The Boathouse Studios

14/06/2024

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It's that time of the month again, when we bring you news about all the exciting events and activities going on at the Boathouse Studios in Barking.

10/06/2024

Continuing our celebration of Pride month, the Boathouse Community Cinema is proud to present a special screening of the film "Silver Haze" on Thursday 27th June.

Fifteen years after she got burnt when the pub where she slept as a child caught fire, Franky (23) seeks revenge because she still hasn't found any answers.

Sacha Polak's captivating and intimately crafted drama delivers a powerful and emotionally charged depiction of working-class life in Britain, featuring Vicky Knight in an award-winning performance that is both revelatory and magnetic. The compelling and intimate film had its world premiere at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival.

The film is based on a true story from the borough, and the screening will be followed by a Question and Answer session with the film's lead actor, Vicky Knight.

Tickets are only £4 and available from Eventbrite.

A special screening for Pride month and Q&A with lead actor Vicky Knight

10/06/2024

As part of Pride month, the Boathouse Community Cinema is proud to present a special pre-release screening of the film "Unicorns" on Wednesday 26th June. This film is not in cinemas until 5th July, so we are extremely grateful to Signature Entertainment for giving us this opportunity.

The film follows a q***r South Asian nightclub performer living a double life, and a young, single father who works as a mechanic. When they meet, a search for identity is sparked.

The screening will be followed by a Question and Answer session with the film's two Directors.

Tickets are only £4 and available via Eventbrite.

A special pre-release screening for Pride Month, thanks to Signature Entertainment

06/06/2024

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/boathouse-studios-open-afternoon-tickets-920630018167?aff=oddtdtcreator

Looking for a great space for your special event? Secure your spot at our exclusive viewing afternoon.

06/06/2024

Are you or someone you know looking for a great space to host your special event? The Boathouse Studios is a versatile venue with spacious studios, suitable for all occasions. Get in touch with us for a chat or come along to our Open Afternoon on Sunday 7th July @ 2pm. Link in Bio

01/06/2024

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2024 is especially meaningful as we gear up to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We’re excited to invite you to share in our celebrations by offering you a 10th anniversary gift of 10% off any private event bookings in 2024.

28/05/2024

Another great evening at the Boathouse Film Night.

For our second showing, you picked the film and the chosen movie Wicked Little Letters, with its delightfully sweary cast had everyone giggling. 🤭

Look out for details on our next one. With sofas, comfy chairs and our wallet friendly bar, you too can enjoy a cinematic experience at a fraction of the price. 😊

27/05/2024

Having a brilliant time at the Hay Festival thanks to the kind invitation of the brilliant Pen to Print team Lisa Roullier Pen To Print Lena Mary Walsh Eithne Cullen Lucy and Michelle, from my home town Barking and Dagenham.

What a feast of ideas, imagination, provocation and laughter. Highlights so far for me have been John Boyne and Jeanette Winterson, Helen Lederer and Doon Mackichan, Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn, Maria Ressa - and to top it all, getting books signed by Michael Rosen for my three grandsons! ...

Definite food for the soul, the mind and the body. (lot of the latter too in the yummy canteen). We have had quite a lot of rain also....

21/05/2024

At the beginning of May we hosted a memorial for a local family. Our CEO, Carole Pluckrose was privileged to co-create the ceremony with the family. We transformed the studios and music of Jelle, a traditional Ghanaian kora musician played.

The sun shone through the studio windows and there was a feeling of peace, calm and community in the studio. It was beautiful. ❤️

15/05/2024

LIVE MUSIC EVENT 🎶

On Friday, we had the privilege of hosting listening party showcasing their EP Cause and Effect.

It was a great evening and all the performers were incredibly talented! Truly inspiring work from Manny & the True Cadence team 👏

Thank you for letting us host what was a brilliant night! 😊

08/05/2024

Proud to announce the winner of our next Community Cinema screening is Wicked Little Letters.! 🙌😊

Join us on Friday 24th May for another big screen experience at a fraction of the cost.

Wicked Little Letters is a new British comedy based on a true scandal. It stars Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Joanna Scanlan, Timothy Spall and a host of other amazing British actors. The film is a certificate 15 (due to the swearing).

