Making Connections 2023

MAKING CONNECTIONS

At The Old Waiting Room - Peckham Rye Station

20th October - 18th November 2023

All events are FREE or Pay What You Can (PWYC)

Making Connections is a new arts festival for London, located in the unique Old Waiting Room at Peckham Rye station. Based on a unique combination of skills and interests around community, artistic practice, and place-making, Making Connections 2023 was a 6 week pilot season of performances, activities and events, creating access to arts  and sparking a sense of optimism around Peckham’s unique heritage.

The project has its roots in local community action around the Old Waiting Room, seeking to repurpose it as a Town Hall for the 21st century, a centre for arts and community gatherings which celebrates Peckham’s unique and diverse heritage. Led by Dr Rebecca McCutcheon, working closely with Benedict O Looney Architects, and Friends of the Old Waiting Room, partnered by the Arch Company, the project won Thriving High Streets funding from Southwark Council for its vision of placing public purpose at the heart of this venue.

 

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About The Old Waiting room - Peckham Rye

Peckham's Palace of Varieties is a free night of live music celebrating Peckham’s music hall past.

7:30-9:30PM FREE

The creative collective holobiont invites you to a night of sonic cloud bathing at the Old Waiting Room.

7:30-10:30PM PWYC

Join architect Benedict O Looney to hear about the project of restoring Peckham Rye Station

7:00PM FREE

Join Peckham-based Artist Mark Pearson for a morning of sketching the interior and views to the exterior of the Old Waiting Room.

11.00-1PM PWYC

Songs and stories from around the world to show and share the talents that people bring to the Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers

6:30- 8:30PM PWYC

Love books? Making Connections is teaming up with our favourite local bookshop Review to offer an evening in the Old Waiting Room with three inspiring local authors.

7.00pm PWYC

Peckham Vision invites you to experience this enchanting Victorian space and discuss its future.

FREE No Booking Required -Drop in

One-off free screening of the zombie horror thriller Train to Busan.

First come first serve no booking required.

7:00PM FREE

Join Yogarise for a very special 90-minute yoga and sound experience at the Old Waiting Room

Reframe waitingas a gift in time. A pause for reflection, A forced moment to stop.

5-8pm No booking required


Sonsoles Print Studio are taking over the OWR for one weekend with a print fair screen print demos!

Free drop in

A new site-specific performance of Brief Encounter explores love, loss and longing through the comings and goings of a station waiting room.