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TACO, 2 Cygnet Square, Thamesmead, London (2026)

27/05/2026

Restocks of the best books about, plus some stock new in today! Find them all online at link in bio, or in-store.

🤎 Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection 🤎 a collection of essays about slow approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy from around the world.

🧡 COMPOST #4 - In Flames 🧡 Fire! This issue stokes the kindling, in thrall to the incendiary potential of a Molotov cocktail, the molten annihilation of lava. Consumed by an elemental force which fuels and feeds us, seduced by its scorch and blaze. .marykate

💙 Plan and Play, Play and Plan: Defining Your Artistic Practice 💙 a reflective book intended to delve into the very fibre of the artist’s profession and sustainable artistic practices.

❤️ Basta Now: Women, Trans and Non-Binary in Experimental Music (expanded edition) ❤️ a huge overview of 2,371 womxn in the global experimental sound & music scene, published by F***y Chiarello and Valentina Magaletti.

🖤 NO! Against Adult Supremacy 🖤 a collection of writing jointly published by Dog Section Press and Active Distribution. “Every hierarchy, every abuse, every act of domination that seeks to justify or excuse itself appeals through analogy to the rule of adults over children.”

💛 Drawing Risky Play 💛 The drawings in this book illustrate a process of doing, exploring, thinking, and of tackling questions together. Action-research by ten children led by artist Ruth Beale, with two South London organisations at the forefront of progressive approaches to self-directed learning and play. .beale

🤍 Frayed Edges 🤍 Contains a book of essays and a book of poetry charting a space for textile poetry.

08/05/2026

✊️ ACTION! - There Aint No Black In The Union Jack, is a reading group series led by Holly Graham that considers anti-racism, memorialisation and care through a reading of Paul Gilroy’s seminal book There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (1987), exploring the cultural politics of race in the UK.

🇬🇧 Undertaken within the framework of Leftovers, a group for reading otherwise, Holly’s textual enquiry looks at racial violence, far-right sentiment and anti-racism then and now, and the shifting symbolism of the British Union Jack and St George Cross, in light of its resurgent use in the ‘stop-the-boats’ flag-flying and far-right populist politics.

📖 In this reading series, Holly will bring Gilroy’s book into dialogue with other texts, including material from the developing Rolan Adams Legacy Archive, a collection of materials being developed by Holly and the family of Rolan Adam’s as part of her ongoing project Action! Holly’s project seeks to memorialise Rolan Adams and the collective anti racism actions it inspired in the early 1990’s in Thamesmead and SE London.

👉 To join the reading group, and receive information and updates, including reading texts & materials, please sign up to the Leftovers mailing list via the link in our bio or via the TACO! website.

Our first reading session will meet on the 28th May / 19:00 and will explore the localised experiences of Racism and Anti Racism within a wider historical national narrative, both past and current.

👉 All Texts for the reading group are available to download via the TACO! website

🖤 Holly Graham is an artist living and working in London. She works across audio, text, still and moving image, and sculptural forms. The work she makes is research-driven and is often specific to particular sites and localised contexts. Recent exhibitions and projects include: The Warp and The Weft, Manchester City Art Gallery (2026), To Us It Just Looks Like A Lemon: Bothy Residency, Southwark Park Galleries (2019); On Board II, Art Licks & Espacio Vista, Madrid; BOUNDS, Skelf, Online (2019); The Oval Window, Gerald Moore Gallery.

05/05/2026

🌈 Are you interested in DIY printing, in publishing your own work, or exploring print-making? Join artist Dunya Kalantery(.unya.k) for The Perfect Binder: a series of workshops in collaboration with ***rcircle, exploring print-making and DIY publishing. You will learn how to use a risograph printer, experiment with DIY print culture and distribution in a collective and supportive environment.

🙌 The group is open to 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ q***r young people and allies aged 16-25 living or working in London and the surrounding area. A small travel budget is available for those who need it.

No prior experience necessary, just bring your curiosity and yourselves.

