Creative Encounters: Your City in Paper
If you were the chief architect of your own world, what kind of city would you build? Dream big and craft a mini model city with Assemblage Collective.
Play with papercraft techniques, collage and mark-making to construct a carousel pop-up book in this creative workshop.
All it takes is your hands, some paper and a dedicated moment to dream.
Fashion pint-sized furnishings, decorate walls and streets so that each page becomes a pop-up place – a fragment of a city imagined through your own experiences, memories and hopes for the future.
At the end of the session, we bring our creations together in a temporary collective display, forming a shared paper city.
Assemblage Collective is an arts collective based in London specialising in artistic workshops that use papercrafting and creativity to bring people together.
Creative Encounters is your creative space in the heart of the city, bringing together Londoners old and new for art, making and conversation.
Need to know
This is a free event with no booking required but there is limited capacity. We recommend arriving early to secure a seat. If we reach capacity, you may need to queue.
Our friendly sessions are designed for both those attending on their own or with others; there are opportunities to socialise and take part in activities together, but you are also very welcome to have a solo experience.
Creative Encounters is a fortnightly programme; dates are subject to change, so please check the website. It’s part of Open Doors, our regular series of free events welcoming you to get creative and connect.
Access
Creative Encounters is a Relaxed event. This means that we have a relaxed approach to noise and movement in the space, and you are free to enter and exit throughout.
We have guides available for those who may benefit from preparing for the event.
View the ‘What to expect’ guide
Read about ventilation and socially distanced tables
If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
You can join our free Access Scheme through your online Southbank Centre account or via email.
Find out more about our Access Scheme
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For your visit
This event is held at the The Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre
The Clore Ballroom is open six days a week.
Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
*If we’re hosting a performance, the building will stay open until the event ends.
Plan your visit
The Clore Ballroom is located inside our Royal Festival Hall on Level 2.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
There is step-free access to The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall, via a ramp.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
Next to The Clore Ballroom is our Ballroom Cafe where you can grab a coffee and a piece of freshly made cake. Also on Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.