Our Local Offer: Bow Bridge Heritage, Arts & Culture
- The Bromley by Bow Centre holds all-ability creative arts workshops with local artists to enable people who live and work locally to meet each other and learn new skills.
- Resident artists run all-ability workshops on stained glass, stone carving, ceramics, mosaic, textiles and more.
- The Centre runs a weekly programme of classes for adults with disabilities or for people who are socially isolated.
- Residents of Stroudley Walk benefit from annual events organised by the Centre such summer picnics and festivals.
- Women East: Women’s empowerment programme drawing on the rich heritage of the suffragette movement in the East End. Included a six month engagement programme with Bow Arts using a vacant retail unit on Stroudley Walk and an event series
Inclusive and high quality places & infrastructure
Safer and more cohesive communities
Improved cleaner and more attractive streets, open and green spaces
Local shops, services, leisure, cultural and community facilities that meet local people’s needs
- Creative Futures is a free online career fair presenting job possibilities and training available in the creative industries with a fortnightly series of talks, events and workshops. Open to anyone interested in exploring career possibilities in the creative industries.
- Arts workshops and annual festivals and events will continue to be delivered at Bromley by Bow Centre
- Linking the area’s history of women’s movements and suffragettes into the development at Stroudley Walk through public art and events.
- Continued partnership with Bow Arts to deliver community arts programmes from vacant retail units
- Developing a place-based arts strategy and associated programmes at Stroudley Walk. Working with local partners, the strategy will explore opportunities for art, heritage and enterprise initiatives which help strengthen connections between new and old developments in the area, including Fairlie Court.
