Make It Happen 2025

Play More is a digital art and audio project by We’re All Human (WAH), based in South Leytonstone. It invites local people to use AI tools to create images and music, supporting wellbeing through creativity and self-expression. The project promotes confidence and play, with final work exhibited in a former cybercafé that is now a GP surgery.

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Rolling with the Man Dem is a project designed for young black males aged 13 to 25 who are roller skaters in Waltham Forest. The project consists of a two-hour weekly workshop for eight weeks. The young men will explore peer group talks, physical activity, networking and skills development to support their mental wellbeing.

Creative workshops using artistic creativity, particularly drumming and writing to help with processing and expressing emotions and feelings felt as a result of going through grief, loss and bereavement. They will be run by local musician and creative arts practitioner Amie McBye and will include local collaboration. This will be taking place in Walthamstow and across the borough.

 

The Together Space will deliver inclusive performing arts workshops in South Leytonstone for disabled and non-disabled children aged 11 to 16. Centred around the theme Make it Happen, exploring dreams, goals, hopes and ambitions. The project supports social inclusion, builds confidence, creativity and connection whilst challenging ableist barriers and celebrating community. It will culminate in a joyful performance at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
 

Yoga and Pints is an 8 week men’s group program, inviting men of all ages and backgrounds to come together to stretch, share, bond over good conversation and maybe a cold pint. The program will build physical and emotional strength. Yoga boosts flexibility and eases stress, whilst guided discussions offer support, and friendship. An experience to recharge, reconnect and build meaningful connections.

 

The project will create a musical composition based on recordings above and below the water of the River Ching at Brookfield Path in Highams Park, involving pupils with a visual impairment from Joseph Clarke School.  Working with local volunteers they will improve access to the riverside, enhance habitats for biodiversity and run craft workshops, promoting the health benefits of listening to sounds in nature.

 

In partnership with Vital Arts and in conversation with staff and patients Barry will be delivering a series of weekly creative workshops during Summer 2025 for people rehabilitating from strokes on Peace Ward at Whipps Cross Hospital. Using The Retreat day room and garden as the base for a series of group experiments in making, drawing, writing and conversation.  

 

The Urban Fox is a multi-disciplinary project for foster families in Waltham Forest to create a mural design for an alleyway in Higham Hill and a short animation film to bring the mural to life. With story producer Kate Hampel and animator Maggie Nightingale the families will create a design based on a story of their experiences of urban wildlife and nature.

The Urban Fox is a collaborative project brought together by Kate Hampel, Maggie Nightingale and Waltham Forest based print artist Anna Alcock, who sadly passed away this year. They hope to commemorate her life and work through the project.
 

The Cotch TV is a youth led digital broadcasting channel empowering young people to amplify their voices, develop media skills, and produce diverse, thought provoking content, including talk shows, fitness segments, interviews, reviews, and cooking shows. Cotch TV will showcase local youth's talents, perspectives, and stories, addressing issues that matter to them, especially around health and wellbeing.

The project blends enrichment, education, and enterprise, empowering young adults with SEND through creative skills, sustainable fashion, and entrepreneurial opportunities to foster inclusion and career pathways. Participants will design and produce sustainable fashion items, fostering creativity, skill development, and social interaction.