KEYSTONE SPECIES
Mar
27
to 27 Jun

KEYSTONE SPECIES

KEYSTONE SPECIES brings together thirteen artists based in Proposition’s studios whose work engages with the idea of keystone species: plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms whose presence shapes delicate processes that allow life to thrive through growth, decay, movement, and care. When these species disappear, entire systems can shift or collapse; when they flourish, abundance attains viability. The exhibition takes this ecological principle as a point of departure for reflecting on interdependence, responsibility, and the maintenance of planetary balance.

Across performance, painting, film, sculpture, writing, sound, and installation, the artists Owen Bennett, Jennifer Crouch, Alex Hincapié, Lisa Gornick, Jolene Liam, Zoë Marden, Fergus Polglase, Katherine Pogson, Olha Pryymak, Nina Ross, Nwakuba Udenze, Siena Venturino-Malcherczyk and tyroneisaacstuart approach the idea of keystone species in a multitude of tones.

Find out more here

📍 Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0EL
🗓️ 27 March - 27 June 2026
⏱️ Wednesday–Saturday, 12–7pm
🗓️ Private View - 6:30-8.30pm, 26 March 2026

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MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing
Apr
30
6:30 pm18:30

MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing

Life Drawing classes with a twist | Hosted by Wumzum of the Markmakerz.LDN Collective

What can you expect?

They bring you life drawing, with a twist! Expect music, art tips and a creative experience — they want to build a fun, vibrant community, so don't expect your typical silent sketch session.

Each session will be focused around a (clothed) Life Model who will feature a range of poses throughout. The idea is to upskill and focus on form. You can do this however you like, with from pens, paints, poscas, or procreate! This session is open to all creatives, so feel free to stick to your preferred discipline or come and experiment with new ones.

So come along and get involved — we look forward to welcoming you!

🕔 6:30pm - 8:30pm (doors 6:00pm)

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Studio 110, Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Get your tickets here

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Reel House
May
7
to 8 May

Reel House

A Reel House for Real Cinema

The Reel House is a free film and social club where they screen their favourite classics and hidden gems for the community here at Proposition Bethnal Green.

Visit  @reel_house_filmclub for details on the next screening!

🕔 6:30pm - 12:00am

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Free to attend - For priority tickets please RSVP by visiting @reel_house_filmclub

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver
May
8
7:00 pm19:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver
May
9
7:00 pm19:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver
May
22
7:00 pm19:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver
May
23
7:00 pm19:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver
Jun
5
7:00 pm19:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver
Jun
6
7:00 pm19:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver
Jun
19
7:00 pm19:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Live of A Beaver
Jun
20
7:00 pm19:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Live of A Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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Join us for a tour of Wakelyns agroforestry farm
Apr
27
8:00 am08:00

Join us for a tour of Wakelyns agroforestry farm

Want to join us on a tour of a pioneering Biodiverse Farm on Apr 27th?

Wakelyns Agroforestry is an oasis in a desert of conventional industrial agriculture. For 30 years it has been a beacon of hope showing how human beings can increase biodiversity and support ecological resilience in the process of producing delicious food, energy, fibres and building materials.

Created by the world renowned plant pathologist, plant breeder and pioneer of agroforestry Prof. Martin Wolfe, Wakelyns has led the way for the adoption of the integration of trees, crops and animals in farming systems. The biodiverse farming at Wakelyns has brought species back to Suffolk which haven’t been seen in generations, such as nesting turtle doves.

It has informed UK and EU government policy and inspired researchers, academics, farmers, bakers and plant breeders from across the world. BBC Good Food Award winners Hodmedods (2017) and Small Food Bakery (2018) sprung from the work at Wakelyns.

Prof. Wolfe was a founding trustee of Proposition and always emphasised the importance of visiting Wakelyns in person. Come and join us to see for yourselves the magic of how a farming system can make human beings a Keystone Species.

We will be going to Wakelyns together in a coach from London in the morning of the 27th Apr, there are still spaces left, completely free of charge.

What we need from you: If you are enthusiastic and available, please let us know by filling out this quick Google Form.

You can read more detail about Prof. Martin Wolfe's work here:
https://www.biodiversecarbonfarming.com/intra-crop-genetic-diversity-as-a-means-of-crop-protection/
and hear more about Wakelyns here:
https://wakelyns.co.uk/

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver
Apr
25
7:00 pm19:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Life of a Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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Spring Open Studios at Proposition!
Apr
25
11:00 am11:00

Spring Open Studios at Proposition!

Join us inside the studio walls of Proposition — a rare chance to meet our resident artists, explore their work, and see where the magic happens. Explore their studios, discover unique artworks, and experience the vibrant energy of East London’s art scene.

