Art Groups London

LONDON SOCIAL CREATIVE EXCHANGE

# 🎨 SOCIAL CREATIVE EXCHANGE ## Meet. Create. Connect. ### 🎟️ TO ATTEND **Please join the waiting list.** As part of the registration, please share a **short bio about yourself and your creative work/activity**. **A social night for people who love ART, MUSIC & CREATIVITY.** Are you an artist, musician, photographer, filmmaker, designer, performer, writer, or simply someone who loves creative ideas? Come and meet people, discover new talent, share your work and find potential collaborators. ### 🎨 WHAT TO EXPECT **Creative Spotlight** Discover local artists, musicians and creators presenting their work. **🤝 Creative Networking** Meet people who share your interests and discover potential collaborators. **💡 Share Your Ideas** Bring your project, artwork, music, photography, business or creative idea and tell people about it. **🌍 Meet New People** Connect with creatives from different backgrounds, cultures and industrie **EVERYONE IS WELCOME** Artists • Musicians • DJs • Photographers • Filmmakers • Designers • Writers • Performers • Creators • Entrepreneurs • Students • Beginners • Creative enthusiasts **You don't need to be a professional. If you love creating, you're welcome.** ### 📍 LONDON 🗓️ **Date:** Saturday 26 Septembre ⏰ **7:00 PM – 10:00 PM** 📍 **Venue:** Aviary Montcalm Royal London ### 🎟️ LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE **Places are limited — register early to secure your spot.** **Everyone is welcome.**

Café sketching session (+ Movie hangout) ☕✏️🎬

Get ready to bring your sketchbook and art supplies for a chilled café sketching session! There'll also be a movie hangout afterwards! You're free to just attend the sketching session or the movie hangout. If you'd like to come to the movie hangout, scroll down for more info. No matter your skill level lets grab a coffee and unleash our creativity into our sketchbooks. There's no formal guidance, you'll be free to get on with your own drawings/personal art projects while being able to connect with other local artists. You're welcome to join in on the group conversations or quietly get on with your art studies whatever your preference. A few basic drawing supplies (pencils, colouring pencils, erasers etc) will be provided but please bring your own sketchbook / tablet / paper / something to draw on! We'll be on Level 2 inside the Royal Festival Hall (Level 2 entrance via Riverside Terrace or Mandela Walk). Message if you can't find us! After the sketching session (time TBC), we will make our way to the Vue in Leicester Square to see the video game based horror movie **Resident Evil (2026)**. Film times have yet to be scheduled! *The seat I will book and the link to the tickets will be updated here closer to the sketching event.* Hope to see you there 👋 (Also please feel free to join even if there's a waitlist / RSVPs are full!)

Guided Tour of the Deutsche Bank Art Collection! (Full Members only)

Come along on Wednesday 30th September for a guided tour of the Deutsche Bank art collection. **About the collection & Deutsche Bank** Deutsche Bank opened its London office in 1973. Fifty two years later there are 100 conference rooms in the bank's London buildings named after artists from around the globe. In each room a wall plaque provides a short biography of the artist alongside their work. Floors and corridors are also hung with the Collection, making sure art is a continuous part of everyone's thought process. The reception area of the London headquarters features large artworks by Keith Tyson and Damien Hirst as well as major sculptures by Anish Kapoor and Tony Cragg however the vast majority of the art in the Deutsche Bank Collection is on a modest scale, focussing on works on paper. We are having a guided tour of the collection in the evening, lasting 1h 30mins. **Cost** Tour cost is £10 per person (payable on the day by cash or card). We are also limited on the number of people on the tour. The event is for Full Members only. **Become a Full Member** To become a Full Member (£14 a year), either: \- Pay cash at an event \- Pay via Bank Transfer \(TSB Bank plc\, Sort code: 77\-66\-65\, Account no: 00030809\, Account name: Cultureseekers\) \- Pay via credit card on the day or in advance \([https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QLAX8AUI](https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QLAX8AUI)) \- go to PayPal \- [https://www.paypal.com/uk/](https://www.paypal.com/uk/), then click on 'Pay & Get Paid‘, then click on 'Send Money’, put in the email address: [[general@cultureseekers.org](mailto:general@cultureseekers.org)]([mailto:general@cultureseekers.org](http://mailto:general@cultureseekers.org)) in the 'Send Money' box, then 'Next' and then enter the amount to pay. Click 'Next', then 'Goods & Services', then 'For Friends & Family', then 'Continue' **Afterwards** After we will head to the 'Royal Exchange pub', 26 Sale Place at 4pm for a chat over a drink. If you can make it, please come to the pub afterwards, as it’s a great way to meet and get to know others after the visit. Please note, we only wait outside the station for 10 minutes after the advertised meeting time, so please be early or on time. If you can't see us outside the station, please text. Look out for the red and blue 'London Cultureseekers' group sign. Hope to see you there! Robert 07905 901 834 (prefer text) or email: [general@cultureseekers.org](mailto:general@cultureseekers.org) ***On the day, if you can’t make the trip, just change your RSVP to No or text me to say you can’t make it.*** ***Please don’t post any messages in the comments that you can’t make it, as this generates spam for everyone else.*** ***Please make sure you are aware of the group rules here before RSVPing - [https://www.meetup.com/london_cultureseekers/photos/22974682/523578875/Group_Rules/](https://www.meetup.com/london_cultureseekers/photos/22974682/523578875/Group_Rules/)***

