Join Dr Jennifer Crouch in a two-part research and experimental zine workshop that invites you to explore KEYSTONE SPECIES and ecology

Keystone species are creatures that play a crucial role in holding ecosystems together. When they are removed, they can cause a ‘trophic cascade’ - trophic refers to the food web. A trophic cascade is an ecological phenomenon where changes such as adding or removing a species triggers chain reactions such as local extinctions, over consumption of vegetation resulting in soil degradation, erosion or flooding.

Starting with selected readings from multiple sources, we will encounter different keystone species alongside texts from the critical posthumanities, critical mineral studies, ecology, situated knowledges and queer feminist science studies.... ˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

⟡ Session 1: Collaging reading/ drawing, mapping and collating ⟡

Create research pages that bring together your thoughts and reflections on keystone species through reading, cutting, drawing and collage. These will be printed over the coming weeks by Jennifer on a variety of paper types and colours for use in session 2- original pieces will be available for collection from the 27th June on wards (by session 2)

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

🎟️ click here for more information and to reserve a space

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

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

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

Proposition is pleased to present an evening of artist talks with Julian Udine, Jane Scobie and Mariia Korneeva, marking the end of our inaugural Biodiversity Fingerprint Residency.

The three artists will share interdisciplinary practices exploring ecology, climate vulnerability, transformation, and more-than-human relations. All three are recent graduates of Central Saint Martins, UAL MA Art and Science, and we’re excited to be collaborating with the programme on this residency.

The Biodiversity Fingerprint Residency is a new platform connecting emerging artists from leading art and design universities with experimental studio infrastructure, supporting cross-disciplinary work at the intersection of art, science, materials, architecture, and biodiverse farming. The residency opens up questions around how living systems shape who we are, and how the Anthropocene might become an age of ecological abundance.

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

🎟️ Free to attend - click here to reserve a space

Live sonic experiments, improvisation and work-in-progress performances exploring sound, voice, rhythm and transformation.

Sonic Becomings is an evening of live sonic experimentation curated by Zoë Marden, bringing together artists working across sound, music and performance.

The programme focuses on improvisation, live process and work-in-progress sharing, creating a space for emerging ideas, unstable forms and spontaneous encounters to unfold in real time. Across the evening, audiences will experience sonic approaches spanning voice, electronics, rhythm, noise and spoken word.

Event Information

• Time: 7pm–10pm

• Address: Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0EL ( Come to the front entrance there will be someone at the door collecting tickets and showing you to the venue)

• Doors open 15 minutes before the event begins

• Seating will be limited, with a mixture of seated and standing viewing

• Some performances may include loud sound, low lighting or haze

• The gallery is wheelchair accessible

Purchase your ticket here

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.