Poplarism!

The festival will run on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd May. 5 pieces of work will be released each day of the festival and there will be a live-streamed Q&A with the artists whose work was shown that day in the corresponding evening, 7pm-8pm. Available online until 2 May 2022.

Stream online from the Finborough Theatre’s YouTube channel:

ROAMING THE RATES REBELLION by Emily and Jodie | Poplarism!

Follow this link to the full zine with all the walking tour stops and audio – click here.

Walk the route with power and pride. Emily & Jodie

Click here for a PDF copy of the walking tour.

Click here for a copy of the audio script.

Poplarism! is a unique collaboration between two very different venues in two very different parts of London – the recently opened arts and community space, Poplar Union, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, one of London’s most deprived boroughs, and the long-established Finborough Theatre, located in one of London’s wealthiest areas, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The two venues are now joining together in a spirit of cross-London partnership and reconciliation to celebrate this milestone in London’s history.

We invited anyone with a connection to the Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Kensington and Chelsea to submit a proposal outlining their creative response to the events of 1921. More information about our commissioned artists below.

When’s the festival?
Saturday, 1 May and Sunday, 2 May 2021. Available online until 2 May 2022.
The winning submissions will be streamed online – submissions from Tower Hamlets will be streamed on Finborough Theatre’s YouTube/digital channels, and submissions from Kensington and Chelsea will be streamed on Poplar Union’s YouTube/digital channels.
There will also be QandA sessions online every day during the festival with the artists involved.