Opportunity to visit St Paul's Cathedral with no admission charge

10 Tickets only! Light supper at 5.15 for those who wish to join, otherwise Cathedral at 6.20. This is a special ticket only open night at St Paul's. As a group, we will take the opportunity to look around the inside of St Paul’s Cathedral in the evening light and explore the Cathedral’s heritage. We will have the opportunity to hear little known stories from the rich history with Spotlight Talks from expert guides, and self-guided trails. We will also get the chance to see a range of heritage skills with displays from highly skilled craftspeople including stone masons and embroiderers and join handling sessions with the Collections team. Both at the same time and following the activities above, those who wish, may also take part, but separate from the group, in some of the more spiritual and religious activities going on at the same time, such as an opportunity to sample Christian mindfulness, music from the Cathedral Consort, and much more. Also, following our group visit, and again, only for those interested to stay (I won't be staying), the evening will close with a sung service of Compline under the Dome. The Crypt will be open for the evening as will as the Cafe. but please note the Dome Galleries won't be open. As a group, we will likely stay at in the Cathedral for 1 to 1.5 hours. After that, you are welcome to stay on individually as discussed above. As always, please only sign up if you are intending to attend. The event is free, except for this special event we are asking for a non refundable £3.00 meetup group maintenance fee, upon which meetup will also charge you a small amount on top. Before the visit, I intend to go for a light inexpensive supper at Pipel, which is just around the corner. For those who don't know Pipel, they serve fresh healthy falafel, and unlike other falafel, they do not add flour but instead use 100% chickpeas, fresh vegetables and spices, cooked to perfection and served with the best salads and pitas. Weather permitting, other choices may be available if it is warm and dry enough to eat in the square where a number of other cheap food outlets are located. It would be lovely if as many of you as possible join me, and we will likely meet there at 5 to 5.15. [https://www.pilpel.co.uk/our-food/](https://www.pilpel.co.uk/our-food/) As we have a limited number of places, we would appreciated it if you cancelled no later than 3 days before the event and to please avoid cancelling on the day as that may get you removed from the group.

The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy -Sean Jefferson

A visionary cycle of paintings and texts by British Symbolist artist Sean Jefferson: a work of pastoral sorcery, alchemical imagination, and charged image-making in which the ancient Royal Art of Alchemy is transmuted into the language of contemporary painting. Inspired by the twenty-two emblematic images of Splendor Solis, Jefferson’s Garden unfolds as a living theatre of fairies, poisonous plants, spirit presences, chthonic animals, Qabalistic pathways, Celtic survivals, and dream-born apparitions. At its centre stands Michael Foy: ancestral guide, contrarian familiar, and hidden intelligence of the work, whose presence is invoked as both catalyst and companion in the artist’s Great Work. Here, painting becomes neither mere illustration nor aesthetic ornament, but an operative vessel. Pigment, symbol, automatism, folklore, and visionary perception are brought together in a process of solve et coagula, through which the invisible is given body and the body is returned to mystery. The result is a distinctly British alchemical landscape: lush, dangerous, humorous, haunted, and spiritually alive. Across its three cycles of imagery, The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy draws upon over fifty years of Jefferson’s research into Symbolist art, Spiritualism, fairy faith, Golden Dawn colour symbolism, Jungian transformation, Surrealist automatism, and the occult current that has always moved beneath the surface of visionary art. It is a book for those who understand that images may be portals, landscapes may be grimoires, and strange beauty—when properly ensouled—may become a mode of initiation. The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy is published in two highly limited editions – and will not be reprinted!

