Our latest news plus blogs from staff, artists and more.
Browse our latest news and blogs below. Our blogs come from a wide range of contributors, some of them are about our work – events, partnerships or projects – some of them are about stuff happening in the arts or our local area.
We hope you’ll find something to interest you and we love comments and conversation so feel free to post them on the blog pages or get in touch on email or social media. We’d also like to hear from you if you have an idea for a blog or you’ve written something you’d like to appear here.
Top image from a performance of NoFit State Circus and Motionhouse’s BLOCK in Fordham Park. Photo by @TheSnapshotCafe.
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Albany’s CaffA is Open
Tue 16 Nov 2021
The smell of freshly made coffee fritters through the Albany once more as our café is back open!With ingredients grown right here in our garden, customers can enjoy warming soups and lunches. Perhaps you’d like to meet your friends and family for a hot
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“Every borough deserves an Albany” –Reece, aged 17, Love2Dance participant. The Albany’s Youth Programme supports local young people aged 5 -25 at the Albany and at youth centres across the borough. During 2019 we’ve worked with over 1,400 young people and delivered 4,250 sessions in everything from music, dance, drama,
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New members join the Albany Board of Trustees
Tue 20 Jul 2021
Shereener was recruited to the board via an open recruitment process and Chiquita and Sarah were elected to our board at this year’s AGM by our membership. Shereener is a barrister, actor and the founder and director of Orísun Productions, a not-for-profit theatre production company based in New Cross,
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How we’re responding to step 4 of the roadmap
Mon 19 Jul 2021
Monday 19 July 2021 Following the further easing of restrictions, the health and safety of visitors, staff and artists remains our priority. We want everyone to be able to visit the Albany comfortably and confidently, however with levels of Covid rising rapidly in Lewisham and across the country, we have
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Meet poet Simon Mole and musician Gecko
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Hello! We want to find out more about Poetry Picnic. What inspired you to create the event? Simon: We love snacks and we love words. Gecko: There’s always been lots of interacting with our audience in the work me and Si have done together with children and families. This time
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We’ve pledged to sign the Dementia Friendly Venue Charter
Tue 18 May 2021
We’re pleased to share that we have pledged to sign the Dementia Friendly Venue Charter, launched by The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to ensure that every Londoner with dementia and their carers has a dementia friendly cultural venue on their doorstep. It aims to transform cultural venues for