We will be hosting an array of activities, works for sale, and of course the doors will be open to check out our latest exhibition.

📍279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🗓️ Saturday 25th April

⏰ 11 AM – 4 PM

🎟️ Entry to the building is free - click here reserve a space

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Reel House
Apr
23
to 24 Apr

Reel House

A Reel House for Real Cinema

The Reel House is a free film and social club where they screen their favourite classics and hidden gems for the community here at Proposition Bethnal Green.

Visit  @reel_house_filmclub for details on the next screening!

🕔 6:30pm - 12:00am

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Free to attend - For priority tickets please RSVP by visiting @reel_house_filmclub

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A Keystone Species Event: Multispecies Urban Nature Walk - Trees and Moths
Apr
18
10:00 am10:00

A Keystone Species Event: Multispecies Urban Nature Walk - Trees and Moths

Multispecies urban nature walk exploring trees and moths with Katherine Pogson and Paul Wood, in the lead-up to Earth Day.

Join citizen-scientist-artist Katherine Pogson and street tree expert Paul Wood for a multispecies urban nature walk. We will encounter surprising stories from the urban arboretum, seek out the niches and refuges where nature thrives in unexpected places, and explore the symbiotic relationships between trees and moth species through seasonal rhythms, migration stories and environmental change.

The walk will take in Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, a nearby “community-managed nature haven”, medicine garden and artistic hub, and will end with a visit to the art exhibition Keystone Species at the studios, where Katherine will give a brief introduction to her works.

🕔 Please arrive by 10am

📍 Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E2 0EL

🎟️ Free - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing
Apr
16
6:30 pm18:30

MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing

Life Drawing classes with a twist | Hosted by Wumzum of the Markmakerz.LDN Collective

What can you expect?

They bring you life drawing, with a twist! Expect music, art tips and a creative experience — they want to build a fun, vibrant community, so don't expect your typical silent sketch session.

Each session will be focused around a (clothed) Life Model who will feature a range of poses throughout. The idea is to upskill and focus on form. You can do this however you like, with from pens, paints, poscas, or procreate! This session is open to all creatives, so feel free to stick to your preferred discipline or come and experiment with new ones.

So come along and get involved — we look forward to welcoming you!

🕔 6:30pm - 8:30pm (doors 6:00pm)

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Studio 110, Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Get your tickets here

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A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Live of A Beaver
Apr
11
3:00 pm15:00

A Keystone Species Event: The Day in the Live of A Beaver

Beavers are returning to London and the UK after being driven to extinction here 400 years ago. This live performance blends drawing, comedy, natural history, and reflection, following a day in the life of a beaver. Through facts, philosophy, and humour, the beaver becomes a lens for rethinking how we live.

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ £8 / £12 - click here for more information and to reserve a space

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Reel House
Apr
9
to 10 Apr

Reel House

A Reel House for Real Cinema

The Reel House is a free film and social club where they screen their favourite classics and hidden gems for the community here at Proposition Bethnal Green.

Visit  @reel_house_filmclub for details on the next screening!

🕔 6:30pm - 12:00am

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Free to attend - For priority tickets please RSVP by visiting @reel_house_filmclub

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MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing
Apr
2
6:30 pm18:30

MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing

Life Drawing classes with a twist | Hosted by Wumzum of the Markmakerz.LDN Collective

What can you expect?

They bring you life drawing, with a twist! Expect music, art tips and a creative experience — they want to build a fun, vibrant community, so don't expect your typical silent sketch session.

Each session will be focused around a (clothed) Life Model who will feature a range of poses throughout. The idea is to upskill and focus on form. You can do this however you like, with from pens, paints, poscas, or procreate! This session is open to all creatives, so feel free to stick to your preferred discipline or come and experiment with new ones.

So come along and get involved — we look forward to welcoming you!

🕔 6:30pm - 8:30pm (doors 6:00pm)

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Studio 110, Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Get your tickets here

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Reel House
Mar
27
to 28 Mar

Reel House

A Reel House for Real Cinema

The Reel House is a free film and social club where they screen their favourite classics and hidden gems for the community here at Proposition Bethnal Green.

Visit  @reel_house_filmclub for details on the next screening!

🕔 6:30pm - 12:00am

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays (except this week)

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Free to attend - For priority tickets please RSVP by visiting @reel_house_filmclub

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MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing
Mar
19
6:30 pm18:30

MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing

Life Drawing classes with a twist | Hosted by Wumzum of the Markmakerz.LDN Collective

What can you expect?

They bring you life drawing, with a twist! Expect music, art tips and a creative experience — they want to build a fun, vibrant community, so don't expect your typical silent sketch session.