📅 Workshops dates include June 4, 11th, 18th, 25th, July 2nd, 9th / all sessions 6-8pm

👉️ This project will take place at the TACO! Printo Studio. A small travel bursary is available for those who need it.

see link in bio to sign up

01/05/2026

🖤 Ruthless Aggression by Dandy Day, opens on the evening of 4th June, running from 5th June to 26th July 🖤

Day presents an installation consisting of a new body of work centred on the commercial spectacle of WWE, an American sports entertainment form that presents ‘professional wrestling’.

Dandy Day’s work considers the autobiographical through their use of personal memories and family history as a starting point to explore wider societal themes and lived contemporary experience.

Day freely borrows images, texts, objects, materials and signifiers from wider popular culture that hold personal meaning and history, creating ambiguity and slippages between personal fact and cultural fiction. Combining ‘low-fi’ aesthetics and forms of everyday cultural production with formal and elevated display strategies traditionally associated with the museum or archive, Day’s artworks convey personal and social narratives, imbued with an uncanny sense of loss, trauma, pathos, and humour.

01/05/2026

🖤 Ruthless Aggression 2002-2008 by Dandy Day, opens on the evening of 4th June, running from 5th June to 26th July 🖤

Day presents an installation consisting of a new body of work centred on the commercial spectacle of WWE, an American sports entertainment form that presents ‘professional wrestling’.

Dandy Day’s work considers the autobiographical through their use of personal memories and family history as a starting point to explore wider societal themes and lived contemporary experience.

The freely borrows images, texts, objects, materials and signifiers from wider popular culture that hold personal meaning and history, creating ambiguity and slippages between personal fact and cultural fiction. Combining ‘low-fi’ aesthetics and forms of everyday cultural production with formal and elevated display strategies traditionally associated with the museum or archive, Day’s artworks convey personal and social narratives, imbued with an uncanny sense of loss, trauma, pathos, and humour.

29/04/2026

🤩 A belated post of documentation from Creative Playscapes / 18 April 2026- a Symposium and Exhibition by the Hundred Club developed by the Hundred Clu, Ruth Beale, TACO! and University of Greenwich. With thoughtful contributions and creative activities from & , , the wonderful .muf from , and a robot!

👌 The exhibition was put together collaboratively with children in an ‘exhibition in a day’ workshop, where they chose photographs, edited video and made drawings and props. It focuses on Creative Playscapes, a collaborative research project developed by The Hundred Club, TACO! via , and .bastani from the University of Greenwich, along with children’s artwork from over twenty Hundred Club sessions undertaken in collaboration with artists and designers exploring listening, looking and play, neighbourhoods & the built environment.

👉 The exhibition is now on at University of Greenwich Galleries Project Space from 1st May - 1st June

👉️ Creative Playscapes asks - how can creative work that centres children and families as artistic producers, filmmakers, designers to shape our built environment and make cities playful, happy, healthy places to grow and live?

😘 Big shout to .e.a.d.s.t.o.p , and

🤘 The Hundred Club is an experimental creative space that uses arts and play for children to explore social justice issues. It’s free and open to 5-12 year olds & their siblings, parents and carers. The club meets monthly in and around Thamesmead, Abbeywood, Plumstead and Woolwich. Produced by TACO! as part of the Young Artists Programme. It was founded in 2021 by Ruth Beale in collaboration with TACO! You can find out more

🧐 Work in the exhibition includes projects with Nadina Ali nadinadidthis, Hadi Bastani, Ruth Beale, Tommy Brentnall , Lisa Cheung & .tuckwood, , , Walter Stabb, Sadie St Hilaire

15/12/2025

🥀 Staying with the Trouble is a reading group series that considers co-operativism, imperialism and the building of a neighbourhood. The readings are led by The Alternative School of Economics within the framework of Leftovers, a group for reading otherwise, which meets monthly at TACO!.

📖 Our first reading session will meet on the 30th Jan / 19:00 and will explore the history of cooperatives, from the Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society to the wider cooperative movement, towards finding more equitable ways of living.

📝 All texts will be shared with attendees two weeks before the reading group takes place, and will be downloadable from the TACO! website. While not essential read the texts before the event (we will be reading extracts during the session), we encourage you to read them to make the most of the sessions.

