Friends of Mile End Park

Rooted — A Common Ground with No Outside, explores how “nature” is represented, maintained, and experienced within the contemporary city. The exhibition is currently on at Mile End Park’s Art Pavilion.

Rather than treating nature as a distant landscape, this exhibition considers it as something embedded in everyday urban life—shaped by maintenance, infrastructure, and human intervention. Inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s … read more

This week Tower Hamlets Council are hosting two community conversations to share their initial proposals for new housing on part of the Guardian Angels School site. Plans have not been released ahead of the community conversations. However it is understood these will be flats rather than houses and form part of the Mayor’s Accelerated Housing Programme (MAHP).

Until further … read more

Join us this Saturday, 7 November, for our penultimate community litter pick of the year. We have moved the event to avoid Remembrance Sunday and hope you can join us for a positive and purposeful morning in Mile End Park.

Help ensure Mile End Park remains clean and welcoming as autumn draws to a close. Whether you’ve attended every event … read more

Kerry John Andrews is a London-based fine artist, contemporary classical composer, and academic who serves as the Programme Leader for Postgraduate Art at the University of Hertfordshire. For over forty years, his multidisciplinary practice has seamlessly bridged visual art, experimental sound design, and creative cultural theory. His work explores the sensory relationship between language and space through intricate drawings, dynamic … read more