Each session will be focused around a (clothed) Life Model who will feature a range of poses throughout. The idea is to upskill and focus on form. You can do this however you like, with from pens, paints, poscas, or procreate! This session is open to all creatives, so feel free to stick to your preferred discipline or come and experiment with new ones.

So come along and get involved — we look forward to welcoming you!

🕔 6:30pm - 8:30pm (doors 6:00pm)

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Studio 110, Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Get your tickets here

About Wumzum

Wumi “Wumzum” Olaosebikan is a Nigerian-British illustrator, muralist and animator who specialises in character & world design. Wumzum’s craft has taken him across 4 continents and takes inspiration from a range of sources: the visual language of comics; the interactivity of video games; the dynamism of graffiti; and the fluidity of the London Jazz scene.

About Markmakerz

MarkMakers are a London-based creative collective, predominantly made up of illustrators from diverse backgrounds. We hold space for creators in the city to come together, share and develop their practice. From hosting online challenges, collective exhibitions and IRL workshops. We believe our lived experiences help us distinguish ourselves and expand our limits beyond a world of generic or AI art.

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Reel House
Mar
12
to 13 Mar

Reel House

A Reel House for Real Cinema

The Reel House is a free film and social club where they screen their favourite classics and hidden gems for the community here at Proposition Bethnal Green.

Visit  @reel_house_filmclub for details on the next screening!

🕔 6:30pm - 12:00am

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Free to attend - For priority tickets please RSVP by visiting @reel_house_filmclub

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MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing
Mar
5
6:30 pm18:30

MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing

Life Drawing classes with a twist | Hosted by Wumzum of the Markmakerz.LDN Collective

What can you expect?

They bring you life drawing, with a twist! Expect music, art tips and a creative experience — they want to build a fun, vibrant community, so don't expect your typical silent sketch session.

Each session will be focused around a (clothed) Life Model who will feature a range of poses throughout. The idea is to upskill and focus on form. You can do this however you like, with from pens, paints, poscas, or procreate! This session is open to all creatives, so feel free to stick to your preferred discipline or come and experiment with new ones.

So come along and get involved — we look forward to welcoming you!

🕔 6:30pm - 8:30pm (doors 6:00pm)

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Studio 110, Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Get your tickets here

About Wumzum

Wumi “Wumzum” Olaosebikan is a Nigerian-British illustrator, muralist and animator who specialises in character & world design. Wumzum’s craft has taken him across 4 continents and takes inspiration from a range of sources: the visual language of comics; the interactivity of video games; the dynamism of graffiti; and the fluidity of the London Jazz scene.

About Markmakerz

MarkMakers are a London-based creative collective, predominantly made up of illustrators from diverse backgrounds. We hold space for creators in the city to come together, share and develop their practice. From hosting online challenges, collective exhibitions and IRL workshops. We believe our lived experiences help us distinguish ourselves and expand our limits beyond a world of generic or AI art.

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MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing
Mar
2
6:30 pm18:30

MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing

Life Drawing classes with a twist | Hosted by Wumzum of the Markmakerz.LDN Collective

What can you expect?

They bring you life drawing, with a twist! Expect music, art tips and a creative experience — they want to build a fun, vibrant community, so don't expect your typical silent sketch session.

Each session will be focused around a (clothed) Life Model who will feature a range of poses throughout. The idea is to upskill and focus on form. You can do this however you like, with from pens, paints, poscas, or procreate! This session is open to all creatives, so feel free to stick to your preferred discipline or come and experiment with new ones.

So come along and get involved — we look forward to welcoming you!

🕔 6:30pm - 8:30pm (doors 6:00pm)

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Studio 110, Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Get your tickets here

About Wumzum

Wumi “Wumzum” Olaosebikan is a Nigerian-British illustrator, muralist and animator who specialises in character & world design. Wumzum’s craft has taken him across 4 continents and takes inspiration from a range of sources: the visual language of comics; the interactivity of video games; the dynamism of graffiti; and the fluidity of the London Jazz scene.

About Markmakerz

MarkMakers are a London-based creative collective, predominantly made up of illustrators from diverse backgrounds. We hold space for creators in the city to come together, share and develop their practice. From hosting online challenges, collective exhibitions and IRL workshops. We believe our lived experiences help us distinguish ourselves and expand our limits beyond a world of generic or AI art.

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Reel House
Feb
26
to 27 Feb

Reel House

A Reel House for Real Cinema

The Reel House is a free film and social club where they screen their favourite classics and hidden gems for the community here at Proposition Studios. 

Visit  @reel_house_filmclub for details on this week’s screening!

