Art & Culture
Custom House, Our House!
A community oral history and photography project with people in Custom House, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, starting September 2024.
For more information and to sign up visit: https://www.customhouseourhouse.co.uk/
Custom House, Our House are looking for participants and volunteers to get involved!
Participant interviewees:
People with lived experience of regeneration in Custom House or expertise in community-led regeneration in the area will have their oral history interview and portrait recorded.
Volunteer interviewers:
Up to 12 people will receive training to record an oral history interview from a Custom House community member.
Volunteers to co-design publication, exhibition+ public programme of events.
Timeline and commitments:
June-September 2024- Sign Up!
Sign up to the mailing list to receive further information.
28 September 2024 - Information Day
Attend Custom House Bookshop and commit to becoming a volunteer interviewer or participant interviewee.
We especially welcome interest from people who identify as working class, Black and Global Majority individuals, young people (aged16-30) and elders (aged 50+) based in Custom House.
Custom House , Our House! Is led by a team of artists, designers and researchers from Royal College of Art, working in collaboration with community organisers from Custom House Bookshop. Project partners are Newham Heritage Service, Newham Libraries and Rosetta Arts.
For your visit
Food & Drink
Galyons Bar & Kitchen
This 19th-century dockside inn has recently been reborn as a waterside gastropub.
Activities
Royal Docks Adventure
Power boats, rowing boats, dragon boats, canoes – everything you need for an afternoon on the water.
Art & Culture
Making Space: Custom House Is Our House
Installation art comprising a life-sized group portrait of individuals who live and work on Freemasons Road. Part of the Making Space series by Jessie Brennan.
