards building a confident group of singers who can share their voices harmoniously and with heart. No perfection required, just a love of singing.
Sign up from the 27th of July - places are limited
Dare 2 Repair
Starts again on Sunday 20th September
1.00 - 6.00 pm
Dare 2 Repair is a fortnightly textile mending club. Bring your holey jeans, baggy shorts, or mismatched curtains, and with the help of the Afri-Co-Lab Team, we will find a way to make them work!
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All sewing equipment provided, and no experience needed
Blackity Black
with the Electric Palace Cinema
Launches Wednesday 7th October
Celebrating excellence in Black Cinema.
Co-created with Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings​.
Launching Blackity Black in October the Blackest month of them all! After a year long co-creation project join us for this celebration of excellence in Black Cinema.
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Starting with an in person conversation with BAFTA awarding winning director Akinola Davies Jr in hosted by our very own Anna Maria Nabirye and joined by local screen writing legend Trix Worrell and award winning cinematographer Bani Mendy. We will be discussing Black film, African film, diaspora voices and visioning soft Black fatherhood on screen.
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Afterwards we will get to watch his BAFTA winning feature debut My Father's Shadow.
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Tickets are £5 or free with a ticket to the screening of My Father's Shadow at 7.30pm.
Darragh Dance is back at the Lab!
From Monday, 7th September
Normal class timetable returns to
Afri-Co-Lab
​He's back, he's badder than ever, and he wants you on the dance floor! Darragh Dance returns to Afri-Co-Lab!
Pop routines to sweat and laugh to, dancing to the baddest tunes around, led by the loveliest choreographer in town.
Classes are capped at 10 people and they book fast. Don't say we didn't warn you!
Open House
Returns to the Lab on Wednesday,
9th September! 11.00 am - 5.00 pm
Khadija is back with Open House, back at the Lab as usual.
Every Wednesday, Afri-Co-Lab is open to the community to gather, dream and use. Whether you need the WiFi, a change of scene, more space, or just a cup of tea and a chat, come on in. We don't mind.
Best of all, it's totally free!
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Somatic Movement for Every Body
Sunday, 21st November
Join us for the last somatics workshop of 2026 with Imogen. This half-day workshop blends her inclusive, person-centred movement practice and somatic therapy techniques to create a held and supported space to experience a felt sense of being present in your body.
past events
Shopfront Gallery Presents:
Pippa Johnson's
'Support Systems'
Sunday 26th July
Look up at the Afri-Co-Lab Shopfront Gallery today, and you'll find a quiet kind of magic: gently turning mobiles, rearranging themselves into new patterns overhead.
Pippa calls it Support Systems — a playful nod to the everyday acts of care that hold us all together, often without us even noticing.
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Made from found materials and everyday objects, Pippa's work turns the overlooked into something joyful.
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Come and see it for yourself — head down to our shopfront gallery at 3 Marine Court, TN38 ODX to catch Support Systems in person, swaying gently above.
Get Your Sweat On
JULY ONLY​​
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Mon 20th July | 6 pm
This July, whilst our resident dance maestro Darragh O'Leary is away we are mixing it up.
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Starting with swapping the studio for the seafront. _freedomdance_ meets Afri-Co-Lab for a beachside Silent Disco Dance Fitness session. All abilities welcome, no experience necessary, summer vibes guaranteed.
Get moving. Get sweaty. And afterwards get in the sea!
Individual classes £15/£10/£5 or
purchase a 4-Class Bundle £56/£36
​Breathe Play Laugh
Monday 20th July
8.00 am – 5.00 pm
A day of restorative play: as a radical act of community care for Global Majority space holders and facilitators living or working in Hastings, Rother or Lewes.
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​This is a free event taking place on Monday, 20th July at Charleston House (Firle). This event is specifically for Global Majority folks whose work or life means they often hold space, take responsibility for others, and struggle to find space for themselves. It is an invitation to put something back in your pot.
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Shopfront Gallery Presents:
Pallavi Devkota
"Chimera"
Tuesday 26th May - Sunday 21st June
The Chimera is a hybrid creature of myth — a combination of many parts. Multi-layered, fragmented, and alive with unexpected colour
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Come and see how Pallavi's installation turns our shopfront window into a prism — a lens through which St Leonards looks impossible, dreamlike, and completely alive.
Freedom Bus: Warrior Square to Exhibition Road, London
Saturday 6th June
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FREE COMMUNITY DAY TRIP
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For Black and Global Majority folks and their chosen families
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Ding! Ding! All Aboard — the Freedom Bus is back! Your Afri-Co-Lab conductors are ready to help you board.
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The BLACK2HASTINGS Freedom Bus is rolling out again on Saturday 6th June, this time heading to the Great Exhibition Road Festival in South Kensington, London — one of the biggest free festivals of arts, science, creativity and ideas in the country.
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Afri-Co-Lab will take care of all the organising and planning, so you can focus on the only job that matters: enjoying yourself — freely, confidently and with fabulous company.
Creative Chill: Monoprinting
to Music with Morokoth Fournier des Corats
Saturday, 30th May
1.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Join local artist Morokoth Fournier des Corats for our next Creative Chill: a calming and sensory monoprinting workshop that allows for spontaneous and imaginative mark-making. Morokoth will lead you in slow, intentional exercises where you’ll be listening to and visualising music through automatic drawing, stencils and the monoprint process.
No drawing experience required, just intuition and imagination! Leave with a collection of test prints and two final prints.
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Creative Gossips: Shape of the Sea with Rebecca Sinker
Citizen scientist and Clean Water Action-ist Rebecca Sinker is calling a Gossip. The subject: The Sea. The question: How do you feel about it?
Come and explore our relationship with the sea – beyond the headlines of pollution and small boats. Share your stories, your experiences and your feelings about the water on our doorstep and beyond.
Creative Gossips are relaxed, community-led conversations hosted by Afri-Co-Lab. Everyone is welcome.
Shopfront Gallery Presents:
"Walking into Myself"
by Shreyans Iyer
17th March until 12th April
Taking over the Afri-Co-Lab Shop Front Gallery, Shreyans creates a living archive of everyday sounds and creative inspiration.
Visit the installation and scan the QR codes to hear what he sees.
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This installation of process will be shifting and adapting weekly - come and see how the work journeys every Thursday.
