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POETRY NIGHTS at the Soho Poly are back for the autumn season!

7.00pm-9.00pm

The next of our poetry series, curated by Hannah Copley. Full details coming soon!

Doodle Café

Starts on Tuesday 3rd November and runs every Tuesday until 1st December!

1pm-3pm

Come and disrupt your every day with an imaginative one of a kind Doodle story workshop.

Come and disrupt your every day with an imaginative one of a kind Doodle story workshop. It’s a mixed media technique where we apply different colour patches, outline their shape, and fill them in, combining doodling, drawing and words. This immersive art expression is story telling at its core uniting images and words in a unique way. The result? Come and see!

Materials? Bring anything that you would like to use, or be inspired by what’s in the room on the day!

Refreshments? Teas, coffees and some snacks will be provided.

The vibe? Between records playing, soft lighting, a soft breeze and beautiful art, you will be in the perfect spot for creativity, inspiration and relaxation!

This event is part of a soft launch of the Soho Poly Creative Health events, disrupting your everyday with art for your wellbeing and the community’s.

Wednesdays 12.00-2.00pm

Starts 21st October – until 9th December.

Fancy a crafty utopian hangout? Drop by one of our Badge Cafe lunchtimes for some free, easy, friendly creative fun, reusing old pics, books and mags to make unique badges. Hosted by Ben Walters. See more at https://badgecafe.com/and @badgecafe on Insta.

PAINT WITH DARREN

A series of art classes for everyone

3.00-5.00ish on Thursdays from 12th November to 9th December

Darren Hayman, formerly lead singer and guitarist with the band Hefner and prolific solo artist, also paints and draws. We are delighted to welcome Darren to the Soho Poly to deliver a painting workshop for people of all artistic abilities. Darren’s approach to art is inclusive and in keeping with the friendly approach of the Soho Poly to Badge Cafes and more, tea and biscuits will be provided in a welcoming space. Attendees will be able to take away their painting if they wish

FROM DARREN SITE

About Darrren Darren Hayman is a thoughtful, concise and detailed songwriter. He eschews the big, the bright and the loud for the small, twisted and lost. For 15 years, and over 14 albums, Hayman has taken a singular and erratic route through England’s tired and heartbroken underbelly.  More about Darren here

1530-1630

Tiny Wood, lead singer of critically acclaimed cult band Ultrasound, appears live at the Soho Poly. Tiny’s return to the Soho Poly is very welcome – previous performances have included Ultrasound classics such as Stay Young in addition to choice covers from the likes of Guided by Voices and the Decemberists.

A VERY LIMITED number of tickets are available, by invite only and subject to availability, contact G.Osborn@westminster.ac.uk

Wednesdays 12.00-2.00pm

Starts 21st October – until 9th December.

Fancy a crafty utopian hangout? Drop by one of our Badge Cafe lunchtimes for some free, easy, friendly creative fun, reusing old pics, books and mags to make unique badges. Hosted by Ben Walters. See more at https://badgecafe.com/and @badgecafe on Insta.

PAINT WITH DARREN

A series of art classes for everyone

3.00-5.00ish on Thursdays from 12th November to 9th December

Darren Hayman, formerly lead singer and guitarist with the band Hefner and prolific solo artist, also paints and draws. We are delighted to welcome Darren to the Soho Poly to deliver a painting workshop for people of all artistic abilities. Darren’s approach to art is inclusive and in keeping with the friendly approach of the Soho Poly to Badge Cafes and more, tea and biscuits will be provided in a welcoming space. Attendees will be able to take away their painting if they wish

FROM DARREN SITE

About Darrren Darren Hayman is a thoughtful, concise and detailed songwriter. He eschews the big, the bright and the loud for the small, twisted and lost. For 15 years, and over 14 albums, Hayman has taken a singular and erratic route through England’s tired and heartbroken underbelly.  More about Darren here

Doodle Café

Starts on Tuesday 3rd November and runs every Tuesday until 1st December!

1pm-3pm

Come and disrupt your every day with an imaginative one of a kind Doodle story workshop.

Come and disrupt your every day with an imaginative one of a kind Doodle story workshop. It’s a mixed media technique where we apply different colour patches, outline their shape, and fill them in, combining doodling, drawing and words. This immersive art expression is story telling at its core uniting images and words in a unique way. The result? Come and see!

Materials? Bring anything that you would like to use, or be inspired by what’s in the room on the day!

Refreshments? Teas, coffees and some snacks will be provided.

The vibe? Between records playing, soft lighting, a soft breeze and beautiful art, you will be in the perfect spot for creativity, inspiration and relaxation!

This event is part of a soft launch of the Soho Poly Creative Health events, disrupting your everyday with art for your wellbeing and the community’s.

PAINT WITH DARREN

A series of art classes for everyone

3.00-5.00ish on Thursdays from 12th November to 9th December

Darren Hayman, formerly lead singer and guitarist with the band Hefner and prolific solo artist, also paints and draws. We are delighted to welcome Darren to the Soho Poly to deliver a painting workshop for people of all artistic abilities. Darren’s approach to art is inclusive and in keeping with the friendly approach of the Soho Poly to Badge Cafes and more, tea and biscuits will be provided in a welcoming space. Attendees will be able to take away their painting if they wish

FROM DARREN SITE

About Darrren Darren Hayman is a thoughtful, concise and detailed songwriter. He eschews the big, the bright and the loud for the small, twisted and lost. For 15 years, and over 14 albums, Hayman has taken a singular and erratic route through England’s tired and heartbroken underbelly.  More about Darren here

13.00-14.00

In 2024 we had a Polyphonic Record Bar where we played a series of records that tied into our artistic philosophies. This year we are having another record bar, but this time we are playing further on our ghost gig idea. For ghost gigs we source the recording of an artists’ performance at one of our venues, then replay this, on the day it took place, and in the space where it originally took place. Whilst we have sourced many superb recordings such as New Order, Shelagh McDonald and Fleetwood Mac and staged these as ghost gigs, for many of the artists that have appeared we do not, as yet, have a recording of their performance.

So in the absence of a live recording, to mark the performance we play instead a key album recorded by the artist,  as far as possible on the day the artist originally performed in one of our venues. However, rather than doing this in the space the performance took place, these playbacks will instead  take place in our Go To space and, of course, at lunchtime to disrupt your day with culture. These events are introduced by one of the Artistic Directors or a special guest. Our first one of these was The Stone Roses on 12 November 2026

Au Pairs played the University (then the Polytechnic of Central London) on 7 December 1979.

No recording of this exists. Their classic post-punk album ‘Playing with a Different Sex’  is played to commemorate the performance, on the anniversary of their appearance.

FREE TO ATTEND

Wednesdays 12.00-2.00pm

Starts 21st October – until 9th December.

Fancy a crafty utopian hangout? Drop by one of our Badge Cafe lunchtimes for some free, easy, friendly creative fun, reusing old pics, books and mags to make unique badges. Hosted by Ben Walters. See more at https://badgecafe.com/and @badgecafe on Insta.

DETAILS COMiNG SOON

We are delighted to be part of IVW again in 2027.

Look out for announcements, we have some surprises…

More about IVW here