Creativity

Folklore Inspired Creative Session

**Do you ever feel the pull to be creative, but don’t know how to start, or even what you want to make?** **Do you ever get a flash of inspiration, but never have the time or energy to follow it through?** **Do you worry that you need to learn creative skills before you have the 'right' to make art?** **If you answered yes to any of the above, then this event is for you!** As children, we create all the time. We sing, draw and write as part of our normal lessons. We make sandcastles, secret dens, friendship bracelets, invent ball games and make up elaborate storylines for dolls and action figures. We don’t fear failure because the point isn’t to succeed, but to express ourselves and have fun. In fact there’s a whole branch of folklore called childlore! But as adults, it can become hard to connect with that creative instinct, whether that’s due to time, energy, cost or self-doubt. So for this event, we’ll be taking time and space to connect with what inspires us and flex our creativity just for the fun of it. Skill and experience levels don’t matter (although those who are skilled or experienced are welcome!)-what matters is remembering what creative inspiration feels like to you personally, and pursuing it to create something authentic to you. To do this, we’ll be emulating artists across millennia in using folklore as inspiration. A collection of folklore genres will be supplied, each containing a collection of prompts, and you will be picking a piece of folklore that speaks to you on that day and creating a piece of art based on your own interpretation of your prompt. This art can be anything, from poetry to sketching, sewing to architecture, make up, set design, tattoo art, songwriting, fashion, game design or event planning-whatever your prompt inspires you to create! You can choose to do several pieces or spend the whole session on one. Paper and pencils will be provided, but please feel free to bring other materials so long as they are not disruptive to the people or environment around us (eg no liquid paints, musical instruments, etc). Please note: this is not a technical lesson! No specific creative skills will be taught, as the aim is connecting with your own personal creative process. But you are welcome to take your pieces home with you to hone your skills. If there are specific areas of folklore that you would like to see prompts for, we would love to include them! Please feel free to message Kathy up to a week ahead with your ideas :) (This is a free event, so we ask that you please keep RSVPs updated to ensure that as many people as possible who want to come are able to. Cancellations with less than three days’ notice may be removed from the group to prevent wasted spaces in future. Many thanks for your understanding!)

Private View: Lily Donaldson

LONDON ART PRESENTS: **Behave And Other Things** Lily Donaldson is a London-based painter and filmmaker whose practice explores the interconnected themes of home, heritage, and memory. Her work investigates how personal and collective histories shape identity and belonging, often drawing from lived experience and archival material. **PV: Sat 12th Sep from 6pm**

Spanish Drawing Meetup✏️🎨- Club Londinense de Dibujo

\*\*MEETUP EN HAMPSTEAD HEATH, POR FAVOR REVISAR UBICACIÓN\*\* Puedes usar What3words para ubicarte mejor: Parliament Hill Bandstand: ///basket.being.starts Lugar donde solemos hacernos: ///tunes.hired.copies Nos encontraremos en el Bandstand de Parliament Hill y luego caminaremos a un espacio más adentro del parque. ¿Hablas español? 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 🇦🇷 ¿Vives en Londres o alrededores? 🇬🇧 🏙¿Te gusta dibujar? 🎨 Ven y dibuja con nosotros. No hace falta que tengas experiencia o vocación artística. Todos los niveles de habilidad son bienvenidos, pero sí esperamos que hables español. La primera mitad del evento (90 min más o menos) dibujaremos, y al terminar compartiremos lo que hayamos hecho, dejando el resto de tiempo para socializar y conectar. Este es un meetup para conocer y conectar con hispanohablantes que gustan de expresarse y relajarse dibujando o coloreando en un espacio relajado.✨ Ofrecemos material básico para que puedas dibujar pero te alentamos a traer material con el que te sientas más a gusto. Hay un café en el espacio donde puedes comprar alguna bebida o snack.

Korea Exhibition at the British Museum 🇰🇷

Let’s take a Trip to London to see the Wallace Collection

The Wallace Collection is a national museum housing unsurpassed masterpieces of painting, sculpture, furniture, arms and armour, and porcelain. It displays the art collections brought together by the first four marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the likely illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess. It was bequeathed to the British nation by Lady Wallace, Sir Richard’s widow, in 1897. Among the Collection’s treasures are an outstanding array of 18th-century French art, many important 17th and 19th-century paintings, medieval and Renaissance works of art and one of the finest collections of princely arms and armour in Britain. The Wallace Collection is displayed at Hertford House, formerly the principal London residence of the marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace. It was opened to the public as a museum in 1900. To learn more visit - https://www.wallacecollection.org/explore/collection/history-collection/ If we catch the train about 10.30 there is a free talk at 1.00 pm and a guided tour 2.30pm. From there we can decide what watering hole we might like to frequent!! Travel arrangements nearer the time.

Workshop-The language of symbols: Nature, Art & the Pedagogy of Imagination

This is a paid event, tickets are available [here ](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-the-language-of-symbols-nature-art-the-pedagogy-of-imagination-tickets-1998510048353)via Eventbrite. Symbols are a language we all recognise, but few of us can truly read. For thousands of years, symbols have been used to express the ineffable and to create a bridge between the invisible and visible dimensions. By learning to understand them better, we awaken and expand our imagination, which the philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist Gilbert Durand recognised as one of our most vital and transformative faculties. Ultimately, symbols have the power to re-connect us with a world full of meaning and re-enchant our lives. This is a philosophical workshop exploring the hidden meanings behind symbols in nature and art, as well as imagination according to Gilbert Durand. · **Part 1:** The symbolism of minerals, plants and animals, and how the natural world evokes inner images that can help us on our journey through life. · **Part 2:** How deeper psychological truths have been transmitted in works of art, and ways to rediscover these hidden layers through symbolic literacy and active viewing. · **Part 3:** The ‘pedagogy of imagination’ (Gilbert Durand) and how active engagement with symbols and myths is essential for both mental and cultural health. Admission: £40 (£25 concessions), light refreshments provided