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A huge thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday at Culpeper Community Gardens and Chapel Market to celebrate the launch of the 3rd edition of our Cubitt Community Press Newsletter 🌿🌀🗞️

It was wonderful to gather with contributors, neighbours, and friends to share the project, distribute newspapers, and celebrate the stories, places, and people that make Islington unique.

Together with local residents, we created a community map of the borough, marking more than 50 sites on the through an open call. From youth centres and cultural spaces to sites of radical action, local histories, and personal memories, the map connects past and present-day Islington through a collection of community knowledge — including a hand-drawn map of the borough.

Visitors also got involved with our limited-edition merch-making station, creating stickers, badges, and more, while Emmie — the mobile resource centre on wheels — hosted a temporary garden library for the afternoon 🌻

The newsletter was hand-designed, printed, and bound in Islington by our press group using the Cubitt Community risograph printer 🙌🖨️

Thank you to everyone who contributed, attended, shared stories, and helped make the day such a special celebration. ✨

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📯Not to be missed this weekend! Saturday 6 June | 3–5 PM | Culpeper Community Gardens🍃

Join us for the summer launch of the 3rd edition of the Cubitt Community Press Newsletter 🌿🌀🗞️

We worked with Islington locals to create a community map of the borough — gathering 50+ sites through an open call. From youth centres and cultural spaces to sites of radical action and personal stories, the map brings together historic and present-day Islington, including a hand-drawn map of the borough!

Hand designed, printed and bound in Islington by our press group, using our very own cubitt community risograph printer 🙌🖨️

At the event: pick up a newspaper, hear from contributors, and get involved ✨

We’ll also be making limited-edition merch (stickers, badges + more), and host a temporary garden library using Emmie: a mobile resources centre on wheels! 🌻🌻🌻

Light snacks + drinks provided 🥤

Free entry and everyone welcome — please book a ticket so we know you’re coming!

Upcoming event for teachers, artist educators and arts workers. THRESHOLDS: CULTIVATING CURIOSITY IN THE CLASSROOM | 4:30-6pm, Tuesday 2 July, 2026

What happens when entering the art classroom becomes an opportunity to cultivate joy and curiosity?

In this gathering, artist Jasmin Bhanji and AMSI’s Head of Art Joeanna Omotesho will introduce Thresholds: a practice where the entrance to the art classroom is subtly transformed using material and sensory interventions. These have included disco lights and music, projections of waves, and glitter curtains.

We’ll explore how these interventions have invited new ways of entering and experiencing the classroom, sparking different kinds of conversations with students. This ‘consultation by action’ has informed curriculum development, shaped around young people’s responses.

Through hands-on creative activity, conversation, and reflection, we’ll explore ways to support meaningful engagement in art. You’ll leave with practical ideas and fresh perspectives to take into your own context.

This gathering is for teachers from primary, secondary, EYFS and SEND settings, as well as artist educators and arts workers.

Thresholds has emerged during Liberating the Curriculum (LTC), a two-year programme with Arts and Media School Islington (AMSI) that creates time and space to develop a flexible, diverse curriculum. By making space for slowing down and being present, we hope to support young people to bring more of themselves to their art education.

LTC is part of a long-term collaboration between Cubitt Artists and AMSI and is generously supported by Freelands Foundation as part of their Inclusive Practice Fund.

This week we’re looking back on past Cubitt Curatorial Fellowship programmes as the deadline for current applications falls this Sunday 11:59 10 May 2026.