🕔 6:30pm - 12:00am

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Free to attend - For priority tickets please RSVP by visiting @reel_house_filmclub

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MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing
Feb
19
6:30 pm18:30

MarkMakerz IRL: Alternative Life Drawing

Life Drawing classes with a twist | Hosted by Wumzum of the Markmakerz.LDN Collective

What can you expect?

They bring you life drawing, with a twist! Expect music, art tips and a creative experience — they want to build a fun, vibrant community, so don't expect your typical silent sketch session.

Each session will be focused around a (clothed) Life Model who will feature a range of poses throughout. The idea is to upskill and focus on form. You can do this however you like, with from pens, paints, poscas, or procreate! This session is open to all creatives, so feel free to stick to your preferred discipline or come and experiment with new ones.

So come along and get involved, we look forward to welcoming you!

🕔 6:30pm - 8:30pm (doors 6:00pm)

📅 Fortnightly on Thursdays

📍Studio 110, Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

🎟️ Get your tickets here

About Wumzum

Wumi “Wumzum” Olaosebikan is a Nigerian-British illustrator, muralist and animator who specialises in character & world design. Wumzum’s craft has taken him across 4 continents and takes inspiration from a range of sources: the visual language of comics; the interactivity of video games; the dynamism of graffiti; and the fluidity of the London Jazz scene.

About Markmakerz

MarkMakers are a London-based creative collective, predominantly made up of illustrators from diverse backgrounds. We hold space for creators in the city to come together, share and develop their practice. From hosting online challenges, collective exhibitions and IRL workshops. We believe our lived experiences help us distinguish ourselves and expand our limits beyond a world of generic or AI art.

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Reel House
Feb
12
to 13 Feb

Reel House

A Reel House for Real Cinema

The Reel House is a free film and social club where they screen our favourite classics and hidden gems for the community here at Proposition Studios. 

This week…

They will be showing the 2019 American romantic road crime drama Queen & Slim, directed by Melina Matsoukas.

🎟️ Free to attend - For priority tickets please RSVP by visiting @reel_house_filmclub

🎬 Screenings every other Thursday from 18:30

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Public Tour and Roundtable Conversation
Feb
10
6:30 pm18:30

Public Tour and Roundtable Conversation

Roundtable discussion with curator Ben Tufnell, CLOSE Gallery founder Freeny Yianni, co-founder of Proposition Daniel Hudson and artists contributing to the After Nature exhibition.

Tuesday 10 February: 6:30-8pm

Drinks will be served

FREE. Reserve space here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roundtable-discussion-with-artists-of-after-nature-exhibition-tickets-1980472429349?aff=oddtdtcreator

After Nature includes work by Mercedes Balle, Chris Dury, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Magnus Hammick, Alex Hartley, Simon Hitchens, Tania Kovats, Richard Long, Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Onya McCausland, David Nash, Nissa Nishikawa, Aimee Parrott, Lotte Scott and Fred Sorrell. The exhibition offers a timely exploration of the ways in which artists are being in nature, with works spanning a range of media, including sculpture, ceramics, drawing, painting and photography.

After Nature is open until 14 February 2026




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Public Tour and Roundtable Conversation
Feb
5
6:30 pm18:30

Public Tour and Roundtable Conversation

Public Tour of After Nature exhibition with curator Ben Tufnell

Thursday 5 February: 6:30pm-7:30pm

FREE. Reserve space here: (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tour-of-after-nature-exhibition-with-curator-ben-tufnell-tickets-1980465338139?aff=oddtdtcreator

After Nature includes work by Mercedes Balle, Chris Dury, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Magnus Hammick, Alex Hartley, Simon Hitchens, Tania Kovats, Richard Long, Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Onya McCausland, David Nash, Nissa Nishikawa, Aimee Parrott, Lotte Scott and Fred Sorrell. The exhibition offers a timely exploration of the ways in which artists are being in nature, with works spanning a range of media, including sculpture, ceramics, drawing, painting and photography.

After Nature is open until 14 February 2026



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Feb
2
6:30 pm18:30

Evening of Breath Work with Rai Tateishi and Kenichi Iwasa

Proposition welcomes you to a rare collaboration flautist and member of the band goat(jp) Rai Tateishi, alongside multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Kenichi Iwasa. Acoustically responding, without amplification, to a range of wind instruments within the galleries, their activation offers sound as a site of collective attention. Together, they draw on improvisation as a devotional and disciplined practice, where intuition and structure coexist.

