Tower Hamlets has a vibrant arts scene, and a host of family and community activities. We hope you find something to enjoy.
For more events taking place in Tower Hamlets this month, visit our What’s on Guide for arts and entertainment listings.
 Come and enjoy a great family afternoon at Vicky Park's famous bandstand as the Victoria Park Bandstand Season returns for summer 2024. Concerts take place every Sunday from 19 May to 28 July.
From the Balkans and Bolivia, Bethnal Green and Bow, the Vicky Park Bandstand 2024 season presents fantastic free concerts to liven up your summer Sundays. Performances start at 2pm. Bring a blanket and a picnic but no BBQ's please. Check out the full programme.
The bandstand season is brought to you by Victoria Park Friends Group in partnership with Tower Hamlets Council and Savills Victoria Park.
 This exhibition at The Brady Arts Centre includes work created during and after 1978 through photography, poster art and graphic design. It captures the spirit of the time and the power of photography to document this key moment in the history of the East End, and the UK’s ant-racism movement. Contributing artists include Dan Jones, Daniele Lamarche, David Hoffman, Phil Maxwell, Syd Shelton, Tom Learmouth and Raju Vaidyanathan. The exhibition opens on Friday 3 May, the day before the anniversary of the racist murder of Altab Ali in Whitechapel in 1978.
 Join our parks team for fun activities in May half term. We’ve got arts and crafts, adventure play sessions, face painting, children’s rides and a window box making workshop plus lots more! All activities are free and all Tower Hamlets families are welcome. Booking is not required but places are limited. Full details of all events will be announced soon.
 Explore art and wellbeing at this free, three day free project for ages 11 – 19.
Young people with a passion for the environment can help launch the Dream Garden at the Brady Arts & Community Centre. Participants will plan and design a balcony garden using methods that have a strong focus on sustainability and that do not have a negative impact on the environment. By making, mending, recycling, and re-using, the group will create an exciting urban garden that encourages nature to flourish and will support their wellbeing and mental health.
Places are limited. Registration deadline 5pm on Saturday 18 May.
 Head down to The Pavilions, Mile End Park on Sunday 5 May to shop Judy’s cool and unique mid-century, vintage and retro furniture, fashion and homewares. Plus quirky antiques & collectables too!
More than 80 stalls of mid-century furniture, vintage homewares, retro fashion & accessories, flea and Y2K stalls mixed in with creators selling their wardrobes, and vintage sellers from all over the UK.
A huge vintage market double bill! Your ticket gets you access to The Arts and The Ecology Pavilions so you can come and go as you please between the two all day!
 The UK Asian Film Festival comes to The Brady Arts & Community Centre on 10 May where they will be showcasing two compelling films back-to-back in a Double Bill event.
If Only (29mins)
Based on true events, ABZ and YASMIN are two young people groomed into a life of criminality by two older gang members GHOST and KAYDEE.
Man To Man (20mins)
How can three generations of men come to common ground about what it means to truly be a man, in a world that is constantly out to get them?
The screenings will be followed with a Q&A session with the film’s directors and producers.
 Join Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives for a series of archival and writing workshops. Participants will have the chance to investigate Tower Hamlets Local History and MayDay Rooms archives, working with selected materials to reimagine and reconstruct histories, and using creative writing practices to make your own speculative fictions and radical counter-realities. Workshops will focus on the history of activism and community organising in East London, and how this material holds the seeds of futures yet to be written.
‘Uncovering the Archive’ is free a programme for young people (18-25) on archives and archiving developed by MayDay Rooms in collaboration with other radical spaces, groups and people in London!
 Chisenhale Art Place invites you and your family to a free fun-filled, art-packed day celebrating culture and community in Bow on Saturday 18 May.
Take part in interactive art and dance workshops, join in with a community picnic, exhibition tours by Turner Prize nominee Rory Pilgrim, meet artists connected to Chisenhale Gallery, Chisenhale Studios, and Chisenhale Dance Space and much more! Check out the full programme.
 Join music and performance students at Rich Mix for an immersive creative workshop of singing, dancing and music-making – designed for families to enjoy together.
Explore rhythms, sounds and movements from around the world, plus make new friends, build confidence and have lots of fun through movement games, music-making and collective play.
No experience necessary! Bring a shaker, percussive toys, and your imagination. And if you’ve been learning an instrument – bring that too! Come prepared wearing comfortable clothes and shoes.
 The Ragged School Museum is hosting a series of talks on Barnardo’s East End. Three prestigious speakers will explore the faith and economic precarity that motivated Barnardo and others to help improve the lives of the East London poor.
8 May - Barnardo’s East End: Poverty and Philanthropy in 19th Century London
22 May – Life in Barnardo’s East End
5 June – Annie Macpherson: fighting ‘Satan’ in Whitechapel and Bethnal Green
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