Redbridge Arts

24/10/2026

21/10/2026

💀 Festival of the Dead: Interactive Storytelling

Celebrate the **Festival of the Dead** with a magical storytelling adventure for children!

Join storytellers **Cat & Hutch** for an interactive performance inspired by Paweł Pawlak’s *Oscar Seeks a Friend*, published by Lantana Publishing.

💀 When Oscar the skeleton meets a lonely little girl, an adventure begins! After they both lose a tooth, they set off on an unusual journey to two very different worlds. What will they discover along the way?

Cat & Hutch bring children’s stories to life through interactive shows and workshops, encouraging children to enjoy reading, unleash their imaginations and learn through play.

📅 **Tuesday 27 October**

📍 **Hainault Library** – 11am
📍 **Goomayes Library** – 2pm

Advance booking required visit:
visionrcl.org.uk/festivalofthedead and click on Oscar Seeks A Friend

20/10/2026

🤝Accessibility at Festival of the Dead 🌼

✨This year, we’ve tried to make the festival as inclusive as possible, with:

👏BSL interpretation of selected storytelling and author events on in Wanstead and Ilford

🎨ITZATNA Arts will be running an inclusive Tree of Life hands-on clay workshop at Redbridge Central Library, facilitated by an artist who has experience leading blind and neurodivergent participants.

🎧🧑🏽‍🦯‍➡️VocalEyes will be live describing the Ilford Parade on Friday 30 October, with a specially arranged touch tour in advance (booking advised to avoid disappointment)

👏Touch tours are designed specifically for those with sight loss and offer a unique and immersive way to engage with the show. We open the invitation to those who would benefit from the sensory experience and familiarisation.

🌲For young people with SEND, Barkingside Arts Club will be running their Memory Forest Project, with a sensory space also available at Redbridge Central Library.

🎧Selected exhibition installations have audio description.

📰An Easy Read visual story of the event will be available

🔇For those who prefer to come when the festival is quieter, we will have limited craft activities available from 12.30pm (Wanstead) and 12pm (Redbridge Central).

Contact: Sarah at [email protected] for more details and assistance booking onto sessions.

Barkingside Art Club Redbridge Libraries Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure Redbridge Council VocalEyes - describing the arts Itzatna Arts Collective Empowering Parents Together - Redbridge Empowering Deaf Society RIASS

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

20/10/2026

🍃 Transition Town Ilford is hosting a public screening of People’s Emergency Briefing on Saturday 24 October at 2:30 pm, followed by group discussions 🍃

📍Studio 2, Redbridge Central Library.

⏰2:30pm- 4.00pm

13/10/2026

Honouring Our Communities – a Windrush Story
Join us for a family-friendly afternoon with Weininger Irwin and The Ageless Teenager, a Caribbean Elders group of the Windrush Generation, as we explore the experiences and contributions of the Windrush Generation from 1948 to the late 1990s.

Enjoy a screening of the critically acclaimed BBC documentary Back in Time for Brixton, featuring the Irwin family from Ilford and highlighting 50 years of Black British history and culture. Following the film, there will be a Q&A with Weininger, a hands-on craft activity, and book recommendations for all ages.

Saturday, 17 October | 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Children's Library, Redbridge Central Library

We look forward to welcoming you for an afternoon of history, stories and community.

You can find out more here: https://visionrcl.org.uk/events/honouring-our-communities-a-windrush-story/

This event is part of our Black History Month programme: https://visionrcl.org.uk/culture/blackhistorymonth/



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A family fun afternoon, hosted by Weininger Irwin and the Ageless Teenager, a Caribbean Elders group of the Windrush Generation, exploring what life was like

07/10/2026

💚Green Libraries Week 💚

🍃Wednesday 21 to Wednesday 28 October, led by CILIP, Green Libraries Week is an annual celebration of the vital role libraries play in creating greener, more sustainable communities 🍃

Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure is proud to support this important national celebration. Discover what’s happening across Redbridge Libraries and join us in celebrating the important role libraries can play in building greener, healthier and more resilient communities 💚

Check out what's on https://visionrcl.org.uk/libraries/green-libraries-week/

Transition Town Ilford

02/10/2026

🙌🏿🙌🏽🙌🏻🙌🏾🙌🏿 What an end to the Redbridge Outdoor Arts 2026 season! We launched Redbridge Black History Month with performances of GO GRANDAD, GO! By Company DHW last weekend.

This tender, fun and energetic performance was supported by the Unity Singers and IROKO Theatre Company on Saturday, with Barkingside Art Club workshops and an outstanding art exhibition inspired by Black History Month. There was also the cutest show-themed craft by the Discover in a Day Arts Award team.

❤️September thanks to:

💫The Company DHW cast and crew for their energy, beautiful Reggae soundtrack and amazing BSL performer Deborah, IROKO Theatre Company, the One Place East community and the Unity Singers, Kai and Cliff CM Production Management Chaz, Barkingside Art Club, Rebecca and Discover Arts team, Our Streets Redbridge, Redbridge and district u3a, our amazing volunteers and stewards, face painters, Fullwell Cross and Redbridge Central Library staff and facilities, Fullwell Cross Leisure Centre team and LBR Street Cleansing team, Redbridge Council , Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure and Without Walls UK 💫

🌟...and YOU!!! We have said it before, and we’ll say again- there’s nothing like a Redbridge audience. Thank you! 🌟

📸Thanks also for these images from our wonderful supporters Kerry, Peter Byrne and Michael. Aren't they fabulous? ✨👏🏾

Check out more of the Vision Redbridge Black History Month 2026 programme here: https://visionrcl.org.uk/culture/blackhistorymonth/

25/09/2026

1⃣ Just ONE more sleep until we celebrate the launch of Vision Redbridge’s Black History Month, with Go Grandad, Go!

🎭This inclusive, family-friendly, Hip-Hop dance theatre performance by Company DHW celebrates Caribbean elders: grandmas, grandpas, aunties and uncles whose culture has made a huge impact on British Society.

➡All performances have BSL integrated into the show.

📅Saturday 26 September
✨Saturday has a FREE bumper programme of musical fun too- an inclusive, intergenerational music-making workshop with IROKO Theatre, followed by the Unity Singers.

11am - 11.30am Go Grandad, Go! by Company DHW (performance 1)
12.30pm - 1.30pm IROKO Forever Young Music Workshop
1.30pm - 1.45pm Unity Singers
1.45-1.55 Touch Tour
2pm-2.30pm Go Grandad, Go! by Company DHW (performance 2)

📍Ken Aston Square, Barkingside IG6 2EA

📅Sunday 27 September
1pm and 3pm Go Grandad, Go! by Company DHW

📍Ilford Town Centre, Outside Town Hall, IG1 1LL

➡️Redbridge Outdoor Arts takes place outdoors in a relaxed environment where you're free to make noise and respond. Seating is provided and there is an Access Information Point at all shows. No need to book a ticket- just turn up!

👋See you tomorrow and Sunday! 😀

One Place East Barkingside Art Club Empowering Deaf Society