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The Create Place is an exciting new community arts and crafts hub providing education, equipment and space to the local community. Our aim at The Create Place is to bring local artists, crafts enthusiasts, designers, makers and complete beginners together under one roof to share ideas, learn, teach and be inspired to create. We run tailor made workshops offering an exciting & varied timetable. We also stock the work of a local collective of artists and designer makers and provide promotion for their work through regular pop-up shops and craft markets.
The Create Place has quickly established relationships with local schools and community groups including; origami workshops with children from St John!s Primary School, a bookbinding workshop with a local ESOL group and painting sessions with individuals from MENCAP. We are also running a six week programme of beginners! sewing workshops for a group of young mothers at the Mowlem Sure Start Centre in Tower Hamlets, which encourage social interaction and build the SDUWLFLSDQWVҋ FRQÀGHQFH LQ WKHLU sewing abilities.
The Create Place has recently drawn national press attention for its monthly series of workshops. TV!s daybreak programme visited The Create Place to interview our resident artist 5RE\Q 6WHZDUG DQG ÀQG RXW more about the "spectrum series! of workshops run in conjunction with the National Autistic Society. “The Create Place has a fantastic space that allows people to work alongside & learn from each other. I think it will be a great success as there is no other place like it, a space totally dedicated to arts and crafts”.