Torriano Meeting House

Poetry Art Politics Community 

Torriano Meeting House  is a user-funded grass-roots volunteer-run arts and community organisation in Kentish Town. We are best known for our poetry events but we have many other long running strands including storytelling for adults, writing and storytelling workshops, hosting local political campaigning groups, theatrical events, left wing folk club, and we very much support grass-roots creativity and social change.  

Torriano is a space for you to organise events and projects.

“What is the purpose of resisting corporate globalization if not to protect the obscure, the ineffable, the unmarketable, the unmanageable, the local, the poetic and the eccentric? So they need to be practiced, celebrated and studied too, right now.” – Rebecca Solnit

 

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International Women’s Day Celebration

With The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor

10th March, 3pm

Tea, cake and an afternoon of performance. Free

Long Poem Magazine celebration hosted by Linda Black.

Sunday 27th January 7.30pm. £5/£4 according to pocket

Issue 20  marks ten years  of Long Poem Magazine. To celebrate this, poets Mark Waldron, Annie Freud, Jemma Borg, Joan Michelson, Siddhartha Bose and Maitreyabandhu read poems published in the magazine.

2019 events

Spark

Sunday 20th January – London launch of Spark: poems in response to Muriel Spark’s novels. Editors, Rob A Mackenzie and Louise Peterkin, asked 44 of today’s most exciting poets to write poems inspired by Muriel Spark’s 22 novels (2 poets per novel). Rob, Louise, Anna Selby and Lisa Kelly will read some of their favourite poems from the anthology and also some of their own recent poems.

7.30pm 
Poets from the floor welcome.
Admission: £5/£4 (according to pocket)

Theatre, tea and talk

Howard Fritz: Paintings

Films to celebrate John Rety by Agnes Hay

Here is our next event – Hungarian Association of London

Agnes Hay Exhibition of new works in December

Private View. All welcome!

2pm 8th December

John Réty  (1930-2010) Birthday with films by Ágnes Háy

Babelsprecht

Friday 23 November 6pm. Free.

Posters, tea, theatre and talk

A poster making workshop

1-6pm 3 December

Free, all welcome

In celebration of the spectacular suffrage placard processions we will be learning how to make linocuts to create posters for theatrical performances at Torriano Meeting House.

The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor and Sunrise Theatre group will be performing “How Women Won the Vote” by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John, “A Chat with Mrs Chicky” by Evelyn Glover, “The Maid and the Magistrate” by Graham Moffet and “The Apple” by Inez Bensusan on 18 December.

Come to a workshop to design and make posters for this theatrical spectacular.

Tea, cake, discussion

 

Long Twilight

TORRIANO FILM SOCIETY:

A new era of avantgarde, experimental, very old and socially important films are being shown at Torriano.

Hungarian Film Club – Hungarian Association of London

2pm Saturday 17 November 2018

Long Twilight, Attila Janisch, 1997

The story of an elderly woman’s almost supernatural journey back into her past. The elderly woman is a strong-willed professor who leaves her family one day to visit an old friend. But what starts out as a normal journey soon becomes a voyage into the unknown when she loses her way and boards a bus driven by an uncaring driver and filled with stone-faced apathetic passengers.

All welcome         FREE   Donation

for your diary 2pm Saturday 8 December: Animated Films and Videos by Agnes Hay including ‘In Memory of John Rety’