Muslim History in Walthamstow: A guided tour

Muslim History in Walthamstow: A guided tour

With AbdulMaalik Tailor

TOURS

Sunday 9 February 2025

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Join AbdulMaalik Tailor, Britain’s first qualified Muslim tour guide, for a walking tour exploring the Muslim History of Walthamstow. Followed by a guided tour of William Morris and Art from the Islamic World.

AbdulMaalik Tailor is an award winning trailblazer in the field of Halal tourism and Muslim Heritage in Britain. As the founder of Halal Tourism Britian, he specialises in providing guided tours that showcase Muslim history and culture. The walking tour of Walthamstow will begin at Queen’s Road Mosque, where participants will be introduced to some significant local landmarks reflecting the area’s rich Islamic heritage.

The tour will then conclude at William Morris Gallery, where AbdulMaalik will lead an exclusive, bespoke tour of the critically acclaimed exhibition, William Morris and Art from the Islamic World the first exhibition to explore the influence of art from the Islamic world on William Morris, one of Britain’s most important nineteenth century designers and thinkers.

Starting location:
(Outside) Masjid e Umer
79 Queens Road
Walthamstow, London E17 8QP

Ending location:
William Morris Gallery
Lloyd Park
Walthamstow, London E17 4PP

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Our Community Patchwork Memory Blanket

With Creative Community

WORKSHOPS

Sunday 2 February 2025

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Join Creative Community for community patchwork memory blanket making at the Gallery.

A Creative Community event at William Morris Gallery.

Share your favorite memories, stories, and experiences whilst piecing together a special blanket that represents our shared history. This event is a wonderful opportunity to connect with fellow Waltham Forest community members and contribute to a beautiful project that celebrates diversity and unity. Don’t miss out on this chance to be a part of something truly special!

This session is for all ages but children must be supervised at all times.

Creative Community brings families and communities together through art, play, and learning for developing new skills, positive mental health and well-being. This project is supported by the London Borough of Waltham Forest Fellowship Fund.

Seppuku Pistols

Performance

Sunday 4 August 2024

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See a performance by Seppuku Pistols. Part of the Art Without Heroes events programme.

Seppuku Pistols play traditional Japanese instruments such as the taiko drums, the bell, the shamisen and the bamboo flute, with chaotic fervor. Seeing a performance from Seppuku Pistols, in their folk costume and ‘setta’ footwear, is like travelling back in time to the Japanese Edo era of 150 years ago. At their guerrilla live performances held throughout Japan, they call out to the public, “We are rebelling against the convenience of modern world and rally for a return to a more simple life.”

This performance starts at 12pm. We’d recommend arriving at least 10 minutes before the start time.

A ‘geta’ talk and making workshop (for adults) follows this performance at 2pm. Read more and book for this event HERE.

About the artists

Seppuku Pistols was started by four ex-punks because of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the nuclear power plant explosion in 2011. Their very first performance was on the line of the no-entry-zone around the nuclear power plant. Since then, they have been “rebelling against the deceptive modernisation in the indigenous Edo style way” and have about 30 members all over Japan.

Yes! Art Fair

E17 Art Trail

LATE EVENT

Thursday 13 June 2024

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Celebrate E17 Art Trail artists at this special event, launching the Yes! Art initiative. An Open Night event at William Morris Gallery.

The Yes! Art Fair is a celebration of local emerging and established artists from this year’s E17 Art Trail. Hosted by William Morris Gallery.

Yes! Art is more than just an art fair. Selected artists are showcasing seminal pieces of work, with some demonstrating the processes behind its making. You’ll be able to connect with artists and their work, enjoy discovering the stories and the processes behind the artworks, and have the opportunity to become direct supporters of each artist’s creative practice.

Read more about the event on the E17 Art Trail programme.

This is a launch event for Yes! Art, a new initiative from the E17 Art Trail team.

Part of the Gallery’s Open Nights programme on selected Thursdays throughout the summer, you can also explore the permanent collection, see the Art Without Heroes: Mingei exhibition, buy from the Gallery shop and enjoy a drink at Deeney’s.

A group of people working on embroidery.

Making Home

A collaborative embroidery for Refugee Week

WORKSHOPS

Saturday 22 June 2024

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Join community residents Stories & Supper to make your mark on a collective home-themed embroidery for Refugee Week.

Celebrate Refugee Week and contribute to a collaborative embroidery on the theme of home. Add a word, an image or just a stitch to help us reimagine what home means. Plus, enjoy pop-up poetry readings while you sew.

This is a chance to get to know the Stories & Supper community of refugees, people seeking asylum and local residents, currently in residence at the William Morris Gallery.

All materials will be provided. Suitable for all ages (children must be supervised). No previous experience of embroidery necessary. All stitches, no matter how simple, are welcome!

Taking place on the Gallery’s first floor Landing.

Read more about our community groups in residency.

Presented as part of Refugee Week: The world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. www.refugeeweek.org.uk

The theme for Refugee Week 2024 is “Our Home”. From the places we gather to share meals to our collective home, planet earth: everyone is invited to celebrate what our Our Home means to them.

If you’re visiting to participate in this event, you can also drop in to Winn’s Gallery (in Lloyd Park) to see Home: An exhibition. Including new work from the Stories & Supper community of refugees and asylum seekers, photo portraits by Laura Martinez, plus work from students at Leyton Sixth Form College. You can visit from 11am to 5pm from 21 to 23 June.

Event category: All ages