✊ To join the Staying with the Trouble, and receive information and updates, including reading texts & materials, please sign up to the Leftovers mailing list via the link in our bio or via the TACO! website.

🏭 Inspired by the local Co-Op Bostall Estate, the texts selected by The Alternative School of Economics will look at militarism, cooperativism, housing ownership, peace, and the history of the local estate. The Bostall Estate was built by the Royal Arsenal Co-Operative Society (RACS), a large consumer co-operative that took its name from the historical munitions factories in Woolwich. Its motto was ‘All for Each, Each for All’. In 1900, the RACS became a housing developer and built the Bostall Estate in Abbey Wood, constructing over 1000 homes for workers. Many of these houses are now in private ownership.

✌️ The Alternative School of Economics is a collaboration between artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck, formed in 2012. They make art that questions economic doctrine and knowledge hierarchies. Working and collaborating with communities, and using feminist and alternative economics and pedagogies as forms of resistance, they explore global political issues in relation to the complexity of lived experience.

05/12/2025

✌️ GROUPWORK is a new initiative that aims to broaden the conversations and lines of enquiry within TACO!, our gallery and our public venue in Cygnet Square.

⏰ For a dedicated period of time each year we are offering our gallery space, along with access to refreshments and equipment, to support the work and activities of autonomous and self-organised community or artist groups.

💭 We’re seeking proposals for the use of our gallery for community or cultural group work where there is a need to convene and come together for the ambitions of the group and the development of its core work.

✍️ Groups are invited to submit proposals to use TACO!’s gallery between February and May 2026.

👌 We are interested in hearing from groups who would like to use the space for organising, testing, planning, talking, exchanging, meeting, thinking, reflecting, rehearsing, or learning.

🗣️ This might be a local choir rehearsal, a resident group looking to organise, a LGBTQ+ group looking for a safe space to meet, a group with a shared creative interest, or a group campaigning for a specific social justice issue.

👉 Proposals should be received before January 31st to ensure that your group work can be guaranteed space and time in the gallery.

👉 To find out more information, including how to send us your proposal, please see the TACO! website via the link in our bio.

👍 There will be further rounds of GROUPWORK throughout the calendar year.

03/12/2025

❄️ Please join us for our last two events of 2025...

📻 Her Modulo - Duets / 6 Dec @ 19:00 📻
Anna Barham, Anneke Kampman, and Rachael Finney.

London-based artist and musician Anneke Kampman presents the second iteration of Her-Modulo, with an evening of informal performances and workings-out by Anna Barham, Anneke Kampman, and Rachael Finney.

Her-Modulo is an ongoing research project by Anneke Kampamn into music technologies and their shaping of culture and desire.

📽️ Community Ecosystems - Screenings / 13 Dec @ 14:00 📽️
Mohammad Namazi, Rhea Storr, John Smith, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Emily Richardson, Steven Ball & Rastko Novaković , Tom Keane

Community Ecosystems returns for the final event in the series. Building on previous sessions, Mohammad Namazi has curated a screening and panel discussion in association with TACO!

The event uses film as a shared space for reflection, connecting archival memory with the present moment, inviting audiences to think with the people and places affected by policies often promoted through the promise of the future city and new homes.

Presented films move between testimony and form, allowing poetry, humour and documentary evidence to sit side by side.

Community Ecosystems is a community research project led and organised by artist Mohammad Namazi. The project takes the ongoing regeneration of Thamesmead and the lived experience of communities that live there as its context.

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📸 addictive no an adjective, courtesy Rachel Finney
📸 📸 still from Concrete Heart Land, courtesy Steven Ball & Rastko Novaković,

06/11/2025

🌀 Flood Drill, by Adam Shield, runs until 30 Nov.

The exhibition features a new suite of paintings with drawn and collaged elements, animated video vignettes, a composed sound scape, and ‘Who Listens to the City?’, an ongoing text written by the artist that Shield will perform and publish live on 15th November at TACO!

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