Holiday Kids Art Workshops to celebrate our 10th Birthday!

Get creative this summer to celebrate The Mill’s 10th birthday! Join us for our series of free hands-on workshops for children aged 4 and over in our friendly community space, led by local artists. We’re running three workshops on Thursday’s during the school holidays, with a choice of two different times each day. Create your own party chameleon […]

Mo Gallaccio retires from her role with Art Works

Mo Gallaccio has recently announced her retirement from her role as The Mill’s Art Works coordinator. Mo was one of the original Trustees of The Mill, and was an instrumental part of the team who campaigned to save the old St James Street library building and turn it into a space for the community. Her […]

Join us for Milling About!

We’re really excited to launch our new project Milling About! Milling About is our programme of activities online and out and about in our local area, to support our local community and to connect people whilst COVID-19 restrictions are in place. We’ve received funding from the London Community Response Fund, administered by the City Bridge […]

Get Drawing Online!

As The Mill building is closed, David, from our Get Drawing Group, will be sharing drawing prompts and tips every Sunday. We’re collecting them all here, so you can take part at your own pace. We’d love to see you all get involved, get drawing and sharing your art work with The Mill Online. Week […]

The Kids Art Club online

We’ve taken our Kid’s Art Club online! Every Thursday we’ll share an activity you can do with simple materials from around the home on our social media. All the activities have been designed by our Kids Art Club volunteer Gemma Lawrence. We’d love to see you all get involved, get making and sharing your creations […]

A Mill Rainbow!

🌈 Help create the rainbow in our window at The Mill.🌈 We want to fill our front window with a rainbow made with colourful hands. Everyone can take part, here’s how: Draw round your hand on a piece of paper Cut it out Decorate it with one of the colours of the rainbow 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 Send […]

Creative Isolation

We’ve spotted lots of online creative challenges and group activities in the last few weeks. Here’s some that we’re running, as well as others by local Walthamstow creatives: Kids Art Club Every Thursday as part of #TheMillOnline A creative activity you can try (young or old) put together by Gemma from The Mill’s Thursday afternoon […]

Bringing ‘Grandad’s Island’ to life throughout the summer

We were delighted to welcome lots of families to ‘The Mill Shipyard’ during this summer’s Walthamstow Garden Party, to bring to life the picture book ‘Grandad’s Island’ by local author-illustrator Benji Davies. Children helped to create a colourful boat, inspired by the ship that transports Grandad and Syd on their adventure in the award winning […]

The Jokes On Us! exhibition story

Our exciting new participatory art exhibition, The Joke’s On Us! launches on the 11th April. It is part of the Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019, featuring work from the Government Art Collection, and potentially showcasing your finest joke… Display your joke next to a famous artwork We are asking residents and people from anywhere in the […]

The Joke’s on Us!

Take part in our new participatory exhibition, The Joke’s On Us, centring on Joke Stack by Peter Liversidge, part of the Government Art Collection. You can take home jokes originally written by British comedians… and leave your jokes for our walls! We’re making a dynamic, daring and… devilishly amusing contribution to Waltham Forest Borough of […]