Monday February 2nd 

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Doors open at 6pm

Tickets £7. Book here:

RAI TATEISHI is a flute player with the Japanese shinobue as his foundation. He performs with a wide range of wind instruments, exploring approaches to sound rooted in local landscapes and somatic sensibilities. As a member of the taiko performing arts ensemble Kodo, he has offered his music extensively in Japan and internationally. After departing from Kodo, he collaborated with artists such as choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Living National Treasure Kabuki actor Bando Tamasaburo, Ichikawa Danjuro, Phew, and Seiichi Yamamoto. He also engages in environments where tradition and experimentation intersect, including the rhythm ensemble goat(jp) and the multi-ethnic performing arts group WATARA.

In recent years, Rai has developed a unique musical expression that fuses traditional techniques with electronics, releasing his debut album Presence on the label NAKID under the production of Koshiro Hino (known for goat and YPY). Recently he has performed at MODE 2025 and Unsound Osaka.

He currently lives in the mountains of Japan while continuing a creative practice in close connection with nature

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Kenichi Iwasa is a multi-instrumentalist whose work fuses acoustic and electronic elements, blending brass and woodwinds with live sampling and sound manipulation to craft mind-bending soundscapes that evolve in real time. His talent for transforming raw, everyday noises into intricate and compelling compositions is a hallmark of his improvisational style. He is known for his live and recorded collaborations with artists including Elvin Brandhi, Ziúr, julian Sartorius, Alexander Tucker, Jesse Kanda, Maxwell Sterling, Visio, Heith, Finlay Clark and Lutto Lento.

He currently performs with Naima Karlsson under the name Exotic Sin and released LP on Blank Forms.

 

Born in Japan, Iwasa relocated to London in 1996, where he founded the legendary ‘Krautrock Karaoke’. This regular event has become a signature statement of his creative ethos, combining the experimental sounds of Krautrock with spontaneous, improvisational and participatory live performance. By encouraging artists from diverse backgrounds to join in, Iwasa creates a melting pot of styles and genres, making each Krautrock Karaoke an unpredictable experience for both performers and audience while breaking down the barriers between them.

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OFFERING: An afternoon of poetry, music and dance
Jan
17
3:00 pm15:00

OFFERING: An afternoon of poetry, music and dance

On 17 January 2025, from 3 - 4pm, Proposition welcomes you to OFFERING – an afternoon of poetry, music and dance that brings together three artists whose practices cultivate embodied dialogues with ecological interdependencies.

Tej Adeleye, tyroneisaacstuart and Masumi Saito weave word, sound and movement to reflect on the term ‘land art’, in conversation with the group exhibition After Nature. Their practices gesture toward forms of relation that both precede—and extend beyond—the term’s canonical boundaries.

These activations are grounded in the present moment, honouring the environments that shape them while considering how culture remembers, records and relates to living ancestral worlds. OFFERING is an invitation to experience art not as an inscription upon land, but as a relational field unfolding with it.

📍 Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0EL

🗓️ Saturday 17 January 2026, 3pm - 4pm

FREE: Reserve a space here

ARTIST BIOS

Tej Adeleye

Tej Adeleye is an audio producer, writer and cultural programmer based in London. She is mostly trying to be happy and well. She is co-founder of Chila Nathi, a live music and conversation series, where she has fun with friends with good food and wine. Workwise, she has produced arts features, current affairs, specialist music programmes and documentaries for  Written in Air, Radio 3, Radio 4, Audible, 1xtra and NTS. These include Sideways, the Audio Content Funded series Giant Steps (Jazz  FM), the award winning Bias Diagnosis (Audible), Short Cuts (Radio 4), Between The Ears (Radio 3), the free jazz programme, Freeness (Radio 3) and the relaunched  BBC 1xtra Talks. She has written for We Jazz, The Wire, Where The Leaves Fall, Straight No Chaser, Clash, the recent publication, Beyond The Bassline: 500 years of Black British Music, alongside various liner notes. Her interests include archives, health, climate change, music and political organising, which she tries to lend practical time to. She is a 2025 -2026 resident BOOM artist with Oxford Contemporary Music. 

tyroneisaacstuart

tyroneisaacstuart is a London-based interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges sound, movement, and visual art to create immersive, concept-driven experiences. Rooted in jazz music and street/contemporary dance, his work explores identity, spirituality, and the balance between noise and silence.

Masumi Saito

​​Masumi Saito is a Japanese movement artist whose work bridges film, performance, and ritual. Rooted in the Japanese reverence for nature and spirits, her art explores themes of fragility, transformation, and identity. Drawing from personal experiences of motherhood, grief, and cultural heritage, she creates profoundly moving pieces that invite introspection and self-discovery.

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After Nature
Nov
21
to 14 Feb

After Nature

Proposition and CLOSE are delighted to announce that after a very successful showing at CLOSE in Somerset, the acclaimed group exhibition, After Nature, will transfer to Proposition Bethnal Green.

