Angel Alley is a public space that also contains a complex patchwork of individuals and organisations that have legal access rights to the space. These include the Whitechapel Gallery, Freedom Press, Providence Row, KFC, as well as a number of business owners and private tenants.
The Angel Allies are a self-organised group who meet roughly once a month to talk about Angel Alley. Together, we agree on decisions to take forward ideas for creative projects, maintenance, cleaning and other issues.
Anybody can come along to an Angel Allies meeting. If you are interested in joining us, send an email to publicprogrammes@whitechapelgallery.org
For 30 years, Cardboard Citizens has used theatre to transform lives impacted by homelessness. Founded in London’s ‘Cardboard City’ (now the site of the IMAX cinema in Waterloo), they create theatre, art and training with and for people experiencing homelessness, poverty and inequity that explores, interrogates and challenges the injustices that are most alive in our world today.
Cardboard Citizens believes that theatre and art can transform; that it can challenge the individual to grow and ignite a fire in the belly of wider society to change. They create spaces where communities come together to heal, connect, find joy and create new possibilities, delivering workshops and public performances at their base in Whitechapel and in other arts and community settings across the UK.
Freedom Press bookshop is Britain’s largest anarchist bookshop, stocking thousands of books, newspapers and pamphlets covering topics from history to sex, philosophy to workers’ struggles, fiction to anti-fascism.
RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. We have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across Europe, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment.
Msoma Architects is a London and Nairobi-based architecture practice led by Bushra Mohamed. Our work aims to reflect cultural identities architecturally and spatially. We do this by foregrounding diasporic communities and synthesising themes of decolonisation and decarbonisation within our built environment. Our sustainability agenda considers social as well as carbon impact to ensure a more equitable future for our cities.
Our current projects are focused on housing, exhibitions, public space and cultural buildings. Teaching and research are an integral part of the practice, in addition to teaching at UK universities, the practice is currently carrying out a research project on African housing typologies, a forthcoming publication is due in June 2024.
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We help people directly out of homelessness, and campaign for the social changes needed to solve it altogether. We know that together we can end homelessness.