For tickets and more information visit link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-night-at-the-boathouse-tickets-900266209467?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

01/05/2024

Last week Thursday was all about the little ones. First we had the lovely storyteller .priv share a story with us during our afternoon Stay & Play session and then the fantastic were back in the studios with another great show. The whole day was fun and more fun! We loved it and we hope you did too! 😊

17/04/2024

After a successful Easter Show, the will be back at the Boathouse on Thursday 25th April (next week!!) 🥳
They had so much at the last show, they got in touch and want to share their brand new show and circus skills workshop with you!! 🤹‍♀️🎪🎉

Thursday 25th April 4:00pm-5:30 pm.
It’s FREE and ideal for under 11’s (all children must be accompanied).

Please book a ticket via our Eventbrite; link in Bio (you only need one ticket per family). SEE YOU HERE 🙂

15/04/2024

The Boathouse Community Cinema wants to involve local people! 😊

Join us for our next film screening on Friday 24th May at 7pm. We are asking you to choose one of the following three films to be shown on the night. All you need to do is vote 1, 2 or 3 via the poll. Closing date is Tuesday 30th April.

You can find more details on each film in our Newsletter (link in Bio).

11/04/2024

To celebrate International Jazz Day (30th April), we’re hosting a chilled evening of CLASSIC JAZZ in our wallet-friendly bar in the Randells Lounge.

Join us, where our resident muso Carl Blackburn will be sharing some of his favourite jazz tracks. 🎶 🎶🎷

From 6pm until late. Free Entry. Tickets & more info on our Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jazz-in-the-randells-tickets-880868991867?aff=erelexpmlt

30/03/2024

Just over a week late for World Poetry day and reflecting on the many poems I chose to read daily as we began our Lockdown Journey FOUR years ago.

And basking also in the joy we had as a group of women aged 20-70 on Monday, writing together for Women's History Month supported by Pen To Print Lena and drawing on our stories and imaginations. The Boathouse Studios

Thanks so much to Claire Steele Magical Journeys for bringing your special bit of magic to the The Boathouse Studios.

So for today

From the inspirational Maya Angelou.

OUR GRANDMOTHERS BY MAYA ANGELOU
She lay, skin down in the moist dirt,
the canebrake rustling
with the whispers of leaves, and
loud longing of hounds and
the ransack of hunters crackling the near
branches.

She muttered, lifting her head a nod toward
freedom,
I shall not, I shall not be moved.

She gathered her babies,
their tears slick as oil on black faces,
their young eyes canvassing mornings of madness.
Momma, is Master going to sell you
from us tomorrowYes.
Unless you keep walking more
and talking less.
Yes.
Unless the keeper of our lives
releases me from all commandments.
Yes.
And your lives,
never mine to live,
will be executed upon the killing floor of
innocents.
Unless you match my heart and words,
saying with me,

I shall not be moved.

In Virginia to***co fields,
leaning into the curve
of Steinway
pianos, along Arkansas roads,
in the red hills of Georgia,
into the palms of her chained hands, she
cried against calamity,
You have tried to destroy me
and though I perish daily,

I shall not be moved.

Her universe, often
summarized into one black body
falling finally from the tree to her feet,
made her cry each time into a new voice.
All my past hastens to defeat,
and strangers claim the glory of my love,
Iniquity has bound me to his bed.

yet, I must not be moved.

She heard the names,
swirling ribbons in the wind of history:
ni**er, ni**er bitch, heifer,
mammy, property, creature, ape, baboon,
w***e, hot tail, thing, it.
She said, But my description cannot
fit your tongue, for
I have a certain way of being in this world,

and I shall not, I shall not be moved.No angel stretched protecting wings
above the heads of her children,
fluttering and urging the winds of reason
into the confusions of their lives.
The sprouted like young weeds,
but she could not shield their growth
from the grinding blades of ignorance, nor
shape them into symbolic topiaries.
She sent them away,
underground, overland, in coaches and
shoeless.

When you learn, teach.
When you get, give.
As for me,

I shall not be movShe stood in midocean, seeking dry land.
She searched God's face.
Assured,
she placed her fire of service
on the altar, and though
clothed in the finery of faith,
when she appeared at the temple door,
no sign welcomed
Black Grandmother, Enter here.

Into the crashing sound,
into wickedness, she cried,
No one, no, nor no one million
ones dare deny me God, I go forth
along, and stand as ten thousand.

The Divine upon my right
impels me to pull forever
at the latch on Freedom's gate.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my
feet without ceasing into the camp of the
righteous and into the tents of the free.

These momma faces, lemon-yellow, plum-purple,
honey-brown, have grimaced and twisted
down a pyramid for years.
She is Sheba the Sojourner,
Harriet and Zora,
Mary Bethune and Angela,
Annie to Zenobia.