Featuring internationally acclaimed artists such as Richard Long and David Nash, After Nature also includes work by artists Mercedes Balle, Chris Dury, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Alex Hartley, Magnus Hammick, Simon Hitchens, Tania Kovats, Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Onya McCausland, Nissa Nishikawa, Aimee Parrott, Lotte Scott and Fred Sorrell. The exhibition offers a timely exploration of the ways in which artists are looking at and thinking about nature in the twenty-first century, with works spanning a range of media, including sculpture, ceramics, drawing, painting and photography.

The exhibition was originally conceived for CLOSE, a gallery in Somerset that sits within a rural landscape, much of which has been rewilded. In that context the exhibition seemed to speak to its setting, the works entering into a dialogue with their surroundings, creating a powerful connection between inside and outside. Proposition offers a very different context. Embedded in one of the biggest cities in the world, Proposition exists to ‘provoke reimagination and action around the potential positive impact that our civilisation can have on biodiversity and ecological resilience.’ The organisation’s ethos is that art can allow us to ‘build connections, inspire emotion and engage people in a creative and innovative way that can raise awareness and make [the issues we face] more accessible.’

In the heart of London’s east end, After Nature, which reflects upon our relationships with the living world, becomes a form of resistance, an alternative way of thinking forward at a time of climate emergency.

Curated by Ben Tufnell

  • Private View: Thursday 20th November 2025, 6pm–8:30pm

  • Exhibition Dates: Friday 21st November 2025 – Friday 14th February 2026

  • Opening Hours: Free, Wednesday – Saturday, 12pm–7pm

  • Location: Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL 

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Private View - After  Nature
Nov
20
6:00 pm18:00

Private View - After Nature

We are thrilled to invite you to celebrate our next exhibition, After Nature, at Proposition Bethnal Green — a show originally conceived for CLOSE, a gallery rooted in the Somerset landscape and surrounded by rewilded countryside. At Proposition, in the heart of London’s East End, the exhibition takes on new resonance: art about nature shown within an urban ecology, a moment of reflection amid the city’s intensity.

Join us for a first look at the show, and experience this dialogue between rural and urban, nature and culture — celebrating the ongoing collaboration between CLOSE and Proposition, and imagining new ways of living creatively and responsibly with our environment.

Please RSVP for the Private View here: Private View RSVP Ticket Link

Address: Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL


Find out more about the exhibition and the artists here

This free exhibition will run from Friday 21st November 2025 – Saturday 14th November 2026 

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Week 4: Yen Ching-Lin
Oct
22
10:00 am10:00

Week 4: Yen Ching-Lin

INNER SPACE | OUTER SPACE is an improvisational movement workshop allowing participants to tap into hybrid states of being as part of a psycho-somatic liberation. The session begins with a shaking and moving meditation, encouraging any blocks in your body and being to melt away, bringing a liquid flow into different part of the body and mind. Through improvisation, we will focus on different sensations and qualities - deepening awareness, exploring inner/outer space and echoing the dynamics of nature to connect body and emotions in each moment.

No dance background necessary.

Yen-Ching is a London-based movement artist, choreographer and teacher. Her independent research and creative output explore the compelling dialogue between dance, stillness, photography and film while forging a distinctive interdisciplinary approach.

Born in Taiwan, Yen-ching studied at the Taipei National University of the Arts. She completed the Postgraduate Diploma Program (Edge05) and obtained an MA in Contemporary Dance at London Contemporary Dance School. This rigorous training equipped her with a strong technical background and a deep understanding of movement.

She has collaborated with esteemed artists and companies including Hofesh Shechter Company and Bern Ballet (under Stijn Celis), Akram Khan Company, Charles Linehan, and Didy Veldman, Theo Adams Company, Stefan Jovanovic, BalletLorent, Clod Ensemble, AE, Waldorf Project, Alice Anderson, Lee Mingwei, Punchdrunk, FOS (Thomas Poulsen) and Bullyache among others.

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Suggested donation for workshops 15 pounds. Please email us at rsvp@propositionstudios.com if you are experiencing financial challenges. No one will be turned away.

INNER SPACE | OUTER SPACE with Yen-Ching Lin

  • Thursday October 23 at 10am - 11:15am

  • Friday October 24 at 10am - 11:15am

Public Sharing (£5)

  • Saturday 25 October at 7pm - 8pm

  • Doors Open at 6:30pm

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Week 3: Lewis Walker
Oct
16
5:00 pm17:00

Week 3: Lewis Walker

CONNECTING TO IMPROV is an open workshop focused on meditation, connection, and improvisation — inviting dancers to explore movement freely while observers witness and collaborate through their own artistic practice.

CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP is a free and observed 4-hour creation workshop exploring current choreographic tools used to make performance works. Through improvisation and guided tasks, dancers will develop a short piece in real time, offering observers the chance to document and respond to the unfolding creative process. Please see participant application form.

This opportunity is open to professional and emerging dancers or movement artists who are interested in exploring and expanding the limits of physical possibility through structured improvisation.

On Saturday 18 Oct there will be a performance in the gallery, presenting the culmination of movement exploration and creative work developed over the previous two days.

Lewis Walker is a London-born queer, non-binary movement artist. A former Great Britain gymnast and Acrobatic Gymnastics World Champion, they trained from age 6 to 21 before earning a degree in Contemporary Dance. Their work spans theatre, film, fashion, music, and the commercial sector. Walker continues to choreograph gymnastics competition routines for the Great Britain, Italian and French national teams. Their creative vision and dynamic movement style have led to collaborations with Tim Walker, Yorgos Lanthimos, ANOHNI, Tirzah, BULLYACHE, Burberry, UNTITLAB, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).

Beyond performance, Walker is dedicated to teaching movement as a tool for accessing deeper states of consciousness and developing a deeper understanding of consensual touch. Their Connecting to Improv workshop explores dance improvisation as a ritual of shared energy and expression, while MOVE HYPNO, a collaboration with hypnotherapist Michele Occelli, blends movement and hypnotherapy for personal transformation.

Walker is currently a Studio Wayne McGregor RESIDENT 6 artist-in-residence.

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CONNECTING TO IMPROV (Observed Movement Workshop)

  • Thursday 16th October 5 - 7pm 

CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP (Observed Creation Process)

  • Friday 17th October 12 - 4pm 

Performance ((£5)

  • Saturday 18th October  4 - 5pm 

  • Doors Open 2:30pm

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Week 2: Nicol Vizioli/Nissa Nishikawa and Kapila Venu
Oct
8
12:00 pm12:00

Week 2: Nicol Vizioli/Nissa Nishikawa and Kapila Venu

In Gallery I, Nicol Vizioli and Nissa Nishikawa offer a series of hand-printed photographs and raw materials sourced from their ongoing collaboration, which explores dance-journeys in open-air environments. In Gallery II, Yakshi, a film by Kapila Venu, will be screened in continuous rotation. The work weaves together image, landscape, sound, and character from the folklore of Kerala. A finissage will take place on Saturday evening, with both Vizioli and Nishikawa in attendance.

Nicol Vizioli is a visual artist and educator working primarily with photography and film. Trained in Fine Arts and Cinema in Rome and in Photography at the University of the Arts London, Nicol’s practice is grounded in raw physicality and a symbolic visual language. Drawing on mythology, painting, and a profound connection to the natural and animal world, her work weaves together the representational and the primal. Guided by these core principles, she moves across disciplines, currently expanding her studio practice through film and, more recently, sculpture.

Recent commissions include the London Contemporary Orchestra, Akram Khan Company, South London Gallery and Kew Botanical Gardens. Her work has been exhibited in international galleries and art fairs such as Scope Basel (CH), Somerset House (London, UK), UK), Trienniale di Milano (IT), The XV Biennale de la Mediterranée (Thessaloniki, GR), Roundhouse (London, UK), Watou Festival (Poperinge, BE), Rosphoto (St.Petersburgh, RU) amongst others.

Nissa Nishikawa’s multidimensional practice comprises performance, poetry, painting, sculpture, and moving image. She researches and interprets traditional forms of dance, ritual, and craft in ways that illuminate animistic and alchemical philosophies through an embodied and structural approach. Nishikawa often works in the open air and in studios equipped to house fire, interconnecting the arcane with the supra-sensual, the living earth, and its conscious inhabitants.

Kapila Venu is a practitioner of Kutiyattam, one of the oldest living theatre traditions in the world, from Kerala, India. She is a disciple of the legendary Kutiyattam maestro Guru Ammannur Madhava Chakyar and the renowned exponents Guru G Venu and Guru Usha Nangiar. She is also a practitioner of Mohiniyattam dance, which she learned from her mother Guru Nirmala Paniker. For more than two decades, she has travelled the world performing, teaching, and giving workshops on Kutiyattam. She has studied with renowned Japanese avant-garde dancer Min Tanaka and has performed in two of his choreographies, – Rite of the Forest (2005) and Thottangal (2007).