She stands
before the abortion clinic,
confounded by the lack of choices.
In the Welfare line,
reduced to the pity of handouts.
Ordained in the pulpit, shielded
by the mysteries.
In the operating room,
husbanding life.
In the choir loft,
holding God in her throat.
On lonely street corners,
hawking her body.
In the classroom, loving the
children to understanding.

Centered on the world's stage,
she sings to her loves and beloveds,
to her foes and detractors:
However I am perceived and deceived,
however my ignorance and conceits,
lay aside your fears that I will be undone,

for I shall not be moved.

Maya Angelou

28/03/2024

At the mid-point of our storytelling project, it was lovely to receive this photo of two proud storytelling practitioners from Playaway BLC with their certificates after completing our programme last month.

Congratulations to Kimberley and Alison and well done Ria Butler for leading such a wonderful project. 👏❤️

26/03/2024

Celebrating Women’s Empowerment Month
INK AND IMPACT
With the generous support of , Carole Pluckrose and Claire Steele were delighted to welcome two groups of creative women to their flow writing sessions, in the relaxed setting of the Boathouse Studios library. Together they wrote collaboratively, exploring the stories of grandmothers, real or imagined, nurturing their creativity in our cosy book filled environment.
❤️🖊️




Creative Barking & Dagenham
Barking and Dagenham Council

22/03/2024

Easter is around the corner and the Flying Seagull Project are back in the studios with their Easter Laugh ’n’ Play Show. 🐣

This is their newest show and set to be an afternoon of entertainment for all the family. Visit our Eventbrite for more information and your free tickets. You don’t want to miss this… SEE YOU HERE🥳

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flying-seagulls-laugh-n-play-easter-special-tickets-865044139307?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

16/03/2024

What a great evening at the Community Cinema, seeing a screening of HIVE a very powerful and raw Kosovan film by Blerta Basholli. Thanks to Nick Hepher and Chris Hamilton for the welcome. Great to see how well established it is and embedded in the local community. Lots of tips for our new Boathouse Community Cinema. :)

10/03/2024

Wishing everyone a special day to celebrate the mothers and mother figures who have influenced their lives. 💐

To all the great mothers who have chosen to celebrate their baby arrivals and children’s important rites of passage this year at the studios. Thank you for creating your special celebrations with us. ❤️

From the Boathouse Team.

09/03/2024

Fabulous International Women's Day evening at the The Boathouse Studios Community Cinema screening of the fabulous Polite Society written and directed by Nida Manzoor. The film follows teenager Ria Khan, who struggles to save her older sister, Lena, after she decides to give up on her dreams and get married.

Wonderful to see our Fishing Smack Studio convert to a cinema with cosy sofas, pop corn, along with our wallet friendly bar. 😘 We are thrilled to be partnering with FILM LONDON in making a long term dream possible. Watch this space for upcoming screenings. Get in touch with us if you'd like to get involved in our Community Cinema 😘

05/03/2024

📣Flying Seagull Special Event📣

We are over the moon that the fantastic Flying Seagull Project () are coming back to the Boathouse for a special one-off Stay & Play session. 🥳 These wonderful performers bring joy, mayhem and a lot of laughter to children and families wherever they go.

Don’t miss out - book your ticket
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stay-and-play-at-the-boathouse-studios-tickets-858693494357?aff=erelexpmlt

29/02/2024

Last week we hosted a Live Music gig with local band Skinny Ankle. Seeing the Randells Lounge transformed into this speakeasy, basement, really added to the atmosphere.

Skinny Ankle were great, and the highlight of the night was the band accompanied by Steve Drury and Kemi Oloyede from sew london project. 👏

Thank you Skinny Ankle Paul Constable, Tony Buckley, and Lori for an unforgettable evening and thank you to everyone who came out. Keep an eye out for more events coming up to celebrate our 10th Anniversary 🥳 ➡️

28/02/2024

We are excited to announce another Film Night at the studios 🥳

On Friday 8th March we are screening Polite Society. This is a fun family film about a teenager who decides that she must save her older sister from her impending marriage. After enlisting her friends’ help, she attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

Released last year, the film is rated 12A, so it is suitable for children under 12 if their parents accompany them and believe it is OK.

This is going to be a great evening and a light hearted way to celebrate International Women’s Day 🥰

Refreshments available at our wallet friendly Randells Lounge and Bar. We hope you will join us - link in our bio to Eventbrite for tickets and watch the trailer.

28/02/2024

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-night-at-the-boathouse-tickets-841496908907

Join us for this special International Women's Day screening of a feel-good family comedy.