She has also collaborated with internationally recognised artists and scholars such as Dr. Eberhard Fischer, Peter Oskarson, and Wally Cardona. She is a guest lecturer at the National School of Drama in New Delhi and a Master Teacher at the Intercultural Theatre Institute in Singapore. A film on the life and work of Kapila Venu, titled “Kapila”, directed by Sanju Surendran, won the National Award for Best Cultural Film at the 62nd National Film Awards of the Government of India in 2014. Kapila was awarded the highest honour for young artists by the Government of India – the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar, the Kumar Gandharva Samman of the Government of Madhya Pradesh and the Sanskriti Award of the Sanskriti Pratisthan.

Free exhibition open on Wednesday 8 Oct to Saturday 11 Oct between 12:00pm - 7:00pm

Finissage on Saturday 11 Oct at 6-8pm. RSVP with Eventbrite.

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Week 1: Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome
Oct
2
6:30 pm18:30

Week 1: Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome

The workshops with Fernanda will extend from her current research into somatic movement and voice practices in solo and group constellations. The nature of the echo and the building of sound worlds will be explored throughout the gallery spaces at Proposition Galleries. All welcome.

Of English-Chilean descent, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome is a London-based artist, choreographer, dancer and researcher creating immersive performances and workshops. Through somatic practice and her process driven approach, she explores the potentials of solo and collective embodied power and the temporary building of micro-communities. Collaboration is key, crafting ecologies of liveness, risk, care, and access. Her work shifts perspectives, rippling between human and more-than-human space-time. Approaching dance and voice through the deep poetics of the body and the contradictions of how to be in the world.

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Daily Score for Interruption and Exchange (£5)

Wednesday 1 Oct 2-3pm

Thursday 2 Oct 2-3pm

Friday 3 Oct 2-3

Somatic Workshop (£15)

  • Thursday 2 Oct 6:30-8pm 

Public Sharing Session (£5)

  • Saturday 4 October 7-8pm

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A PERCEPTUAL ZONE [dance as ecological reciprocity]
Oct
1
to 25 Oct

A PERCEPTUAL ZONE [dance as ecological reciprocity]

A Perceptual Zone is a month-long exploration of dance in dialogue with the elements. Born from bodies attuning to land, season, and storm, it coalesces in continual contact with the biosphere.

Dance arises from the necessity to respond, moving in step with shifting conditions, shaped by the forces of nature. It is an origin of ecological art: wisdom inscribed in fascia, constellations of movement resonant with animal and elemental intelligences. It proposes an ethics of listening and being-with. It unfolds as a communion with what exceeds the self: the stretch of trees into sky, vibration of soil, pressure of air, gravitational pull of another body. In this reciprocity, rhythm becomes a living cycle — an environmental intimacy through which the human is re-imagined.

Throughout October, artists Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Nicol Vizioli, Nissa Nishikawa, Kapila Venu, Lewis Walker, and Yen-Ching Lin offer workshops, installations, film, photography, and performance. Their practices, experimental and traditional, are gestures that honour the earth while remembering dance as both instinct and offering.

A Perceptual Zone is not performance alone. It is an opening, a space of witnessing, where dance becomes relation, navigating the currents of co-existence.

  • Week 1: Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome

  • Week 2:  Nicol Vizioli/ Nissa Nishikawa and Kapila Venu

  • Week 3: Lewis Walker

  • Week 4: Yen-Ching Lin

Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL

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Beyond Words: The Experience of Hypnosis with Michele Occelli
Sept
10
6:30 pm18:30

Beyond Words: The Experience of Hypnosis with Michele Occelli

FREE with limited spaces: rsvp@propositionstudios.com

This lecture is a blend of talk and direct experience. We’ll explore how trance and hypnosis have been used across cultures and history—from ancient rituals to modern therapy—to shift perception, ease suffering, and open up new creative ways of experiencing the self.

We'll look at key techniques used to guide people into these altered states and explore what might actually be happening in the mind and body during hypnosis.

You’ll be guided through a series of hypnotic exercises—giving you a direct taste of how attention, imagination, and suggestion can significantly alter your awareness and bring about the kinds of inner states we call trance.

This is a chance to learn about hypnosis not just in theory, but through your own embodied experience in a safe, engaging, and supportive setting.

No previous knowledge of hypnosis is needed. 

www.micheleoccelli.com

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Chorus (working title): A new performance by SERAFINE1369
Aug
9
3:00 pm15:00

Chorus (working title): A new performance by SERAFINE1369

SERAFINE1369 is a dancer, artist and body-focused researcher working with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology. They work with/in the context of the hostile architectures of the metropolis towards moments and states of transcendence and transmutation. Dancing is a kind of ghost work, a work of cycles and fragmentary returns that speaks to meditative, divinatory and devotional practices. 

This work has been developed with support from performance, possession + automation, a three-year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Limited spaces, RSVP essential

Please email rsvp@propositionstudios.com

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